What are your favorite mindfulness practices?
I’ve been holding the cycle of life, birth, and death in my consciousness. At my beautiful birthday gathering, when friends went around and told stories about how they knew me and the impact I’d had on them and their journeys, I wept with gratitude. It was a beautiful lesson in mindfulness practices. I felt like I was witnessing my own funeral. Knowing my existence has made a difference, even to one room full of people, tenderized me. Many people do not have friends that are skilled at being vulnerable or have the opportunity to hear them share genuine feelings. I am clearly in the right field because I like to make it a regular mindfulness practices to let people, I adore know I adore them.
Having a garden is an endless mindfulness practices in non-attachment, as well as, witnessing cycles of growth and decomposition. I get to be with small deaths and losses all of the time, from succulents destroyed by too much rain and frost, a favorite tree with 20 years of growth needing to be cut back due to rot, or squirrels eating my whole crop of kiwano melons. Nourishing people with food from my garden is particularly satisfying for me. From harvesting arugula and greens, chopping and sauteing, my love for my friends is infused into each action associated with my garden.
Recent events have invited me to become even more rigorous with my meditation, energetic protection and self-care practices. Bringing an intentionality to how I start and end my day is essential. Again, I am awestruck by the remarkable resources I am surrounded by and want to share as much as I can with whoever I can. Because of this, I welcome you to take or leave anything I recommend in this newsletter. Just know, I endorse all of these things having tried them with positive results. However, I know I thrive with spiritual and physical routines, but each person needs to discern what works best for them.
Part of anticipating this next circle around the sun, I am examining my work life balance, figuring out what trips I will take and when, and committing to at least one weekend a month of no work. All this while also planning the launch of my courses full of practical mindfulness practices. Stay tuned for those details and dates in upcoming blogs, as I will share more about these course as they become available. Please know, most of all, I am very excited to share my work with the world.
