Here’s my little chart for what I am doing on a daily basis, as best I can, to stay relatively sane, to cultivate connection and peace. It’s going well. Not perfectly. It is progress though.
I wake up and look for a sense of gratitude.
I choose one word as my intention for the day saying, “I want to feel… “ Today my word was “connected.”
I read from Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness by Nan C. Merrill and Meditations with Teresa of Avila: A Journey Into the Sacred by Megan Don.
I sit quietly for 20 – 30 minutes, returning to my word as often as need be.
I prepare and enjoy healthy food.
I look for opportunities to help others and I ask for help when I need it. Asking for help can be a gift to someone.
I do some art now and then. I’m hoping to get a daily art practice going.
I walk Miranda-the-labradoodle, often with a friend; and join friends for yoga and Gyrokinesis via Zoom.
I listen to music and sometimes play the flute or sing.
I pray and hold the world in the Light.
I get in bed and my husband and I each read a psalm aloud.
I find something about my day that makes me smile.
I go to sleep.
The more I practice, the more moments arise of profound peace, even in the midst of the crisis we are facing. I notice that my heart is eased. I look out and see beauty. I see people being kind. I see stars in the sky, Miranda-the-labradoodle, and my good husband. I feel grateful.
May we all be well, happy and peaceful.
Love and Light,
Valerie
formerly,
my comment would follow your mother’s beautiful and loving words;
now imagined, she is glad for you
and so am i
lovely routine to follow
Inspiring
for one
who has practically none.
love
nicola
Ahhh, Nicola. Thank you for remembering Mom. She was quite fond of you. As for a lovely routine, I see the way you are in the world as loveliness itself. Love and Light, Valerie
This is so inspiring, Valerie. I’m finding myself living the “sheltering” part of sheltering-in-place these days … and you have captured that sense of slowing down, breathing, inhabiting the moments of slower days.
Yes to the moments of profound peace. ❤️
Thank you.
Thank you, dear Em. Your word “sheltering” brings to mind refuge… and even swaddling. The comfort of containment. Love and Light, Valerie
I think of these words.
“The infinite space hidden between your thoughts.”
Eckhart Tolle
Marvelous. Thank you, Alice. Love and Light, Valerie