Mindful

10 TIPS FOR A MINDFUL HOME

1. WAKE UP WITH THE SUN

There is no purer light than what we see when we open our eyes first thing in the morning.

2. SIT

Mindfulness without meditation is just a word.

3. MAKE YOUR BED

The state of your bed is the state of your head.

4. EMPTY THE HAMPERS

Do the laundry without resentment or commentary and have an intimate encounter with the fabric of your life.

5. WASH YOUR BOWL

Rinse away self importance and clean up your own mess. If you leave it undone, it will get sticky.

6. SET A TIMER
If you are distracted by the weight of what's undone, set a kitchen timer and like a monk in monestary, devote yourself wholeheartedly to the task at hand until the bell rings.

7. RAKE THE LEAVES

Rake, weed, or sweep. You'll never finish for good, but you will learn the point of pointlessness.

8. EAT WHEN HUNGRY
Align your inexhaustible desires with one true appetite.

9. LET THE DARKNESS COME

Set a curfew on the internet and TV and discover the natural balance between daylight and darkness, work and rest.

10.SLEEP WHEN TIRED

Nothing more to it.

~Karen Maezen Miller, pictures from pinterest

The reason this caught my attention? EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of these things I do NOT do. :)

For instance? I don't rinse out my oatmeal bowl in the morning. It makes me dad SO mad because somtimes the dishwasher doesn't get off the caked-on oatmeal :) . It makes him so mad that one afternoon I waked into my room and he had taken 4 or 5 dirty bowls that I had put into the dishwasher (unwashed of course)and set them on my bed. Then he put my toothbrush in it? Hahah. I think he was trying to prove a point? :) I dunno. I just thought it was weird.

But the other ones? The state of your bed is the state of your head? Come onnnnnnnn. :) How cheesy is that? I wonder if it's true? ;)