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Today's mindfulness challenge was to cultivate feelings of loving kindness towards everyone, which I find easy sometimes, difficult at other times ( Read more... )

Today's mindfulness task was to not to rush, which I know I often do, usually if I have a big task list in my head, or if I am trying to get back from my lunchtime walk fast ( Read more... )

Do you have any of those days when you're constantly reminding yourself in your head to do something; you mentally reply to yourself, yes, I'll do it - in a moment, I'll do it, and then you get so busy it goes out of your head completely ( Read more... )

Today's Mindful March challenge was to become engrossed in a craft - I'm not sure why they had to choose this one for a weekday, when I can only become engrossed in a craft for so long, but I decided a few days ago that origami was the only practical choice, since it didn't involve having to get many raw materials ( Read more... )

I got a nice surprise this morning when a Christian couple who I've not seen in a while because they live on the continent joined us on zoom (with one of their kids) for the prayer meeting; it was nice to catch up with them, and mention the rugby come-from-behind win yesterday (the husband is French ( Read more... )

Today ended up partially being a housework day; the challenge was to work out how to make it fun, and I looked up a few websites. All I could think of was playing music and dancing, probably looking a bit crazy as I did so, and that did come up in every website ( Read more... )

Today's Mindful March challenge was to glance out of the window and look out and contemplate the sky overhead; I must admit that, with zoom calls taking place for the church virtual "weekend away", I did keep forgetting, and had to remember to do so when I was having a break ( Read more... )

Today's challenge was to listen to what others are saying; I know I don't always - I often zone out, and if I'm on a zoom meeting with my camera switched off, I have a tendency to get bored and check my phone - often Twitter ( Read more... )

Today's challenge was to "stay present" while drinking my coffee/tea; it presented a similar challenge to Monday, because when I'm busy I can have my mind fixed on anything but the taste of the hot beverage I am trying to enjoy, or I'll be distracted by having the taste of whatever biscuit I just dunked in my mouth ( Read more... )