We are all so busy living our lives - looking forward to something, dreading another - that it’s sometimes very hard to remember to pay attention to what’s happening right now. But the only time we can do anything is in the present moment. So although making plans for the future, and learning from our past, is really important, we still need to be applying those lessons, in real time, right now.
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Moving Meditation
Meditation is about mindfulness, and you don’t need to be sat on a cushion to do it: you can be mindfully walking in nature, or just mindfully stood in the queue to post a parcel!
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Indigenous Australians do it with dancing and dreams, the Japanese do it with tea, and at Christmas we might put out a mince pie for Santa, and a carrot for his reindeer.
All of these are examples of rituals. As human beings, we seem just to gravitate towards performing sets of actions like this: this desire to perform things ritualistically is deeply ingrained in us as humans. We see them in every human society, across every time period - references to rituals exist in ancient Egyptian hierogliphs from five thousand years ago, and we constantly create new ones today.
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