mindfulness and connecting with the present moment

I do it often for kids in the classroom. It doesn’t come as easily to me otherwise but it is worth thinking about and being mindful of. It is a good exercise for me today.

tend to my own heart and soul. I am undergoing some stressful event so I have to take care of the pain.

Having practices like generosity, gratefulness, meditation, and watching my mind and how it is acting/reacting is what helps me most. .

This is a hard question for me. I teach and I think I am good at helping kids reach their potential. Right now I am continuing investing time in grant writing so my students have more opportunity. However I see my mission in teaching as caring for the whole child. I really like creating safe places for kids and people to interact together.

Friendship
Knitting
Meditation
Worship
Walking in nature
Different things at different times

My current challenge has a root in early childhood experience. I think nurturing a wounded child and being there for her helps me deal with a current difficulty in relationship. My higher self has a chance to take action if needed. I’m not there yet. Just dealing with the perceived blow. For me it requires a lot of patience.

Any heartache and there have been lots brought me to seek meaning, to question and seek solace. Experiences of awe like birth increase my sense of higher power. Going to different christian churches throughout my life introduced me to different approaches to relationship with self, Universe and others. Authors, teachers and guides also inspire and support me to keep believing. Finally the Buddhist tradition has offered me more insight into moment to moment experience of spirituality.

“……Imagine all the people living life in peace…..” and all in that song.

control and the illusion of it

appreciation and support

I don’t know what Grace is: I think it is a kind of loveliness that is always present in the universe at all times and I am entitled to it if I can align myself with receiving it.

My family of origin and my own family. I am forced to look at the easy relationships and the difficult. Through work situations I have experienced a few challenges and these too have forced me to dig deeper. Outside of that I have admired others I’ve met and known and they continually inspire me to no end. Usually what they have in common is a great outlook on life that allows them to be compassionate and engage with life fully.

Kindness in my view covers a wide area and is not to be confused with co dependency. Tolerant, merciful, generous, decent, friendly, courteous, polite, warm, considerate, concerned, pleasant all from the dictionary. The big question for me is how to be aligned internally so that these can be extended to all living beings.

the need to manage it in some way.

As life progressed she became happier and more at peace with herself and others and it was something she worked at every day.

I know for sure there is pleasure and pain, that we die, that we all have a unique path, that we can’t change others only ourselves. that we are here to learn. That love is more powerful than hate and that everything changes and that there are so many belief systems that hold these truths because we are all human. struggling to do the best we can.

Thank you Francine. I am reading Colin Tipping’s book Radical Forgiveness and it will I think help me to have a more accepting perspective. It promises to be interesting and just what I need right now

I like what you said about rewriting or redoing or revisiting the past and separating from it.