If you’re watching this, you care about your family, so have compassion for yourself. Then, practice compassion for your kid(s) – they’ve only been alive a much shorter time and they only know of the world what you’ve shown them by your example, your mood(s), your energy. Practice this compassion, practice stepping into their experience,…
Continue ReadingMindful Smack: Reminder to Meditate
Take 5 minutes to invite yourself to sit and turn all that’s changing, and all that’s difficult, into food for your clarity and your growth. Bring it all to your heart. Meditate. It always helps. Mindful Smack: Reminder to Meditate from Elena Brower on Vimeo.
Continue ReadingMindful Smack: Why Meditate?
Why meditate? Meditation helps me to respond with elegance instead of react. Sitting regularly helps me see where I’m hosting tension in my body, and helps me feel more connected to myself as a bastion of love. It helps me be less afraid and more real. Meditation keeps me kind and patient with the folks…
Continue ReadingMindful Smack: Defining Prayer
W.H. Auden defines prayer as a way to pay “careful and concentrated attention to something other than our own constructions.” May we make everything a prayer, our interactions, conversations, ways of listening, relationships. May it all be a prayer.
Continue ReadingMindful Smack: Work Backwards
Now that January is coming to a close, here are three super useful reminders about your resolutions and how to make them stick, with love. 1. Work backwards. From the perspective of December 2013, what happened this year? What were you proud of? What was accomplished? 2. Tell EVERYONE: Post, friends, family, everyone. Let them…
Continue ReadingMindful Smack: Pure Presence
Been trying to figure out how to shift negativity out of my mind, out of my life. I’ve found that I’m perpetuating complaints, frustration and anger by giving them reckless voices without consciously choosing how i express myself. If i can do it while I’m teaching, what do i need to know to do it…
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