35 Days, Development, Health, Lifestyle, Mind

Day 23: 10 Tips for a Mindful Home

|Kristina von der Heydt

Day 13 of my 35 Day Challenge

Today i will be sharing Karen Maezen Miller’s 10 tips for a mindful home. Maezen, how she likes to be called, is a Zen Buddhist Priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center Los Angeles, California. She writes about spirituality in everyday life and her writing has also been included in several anthologies, like Buddha’s Daughters (Shambhala 2014) and The Mindfulness Revolution (Shambhala 2011).

So here are her 10 tips for a mindful home: 

    • Wake with the sun – There is no purer light than what we see when we open our eyes first thing in the morning.
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    • Sit – Mindfulness without meditation is just a word.
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    • Make your bed – The state of your bed is the state of your head. Enfold you day in dignity.
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    • Empty the hampers – Do the laundry without resentment or commentary and have an intimate encounter with the very fabric of life.
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    • Wash your bowl – Rinse away self-importance and clean up your own mess. If you leave it undone, it will get sticky.
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    • Set a timer – If you’re distracted by the weight of what’s undone, set a kitchen timer and. like a monk in a monastery, devote yourself wholeheartedly to the task at hand until the bell rings.
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    • Rake the leaves – Rake, weed, or sweep. You’ll never finish for good, but you’ll learn the point of pointlessness.
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    • Eat when hungry – Align your inexhaustible desires with the one true appetite.
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    • Let the darkness come – Set a curfew on the internet and TV and discover the natural balance between daylight and darkness, work and rest.
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    • Sleep when tired – Nothing more to it.

What do you think about those tips? Let me know in the comments below 🙂 

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