Today, we practice beholding. What is beholding? To experience an object or image firsthand. To look at an object and image with full attention, with regard and when possible, to hold and touch the object. Find ways to make this a vivid encounter which “often leads to another kind of encounter” Deborah Haynes. We can apply a… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2953 Consider your silences and deploy them deliberately
Watch this film about the art of silence in film making. If you do just that you will have found 6 minutes of learning that silence is needed for sound to be useful. You may want to also take the art of silence into your day and build a few ‘moments’ deliberately. How easy was… Read more »
#tds2952 What are you hiding from?
“In my personal experience, mindlessly relying on my phone and computer has been a useful, albeit insidious, way of avoiding uncomfortable feelings.” This month the Harvard Business Review asks: What are you hiding from when you constantly check your phone? May be you don’t constantly check your phone. May be your practice today is… Read more »
#tds2951 Stop procrastinating? Never!
Procrastination is good for you. Today’s daily stillness exercise is to give procrastination a purposeful try. Read this lovely article about how to never feel ashamed about procrastination and then as it suggests ‘find something you would genuinely rather do than your work, something that will engage and gratify your mind and do it at… Read more »
#tds2950 Ask the moment
Richard Miller teaches a relaxation method known as Yoga Nidra. In one of his talks he speaks about the idea that there is a continuity of being rather than a separate self. Opening up to stillness can help us access a state of mind where nothing distracts us as we can be open to the… Read more »
#tds2949 You are not late…
Today, can we live without accurate clock time? For how long? Can we decide that whatever time we get ‘there’ is the right time to be there? How does putting this frame around your day help reduce monkey mind activity? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2949
#tds2948 A question to live with…for today at least
Take this question with you today as you meet the world of the animate and the inanimate getting your personal tasks done. Want to read the whole book? It is available free online. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2948
#tds2947 Interconnected memories
“No man is an island: we act together, think together and even remember together. Elderly couples have interconnected memory systems, working together to deftly remember their shared past. New research shows that platonic friends see themselves similarly. […] Memory interdependence was the single best predictor of friendship quality, more even than relationship length or a… Read more »
#tds2946 Awe inspiring
What is awe? We take time to look past the overused ‘awesome’ today. It is ‘a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.’ It turns out that experiencing genuine awe makes us more generous. The study defines awe as: ‘an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that transcend current frames of reference.’ Today… Read more »
#tds2945 Things we forget
We found a wonderful blog! Check out Things We Forget. There are some lovely post-its to help us remember important truths we forget. Today, write this on a post and leave it in a public place for somebody to find…you will get a walk, have to think were to leave the post-it and do somebody… Read more »
#tds2944 New Bestseller: How you ended up in hell
This cartoon by @leunigcartoons popped into our stream. We will leave it here for you to wonder how it relates to finding moments of stillness in your day. Hint: the answer is not in a book! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2944
#tds2943 The lost thing
“A boy finds a strange creature on a beach, and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to. A film for those with more important things to pay attention to” Spend 15 minutes with Shaun Tan’s amazing animation The Lost… Read more »
