Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
Yesterday, I reached into the freezer for a few more leftover Christmas cookies, oh those marvelous delicious wonderful morsels!
There were none left. Not one.
Not. One. Cookie.
Had I known that last week, when I reached in and snagged a few cookies out of the bag, that these would be my last cookies of Christmas 2023, I would have savored them. I would have closed my eyes and focused on the taste of the oats, those little chocolate pieces, and oh the bits of pecan… if I’d only known!
As a contemplative sort, I have marinated in the deep end of these waters. How can I best approach my today, having experienced the disappointment of no more cookies? My heart, be still, oh an opportunity to savor the last cookie of the season missed!
Now that I know better, I’ll do better.
And so, I have found my energies calibrated even more intensely to GRATITUDE for every cookie. Every one! Each one is “the last” and wildly deserving of all my attention, savoring, and thanks.
Truly, each moment warrants such radical abandon to it… for perhaps it may be “my last” and I will have wished that I’d treated it with the dignity, attention, and interest that “a last moment” invites?!
Express gratitude for the greatness of all small things.
Richie Norton
Small things, big things… who’s to say which is which? And so, I’ll just be mindful to be demonstrative for it all. Bases covered. 😉
And next Christmas, I’m making double batches. Maybe even triple.
Here is a short practice that you can do right now to cultivate intentional mind-body connection for the purpose of cultivating an energy of APPRECIATION:
Just for this next sixty seconds, stop everything. Notice your breath. Notice your nose. Notice the hairs in your nose. Notice the flow of the air into your throat, down into your lungs, and further into your belly. Envision that air as a gold mist…. notice again your breath, inhaling the gold mist… filling your body with the gold mist… and exhaling the gold mist into your auric field and out into your world. What a miracle your life is! You are a miracle! Enjoy every moment, friend. Peace be with you.
Edgy, joyful, pondering…
Lisa
Modern Mystic & Life Coach
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