CalmCorner

During these times of lockdown, open up, get to work, work from home, have I got a job?, can I afford to eat or feed kids, Christmas is come, etc. we all need a bit of tranquility and calm.

Notice each moment when you're feeling the pinch - notice each leaf and moments of kindness and laughter.
Hang in there as you are not alone!

Relax at home with simple excercises without taxing yourselves and can even be done in little terraced victorian houses.
(c/o the Cambridge Buddhist Centre)

Abhayamati Tai Chi A resource for Tai Chi students to enable them to deepen their understanding of the Tai Chi principles at home.

One happy doggie.
Imagine what's going through his mind as, with uncompromising love, your dog (or cat, goldfish, armadillio, etc.) looks at you and wants to make you happy - well, perhaps not in the case of cats.

It's cold and dark still and politics may have worn us all own just as the costs of living.
Try and breath in and out and make a list of 3 good things ...
3 things a day that were nice/good/happy/made you smile then at the end of the week read them again.

The expression “...and breath” is such a simple one that helps enormously. Take time to breath...
Take 5...sit (or stand) comfortably and just breath in through the nose and gently out through the mouth. Think of the air molecules as little packages and feel them brush past your nose and lips and feel the warmth, or lack of it, as they rush in and out of you. Filling your body with air that may be clean fresh air, or even not so fresh in the city, but your body unwraps the packages, taking delivery of oxygen and happiness, then letting the rest be breathed out.

Essays, money, work, unfair? (Not necessarily). Stuff happens and some you can do nothing about it - like sitting on the bank of a flooding river: fast moving world where you darn't get in unless you drown. Sit on the bank; watch things rush past in its rush and think..."ok, it's tuff but I know I can get through this".
Take a step
Take a chance
Instead of 100% or your soul dedicated to a thing you are spending at least 40% of it 'wondering' and 'guessing' - what a waste!
Smile cos you know you can do it - the only stumbling block is your decision when

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I like clouds.
They just 'are'. Forming and re-forming shapes and colours with depths we don't appreciate from down here cos we only see the 2-dimensional form and shading.
They are, though, dynamic. Building and dissipating with equal mystery ... just doing a job but holding so much in.
Creating deserts or transforming them to luscious savannah.
Torrential rain washing away good things and in another place, gently cooling the air.

Can you 'blame' them for the devastation they might cause ... no.
Do they appreciate thanks for rejuvenating barren lands so much they return ... no.

They just are...so you can't assign blame. Perhaps wish they would not come but that's there job. Periodically loosing their load on your parade and at other times whisping through the sky caressing us with shade, or simply making interesting patterns.

People are like clouds ... only they can choose their path.
Why blame or fight where they take you ... just enjoy what you can long that path and chose to not 'blame' other clouds around you, just be the best cloud you are.