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Mindful Monday

Lately I have not been feeling very mindful, in fact I have not been feeling very postive at all. Lets be honest, this year apart from the wedding and my one month in Melbourne has not been extremely postive.

It seams like one thing after another keeps going wrong, the latest is with the car- first she was making a funny sound, then she lost her wheel guard and now she has a lovely crack in her wind screen, thanks to someone throwing a rock over a bridge.

So yes it has been some what of a horrid  time as of late. I started thinking yesteday about my attuide to this events and this year so far. I decided that yet again that even though they has been alot of negatives, that at the end of the day if this what I decided to focus on then YES, I am going to feel negative. This is after all what this year was about beening mindful of how my attuide affects my day living.

So I am trying to focus hard on being postive even if only in the little moments like cuddles with Dan, watchng my favorite tv shows, good chats with friend (even if it only on the phone). As at the end of the day this is where happiness is found, in these little things.

Mindful Monday

Oh it has been so long since i wrote on being Mindful, and to be honest the whole concept has sort of fall on the way side... it not that I do not want to be more mindful, or i have completed forgotten about my OLW. It just that life has gotten so busy as of late, and i have become unmindful of being mindful. Which is a little bit silly really isn't it.  In the last week I have yet again attempted to refocus on my olw, i am trying to live a mindful life.

I trying to be more aware of what is going on around me, and as well as what other expectations of me are. That does not mean i living my life on what other expect of me, but using it as a self reflection on how i am living my life.

Mindful Monday

Mindful Monday

I have been so busy the last few weeks getting everything ready for the wedding, that I have completely lost all sense of what is going on in my life.. THIS IS NOT MINDFUL.

I am really attempting to  enjoy this moment, the lead up to the wedding, and just go with the flow. I attempting to FOCUS on what I am doing right that moment, rather than focusing on the 100 other DIY tasks I have to do. Right now I am making 90 paper heart for table decorations I have about 16 more to go. Then I will move onto my next task.

Mindful Monday

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.  -Nyanaponika There

I am guessing eventually I will run out of observation of being mindful, but right now i am still embracing my word

1) I letting Daniel sleep in. How is this mindful you might ask. For many years i have had the belief if i am awake and on the go, Dan should be awake on the go. This was very bad when Dan did night shift.  So on Saturdays, Dan gets a good sleep in.

2) I trying harder to remain quite. Just LISTEN to what people say, rather interup all the time. I am finding this hard.

A very late (non) mindful monday

This is meant to be Mindful Monday right, well I forgot.... lol, oops. Hence the fact it really not a very mindful monday, but I do have something to say about my progression on how my OLW- Mindfulness is impacting me this year.

1) I realise I said something I should not have said, maybe it was in jest but it hurt my friend. I told her if she did not do something, I would never speak to her again. It was a joke, it was not true, but I hurt her feelings. So, later on in the week I spoke to her about it, I  said I sorry and explain to her  that what ever happens I still love here. ( I was unmindful to begin with, but with reflection I was able to become mindful to my mistake)

2) I being pay more attention to were our money is going, and ways we can make savings. This is a really good thing.

3) We are still doing "I am proud of you for...." I learnt Dan is proud of me for being so compassionate... personally i thought it drove him mad, since every time we watch any movie someone dies in, I cry like my only family has died.  He states yes it annoying that we cannot pretty much not watching anything without you crying, but he further states that when he sees me caring for other people, he knows he pick the right girl. (Yes, I am crying now). I am proud of him for believe so truly in his beliefs, and sticking to his guns. (I hope to explain more about this later)

There alot more to share but you know what to be honest, I am tired. I want to sleep, I have just finish work and my body aches and all my mind is saying is GOOD NIGHT...

So good night all

Mindful Monday

As you maybe aware, this year I have picked Mindfulness as my one little word to live by. Apart of this is I want to document how this word has impacted my life. On Mondays, I have decided to documented how this word has impacted  me in the previous week.

Mindfulness is bringing to the present the awareness of things that you have learned. - The Dalai Lama

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In the last week, I have been really trying to be more mindful of my actions, and behaviour. It has been in simple ways I have been doing this, for example rather than surfing on the laptop and watching tv at the same time, I am doing one or the other.

I am being more mindful of the food I am putting into my body, I am not eating 100% healthy, but I am eating better, and I am feeling better for it as well.

I am reflecting more, I am reading a Buddhist Reflection Book, that has  a passage for you to read each day. I love the fact that each day I have something to read that makes me think about my place in the world.

Dan and I are doing this one together, one night a week, we have decided on Sunday, we are setting aside 10 minutes, to tell the other why we are proud of them. Even though we have only done this twice so far, it has been such a wonderful uplifting experience.

One Little Word - MINDFULNESS Album so Far

For the last week I have been putting this album together, for Ali Edwards' One Little Word.  I was a little lost at first, as I wanted to do a 4 by 6 inch  album, which is total different from what Ali is doing. I was Humming and Haring, do I just do the same everyone else or do i make it my own. The answer of cause  was "I make it my own". So I sort of manipulate, changed up the files we get for the downloads (I hope this is ok).

 At this stage, I kepted the pages very simple, however, I am sure as time goes by and once I worked out the style for this album I will most likely decorate them a bit more.

But right now the words are the most important aspect of this album.