Mindfulness!

Today I read about Mindfulness, as part of Sarah Napthali's Guide to caring for yourself and your children- A Zen guide.

I have been blessed with a patient nature, but I'd like to improve- because LoML would rather not have even those couple of flare ups that invariably occur sometimes.

Mindfulness requires you to be calm, alert and let the universe seep into you. It challenges all your senses- visual/ tactile/ olfactory- to live in the present.

Often we are swept along by past prejudices and future plans. The present is merely a bridge between the two on which we balance precariously. 

Mindfulness encourages you to evaluate the moment, live it, sink in it and forget the past and future.

This is a great thought, especially since I'm precisely thinking of the future - all the time.

I sometimes even forget what yesterday was like. 

But, with mindfulness, I'm beginning to appreciate little moments that make up the day.

It's like a dandelion clock- the mind being the ripe flower- and the petals/ clock coming in to the open mind.

 (Photo credit: mindfulconstruct.com)