Stop what you are doing and take a look around you. Can you see before naming what you see? In this moment can you look at the world as if you have never seen it before? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds735
Posts By: Mariana
#tds734 A walk in negative space
Today, take a walk in negative space. Your intention is to look between things: objects define space, but what about the negative space between objects? What forms and shapes can be found in that negative space? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds734
#tds733 Take something an ‘behold it’
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 tells us. We apply… Read more »
#tds732 What do you see?
Today, draw what you see in the image. What else do you see? Make a new drawing inspired by what you have seen. Yes, you will have seen this before, Wikimedia tells us that it is dated 1892. The point is, can you get past your sense of familiarity and look anew? Can you take… Read more »
#tds731 The Tree of Awe Contemplation
Today, a contemplation you can use with any photograph to inspire you to still the mind and stop to look at it (or anything else in nature) with a little more attention. Two questions: What do you see? What does it inspire in you? Take 5 minutes to sit with this image. Focus on… Read more »
#tds730 Write a Gatha Poem
Traditionally gathas are short 4 line poems that correspond to regular moments throughout the day. The idea is to weave gathas together with daily action and breathing. For example, waking up in the morning, starting the car or finishing a meal, we can gently remind ourselves to quieten the mind and attend to that action. For… Read more »
#tds729 A handy tip for the easily distracted
Sometimes, we can connect to healthy habits by laughing with ourselves and our less than skilful habits. This video is under 4 minutes long and will make you laugh out loud and also reflect on the lengths we sometimes need to go to in order to focus in this attention deprived world. HT to our… Read more »
#tds728 Before the Internet
“….Because that’s what it was like before the Internet. You made your own fun.” Today take time to read this endearing meditation on life before the internet. Emma Rathbone in the New Yorker has written a poetic, nostalgic and funny meditation that will surely help you reconnect with those playful times before screens gave us everything…. Read more »
#tds727 Nothing More Common
Today, just take time to read this poem and find all the things ‘more common’ in your day that live on ‘shared time’. Leave ticking time alone for a while… Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds727
#tds726 Are you sleeping enough to be truly awake?
“The evidence is overwhelming, it is irrefutable. Sleep is the single most effective thing you can do to reset your brain and body health each and every day,” — Matt Walker, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory.” We intuitively know this to be true… Read more »
#tds725 How many of you aren’t going to die? Raise your hand please
“…and since this is our final destination we might as well start now!” Today, just watch this 6 minute video with wisdom from two of our greatest spiritual teachers unpacking the possible connections between daily gratitude, old age, harvesting, and death. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds725
#tds724 Wu Wei – The principle of not forcing
Today, practice living your day without forcing action. What changes? Both inner and outer changes. What is each moment asking of you? Do that. A full day feels too ambitious? Just practice for an hour. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds724
