Give your students, yourself, your co-workers, your staff a little time each day to spend in the quiet, meditating, contemplating, praying, or whatever name you would like to give it and dramatic results will appear.
It is imperative that you allow yourself time to just sit—to simply sit and allow your thoughts and pictures and emotions to jell into something or into nothing—to free your mind from words and thinking and imagining. Like a cotton ball and nail polish remover–one moment the color is there–the next moment it is gone. What a relief, a blank slate to polish or not to polish, to write or create or not, to think or not to think. What a relief to feel something or to feel nothing. Simply being mindful of the moment passing in time with no rules or regrets: Simply quiet—simply is–simply being.
Creativity will abound! Why not give it a try for a week and see what happens? Let me know!
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You may have heard the song “Live like you are dying”
Yep, that is a positive way to live, because it is the truth in so many ways. If we are truly living, then the old self will be new and improved, and although we carry along the memory, we also have the opportunity to let the old paradigm disappear and acquire the new one. We have died and lived at the same time, which is what this is all about, isn’t it? Living new every day….