My sister bought me a Month of Mindfulness for Christmas. I have
been pretty stressed about university work lately and concerned about the year
ahead, so this was a welcome and thoughtful present.
This seems to involve a
jar with daily mindfulness tasks inside.
You take one out each day and do it. Hopefully it will help reduce my stress levels
and enable me to be more mindful (whatever that is exactly).
I am starting today , 1st Jan 2018.
Task one involved buying a nice candle.
This really was the
first hurdle.
It is New Years day and all the shops are shut, so I have decided
to use an old candle I have sitting around. Unfortunately it
needed cut back a bit, which I did, but then I accidently dropped all the bits
of wax all over my study floor. I have had to sweep up the mess before I
can be mindful.
Ok… lighting the candle now.. preparing to stare at it for
the next 10 mins (timer set on the computer)
I fell asleep!
The candle flame was so very tiny to begin
with, then it grew bigger and bigger over the ten minutes. The shapes and
colours the flame made were interesting, but I clearly need to get more rest because in the last few minutes I felt my
eyes get heavier and heavier and then I drifted off. I am away for a nice ‘mindful’
nap now.
