Our friendship is made
of being awake
~ Rumi
I have an invitation for you. It’s free and it’s playful – an interesting way to be reflective as well as pause and see the world. It’s a mindfulness practice I made up called “Vital Haiku.” It involves pairing a photograph with a haiku, both created by you.
“Good” happens all the time, but humans are programmed to see the negative. Our ancient survival instinct taught us that if we don’t stay wary and alert to what could harm us, we die sooner. Though this kind of vigilance is not so necessary in modern American life, negativity bias persists as part of our neural pathways. In order to counteract our natural bias, we have to actively practice seeing the good. Then, to hold onto it, to embody the good, we also have to practice the pause.
Read MoreIn that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,
coming back to this life from the other
more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world
where everything began,
there is a small opening into the new day
which closes the moment you begin your plans.
~ Excerpt from “What to Remember When Waking” by David Whyte
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