Mindful Ink

I generally try to avoid posts of a more esoteric variety here. The reason is largely that a great deal of what I see in the productivity vein of blogs when they dip into this world is generally a bit.. crap, really. It’s one of those sensations like you’re reading a great magazine and then you stumble upon an article about how your Horoscope effects you.

Still, our worlds are not nuts and bolts, and we must occasionally tend to the psyche at the center of it all. This is one of those skills I wish I used more often, but always seem to forget I can. Forget what?

Stopping.

Just stop. Stop, walk outside, sit down under a tree where the boughs will move and occasionally take your shade away. Try to find a spot with a nice breeze.

Now just sit. Breath. Open up your senses. Listen to the wind, listen to the animals, the footsteps and shoes and chatter of the people around you - don’t hold on to any of these sensations, just listen and let them go as they happen. Close your eyes and marvel as your closed eyes experience brightness and darkness as the sun strikes and then slips away. Feel the warmth on your face and arms and hands.

Open your eyes. Breath. Stare at the tree, try to really get into communion with it - navigate its bark and branches with your eyes, marvel at the spectacular complexity of it all. The sheer beauty of it.

Keep this up for fifteen minutes, maybe thirty. You’ll feel refreshed, a bit happier perhaps, wondrous of the astonishing beauty and spectacle that is the world you live in. It’s okay to stop, once in a while.

Enjoy your weekend.

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