10 Awareness Practices

Mind your feet while you’re grocery shopping. (my yoga teacher)

Mind your chair while you’re typing.

When going through a door, think ‘I am I’ (Fourth Way exercise)

When putting on your shoes, try and put on the one you usually put on second first. (also Fourth Way, Ravi Ravindra)

Drink your tea without sugar if you’re used to sugar in your tea. If you’re used to no sugar, just once put in sugar. Works with coffee too obviously. The point is, like the previous one, to become aware of patterns and how hard it is to break them (Jiddu Krishnamurti). The point is NOT to change the pattern. A new pattern is just as much a pattern as the old one. Just create a bit more flexibility.

When you have to wait for something (grocery line, pc starting up etc.) breath consciously.

Cleaning the house: be aware of every step of cleaning.

Keep a diary of your thoughts and feelings. The goal isn’t to create literature, but to observe. So don’t mind repetition.

Notice… take a deep breath; notice five things you can see. notice five things you can hear; notice five things you can feel (shoes, pants, hair against forehead etc.)

When you’re annoyed at waiting for a stopping sign, or anything else for that matter, just SMILE (Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhism)

Read More by Katinka Hesselink: http://www.allconsidering.com/2009/10-mindfulness-exercises

I've become a very open being lately.

I am sharing what I am with everything. All that I feel. I am sometimes becoming too honest, but I have become very interested in the Self. I am the Self. You are. The Universe is the Self. We all share and interact in a large, beautiful, Synergistic system. We're lovely. There would be world peace if we all sunk into the highest forms of ourselves possible. The Earth is not there, though. It requires to be uneven create some sort of mind. Some sort of operation, processes of thought, individual consciousness. To all be at peace and in our divine selves would to be