Today, just take time to find a shock of beauty or two in your day. Want to listen to the full talk BJ Miller gave at TED? Be warned it may wake you up! The title? ‘What really matters at the end of life’ and here is what the blurb says to help you… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2701 Baby Steps to Stillness
Today, we take baby steps to finding a quiet moment in our day. Everyday. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2701
#tds2700 A moment where stillness is being disrupted
“For a writing or art activity, try to capture a moment where a silence or sense of peace is suddenly broken. You can do this with words or through a visual medium. What does the scene look like while it’s quiet? And what is it that suddenly disrupts this peacefulness? Maybe it’s a happy disruption,… Read more »
#tds2699 Tree FM anyone?
“People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, and unwind wherever you are. Take a breath and soak in the forest sounds as they breathe with life and beauty!” You can just visit the site and listen to a random forest any time for your stillness break… Read more »
#tds2698 The right to disconnect? It will cost you.
“We can already pay a fee to use slick software that will limit our access to Facebook or Twitter. Or we can pay some more and fill our smartphone with a dozen mindfulness apps that will give us all the benefits of Zen without any of the burdens of Buddhism. Or we can pay for… Read more »
#tds2697 Let’s not live in the moment
“This is a kind of neo-liberalism of the emotions, in which happiness is seen not as a response to our circumstances but as a result of our own individual mental effort, a reward for the deserving. The problem is not your sky-high rent or meager paycheck, your cheating spouse or unfair boss or teetering pile… Read more »
#tds2696 The place of no-mind
Today, find the place of no-mind. What might you create? Show us or keep it to yourself and enjoy it! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2696
#tds2695 Mired in akrasia?
“We’re mired deep in what the Greeks called “akrasia”: deciding on the best course of action, then doing something else. The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs. This sounds obvious, but countless efforts at habit change ignore its implications. If you eat badly, you might… Read more »
#tds2694 The right not to be addressed?
“The benefits of silence are off the books. They are not measured in the gross domestic product, yet the availability of silence surely contributes to creativity and innovation. They do not show up explicitly in social statistics such as level of educational achievement, yet one consumes a great deal of silence in the course of… Read more »
#tds2693 Don’t believe everything you think!
Or as an internet meme says more lightly: Don’t believe everything you think! Take time to label your inner experience as impermanent and notice if this helps you find the still space beween the thoughts, emotions, perceptions and words. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2693
#tds2692 I am sorry
Who do you need to apologise to today? Pay attention to how you feel after the apology. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2692
#tds2691 Photograph 3 things
…you think are beautiful. Take a walk, pay attention and photograph 3 things you are attracted to in your walk. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2691
