Mindfulness

Open.

Open your eyes,

let the sun rays in,

go take a walk,

stop that time.

Sit by the river,

open your book,

Moments of escape from life.

I regard an “escape” as something that drags or pulls me away from a distressed situation, from somewhere I don’t want to be. Sometimes, of course, you one cannot just go away, you cannot just escape. But cultivating habits of short mindful moments a day can bring a big change…

We stopped caring. Now we have to step off the hamster wheel.

Has the world gone bad because we forgot to see the good in it, or did we stop seeing the good because the world has gone bad?

Being mindful

I don’t want to go to sleep yet. Another article, another email, another tweet to read, another scroll on social feeds.

My mind is racing through endless timelines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media networks that became our masters of attention. We long…