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 »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds399 Alexa’s challenge: Unlock your inner Amish!
Bringing a voice to some of the challenges to technology with a view to developing intentional technology. She explores how and offers examples. The 15 minute video ends with the challenge of the title: Unlock your own inner Amish, how might we develop a relationship with technology that preserves the buttermilk in our lives. Tweet… Read more »
#tds398 Does your device charge you?
We’ll just leave this here. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds398
#tds397 Notice your opinions
Today stop reacting and notice your responses to other people. We all need support and encouragement to be aware of what we think, what we say, and what we do. Notice your opinions. If you find yourself becoming aggressive about your opinions, notice that. If you find yourself being nonaggressive, notice that. Pema Chrodron … Read more »
#tds396 Turn routine into an open ended game
Take something in your day that has long since become so routine that you can do it in your sleep. Spot something new in it today. More to life by mdvfunes You can choose any event that makes you feel meh inside and train yourself to see something new in it each day. Tell… Read more »
#tds395 A self guided reflection day
Beck Tench has created a wonderful and soulful guide for a secular self guided retreat – a day of reflection with wonderful creative activities to connect with our inner world. She created a set of handouts for a day she did with a group face to face and then ‘edited the handouts so that they apply… Read more »
#tds394 Unaccumulate
The answer is zero. Let go of everything that can be let go of. Unaccumulate. Notice a new way of figuring out. If many places are held by nothing at all, more actions are possible. More actions are likely–all that room. — Anne Herbert Today, use these few words to reflect on what can be… Read more »
#tds393 Hard things are hard
We never imagined we would feature President Obama here on the Daily Stillness. Yet, this short video speaks to many themes we explore here: impermanence, emergence, the need for letting go of big egos to find stillness and wisdom…and practicing all this is hard and takes time. Today use the saying ‘hard things are hard’… Read more »
#tds392 Stop and hear the music
And take time to read the article about the experiment. What about our ability to appreciate life? What can you stop and listen to today? We had this daily stillness a short time ago…we can never do this enough. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds392
#tds391 Do your daily gratitudes
“Because when we don’t take the time each day to count our Gratitudes, our Ingratitudes rush right in and take over. And then we are off to the fucking races, are we not? Life can seem to be nothing but the accretion of the many unfortunate, heartbreaking, humiliating things that happen to us, until we… Read more »
#tds390 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 »
#tds389 The RSS reader of days gone by
We found a lovely post that helped us reflect on life beyond the digital. Joel Dueck tells us about this item of furniture, “The secretary, a compartmentalized working-space, may be thought of as the RSS reader of the past.” He further reflects on something that may give an interesting light on digital life – its… Read more »
