Pause
Notice that you are breathing
When you inhale, notice you are breathing in
When you exhale, notice you are breathing out
Continue being aware of inhaling and exhaling for 2 more breaths
And Perhaps Choose to ...
Continue with mindful awareness of breathing
for another minute
or 5 minutes
or 10 minutes
or longer
image by M. Lee Freedman
"What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows!
Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants, this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen."
—Thomas Merton
excerpt from “Rain and the Rhinoceros” in Raids on The Unspeakable
Wishing you moments of peace and joy today
Lee
M. Lee Freedman, MD,CM, FRCP(C)
*Welcome to new recipients 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.
The mindfulness practice daily reminders that have been sent out since July 2014 are now archived on a blog called MPDR Archives. Here is a link to the first entry that describes the history of and intention for the reminders.http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/2015/01/welcome-to-archives-of-mindfulness.html.
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 my assistant at drmlfreedman@hotmail.com.
Please let me know if you would like to remove your name from the email list at any time.
Lee
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