MPDR Archives Blog Post #155 - January 1, 2015

Pause for 3 Mindful Breaths

Please give yourself a few moments to review the Intention of the Mindfulness Practice Daily Reminders found at end of today’s reminder, reflect on whether these reminders have been helpful and whether you wish to continue receiving them. Please feel free to let me know if you would like me to remove your name from the bcc list today or at any time in the future. 

Image by M. Lee Freedman

“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.”

-Hermann Hesse

I would like to dedicate today’s mindfulness practice daily reminder to my friend Dekyi-Lee, a radiant and wise soul, with healing wishes and gratitude for all that she offers so generously to the world. 

Wishing you a happy, healthy, safe, loving and peaceful 2015

Intention of Mindfulness Practice Daily Reminders

As many of us have experienced, mindfulness is pretty simple, but not so easy and remembering to practice mindful awareness can be quite challenging. 

These daily reminders are intended to help us remember our intention to practice present moment awareness through formal and informal mindfulness practice.

Opening a reminder email represents a decision to pause, step out of automatic pilot mode and into the here and now by intentionally bringing attention to the sensations of three breaths. Then proceed with your day.

You may choose to treat this as an experiment by noticing if and how this brief pause impacts on the next moments of your day.

The second part of the reminder email consists of a quote, poem, image, link to article and/or link to short video relevant to the practice of mindfulness. The images included in the emails have all been created from my mindfulness practice with a camera. 

I suggest consciously choosing whether you have the time and/or the interest in reading/watching anything further, rather than automatically clicking on the link.  In this way you are practicing bringing mindful awareness practice into conscious decision making and action.

Please feel free to share these reminders with others who may be interested.  If you know anyone who would like to be included in the list of recipients of the reminders, please ask them to email me directly.

Please let me know if you would like to remove your name from the email list at any time.

Lee

M. Lee Freedman MD, CM, FRCP(C)