Mindfulness: Upon Reflection
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Happy end of the Year! This month we settle into a new holiday season with fresh opportunities to live more mindfully. SETTLING INTO THE PAUSE – NON-JUDGMENT – NOTICING JOY – UPON REFLECTION In recent years I’ve stomped the ground of nearly 400 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail in Oregon and Washington. Some days […]
Mindfulness: Noticing Joy
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This month we settle into a new holiday season with fresh opportunities to live more mindfully. SETTLING INTO THE PAUSE – NON-JUDGMENT – NOTICING JOY – REFLECTION NOTICING JOY One of the biggest costs of being Mindless, instead of Mindful, is the loss of opportunity. One of those opportunities could be the chance to notice […]
Mindfulness: Non-judgment
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This month we settle into a new holiday season with fresh opportunities to live more mindfully. SETTLING INTO THE PAUSE – NON-JUDGMENT – NOTICING JOY – REFLECTION When it comes to cultivating Mindfulness, I find practicing an attitude of non-judgment toward myself and the world around me is both difficult and rewarding: inner calm, stress […]
Mindfulness: Settling into the PAUSE
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This month we settle into the holiday season with fresh opportunities to live more mindfully. SETTLING INTO THE PAUSE – NON-JUDGEMENT – NOTICING JOY – REFLECTION This time of year can sometimes feel like one big whirling dervish. Other times it can be relaxed, meaningful, and spacious. Pausing to notice your experience can cultivate self-awareness, […]
SETTLING INTO OUR ROOTS – Holding Ground
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I like Fall not only for its unique beauty here in the great Salish region, but also because it encourages me to prepare and make the best of the next 4 months: my least favorite time of the year. FERTILIZING – INSULATING – SETTLING INTO OUR ROOTS –TYING THINGS DOWN This eternal looking tree resides […]
As we start November, your invitation is to discover moments to…
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Mindfulness is “The awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally.” ~Jon Kabat-Zinn “Mindfulness is simply the knack of noticing without comment whatever is happening in your present experience” ~ Guy Claxton Lisa Wellington is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher who writes about integrative practices that downshift stress, increase insight, and jumpstart […]
Tying things down: Batten the hatches
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This week we finish our October theme: Winterizing FERTILIZING – INSULATING – SETTLING INTO OUR ROOTS – TYING THINGS DOWN In the Spring of 1990 tourists poured out from a cruise ship onto the island of St. Thomas, USVI. They were employees of a large American generator manufacturer. The company made so much money […]
Cultivating an attitude of trust
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When we practice Mindfulness, we can intentionally cultivate one of seven foundational attitudes. This month we’ll explore Trust. A good place to start when cultivating a greater sense of trust within yourself is to begin with your own body. Interoception and proprioception involve our ability to sense what’s going on in our body and where it […]
Perspective – The Beginner’s Mind
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In 1969 we were given an epic and amazing sense of perspective by the pilots onboard Apollo 11. This photo is called, Earthrise over the Moon. It was captured on 07/20/1969. It seems like a good time to be mindful of perspective. Take a moment or more, to gaze upon this beautiful image. Consider what […]
The lumpy crossing place
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We are in a weird time. Take a deep breath… The people of Northern Ireland have a phrase for this kind of challenging time. They might refer to it as a Correymeela which means, The Lumpy Crossing Place. The landscape is shifting, the map is changing, the weather is mixed with an 80% chance of […]