There we have! End of Season 4, but I found that quite enjoyable with personalised background music. 

The theme continues to Season 5 where we continue with background sounds (subtle, yet effective) and maybe moving into more Yoga Nidra-ish theme.

We will take a pause through the holiday season and will be back in the new year. Season greetings, and Happy 2022! Little message from me before we head off for a break.

A mindful moment with Tara Brach. I met her through my calm app and found her sessions captivating. Her background is that she is the founder of Insight Meditation community of washington, and wrote books such as radical acceptance, true refuge and radical compassion. One of the most popular mindfulness teacher in the USA. 

Her cues lands and there is nothing to aim for but to just be present where we are and being mindful to the presence. Let's explore.

I have always loved the beach when I was little, since I grew up in a tropical climate country. 

Those days when my family would take trips to the island had been special memories to me right up to now. 

This episode takes you on a journey into visualising ourselves at a beach, and so it may be only suited to those who have been there. Even then, the exercise would benefit all as it is a journey to enhance all 5 senses when entering a space of nature. 

Go ahead and explore.

Feeling tones. 

The pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.

All about feeling.

Calmly and simply. 

Try it, it's not as scary as you think.

Sometimes you just wonder 'how in the world that this mind of mine cannot stop conjuring the past, planning the future, even having a friendly chat with me and never stops to rest?'. 

It is amazing how much our mind can keep going, if I were to compare it to exercising or mowing the lawn I bet the whole park would be done over a day or I'd be one of the fittest person in the planet. 

Little do we know, our minds do not know how to rest when it needs to. 

So perhaps tune into this episode to see if it works for you. 

Enjoy.

4 infinite thoughts. 

Intertwined, connected and whole yet undefined. 

I'll leave this to you to figure out those thoughts. 

Enjoy.

I know...when we hear that word 'practice', it can seem hard, monotonous and a struggle

I would go 'ugh'

But did you know it takes 20 days to kick-start a habit?

That way, you don't even need to 'practice'

You just 'do'

You would just 'be'

But hey, why not delve deep in the practice within a practice? That itself is also a practice.

I love the marvels of meditation. Whatever we do, we think, we be. Practice or not.

Because we are, in the moment.

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Being invincible. Courtesy of Tamara Levit's meditation session from the calm app, this specific episode from her acknowledges mental health day which has passed a few weeks ago. It acknowledges the invisibility of mental health issues, and reminding that the more we accept ourselves, the more invincible we get.

For this practice / exercise you can do it while you're moving about going on with daily activities with eyes open.

Try this:

Notice 5 things you can see;

Notice 4 things you can feel in your body;

Notice 3 things you can hear;

Notice 2 things you can smell;

Notice 1 thing you can taste.

And.................go!