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Opening To Your Day

9 Min
Meditation
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Rosalie Dores M.A
Meditation Teacher & Mentor
Each new day is a gift. A meditation to support you in developing balance and openness with regard to what the day will bring.
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Cherish
Open Bowl
Despite our best intentions for the day, we cannot control what life throws at us. Indeed, unexpected things will cross our path as we go about our day. We will welcome some with open arms and some well, weโ€™ll want to spit out immediately because of their sourness in our mouth. Because of this clinging to what we want vs spitting out what we donโ€™t want, we are unconsciously thinking we know what is best for us. Some Buddhist monks and nuns leave their monasteries with an open bowl. They have something that a lot of us lack in our life. Trust. Instilled with faith that their needs will be met no matter what propels them to go out and into the village with an open bowl. I personally love this idea. To walk through my day with an open bowl is what I inspire to do today. To have this faith means that all my life experiences make me a better person, for all things come together for my good! Namaste ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿปโค๏ธโ˜ฎ๏ธ
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Donna
Open Bowl
Iโ€™m smiling as I rise with my open bowl not knowing what will fill it but confident there will be good along with interesting things and I will be grateful for all of it, ready to receive and learn.
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Marisa
Great analogy
Love this analogy of the Buddhist monk carrying an empty bowl into the street market hoping for scraps or food to fill his bowl. As we make it through our day, we can enter it with that same glimmer of hope that someone/thing might add to our bowl, and we can accept with satisfaction whatever does come to us. Then we can turn the bowl over whenever we need some rest and solitude.
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Linda
Be Empty to Start Your Day
What a lovely way to look at each day. If we start empty we are ready for so much more than if we start full with plans of how it should go.
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Lynette
Morning Meditiation
Whatever the day brings, wanted or un wanted, it is exactly what is suppose to happen. I have my bowl and choose to believe that it will be filled. Iโ€™m blessed.
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Jennifer
A new day
When we begin a new day, our lives are open to endless possibilities. We also have a lot to do with what type of day we will have. Choosing happy. Choosing to be positive. That comes fairly easy to me. Most of the time, that is.
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Chandler
I can relax.let go a bitโ€”more than I expected. I hope this continues. I need this sense of peace, desperately or I may fall into a dark bottomless hole.
I wish I knew I would continue. I work all night. The opposite of most by ten hours. My clients are in other parts of the world, both regions are ten hours ahead. It disturbs my sleep and ability to rejuvenate.
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