Discover Top Posts Tagged with #learning to be present

Popular Recent

A new day, a new blog. Created this place because I needed a place to really get my thoughts together and reflect. I...have been doing things. Lots of things. I want to be able to appreciate myself for the little things I do and experience, as opposed to hours of scrolling through with no purpose.

I hope that with this blog, I'm able to appreciate my sense of self and the little things I do.

#reflect #peaceful #learning to be present

I always believed joy was something waiting for me at the end of all this. After the effort, after the long days, after I had finally become someone worth being proud of. Like it was a reward I would unlock once I had done enough, achieved enough, proved enough.

But this morning it was quieter than that. It was the sunlight resting gently on my face, the kind that does not ask anything of you. No expectations, no conditions, no finish line. Just a moment that existed whether I was ready for it or not.

And I almost missed it, because I was too busy chasing a version of happiness that lives in the future, forgetting that sometimes it shows up softly, in the middle of everything, asking only to be felt.

#excerpts from a book i’ll never write #happiness is not a reward #learning to be present #soft joy #sunlight moments #i almost missed this #gentle happiness #not everything needs to be earned #finding it in the now #quiet peace

Meditate in a Way That Feels Right for You

In this post: feeling stagnant in my meditation practice and figuring out how long to meditate each day

Date: July 1, 2022 Days meditated: 20 Total time spent meditating: 270 minutes Stagnating in My Meditation Practice Listen, I know what you’re thinking. Catherine, you haven’t even been meditating for a month! How can you be stagnating? To which I say: okay, I guess I’m not really stagnating, but I’m generally only doing ten to fifteen minutes of meditation each day. And while I recognize…

View On WordPress

#how long should I meditate #how to be alone #how to slow racing thoughts #learning to be present #learning to focus #meditation #meditation challenge #mental health #mental health challenge #perfectionism #self care #self improvement

Welcome: Adventures in a Year of Solitude

Photo by Milan Popovic on Unsplash I’m the first to admit I love solitude a little too much: if I could, I would build my days so I could be alone ninety percent of the time. It’s not that I don’t like being around others; I just enjoy quiet time and use it as a way to recharge. Having said that, I recently came to recognize that, though I spend as much time alone as I can, I’m not really with…

View On WordPress

#a year of meditation #being present #how to be alone #learning to be present #meditation #personal experiment #solitude #year of solitude

I'm Okay

Brain on fire

Throat has smoke

Can’t even croak

The words are jumbled in my mind

The trouble is finding them

Stringing it together

It gets harder to do that in cloudy weather

For now i still cant speak

Not even a peep

There’s too much going on

Or maybe nothing at all

Does life matter

Is it worth it

My answer varies with the days

Sometimes it’s hard to

Even stay

In the present

To stop

Take in the scene

To taste the food

Not inhale

To smell drops of morning dew

Not breeze by it

To slow down

To get the words out

So I can shout

That I’m on my way

To being okay

#im ok im fine #my writing #writer #writers on tumblr #learning to be present #poemsbyme #writblr

june 14

another year of life. windy weather & sloppy ponytails. kisses from Lilo. babysitting a chunky golden puppy. family dinner. cake. bob’s burgers. workout that brought back memories from when I was 12.

#mindfulness #learning to be present