This is not a one day practice, but awareness can start in a day. Track how much money you spend today. What kind of spending is it? Mind-full or mindful? Mindless spending will add to the noise in our mind, looking at how we live life can help us find the still place. We spend… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds171 Is it really so ludicrous to be a Luddite?
“The method of carefully and deliberately dismantling technologies, epistemological Luddism if you will, is one way of recovering the buried substance upon which our civilization rests. Once unearthed, that substance could again be scrutinized, criticized, and judged.” (Winner) Is epistemological Luddism a way into stillness in our fast paced lives? Take time to close read… Read more »
#tds170 Learn to live deliberately
What if we could all go to the woods and learn to live deliberately? And do so virtually before we make any physical changes in our lives. We have been following the fortunes of this game here at the Still Web for years now. After much searching we found the 2015 trailer for the game,… Read more »
#tds169 Simplify, simplify, simplify…
Today we could take an inventory of what we have in our life – digital and physical. Do we need all of the things that occupy our attention? What possessions add value to our life? What possessions keep us for focussing on what matters? Choose one possession ( a social media account, a device, or a… Read more »
#tds168 Mind your own business
Take time today to reflect on this excerpt as we approach the end of the year. Comparators never make good targets and social media does not embody this well, what is going on in our own life? And is the ongoing quality of your experience what you want it to be? If some guidance on… Read more »
#tds167 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 »
#tds166 The gift of presence
Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds166
#tds165 How to be a poet (or just a human)
There are 3 stanzas to this poem. Choose one you like and memorise it today. Stillness with words. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds165
#tds164 Today we glow
Go for a wonder around your neighbourhood (at the right time of the day or night) and find glow. Take a photo. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds164
#tds163 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 »
#tds162 Become time rich, yes we can.
When the monkey mind takes hold we feel more and more pressured by the clock and lack of time: ‘Is that the time?’‘I’ve got far too much to do’ ‘I should never have said yes to that’ ‘I need a break’ …and so on. This is draining and adds to that feeling of being time poor… Read more »
#tds161 Last message received
Today we contemplate impermanence…again. Go to The Last Message Received Tumblr and read some of the messages. Everything ends. It can helps us understand the preciousness of now, contemplating endings. If you use Tumblr you might follow this blog, it has an interesting effect to one’s state of mind to suddenly find one of their posts in… Read more »
