Practice Taking It All In

Hello, y'all,

Here are a few insights from the week:  lingering in the moment, unfamiliarity as a tool for wisdom, and naming your distractions as a form of soul-tending.

One Quote

What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Three Insights on Mindfulness

On being lost as a path for growth. Being lost can be a path to transformation and finding yourself through:

• Uncertainty – lost is the place we learn the most from failure; it allows for the capacity to be in uncertainty and mystery.

• Grief and loss – the map of grief is in the darkness of your guts.

• Solitude – allows you to move into the vastness of the unknown to embrace the mystery of emptiness and your inner strength of self.

Two tips on the ancient practice of noticing to help minimize distractions. The art of seeing is through the lens of contemplation, allowing the moment to fill the space before you and be fully present with compassion and grace. Do this in two way…