“Looking may be called enchanted when the act of attention draws a circle around itself from which everything but the object is excluded, when intensity of regard blocks out all circumambient images, stills all murmuring voices.” Stephen Greenblatt Today you get to find a few things to practice your circle of enchanted looking. After just… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds3084 Go through the mind door
“Heart 7 is known in Chinese as Shen Men and translated as Spirit Gate or Mind Door, this acupoint is often used to strengthen the mind and to reduce heart palpitations. It’s located on the wrist crease, in line with the little finger, and in my experience is very effective for calming the mind, soothing… Read more »
#tds3083 Sit
Today, just find time to sit still, do nothing but sit. How long can you manage to just sit? Enlightenment not guaranteed. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds3083
#tds3082 The practice of one thing at a time
So instead of having some object of worship, we just concentrate on the activity which we do in each moment. When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat. Susuki Roshi Pick one thing, just do that. Want a little more help? “When… Read more »
#tds3081 Primitive Technology and stillness?
Today’s post will work at many levels. You can just watch this video; at almost 20 minutes with no speech, no music just the sounds of activity in the wild, you may not last through to the end. Or you might be transfixed by it and connect with this human making the essentials for life… Read more »
#tds3080 Your fear list
“I thought this might be a good practice for a Daily Stillness activity: Listing our fears keeps them from being a surprise – we can get comfortable around them.” Today your job is to start making your very own fear list to befriend. This may take more than today…that is okay. One day… Read more »
#tds3079 Women Gathering mushrooms
“It shows how this musical tradition has evolved its own acoustic niche which puts human communication in its true ecological context. Hopefully by paying attention to the sound world around us and by listening more deeply, we might learn to more fully appreciate the beautiful complexity of the more than human world that we are… Read more »
#tds3078 Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
“When we’re out on a walk and we want to listen for something— a bird, or something in the bushes— what do we naturally do? We stop. We still the self-generated noise that usually surrounds us, so we can better hear what’s going on outside ourselves. So this injunction to stop, stop, stop isn’t one… Read more »
#tds3077 You Are Needed Where Your Heart Feels Most Broken
Go where your heart feels broken the most; amidst the pain in hunger and hate in crime. Wildlife is dying, emissions still flying, such sombre praise of how much we have grossed. The ice is melting, our souls are freezing, hearts of hope, now closed, stenosed. With all that we’ve done, unutterably asleep, there’s no longer… Read more »
#tds3076 You Liar. Not you. The person sitting next to you!
A short and jargon free video on how defensive routines can harm our well being long term and how mind chatter is created by lying to ourselves thus depriving us of genuine still moments in life. If you want to learn something about this in more depth Psychology Today obliges. We all ‘lie to ourselves’… Read more »
#tds3075 Vulnerability
“…in refusing our vulnerability, we refuse the help needed at every turn of our existence and immobilize the essential title and conversational foundations of our identity.” David Whyte reads his poem Vulnerability from his book ‘Consolations – The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words’.And if you feel like taking more time to reflect on… Read more »
#tds3074 The importance of a Digital Daily Practice
It’s official! The Daily Stillness is good for your wellbeing. We have known that for a long time, now there is evidence from a wonderful little study. The study is titled “The daily digital practice as a form of self-care: Using photography for everyday well-being”. Participants were studied over a period of 2 months to understand… Read more »
