Comments on: Choose Your Life Mondays #6 – The Holiday Edition

By: Jennifer Louden

Jennifer Louden — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:58:00 +0000

@Wendy, wish we could hang out together and just breathe… yoga maybe later will help? I thought I was doing so good until this morning and then “pop” went my head. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll find it later.

@Everybody else, hope we have a conscious holiday — or at least, as much consciousness as we can stand!

Love you all.

By: Wendy Cholbi

Wendy Cholbi — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:59:54 +0000

I’m going to jump in on Tuesday. I’m so glad you wrote about “nobody loves me” because I’m picking that one too.

Just noticing is so so so much harder than it sounds. I did it today and I thought my heart was going to implode. But I survived. I’m still here. I feel (a little) better now.

I can’t even think about what tomorrow will bring; the next ten minutes are enough for me to deal with right now. And staying right here with it, feeling it, is frankly kind of sucky. In a way I’d rather go stuff myself with chocolate or play a couple of hours of computer solitaire. But I’m still here. Still noticing.

Thank you for giving me a space in which to notice, and a community in which to do it.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:03:30 +0000

This week I will notice when I’m happy. The simple, small pleasures that make up this season. I want to record them in my memory and cherish them.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:47:25 +0000

I will lovingingly notice when I am trying to do it “all” – even when no one else cares. I don’t HAVE to make 4 kinds of cookies and have perfect meals every night. Sometimes it is okay to make one kind of cookie and eat cheese/crackers/wine all day long… in my pajamas. I will notice when I am not allowing myself to live in the moment.

By: Hiro Boga

Hiro Boga — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:34:57 +0000

This week I will notice when I’m holding my breath . . . and will release it lovingly, trusting the next breath, and the next . . .