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Day 336, Friday, December 6, 2024

Posted on December 5, 2024
in Journaling, Meditation
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Reflections Inspiration It’s not easy to accept or think that the most successful career, even the most rewarding family relationships, would eventually end. One retires, the loving spouse dies, children grow up and move away, interests shift. You are left with yourself. The only true companion that stays with you wherever you go is your inner mentor, your Authentic Self. So befriending your Self when you have everything blooming around you seems to me to be the most common-sensical path to follow. Laying the foundation for your future solitude must be cultivated when you feel blessed on all accounts. It is one thing to wonder about the purpose in life but quite another to accept the fact of impermanence. As long as you have founded and grounded your life, as long as you...

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Day 327, Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Posted on November 26, 2024
in Being in Nature, Creativity, Journaling, Meditation
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Reflections Inspiration A fine balance of intellectual knowledge and emotional experiences has the power to change you physically and spiritually. When you honor your traumatic experiences, your pain, your hurt through creativity – journaling, meditation, reading, writing, painting, singing, dancing – your body changes, as does your posture, gestures, and facial expressions. Let your body make friends with your mind by working intimately. When you are absorbed in creativity, the body, mind, and heart work in unison. A mixed feeling of pleasure and peace circulates through your whole self, so much so that a person working beside you can feel the current of your creative aura. Not in a mood to create? Then integrate the scattered attention, emotions, and sensations by taking a long warm shower. Or send loving attention to a family member,...

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Day 322, Friday, November 22, 2024

Posted on November 21, 2024
in Being in Nature, Journaling, Meditation & Journaling at Ashby Ponds, Reading, Travel, Writing
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Reflections Inspiration How do you know what you are passionate about? How do you know what a “fire in the belly” feels like? For me it was attempting to answer the primordial human questions: Where did I come from, What is the purpose of my life, and Where will I go after I die? It was sheer curiosity and a fear of death. I discovered some answers in making art, getting deeper into writing, finding my mentor friend within me, and traveling around the country and the world. Those experiences settled my mind, expanded my heart, thinned my ego. I was wholeheartedly devoted to them, and they turned into my passions, my ecstasy, my life. When the feeling of wonder and awe passed through me, it was as if dopamine coursed through my nerves. It encouraged me...

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Day 315, Friday, November 15, 2024

Posted on November 14, 2024
in Creativity
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Reflection Inspiration Love – whether it be romantic, maternal, or friendship – works as a soothing balm on the deep fear caused by the awareness of death. In the snug bosom of my parents’ love, I was unaware of my own mortality. With the caring of my family and comfort of my home, I was clueless about life’s temporariness. By the time I got married to the love of my life, I was conscious of my own demise but could easily put that thought at the back of my mind. Death was something that happened to others – old and sick people. My husband’s love made me forget the ephemerality of life, and in his company, I keep my death at bay. Through the love of our daughters and grandchildren, I feel that I...

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Day 14, Thursday, November 14, 2024

Posted on November 13, 2024
in Meditation
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Reflections Inspiration . . . As a writer or a reader, you go through the portal that carries you to the world of words and books. This world has the power to obliterate your worldview, crack you open, transform you, and then revive you, changed. There have been times when I have finished reading a book, closed its covers and uttered, “I can see now. I found myself. Wow!” All my life I have searched for purpose and meaning. What I have discovered with each “wow” is for me to keep changing and wondering. The meaning of life depends on your purpose. What is your calling? When you "hear" the call, take it to your heart, don’t do it for the fruit or the award. Just "follow your heart" let allies help you...

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Matters of Mindfulness and More

Posted on August 7, 2023
in Meditation, Online Mindful Writers Group
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Matters of Mindfulness, Mindful Writers Groups and More (Cont.) At the end of October, we are moving from Wexford, Pennsylvania to Ashburn, Virginia to be closer to our daughter. Never has mindfulness been more helpful to me than it is now. Moving to a new home from the one where you have lived for thirty years is believed to be a traumatic experience as traumatic as death of a loved one, divorce, major illness or job loss. The in-between period can overwhelm you, bring you down or depress you. But with mindfulness as my tool I’m going through such a negative experience with self-awareness and loving attention to the tasks at hand. And to my own surprise I feel no stress, regrets or nostalgia midst all this emotional disarray. Remember me, the one...

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Invitation to Host OMWG 2023

Posted on October 18, 2022
in Journaling
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Dear Writers, Would you like to join Mindful Writers and Poets who plan to host Online Mindful Writers Group at https://tinyurl.com/MindfulWriters in 2023? ONLY THREE SPOTS LEFT: Jennifer D. Diamond January Deborah Catanese February Denise Weaver March Donna Lucas April Lorraine Bonzelet May Madhu Bazaz Wangu June Mike Morley July August September Fritze Roberts October November Amy Baverso December As there are only three spaces left, pick one of the remaining months before it is too late. Let me know by commenting below or massage me. I asked the 2022 hosts, “In what way has hosting OMWG been beneficial to you? Here are some of the responses: Deborah Catanese:I find writing for OMWG of like-minded writers to be expansive in that it makes me strive for excellence, soothing in that giving to this group always results in returned support and incentive, and satisfaction in knowing I...

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Spiritually Fired? Light Others!

Posted on May 1, 2022
in Journaling
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To the quote below I would add that while lighting another candle it flares brighter. It turns wiser by teaching. So keep giving of yourself. Disseminate the knowledge you have, share your surplus, keep your heart open. Then watch your days turning happier and more satisfying. ...

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Honored Guest Hosts Finalized

Posted on April 12, 2022
in Journaling
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I am delighted to share the complete list of the honored guest-hosts (writers, artists, poets, film makers, editors) who are leading OMWG in 2022! Jennifer D. Diamond (January) Deborah Catanese (February) Lorraine Bonzelet (March) Gloria Muhly Baer Bostic (April) Stephanie Keyes (May) Lisa Hering (June) Shahrukh Husain (July) Madhu Bazaz Wangu (August) Hilary Hauck (September) Wende Dikec (October) Jennifer D. Diamond (November) Fritze Roberts (December) 2022 will the most fascinating year to date. If you are interested in leading the group for a month in 2023 please email or message me. Thank you so much in advance! With love, Madhu ...

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