Sit quietly for a few minutes breathing and watch the train of thought leave the station. Smile. It’s monday. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds244
Posts By: Mariana
#tds243 Listen to Rumi in silence
It is Sunday today! You can take time to listen to Coleman Barks reciting Rumi on Soundcloud. The audio lasts an hour, listen to as many poems as you can. Be still. Rumi said: ‘Where I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music’. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure… Read more »
#tds242 The world’s most boring television
We have had slow reading clubs, today we explore the ‘Slow TV movement’. From the introduction: “You’ve heard about slow food. Now here’s slow … TV? In this very funny talk, Norwegian television producer Thomas Hellum shares how he and his team began to broadcast long, boring events, often live — and found a rapt… Read more »
#tds241 ‘Sleep’ with the Virtual Choir
You can just marvel at this music ‘powered by You Tube’ as you sit and take a break. A moment (9 minutes) of stillness brought to you by the magic of the collective intelligence that the web can be. You can listen in SoundCloud too. And if you are curious you can listen to Eric’s… Read more »
#tds240 #tablessthursday When was the last time you did a ‘thing’ and just did it?
Trying to do too many internet things at once makes it hard to get anything done at all. Tabless Thursday is a vacation from distraction. Just open 1 tab and use it! James Hamblin speaks honestly about the (negative) impact multi tasking online has on his life. We were saddened by his words and recognised… Read more »
#tds239 The sufficiency Principle
Sufficiency is not the same as abundance (abundance is more than we need—it is excess), and in the context in which I’m speaking, abundance is merely the flip side of scarcity. You strive to get more than you need because you believe or fear there is not enough. Sufficiency is precise. It means that things are… Read more »
#tds238 Stillness Mono
Find some monochromatic stillness in movement today. Take a photo. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds238
#tds237 Some Daily Stillness Magic today
From our friends at Boing Boing: Stare at the black dot (do not move your eyes) and enjoy the magic! A fun activity to gain some digital recuperation today through and animated gif online – living out the contradictions of life online! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds237
#tds236 ‘I’ of the Storm – more Space Deck!
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#tds235 The restorative effect of soft fascination
We can simplify our understanding of mental attention by thinking of the distinction between ‘directed’ and ‘involuntary’ attention. Directed attention is about our alertness when we applied to a specific task (such as driving a car, sending a text, deciding when to check our email or keep writing that chapter). Involuntary attention is engaged when we are in ‘a restorative environment’… Read more »
#tds234 Give up a favourite everyday thing for the day
Watch your mind’s reaction when you don’t get what you might want. How do you react when you don’t have a particular desirable thing? With detachment and joy? Or with frustration and blame? Tell us in one sentence how you did or create a meme with a meme generator. Tweet your response to @livedtime… Read more »
#tds233 Lack of importance or consequence
A quote from Milan Kundera’s new book ‘The Festival of Insignificance’. It has been liked by some and hated by others but the quote above speaks to the idea that life is not personal and that nobody has any special dispensation from it even if our egos like to be centre stage. Today take time to… Read more »
