MPDR Archives Blog Post #4 - July 27, 2014

PAUSE

Bring mindful awareness to the next three breaths

Link to article Nine Ways the Meditating Brain Creates Better Relationships http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rewire-your-brain-love/200911/nine-ways-meditating-brain-creates-better-relationships

 I inadvertently did not include the name of the author of the poem: "The Peace of Wild Things” in yesterday’s reminder.  It was written by Wendell Berry. Here it is again:

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For the time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  

Wendell Berry 

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