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Moment of Mind In mindfulness we’re using our attention as a tool to notice our moment to moment lived experience. When we practice using it this way we learn how to return awareness to the relationship with our changing thinking, feeling and emoting states.This week, in anticipation of the shifting season and my small group […]

Moment of Mind In mindfulness, attention is like a beam of light shining into our moment to moment lived experience. When we shine that attention light onto thought experiences, emotional experiences, feeling experiences…we develop a supportive relationship with them. We also start to see their changing nature, that we’re the one having the experiences, and

Moment of Mind In mindfulness we’re using our attention to notice the moment to moment lived experience as it moves through. The level of instability has not abated in the world and supports for the nervous system continue to be useful.This month we’ve been using our senses as pathways to presence. In week 1 we

Moment of Mind This month we’ve been exploring high sensation in the body and how we have the capacity to feel it even though we have been conditioned to avoid feelings and emotions the mind judges as “bad.” In the first week we zoomed in on basic sensations. The invitation was to notice when there was a feeling

Moment of Mind This month we’ve been talking about transitions as changes continue to unfold. In the first week we talked about how common transitions are throughout our day that could be felt more mindfully, then we discussed morning transitions, and last week was about creating a threshold to mark changes with intentionality. This week is about intentional celebration. Marking transitions

Moment of Mind In mindfulness we’re practicing tuning into our moment to moment lived experience through attention. In this month’s weekly newsletters we’ve been talking about structure as a support for action taking, emotional expression, and ultimately… change. Today I want to consider what structure isn’t.To review, structure can be supportive for creating a sense of safety for emotional expression, as

Moment of Mind In mindfulness we’re using our attention to notice our moment to moment experiences brought to life. My vision for Finding Mindful Now is that people realize their capacity to welcome in feeling everything. We are conditioned against this. It is a human birthright to experience feeling. It is part of the gift of

Clouds moving behind snow covered trees. On land of Molalla, Clatskanie, Tenino, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many more native communities… now called Mt. Hoo Moment of Mind This week I’m inviting you to notice any patterns of behavior that seem automatic and may not seem supportive to your human system. It could be

Image of Shaking Sisters: Five Days of Dance offering from the When Women Speak Network. Rely to this email if you want to join the free group on Facebook. Moment of Mind I love dancing.When I was in my 20s my friends knew the only way to get me to stay up past 10pm was

Winter Solstice in Northern Latitudes Moment of Mind My favorite days of the year are the ones that mark passages and changes of phases: solstices and equinoxes. A friend of mine expressed surprise recently when I asked what they were doing for the solstice. They were a bit confused, was this a pagan ritual or