I love sushi! Don’t know about you, but it is one of the world’s best foods. I once had sushi in Mexico and it came with grilled cheese and Jalapenos. Now that was unexpected. Now – what does this have to do with taking time for yourself? Well, read on:
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I’ve just gotten back from teaching on the Isle of Man. It was so great. An amazing land, it feels old. Incredible people there too – if I didn’t have a family to return to, I’d have stayed longer. Here’s a quote I found on the way home:
That title is a touch dramatic, isn’t it? But after talking with someone the other day, I realised an important point. One that is so obvious now, but perhaps isn’t that clear to many people. Now – I realise some of you are busy. I realise you sacrifice a lot already. I get that –
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Have you ever heard that expression “just let go”? Sometimes it’s helpful, sometimes it’s used like an attack “dude, just freakin’ let it go!”. How do you “let go”? Well – the theory and the practice is simple. Letting go is in a way distracting yourself from thinking so much a particular way.
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Last time I talked about how “The Pause”. Gettit? The Pause has capitals for sure, because it’s a meaningful (and meaningless) moment or minutes where you just stop and do nothing. Where you collect yourself, where you break up the busy-ness and the haste and the “got to get things done” for a period of
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Ages ago I read of a group of Zen monks who would go through a very complicated set of chants and prayers every time they went through a doorway. “How bizarre”, I thought to myself, “Imagine if I did that every time I entered a room – it would take forever to get any where”
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Standing on one foot used to be the trick I wanted to do so much. I was 2, I think, at the time … then it was learning to juggle. That was pretty cool when I finally managed it, then I found I could juggle AND stand on one foot. Then I did a yoga
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A big concern many people have with taking time out to do something like meditation is basically, “how will they cope without me?” Ever get the guilts even when you pop down to do the shopping? “I can’t leave them, because they NEED me” – do you know that? That’s a big one for many,
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The guests have left, there’s nothing but silence in the house and crumbs in the fridge. Whew. What a great Christmas! And as nice as it was to have everyone here, it’s really nice when they go too. I sat down to do my Ascension meditation and ended up sleeping for 2 hours. Which goes
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I found out today that there is ONE factory in the UK that puts out 2.3 million Christmas mince pies A DAY! Good news indeed! I don’t know where they all go, but I certainly do help find a home for a few of them. I’m not fussy with pies – my family insists on