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The Daily Stillness Categorized: Distraction Busting

Practices in this category are about learning to restrain your senses purposefully. This leads to relaxed focus of attention and the choice to sustain your attention on a given stimulus. As concentration develops, you learn to sit with the habits that make the ‘self’ and how these create distraction.

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#tds2817 There is no inevitability so long as…

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#tds2816 Being alone may be key to rest

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#tds2809 A question to live with…for today at least

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#tds2789 More boredom today

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#tds2788 Get used to boredom

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#tds2783 How to be a poet (or just a human)

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#tds2773 Can you find yourself?

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#tds2764 Learning a new skill? Take short breaks

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#tds2763 The 10 most restful activites according to 18,000 people…

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#tds2762 What is a life without rest?

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#tds2752 A question to live with…for today at least

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#tds2731 Humming Birds and soft fascination

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The Daily stillness provides an ongoing practice embedded in your everyday to help you learn about the many ways in which stillness is more than silence or slowing your life down (more...).
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Recent Daily Stillnesses

  • #tds3108 Get to know your patch of grass December 31, 2023
  • #tds3107 Write an equilibrium Lune December 30, 2023
  • #tds3106 Find a quiet place online December 29, 2023
  • #tds3105 Friluftsliv in, hygge out! December 28, 2023
  • #tds3104 Futzing as a skill for stillness December 27, 2023
  • #tds3104 “is this good or bad? Yes.” Zeynep Tufekçi December 27, 2023
  • #tds3103 Confessions of a bad meditator December 26, 2023
  • #tds3102 Lack of importance or consequence December 25, 2023
  • #tds3101 Get Drunk! December 24, 2023
  • #tds3100 Message Not Received December 23, 2023
  • #tds3099 The WIFI detox: colonic irrigation for the mind December 22, 2023
  • #tds3098 “No matter how I struggle and strive… December 21, 2023

Recent Responses

  • @livedtime Of course a curmudging opinion has to be offered. You know this one? #tds2733 https://t.co/tR3ZItPruL
  • @livedtime #tds2704 Everyday is borrowed The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Isaac D’Israeli https://t.co/ERlfpbjAWZ
  • @livedtime #lavendel #tds2676 Seedling of #lavender . Wait for the summer. https://t.co/dJKnxOde03
  • @livedtime #tds2665 Knowledge in a book or a computer memory is useless if not used with help of your brain.
  • #tds2573 @LivedTime This morning I read the poem “Good Days” by Mary O’Connor that fits with the prompt “A list of the ways in which the way forward dots the path behind us” at https://t.co/DNyyQ2wYB4. https://t.co/WlIPWKUMoT My own take on paths: https://t.co/GBFSXq7tyD.
  • Leeks show me two ways of blooming. [images] Blossom casing still holding onto the globe of tiny flowers that will open, and another leek with those tiny flowers beginning to open. #tds2580 @livedtime https://t.co/gJTLrTvBGP
  • #tds2513 @livedtime without Silence no music, Solitude, Stillness and The Simplicity of immersing in music making. The stillness of the audience when listening.
  • o @livedtime #tds2495 Hank William lyrics https://t.co/XUIvK4ulKX No matter how I struggle and strive I’ll never get out of this world alive
  • @livedtime Link error #tds2491 Been there, done that…and I keep doing it https://t.co/Kz8whsXGzW
  • Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. @livedtime #tds2488 Dear Schmaltz https://t.co/3dLb9rbrtH
  • @livedtime #tds2468 stillness https://t.co/YfKojuzRHB
  • @livedtime #tds2463 Smile with some flowers. https://t.co/rJMRzLs5xA

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