Category Archives: Inspiration & poetry

You can ask yourself one important question while practicing mindfulness:

Do I feel contraction or expansion?

Contraction is a closing, a tightening, a heaviness. Expansion is an opening, an ease, an opportunity.

Yesterday, I learned something new. I was sitting, listening to a guided body-scan, when the guide said:

Let the breath breathe itself. There is no right way to feel. This is what the practice is about: seeing the patterns that take us away from the present moment.

This beautiful poem reminds us that suffering can be a habit we fall into every day. To change this habit, we must first understand it. With this understanding we can transform our behaviour into something more nourishing.