Inrageous/Outrageous Self-Care Enchantments for This Week
The self care discussions of the past few weeks have been kind of “headyâ€, requiring self-inquiry and reflection. Let’s change things up abit and for this week, sink into body centered practices and the concept of mindfulness.
Jon Kabat – Zinn in his book, “Coming To Our Senses: Healing Ourselves And The World Through Mindfulness†calls “mindfulness†a particular kind of awareness, he says “Mindfulness is the final common pathway of what makes us human, our capacity for awareness and for self-knowing. Mindfulness is cultivated by paying attention, and, as we shall see, this paying attention is developed and refined through a practice know as mindfulness meditation’. I add that mindfulness is about using all of you, all your senses and all of your body, to put your full self into living your life!
So, the self-care enchantments for this week are about paying attention to yourself, your life and your body and about deepeing your awareness and mindfulness.
Self Care Enchantments for the week:
1.   For this week, every morning before getting out of bed, ask yourself, “how does my body feel, where do I feel tight, or tense or relaxed and meltedâ€.
2.   Pick a food that you enjoy, something like a fresh strawberry, cool firm grape or a delicious bowl of homemade soup. Eat this food with mindfulness, care and attention, savouring every mouthful, fully experiencing all the flavours, textures and smells. Draw out the eating of this food, make it slow and sensual; spend at least 5 minutes eating this one food! Do you feel satiated?
3.   Think of the areas or times in your life that you are “mindless†not “mindfulâ€. How does mindlessness serve you and not serve you?
If you feel drawn to this, write about your experiences with mindfulness this week. You may wish to start a mindfulness journal or a mindfulness ritual. Enjoy the fullness of you!
namaste,
Zoey
Zoey Ryan
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