Daily Reflection Sit

The wisdom of combining strength and gentleness in cultivating the holding environment

We come to practice carrying stress. What are holding? What might help hold it?

Being with our internal experience as a good mother would be with her infant.

Regardless of our age, our health, our mood, or our past, how can you brighten your day and make magic out of this one wild and precious life you are living!?

Consolidate them into appreciation and gratitude.

Karma gives us choice, agency. We can choose where to place attention AND how to attend, how to relate to what is happening…. We can, that is, if we are aware...enough to NOTICE.

Invite the wholesome whenever possible.

Something is transformed between each loss and whatever comes next.

Grief and gratitude may seem like an unlikely couple, yet they arise from the same source: love.

Simplifying as is done in Sweden

What qualities would we like to be known for? Manifest those qualities now, in daily life. Live your legacy.

Check in, breathe, adjust to feel for the ease amidst the disease. Love pain into the fold of mindfulness. This is compassion in action.

Focus upon diet and exercise.

Listen to the body's needs. What does it need to feel a bit more comfortable in its skin? Let the changing needs of your body challenge the heartmind to be creative in how it responds. Don’t ignore or deny. Listen & kindly respond.

How to gracefully attend to this body.