Getting back on our feet after Cyclone Alfred and so grateful we weren’t battered harder.
If Alfred hadn’t dithered for a day or so and done a strange loop, the damage might have been so much worse!
Although we extend our love and support to those communities in Queensland who suffered through flooding and wind damage far worse than the Scenic Rim.
So, our yoga classes the last two weeks have been focussed on bringing us back to the present moment, grounding us in our bodies and using meditation to extend our compassion to others. As we find the energy to support others, we find the energy to heal ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist spiritual leader and teacher bought the teaching of mindfulness and living in the present moment to the West.
Taking what can be quite complicated teachings and distilling them down into beautiful everyday moments, he showed all of us how to use mindfulness to live deeply in every living moment.
He taught mindful breathing and mindful walking as the foundation of meditation and created simple practices like mindful teeth-brushing and mindful dishwashing. Turning boring tasks into a profoundly healing practice. Mindfulness is living an honest life.
For Thich Nhat Hanh true mindfulness is a path, an ethical way of living, and every step along that path can already bring happiness, freedom and wellbeing, to us and others. Happiness and wellbeing are not an individual matter. We inter-are with all people and all species.
