Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.
— Ian Gawler, Paul Bedson
Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace
Gentle Currents is a poetry collection created as a refuge for the heart—a soft landing for souls seeking hope, tenderness, and renewal. Through mindful self-compassion, the poems invite readers to slow down, notice the world around them, and reconnect with the resilience and love that live within us all. Each piece flows with awareness of our shared humanity and our deep connection to nature, holding everything—joy, grief, imperfection — with open arms.
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Attitude is Everything!
What attitude do we bring to our practice?
If we can look at what is there with an attitude of open heartedness and curiosity, with a loving quality towards ourselves, and a willingness to meet our experience as it is, that is mindfulness at work.
But then what? Would you like to help yourself if the feelings you are sitting with don’t feel nice?
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Self-Compassion practice warms up Mindfulness practice. It teaches us HOW to actively comfort and sooth ourselves when we feel bad.
Self compassion is about goodwill.
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It’s a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
— Pema Chodron