Creative Mindfulness

Creative Mindfulness

Teachings on Thinking, Contemplation, and Connecting

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  • Mindful of Flowers

    Today my mindfulness exercise was to focus on my garden and observe the new blooms. I often sit and draw  flowers, leaves and even tree trunks. I had just planted some pansies, also called heartease. I read that some people believe that pansies enhance clairvoyance and heals grief. I love pansies simply because they are […]

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    May 24, 2019
    meditation, Mindfulness, stillness
    #mindfulness, flowers, gardens, heartease, pansy
  • How to Have a Mindful Day

    It is important to set some time each day to exercise mindfulness. Our busy lives get in the way of paying more attention to what really matters. “Mindfulness is being fully present and aware of your actions at every moment.” Therefore, the more you practice being fully in the present moment the more you will […]

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    May 23, 2019
    meditation, Mindfulness, New Trends, stillness
    #mindfulness, Living the Now, mantras, mindful day, The Now
  • Love in Season

    “To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” -George Santayana Love in Season There is a love that comes only but one season; It appears suddenly like a lily in bloom; unexpected, spectacular, colorful, and full of bliss. A season that ends […]

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    May 21, 2019
    #love, Friendship, Mindfulness
    #bemindfuloflove, #love, #mindfulness, eternal love, happiness
  • Quote on Mindfulness

    “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” –   Jiddu Krishnamurti

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    May 19, 2019
    meditation, Mindfulness, stillness
    #mindfulness, nature, stillness, tranquil, Zen Place
  • Mindfulness Sweetens Our World — smilecalm

    How wonderful that it is now raining in Northern California. From Native Peoples I’ve lived with, especially Hopi, I learned to express deep gratitude I feel for rains, which sustain all life. These current rains here are blessing us with clean air to breathe and putting out the devastating wildfire. Thank you land ancestors for […] […]

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    May 19, 2019
    Mindfulness
  • Unmindfulness Depicted

    There are times when the craziness of what happens in the world gets me into an unmindful state. The drawing here depicts how that state may look like.

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    May 19, 2019
    Art, meditation
    #mindfulness, mingled thoughts, scattered thoughts
  • Watch “4 month old baby tries to sing to Karen Carpenter song, Melts Hearts.” on YouTube — euzicasa

    via Watch “4 month old baby tries to sing to Karen Carpenter song, Melts Hearts.” on YouTube — euzicasa

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    May 4, 2019
    Mindfulness
  • A Mindful New Year

    “Forever is composed of nows.” -Emily Dickinson

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    January 8, 2019
    Mindfulness
  • Haiku by my mentor

    I sent my dear mentor a copy of my book Haiku Moments. I was a little shy to send it when it was first published. He was and is a superb English teacher and I suppose I was reluctant because in many ways I am still a student of poetry. And where I welcomed feedback […]

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    October 10, 2018
    Mindfulness
  • Three Mindful Quotes Related to the Happenings of This Week

    “Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.” — Robert Louis Stevenson can no longer resist.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero “May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership… Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, […]

    Melba Christie at Poemattic

    August 18, 2018
    Mindfulness
    #mindfulness, Cicero, leadership, Mandala, MLK, peace, respect, vengance
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