How to meditate at anytime without meditating

5 tips to incorporate mindfulness into your daily routine:

1. Notice, don’t think.

Pretend you are a traveler or student encountering this activity for the very first time. Don’t judge, label, and think about what you’re doing. Just notice. Notice every detail with an open, beginner’s mind.

2. When in doubt, check your breathing.

If you feel your thoughts wandering from the present task, take a minute to hear and feel yourself breathe. Just paying attention to a few breaths will bring you back to the present moment.

3. You have 5 senses, use them.

Mindfulness means truly experiencing what is going on right now. This is more than just noticing what something looks like. What does it smell like? Feel it with your hands. What is the texture? Temperature? What do you hear?

4. Have a strategy to handle nagging thoughts.

Occasionally we all have thoughts that won’t go away—so you need a strategy for how to handle them. I like to have a notebook with me at all times to write any nagging to-dos, ideas or issues. If you write them down, your mind can relax because it knows you can go back to them later.

5. It is what it is.

You don’t need to analyze your mindfulness experience. Don’t worry about what it all means or if you’re being mindful enough. Just try to be mindful every day. Come more fully into the present moment. Let the experience be what it is.
While this might not fit the ideal of a perfect, solitary meditation practice, it works for me. It works because it gets me to the right place—the present moment.
Every week when I make bread, I re-discover that by mixing, kneading and baking, I am able to come more fully into the present moment and really connect with life.  And isn’t that the purpose of a meditation practice in the first place?

 

Courtesy of tinybuddha.com

 

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-to-meditate-at-any-time-without-meditating/

Lightworkers & Life Purpose

It's become apparent to me that Lightworkers all over the world frequently get stuck on the "how" of their purpose.

We all know that Lightworkers are here to raise the consciousness of the planet, contribute good to the world, and serve others. We automatically know this deep down in our core. It's what drives us daily. So the "why" of it is easy. How we're meant to fulfill this is another question altogether, and one I find myself stuck on all too often.

However, I'm starting to realise that it's not what we do that counts, it's what we are, that counts.
We are automatically fulfilling our purpose just by being here, and being who we are.  There is not usually any specific task that we're here to fulfill, it is who we are that counts.

Let me put it to you this way: You are made up of divine energy. You ARE love itself. We are not separate from the universe, from nature, from each other. We ARE spirit. We were put here on this planet to remember who we are. We are here to act in a way that is true to ourselves; our highest good. That is our purpose.
Think about it - how many times in your life have you been positively affected by small random acts of kindness, or love? Many, I'd hope. And as we're going about our daily business (DOING), we are constantly BEING. Contrary to what most might think, it is not the doing that matters. It never has been. It's the being that matters. Are we being kind hearted? Are we being true to ourselves, true to our real nature? Are we living consciously, and acting out of genuine love? We don't necessarily have to think 'how am I going to do good today?'... because when we see suffering, love moves in action through us. We do good because it's in our nature.

So ask yourself - what's special about you? What energy do you bring into this world just by being you?
Having a calling is about taking what you want to BE in your life and finding the most natural continuation of that which financially remunerates you.

Try not to get hung up about the 'doing' side of living. If you focus on the 'being' side of living - your path, your calling, will naturally fall into place.