Relaxing your eyes away from the screen should be done regularly. Today you can try the eye eight exercise. “Sit relaxed and close your eyes. Imagine the shape of an eight, with its center between your eyebrows. Now move your eyes along this shape, approximately 10 times in each direction.” Compassionate Computing As you… Read more »
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#tds219 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 »
#tds218 Fit a Rhyming Couplet of Stillness in a Tweet
Flickr photo by Steve A Johnson http://flickr.com/photos/artbystevejohnson/4621636807 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license You have even less than 140 characters (to include the twitter name and hashtag below) to make a short poem that rhymes two words. Twas not a stressful feat, to fit a couplet in this tweet. @livedtime #tds218 Whilst… Read more »
#tds217 Your daily impermanence
Become aware of and collect experiences in daily life that remind you of the impermanence of this life, of emotions, of things… Today notice that every breath has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Each in-breath has a beginning, an middle, and an end as does each out-breath. Observe this pause to help you more… Read more »
#tds216 The 4 basic rules – are you following them?
Stop what you are doing. Make a choice to take 2.5 minutes of your day to sit still. Watch this animation by students from three different Boston Public Schools who pre-visualized, designed and animated this hand-drawn educational short. How are you doing following these basic rules in your life daily? Tweet your response to @livedtime and… Read more »
#tds215 Overlooked object scavenger hunt
The point is to attend to some recurring thing that is ubiquitous, but that nobody is making any particular effort for me to notice. Rob Walker Need a list of commonly overlooked objects? Pick one, take time to go on your scavenger hunt. Show us in a photo! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to… Read more »
#tds214 Stay calm, at ease and centred
How will you find your centre today? “May the blessing of light be on you— light without and light within. May the blessed sunlight shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire.” May be just repeating this old celtic blessing quietly to yourself away for screens and notifications? Or just breathing? Tweet… Read more »
#tds213 Life is not personal
“Mind — in its tiniest form — is what comes between us and the world around us. And mind, many have said — since the Stoics and before — is what projects our imperfect longings and understanding onto reality. It’s not events that undo us, it’s what we make of them.” Pico Iyer Listen… Read more »
#tds212 Intercept knee-jerk responses
Today pause before acting and ask two questions. First, is this something that I absolutely must do? And, second, is it something that I choose to do? Unless there is a “yes” to one of these questions do not invest time in this endeavour. Write a paragraph with your insights at the end of the day in… Read more »
#tds211 Empty space
Take a photo of empty space in the world around you. Something to remind you that infinite space is always there, you just need to remember to find it. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds211
#tds210 Find your own balancing point
GRAVITY GLUE-An Interview with Michael Grab from Chuck Richardson on Vimeo. “So please take a deep breath, sit back, find your own balancing point and, as Mike might suggest, lean into your discomfort” Take just over 7 minutes to connect with silence through the amazing Michael Grab Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure… Read more »
#tds209 Rewind day
Sit back and enjoy this amazing animation: “A day of a man’s life is seen as on a videotape which is being rewound. When he wakes up in the morning he has no idea what lays ahead.” We may have shown this one on a previous Daily Practice but it bear repeating: We just do… Read more »
