MPDR Archives Blog Post #439 - Nov 20, 2015

Pause

Breathe

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

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“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” 

-Richard Moss

Wishing you mindful moments in your day

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #438 - Nov 19, 2015

Pause for 3 Mindful Breaths

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“Remember: this life is not about perfection. 

It’s about practice – the practice of recognizing the grace that’s present in each moment. 

The grace is always there. 

We just need to create a little space, a little breathing room, to be aware of it to let it open us and soften our hearts.”

-Denise Roy

(excerpt from book: MOMfulness: Mothering with Mindfulness, Compassion, and Grace)

Wishing you many moments of mindfulness today

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #437 - Nov 18, 2015

Pause 

and come into the present moment 

by really feeling the sensations 

of 3 or more breaths

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“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.

Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Wishing loving kindness to you and all beings

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #436 - Nov 17, 2015

Pause and intentionally bring attention to the next 3 breaths

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"In a real sense all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality.”

 -Martin Luther King Jr.

  

Wishing you many moments of 

Kindness and peace today

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #435 - Nov 16, 2015

Bring your attention to the following 3 breaths

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“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - 

not in pity or patronizingly, 

but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”

-Nelson Mandela

Wishing you a mindful day

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #434 - Nov 15, 2015

Pause for 3 Mindful Breaths

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“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; 

the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”

-Jonathan Edwards

Wishing you some calm and peaceful moments today

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #433 - Nov 14, 2015

Pause in this moment and bring awareness to the next three breaths

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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power,

 the world will know peace.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Wishing you some loving peaceful moments in your evening

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #432 - Nov 13, 2015

PAUSE for three mindful breaths

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"One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations.  Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing." 

-Sir Ken Robinson

Wishing you a mindful day

 Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #431 - Nov 12, 2015

Step out of auto-pilot mode

and into this present moment

with 3 mindful breaths

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“What is joy without sorrow?

What is success without failure?

What is a win without a loss?

What is health without illness?

You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other.

There is always going to be suffering.

It’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”

― Mark Twain

Wishing you conscious choice in responding to challenges today

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

MPDR Archives Blog Post #430 - Nov 11, 2015

Pause

for 3 mindful breaths

and

to remember with gratitude

all who have helped

to defend our freedom

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Have a mindful day 

and 

enjoy your freedom

 

Lee

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

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/