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REFLECTION

5/31/2020

 
Activity can be fun and is surely an important aspect of life. And, like the moon reflecting on calm water, taking time for reflection reminds us how intricately woven we are within the bigger picture.
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In mindful presence,
​Lori
Let the waters settle
and you will see
the moon and the stars
mirrored in your own being.
—Rumi

WITHDRAW

5/24/2020

 
To withdraw is not necessarily to feel smaller or more confined. Sitting with awareness of your own body, your own self, can put you in touch with your energetic nature, connected and free-flowing with the vast energies of life all around you.

In mindful presence,
Lori
Be empty of worrying
Think of who created thought
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open
Move outside the tangle of fear thinking
Live in silence
Flow down and down
Into always widening
Rings of being.
—Rumi

CHALLENGE

5/17/2020

 
Life seems to be full of suffering and challenge. At the same time, there is much beauty and magnificence. If life were all pleasant, we wouldn’t have much need to grow, learn, and evolve. It is challenge that helps us find strength we didn’t know we had and new ways we didn’t know existed.

In mindful presence,
​Lori
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
—Lewis Mumford

REALITY

5/10/2020

 
It is rather surreal to suddenly press the pause button on your active life and withdraw, sheltering in place. How strange it is to be immersed in this different reality, as though you have slipped through a portal into an alternate universe. We are adaptable creatures. Can you stand in this “new” reality with curiosity and presence?

In mindful presence,
​Lori
Oceans
 
I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
And nothing
happens! Nothing…Silence…Waves…
 
—Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?
 
—Juan Ramon Jimenez

ENOUGH

5/3/2020

 
We spend a lot of time cogitating on how things should be different, how someone or something could be better. The panel of commentators in your brain likes to have opinions and solve problems. AND the brain is also capable of opening, like a vast sky of awareness, to welcome what is already here. Is this a safe moment where action is not immediately necessary? If so, can this moment be enough for now?

In mindful presence,
​Lori
Mind Wanting More
 
Only a beige slat of sun
above the horizon, like a shade pulled
not quite down.  Otherwise,
clouds. Sea rippled here and
there. Birds reluctant to fly.
The mind wants a shaft of sun to
stir the grey porridge of clouds,
an osprey to stitch sea to sky
with its barred wings, some dramatic
music: a symphony, perhaps
a Chinese gong.
 
But the mind always
wants more than it has--
one more bright day of sun,
one more clear night in bed
with the moon; one more hour
to get the words right; one
more chance for the heart in hiding
to emerge from its thicket
in dried grasses—as if this quiet day
with its tentative light weren't enough,
as if joy weren't strewn all around.
 
—Holly Hughes

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    Lori Furbush teaches  Qigong, Yoga, Reiki, & Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). She weaves MINDFULNESS & RELAXATION into every moment.

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