Lutruwita
The sun is low, the days shorter and I am feeling a sense of gratitude for my life in Lutruwita (Tasmania). Perhaps this sense has grown with the slowing that comes with this season. Perhaps it is time. For all I am grateful and thankful for the people, the beautiful land and the opportunities offered and available to me.
When we do not stop to be grateful we miss the good things; we let them slip by without a second thought. It is so easy as we dash, as we do, perhaps as we push ourselves to grow, to learn or as we try to escape or forget. With all this moving, without stopping, we miss the gems, the gold.
Taking just a few minutes morning or evening can brighten and reframe your life.
Journaling is a good tool to use when working with gratitude. In writing we rekindle small kindnesses, happy thoughts, a gentle touch, a sense of freedom you may have felt during the day. It combines thought and memory with various senses; sight, touch, sound perhaps even the smell of the paper. Our awareness of our senses help us feel and experience how we truly are.
While the past month has been full it has also brought a sense of slowing as I garden, read and even do a little sewing. I had the opportunity to run a workshop and participate in a webinar for the Cancer Council and I am running another Building Better Bones course. If you are interested the next one will start in July.
Taste - what I am eating?
Baked quinces are fragrant and sweet. Here they are simply paired with fennel seeds, making fruit for breakfast or dessert.
Also try Savoury Roast Quince
Smell - what I am smelling?
Daphne
2 years ago I planted two daphne near my front door. They have started blooming and provide a wonderful fragrance as I or others walk to or from the house. It offers happy childhood memories of visiting grandma whose garden was filled with aromatic flowers and plants.
Sight - what am I seeing?
Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging. ~ Guy Finley
This is really the message of yoga, and it is what we cultivate when we come to the mat or the cushion.
Within each of us is the unchanging place of stillness, while all around us there is never-ending change. When we attach or cling, when we try to resist the change, we suffer. When we acknowledge and connect to the unchanging nature within, we find peace. Breathe that in!
I share this quote; it links so clearly to opening to my gratitude.
Sound - what I am listening to?
There are many options for meditation and mindfulness.
If you are overwhelmed and are not sure where to start a Body Scan is a good option (and also good for regular practitioners).
A Body Scan is a mindful/meditative approach that brings awareness to your bodily sensations. This awareness or sensitivity to the body can lead to improved wellness in body and mind. It can improve sleep and increase self compassion along with reducing stress, anxiety and pain.
This is a 18 minute body scan. If you want something shorter or you do not find my voice soothing you will find many variations online. Try Insight Timer a free app.
Touch - what am I feeling?
Hands on Heart
To find the stillness within; that which is always with us, take a moment and place your hands on your heart. This simple touch can slow the busy mind, the uncertainty, the sense of urgency and enhance a sense of self compassion and even love.
The self touch is similar to a hug or if someone takes your hand.
So simple; so powerful.
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