Category Archives: Slowing down

Mindfulness Monday: Our Children’s Mental Health

My intention in contributing a blog entry on Mindfulness Monday of Children’s Mental Health awareness week was to write about all the active choices we can make and practices we can teach as parents to ensure our children’s mental health.  … Continue reading

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Mindfulness Monday: Noticing the Gifts of the Season

Mindfulness is about noticing what is happening in the present. It is awareness of all that is. It is observing through the senses, through sound, sight, smell, taste and touch what is true in each moment. Mindfulness is the key … Continue reading

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Passion and Purpose: Sitting Still

On many occasions I have sat with my mother who is becoming increasingly more sedentary due to the progression of Parkinson’s disease.  From our perspective, the world looks unnecessarily busy.  I often am forced into its frenetic pace.  Then I … Continue reading

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Inspiring Things: A Few Thoughts about Slowing Down

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.             A.C. Benson     I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the … Continue reading

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