Author: trusting mind
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I sit content
I never bothered with reading poems until a few years back. I think I probably started at the time I was using twitter a lot. It may be a coincidence, but I still have little enthusiasm for reading verse if it stretches for much more than a page. I have a Walt Whitman book and…
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The inescapable fact of life
I love to sit on a bench in graveyard. Or take a slow walk around reading the details of people and their deeds, all spoken for by a few words and dates on a stone resting perpendicular to the ground. It’s a simple place. Life is shaved back to a couple of components. There are…
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New Year’s resolutions? Give good fortune a helping hand instead.
It’s New Year’s and all the talk is of the opportunity to throw out the old self and design a new and improved version. Markers like New Year are the most effective time to set goals; the brain is ready and open to see the opportunity for change. But resolutions are often underpinned by assumptions…
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Winter Solstice 2023
It was a grey and unspectacular winter solstice . But prettiness and notable photos aren’t the point. In the middle of some difficult stuff it is healthy to touch in with the continuous change happening all around me. The days are starting to get longer, the seasons are moving on regardless. So too my current…
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Happy Christmas. May you be ready for the joy and everything it brings
A month ago there was a beautiful poem being shared a lot around social media. It is called ‘Joy Chose You’ written by Donna Ashworth. You can read it below. I liked it that much I used it as part of a Quiet Tuesday practice. It speaks so well of gratitude and of not letting…
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Why I am writing
My writing is driven by selfish desire to notice better how I am doing and no to much by hoping to enlighten others.
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Mindfulness of Breath
Sometimes you don’t need to read or talk about mindfulness, sometimes you should simply stop and practice it. Here is a simple practice anyone from beginner to long time adherent can use in their lives. Simply find yourself a place to be still. It doesn’t need to be a quiet location but that might help…
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Braiding Sweetgrass
What the world needs now is a lot more wisdom. Undiluted science, vital as though it is, is too often implemented without enough humility and awareness of the context, environment and people it is being affecting. It is sadly far too easy to cast around and see what kind of mess this reductionism is putting…
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It’s simple but it’s not easy
Don’t stop paying attention, but not to worry if you do; it’s no big deal, just go back to it when you’re ready. Then eventually what you begin to notice is that absolutely nothing ever stays still.
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