When sitting, just sit; When eating just eat ...................

Day 72 of not smoking.

Yesterdays post really got me thinking. I have reread my own post a few times today.

I enjoyed today. I just did things as they needed doing. When I started to think of too many things at once and started to try to decide what I was going to do next or started to look like I was going to do more than one thing at a time. I STOPPED. I paused and took notice of what I was doing. I decides what it was I wanted to do next and then proceeded with that. I let the other things go. Some I came back to after I had finished what was at hand. Other things got left. It was quite a good day. And one I wish to repeat again tomorrow. I moved and gardened and did yoga and just generally lived.

Now on this same subject is a little bit taken from a Blog I happened to stumble across while reading one of my followed blogs.

"I was lying in bed nursing my little one, a book propped up in front of me as usual. This time it happened to be Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn. And I came to these words:"

When sitting, just sit.

When eating, just eat.

When walking, just walk.

When talking, just talk.

When listening, just listen.

When looking, just look.

When touching, just touch.

When thinking, just think.

When playing, just play.

And enjoy the feeling of each moment and each day.

"What can I say? I put the book down. The sun coming through the window felt warm on my back. My daughter fell asleep in my arms. The moment lasted a long, long time."

Old Recipe For A New World

"I feel in a bit of a swirl at the moment"

Sometimes we just plain think to much. I have just had some switch of time. Funny but one of the way's I switch of is to do simple puzzles in a magazine called That's Life. Not to difficult but definately enough to keep my mind from wandering all over the place. I feel in a bit of a swirl at the moment. I truly don't know how else to say it except that way. A swirl. I keep going from one thing to another to another. I have ideas, I read such differing topics, I have things just started or ready to start, yet nothing seems to be completed or even started for that matter. I am really not sure of anything except to go with this idea of slowing down. Not so much in the pysical sense as I actually need to move in that way but I need to slow down  - to get the mind to stop swirling - to slow right down. I just feel a little bit like I am in information overload. I just don't know where to start or stop.

So I really tried to look at what I feel the Universe is trying to tell me. And below is the list that I have come up with. These ideas of where to start and what needs to be done come from listening and reading - from all of you - from all the books I have been led to read recently - from circumstances I have had in my personal and working life - from every where. I have noticed things and recurring messages and lessons and this is what I feel they point to.

1. Be MINDFUL. Practise being in the moment. So many lessons on this topic. Just over and over again I keep getting this message. Meditate.

2. Be ACTIVE. Get moving. Gardening, Yoga, Walking - anything that requires moving.
3. Be GENEROUS. Get giving.
4. PUT IT INTO PRACTISE - Just do the things I have learnt - just get to it - stop procrastinating - stop with the excuses.
5. Stop researching - stop looking up just that little bit more information - basically stop filling my cup and use what is already there now and then in time I can start to refill my cup again. This makes sense to me but maybe won't to anyone else.

I am going to go away right now and think on these things.

Cheers to you all,

Wendy