focus is on mindfulness to heartfulness.
1. meditation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ONLFEkb7vTc
2. Song God of All of My Days.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkZE8AogDE
3. Narrative (Rohr)
Mindfulness to
Heartfulness
Devotional practices have opened
believers’ hearts for millennia, and we now understand the mind-body-heart
connection within us in a deeper way. Researcher and therapist Dr. Alane
Daugherty suggests a body-based practice to create a sense of heartfelt awareness:
The force of deep love, compassion and other heartfelt emotions
can literally unite our brain, our heart, and all of the cells in our body. By
experiencing what these heartfelt states are like inside of us we can then
activate the dormant impulses, cultivate them, and embody them in an integrated
way of being. This union feels harmonious and expansive; like we are all at
once in touch with the depths of our being, and connected to a much larger way
of living. Done intentionally and routinely they form an even greater union,
become our primary way of operating, and profoundly change our world and
us. . . .
[Heartful awareness] is the momentary choice, moment after
moment, to let our truest sense emerge into our lived reality and intersect
with the outside world. It allows us to be the best that we can be, in whatever
we do. . . .
We invite you to try these practices from Daugherty:
The following are suggestions for specific tangible ways you
might implement heartful awareness into your everyday life. . . .
Pay attention to attention. Stop and
pause several moments during the day and just notice where your attention is.
Make an overt intention, when you are authentically capable, to become
heartfully engaged with yourself, your surroundings, or others. . . .
Savor what you already have. The ‘spiral of becoming’ shows us that we
physiologically change to any state we are routinely in. When we are already in
states of heartful engagement, focused attention and awareness to ‘cement’
these states further imprints them in our cellular memory.
Micro-moments add up! Momentary choices of engagement make profound shifts.
They re-wire our neural nets and habitual ways of being, create oxytocin-rich
changes in our blood chemistry, as well as dopamine and serotonin the hopeful
outlook neurotransmitters, and foundationally change our perception to one of
expansiveness and possibility. . . .
Continually tap into the deepest sense of who you are and let that lead. The
more moments we spend resting in our deepest potential or connected to our
Inner Being, the more they become our primary ‘operating system.’ Pay
attention, and shift when you can. When you cannot, hold yourself in a place of
loving-kindness and awareness, and promise those ‘parts’ healing attention when
you are able. Offer the love and support to yourself, as you would a best
friend.
Alane Daugherty, From
Mindfulness to Heartfulness: A Journey of Transformation through the Science of
Embodiment (Balboa Press: 2014), 111, 112, 149, 150.
4. Prayer
give me grace to be mindful today
of your constant, loving presence.
Give me wisdom to listen for your voice.
Open my heart to your glory in everything,
your light in everyone,
even those who do not see it.
Remind me everyone I meet is struggling.
Help me to see with clear eyes,
without judging or reacting.
Help me to be patient with weakness
and forgiving of myself and others.
Nudge me to learn from every mistake,
to be courageous in the face of fear,
to seize every chance to show love.
Ever-present Love, keep me mindful this day
of your mysterious grace,
your goodness and mercy that shadow me
all of my day and through the night.
Amen.
—February 1, 2018
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqpKD-qBt4
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