Present and Connected

Loving Kindness Metta Meditation Every morning before going to work or starting my day, I sit at my desk with a cuppa coffee and write my  Morning Pages . This morning was no different. All the crafty stuff are pushed to the side and it's quiet time with me, my thought, my deeper self. In the past week I have been writing down transcripts from "The act of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness and Peace" from  Jack Kornfield . I finish, as I usually do, with writing down the Loving Kindness Metta Meditation and set the tone for gratitude and compassion for the day. the state of my desk this morning Later at work I met a colleague whom is going through chemo therapy from her second encounter with cancer. She was exhausted and was heading for another round of chemo this afternoon. But she was at work for an hour because she wanted to feel she was doing something useful and did some research for an article she wanted to write. I said it was so good to see her again and I w...

When I leave my home I always try to bring a notebook and a fountain pen (or two) with me. I've had my midori travel's journal for work appointments and day to day planning, a little notebook here and there for when a random inspiration hits me and need to write it down, I have a notebook at my PC at home for making notes during podcasts I listen to, a gratitude journal and a quote journal... on a random day, this would be what my desk looks like, a multitude of notebooks on my desk going on at once. The looks of it can be quite over-whelming to the outsider, but I have my own system I am working with and suited me fine. But then I wanted to look up something I knew I had written down somewhere, but I couldn't find it. All these loose journals were serving me well as brain dumps, but it wasn't providing the structure I needed when I wanted to follow up on things. I was looking into Bullet Journaling  some years ago but decided that that was a "difficult structure ...

Today I am sharing a personal story in correlation to cultivating gratitude and how that can open new possibilities in your every day life. Yesterday I had a craving for Risotto and went out with my husband to Den Haag to eat at the place I really wanted to eat. Sadly the restaurant was so crowded and a due to a technical malfunction only cash payments were accepted. Who carries cash with them these days?! Anyhow, a bit of a disappointment there, but then my husband, the darling he is, google searched for Risotto and Italian meals. We ended up in this beautiful little restaurant, (which was a 30 minute walk from where we were at the time and I experienced Hangry symptoms all the way, my poor husband can attest to as I asked 'are we there yet?!' like a 4 yo toddler every 4 minutes), which had a gorgeous turquoise canopy (yes, turquoise is my fave color, not sure if you noticed ) and thought "hmm, maybe this day won't suck after all.." and oh, what a wonderful...

Listening to Rob Bell, not with just your ears but with your whole being, is a life changing experience. Recently I watched his "Everything is Spiritual" talk on YT and WOW is all I can say. This is a quote from that talk and it is in such allignment with what I am feeling/experiencing with my Loving Kindness Metta Meditation that I am incorporating this with my daily writing meditations. If you don't know who he is but are curious, check out the RobCast and Everything Is Spiritual on YT. #everythingisspiritual #robbell #therobcast #quoteoftheday #annapurnaliving #lovingkindness #mettameditation #writtenmeditation #mindfulmusings #mindfulnessmatters #beinghere #presentandconnected #dailywriting #dailyaffirmation #mindfulness Een bericht gedeeld door Cheetarah (@present_and_connected) op 3 Aug 2017 om 1:45 PDT They say when the time is ready, your teachers will appear to you. And I definitively feel this way, when it comes to Rob Bell . By chance I found hi...

"Don't judge your insides by other people's outsides." Something Carrie-Anne Moss said in her interview with Lewis Howes in The School of Greatness podcast (another high recommendation!) last year about Living Mindfully. How often do we feel our self-worth diminishing by believing the grass is greener on the bigger lawn? I am trying to be mindful of the fact whenever I feel emotions that diminish my self-worth by comparing myself to others and this powerful quote is a good mantra for that. Also the only person you need to compare yourself to, is the one you were yesterday. Keep on, keeping up💖🙏💕 #livingmindfully #annapurnaliving #fiercegrace #presentandconnected #handwritten #handwriting #thehandwrittenword #rockyourhandwriting #mindfulmusings A post shared by Cheetarah (@present_and_connected) on Aug 5, 2017 at 12:42pm PDT We all know Carrie-Ann Moss from her stunning performance of Trinity in the Matrix trilogy . And I was pleasantly surprised to...

Present and connected. Once you are, you will experience the full richness of your life. #stateofbeing shared by Cheetarah (@present_and_connected) op 27 Jul 2017 om 6:30 PDT In a powerful state of connectedness to myself and everything around me, something which also can be described as "present to the state of being", I wrote down pages after pages of insightful "inside"- dialogue. This dialogue, which came straight from being connected to my core, has been accelerating my awakened-mind of non-duality . It's a personal experience no language can describe, honestly. Though it is something I would like to explore, in this space.