Daily Reflection Sit

Noticing and recognising wholesome pleasant feeling tones that arise from direct experience with the senses. Paying attention to that as a way to orient towards gladness and joy.

To prime the pump of mudita, look to the senses to find joy!

Co-creating small uplifting moments of connection.

False (frequently unconscious) understandings of self and abundance, or lack thereof, are barriers to joy.  Practice can help us to uncover the truth, and open our hearts.

How joy rises from letting our hearts be nurtured.

It has been said that to help the heart feel joy, we need a discipline of kindness.

Mindfulness helps us notice both the things we can appreciate and the blocks we may temporarily experience when wanting to cultivate appreciation.

Experiencing joy can happen naturally. However, oftentimes fear, sadness or jealousy can block our ability to appreciate the goodness that is present for us and all others. By consciously making the effort to notice and appreciate the goodness in our lives and the lives of our loved ones, we can open up more and more to the practice of Mudita.

Using Rumi’s quote to guide us in noticing what gets in the way of trusting our heart’s natural capacity to resonate with joy.

Know your triggers. Titrate exposure. GROUND & BREATHE. Step in their shoes. Love from a safe distance.

They worked hard and loved as best they could given their causes and conditions.

Much of the practice involves soothing. What do you need to soothe yourself when you are agitated, upset, worried, grieving, anxious? When you wake in a thought stream of worry & NOTICE this.  Take a breath, withdraw attention from this line of thinking, & come back into the body & ground breathe calm settle soothe….soothe the disturbance until it passes….

Practicing toward the moment with kindness, tenderness.

There are qualities that mimic or masquerade as  lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity; …close but not the same!!!

Appreciate small movements toward balance and acceptance of things as they are. Care without control.