The mindfulness challenge this week is admittedly onerous and difficult. If you choose to accept the challenge of the week you will indeed find it to be perplexing and frustrating. You will likely find that you repeatedly forget to actually do what I’m about to suggest.
The focus of the mindfulness exercise this week is on transitions as you move from one space to another. We are in continuous transitions in our life. Because most of us are continually anticipating the future, we miss the experience of the actual transition moment. We are anticipating what we will encounter in the room we are about to enter rather than fully and completely experiencing the transition from one space to the next.
The challenge is the following. For each door that you encounter throughout the week, stop before you open the door. Take a breath in and out. Then open the door and enter the new space. You may well encounter as many as two hundred doors in a single day. You may well forget to stop, take a breath and then open the door for half, three-fourths or who knows, all of the doors that you encounter in any given day, but give it a try.
Accept this as a fun challenge anyway. Each and every door that you encounter that is closed,
- Stop
- Take a slow breath in – then out
- Open the door
- Enter the new space mindfully.
Have fun with the onerous and difficult challenge of the week as you begin the most rewarding of all challenges to become present in each and every moment of your life. May you have a magnificent week opening and closing doors of your life.
Robert
© Parkinsons Recovery