“Calm the winds of your thoughts, and there will be no waves on the ocean of your mind.”
Remez Sassoon
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet, it is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”
Deepak Chopra
“Empty your mind of everything – let the mind become still.”
Lao Tzu
I create personalized “mindfulness” or “grounding” cards. On different coloured index cards, I print out a quote; a saying; a thought gleaned from elsewhere, or sometimes from somewhere inside me.
I carry two with me . . . always.
The first is a grounding exercise to use when I have a panxiety attack, feel like I’m drifting too far from shore, or to help be mindful of my surroundings by using all my senses. *
The other:
“Calm as a koi pond.”
Lorraine
* Borrowed from the “web of thoughts.” Can be modified to suit a person’s abilities and needs; I took the whole.
Look around you and find:
FIVE things you can SEE
FOUR things you can TOUCH
THREE things you can HEAR
TWO things you can SMELL
ONE thing you can TASTE
And, Wendy (who is taking a break from Mindfulness Monday today) gave me a wonderful set of 65 Power Thought Cards, beautifully written and richly, colorfully, and playfully illustrated by Louise Hay.
On one side is a saying; the reverse is a longer meditation on that specific thought/phrase/concept.
I carry around two:
“I am willing to change.”
“I express my creativity.”
Thanks to Wendy, (and Mindfulness Mondays), I am “working” on both!
image: © lorraine
Reblogged this on Lorraine's frilly freudian slip and commented:
Calmness — something in the rush and rumble of the upcoming holiday/shopping season that can seem hard to achieve.
Being a co-contributor to Wendy’s Mindfulness Monday helps me to work on my own mindfulness practice.
Thanks Wendy!
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I used to have cards with quotes on that I did myself, but not any more. This has made me want to try making some again, and carrying one or two with me while having the rest at home to look at maybe on my wall. The Louise Hay set sounds fab for thoughts and meditations rather than quotes.
Great post, Lorraine – I hope you’re well. I also hope Wendy is doing okay… ♥
Caz xx
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Sorry, I missed this! Wendy is doing okay. She will be posting an update soon on what’s been going on.
Having some quote cards on the wall is a wonderful idea! This makes me want to create some cards that are done with something other than a ball-point pen on index cards.
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