Roseleen Mc Nally

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indfulness is a word that I keep seeing everywhere I look - on the internet, in magazines, books and from people I talk to.  I am not going to write about 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle as it is currently sitting on my book shelf to be read (it may form part of a later Newsletter).  However, I am going to write about how we can become more present in our own daily lives.  I believe that we put the things that give us the greatest joy on the long finger so I would like you to use this newsletter to bring a little bit of fun and happiness back into your day.   

 

So let's look at how much time you spend doing things that you truly enjoy.  I mean TRULY enjoy and not feel you 'should' enjoy! The following headings are just a guide and you can add more if you want.  Under each of the headings write down two/three activities that you enjoy. Make them as specific as you can.  For example, under clothes you might put down enjoying the feeling of wearing your big warm coat on a walk around the park or even wearing your partner's jumper whilst snuggled up beside the fire.  Under relaxing you might put down have a bath with all the works (bubble bath, candles and music) or you might just write sitting with a cup of tea in your favour tea/cake shop.  Make it as specific and personal to you.  If you find it hard to think of something, you may be thinking too much.  The activity does not have to be 'earth shattering' or life changing, just something that you get great joy from e.g. playing with your children in the back yard.  We often find happiness in the simple pleasures of life like that first cup of tea/coffee in the morning, meeting your partner for lunch or running around the park with your kids. Think of the small moments of pleasure that are unrecognised.  It is the small things in life that we take for granted and we let pass by without a moment of recognition or truly being in the moment. 

 

The categories are:

Now, write beside each item the last time you did an activity that you enjoyed. Did you do it once, a few times or several times in the last month?

 

So how often do you do the things that you truly enjoy? Is there room for improvement? Is there any particular area in your life that you have 'paused'? If so, ask yourself why? Are you happy with this area being paused? What can you do to increase the areas which you are not doing as much as you want?

 

Now look over the list and pick the ones that you are not doing as much as you like. How can you make room in your life for these? How can you fit it into your week? What would it be like to have more of these enjoyable moments in your life?  Make a commitment to yourself to do at more of these activities in the next week.  Set yourself a target - you could plan to do two items that you have not done in a long time.  Once you start introducing or increasing these activites into your life you will find that they will become habit as you will be getting so much joy from them.  You can revisit this list and think of new thinkgs you would like to do that can increase the joy and fun in your life. 

 

 

 

 

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