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The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
– Henry Miller

Bedtime Comfort Challenge

February 8, 2014Random Thoughts, Random Writingattention, body, present moment, self-awareness, sleepShira

This is a practice that i have found pretty interesting and i wanted to share. I call it the “Bedtime Comfort Challenge.”

Basically when you go to bed each night, you ask yourself: “What can I do to be even more comfortable than i am right now?”

If you listen to your body closely you will always find more and more things you can do to feel even more comfortable. It could mean changing positions, or spreading your legs a little more, or noticing your jaw is tense and relaxing it, or relaxing your forehead, or moving your arm a little more to the left, or shifting a boob… You get the picture. You ask yourself that question again and again and act accordingly until you are so comfortable that you are practically melting into the mattress.

If you repeat this process on a regular basis, you’ll benefit in 4 ways:

1) You practice bringing yourself into the NOW. In those moments, you are not lost in thought, reviewing the previous day or worrying about the next one, you are here and now, in this bed, in this moment.

2) You start training yourself to bring your awareness down into the body and to what it needs. For many of us, we are so ‘in our heads’ most of the time that often we forget there is a body attached.

3) You start getting used to paying attention to what makes you feel good, and to go in the direction of it. As that becomes more habitual, you’ll see it apply to other things in your life as well – finding the thoughts, words or actions that feel good to you and going in the direction of them.

and finally…

4) Its just really freaking comfortable and relaxing, and our bodies, minds and souls deserve that.. 🙂

Light Up the World

July 27, 2013Random Thoughtsattention, changing the world, emotions, energy, law of attraction, lightShira

Light up the world

As the outside world appears to get more and more disturbing, its easy to get caught up in anger, frustration or even apathy. But guess what, on the other side of the apparent craziness, there is something else unfolding. Can you see it? At first it may only appear as a small glimmer of light, but that’s only because you haven’t been giving it as much attention. Yeah, that’s the thing: what you focus your attention on and what you give energy to, becomes stronger. The sooner we can learn to focus our attention and energy on the glimmer of light, the faster we can light up the world.

Awe

Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey has proposed that our ability to awe was biologically selected for by evolution because it imbues our lives with sense of cosmic significance that has resulted in a species that works harder not just to survive but to flourish and thrive.

AWE-some vid.