Nourishing What We Wish to Grow.

What does it mean to be mindful, my loves?

Does it require the fullest depth of emotion? A willingness to engage vulnerability in the face of adversity?

Or,

Does it presume a stoic resignation? An acceptance of life ‘just as it is?’

So often, we are troubled by the depths of our own emotions. We feel challenged by the groundlessness — instinctively clinging to status quo, and sadly viewing our vulnerability as weakness.

Oh, but that’s the fertile ground – now isn’t it? The place for our practice to grow.

Rumi once likened the sense to ‘being drunk at the edge of the roof’ –though, it is precisely this edge that helps us transcend these limitations of perception.

It’s interesting to me that the Sanskrit word for ‘practice’ is bhavana — meaning, we nourish what we most with to grow.

Think about that for just a moment, my darlings. How often have you wished for peace in the throes of anger? Or, wanted love when the heart was already closed?

My darlings, in order to know peace we must first know ourselves.

Earlier in my practice, I assumed the point of mindfulness was to *be* more mindful. I shied away from distressing emotion feeling it was a distraction not to be engaged.

Oh, but isn’t that where the practice begins? Isn’t that where we’ve the most room to grow?

You don’t have to be perfect to be mindful, my loves ~ you just have to be willing to ‘be’.

Namaste ❤️

About

Tara Lemieux is a mindful wanderer, and faithful stargazer. Although she often appears to be listening with great care, rest assured she is most certainly‘forever lost in thought. She is an ardent explorer and lover of finding things previously undiscovered or at the very least mostly not-uncovered.

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