A Quick Trip to Mindful Presence
Today I am grateful for a non-work project to give focus to and I am grateful for time with recovery friends.
I am also grateful for the couple of times I got to hold our grandson Leo this week.
Each time I hold him it is a quick trip to mindful presence. He gets my full attention and everything else stops for a few minutes. His sounds, stretches, breaths, smells, and facial expressions all keep me mesmerized. If you have held an infant lately, surely this all sounds familiar. If it's been a while since you held a newborn, hold one the next chance you get and it will all come back to you.
What are other ways I can take a quick trip to mindful presence? Paying attention to my own breathing. In. Out. In. Out.
And pausing. Just pausing. I have always struggled with quiet meditation and felt like something of a failure because I couldn't slow my mind down for 15 minutes of silence and mind-clearing. I have learned what works for me are pauses. They can be mere seconds or a few minutes. But they bring me back to right here, right now and I am able to refocus my energy.
What works best for you when you need to take a quick trip to mindful presence?
I am also grateful for the couple of times I got to hold our grandson Leo this week.
Each time I hold him it is a quick trip to mindful presence. He gets my full attention and everything else stops for a few minutes. His sounds, stretches, breaths, smells, and facial expressions all keep me mesmerized. If you have held an infant lately, surely this all sounds familiar. If it's been a while since you held a newborn, hold one the next chance you get and it will all come back to you.
What are other ways I can take a quick trip to mindful presence? Paying attention to my own breathing. In. Out. In. Out.
And pausing. Just pausing. I have always struggled with quiet meditation and felt like something of a failure because I couldn't slow my mind down for 15 minutes of silence and mind-clearing. I have learned what works for me are pauses. They can be mere seconds or a few minutes. But they bring me back to right here, right now and I am able to refocus my energy.
What works best for you when you need to take a quick trip to mindful presence?
I also have trouble calming my monkey mind. thank you for your insight and honesty.
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That monkey mind can be tricky can't it? I find just acknolwedging that it is there helps to shrink it. Thanks for stopping by!
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