tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984553516448842002024-02-07T18:39:19.752+11:00Mindful walking with my dogsI enjoy mindful walking and my dogs just like going for a walk!Mindful walking with my dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18348911074868892304noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098455351644884200.post-82248949720040127312014-01-18T14:39:00.000+11:002014-01-21T01:33:52.609+11:00Little Blue Boat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">It's a boat and it’s
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I’ve seen this boat quite a few times since it mysteriously
appeared in an area where my dogs and I walk. But I’ve never had my camera with
me, so I’ve just looked at it … lovingly!</span></span><br />
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colour that instantly makes you smile. How lovely would it be sitting in such a
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">It has a beautiful smooth line,
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clues as to what the boat’s life was like before becoming high and dry. Various
scratches indicate it was dragged on many occasions from the shore to the water
and back again, across coarse sand, pointed pebbles and broken shells.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">A boat like this
shouldn’t be stranded among a bunch of old timber and bricks. It should be gently
bobbing in water, feeling little waves lapping at its sides, smelling of salt, and
tugging on the rope that’s tied to its trusty anchor. It should be adored by children
looking for adventure, in a time when such adventures are so scarce. The boat should
hear their excited voices and feel their jostling for the best position.The
anchor should be hauled in and the oars dipped into the water, making the boat spring
back to life, leaving a lovely lazy wake behind it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">But this little blue boat has
been sentenced a sad disintegration on land, because it isn’t sound enough to be put
back in water. It would very quickly become submerged, and nothing can be done to change
that. But I think, if the boat was given
a choice, it would say, “Please! Take me away from this dry, hard place, let me sink and become one with the water, a haven for fish.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><i>Another post about boats: Messing around with boats 6/9/11 </i> </span></span></div>
Mindful walking with my dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18348911074868892304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098455351644884200.post-44215454882577777192013-12-28T18:05:00.000+11:002013-12-31T17:41:18.204+11:00Trees and Truth<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">In the past eighteen
months or so, my industrial town has been going through a ‘boom’. Lots of new companies
and people have come here and there have been quite a few changes: some good
and some bad.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The environment has
never been high on my town’s priority list, and now in ‘boom time’ it is doing
it harder than ever. Harbour animal and plant life has suffered due to large
scale dredging works and many animal and bird habitats have been cleared and turned
into dust bowl housing developments. As well as this, there has been a large
increase in the amount of single trees being chopped down in people’s gardens. The
sound of an urban chain saw has become common.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">It seems to me that
trees are being removed for two reasons. One is that doing so makes way for multiple
parking spaces for three or more invariably big new cars. The other is that removing
trees puts an abrupt stop to leaves and sticks falling onto roofs, gutters and cars
parked out in the open. To make matters worse, my town’s council has been
busily joining in with this tree removal frenzy and I think the main reason for
this is again the ‘messy’ tree excuse. It makes me so angry how, when it comes
to ‘human litter’ such as drink bottles, fast food containers, and assorted
other rubbish, the council and the majority of people here don’t seem blink an
eye. But if a tree dares to drop a leaf where it’s not wanted, then out comes a
chainsaw to put a stop to it once and for all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I feel deeply sad when
I see yet another tree being turned into its own tomb stone. The remaining
trunk is a stark reminder that a tree once grew and flourished. Birds, insects
and other wildlife must see these tomb-like trunks and mourn the loss of yet
another piece of their already fragile habitat. I was discussing this with someone
who thought the clearing of single trees dotted here and there wasn’t a problem,
whereas as clearing of a large amount of trees to make way for housing developments
was. I think they are both problems. I think that birds and other wildlife rely
on each and every tree, and that trees form ‘nurturing pathways’ that help them
travel through the landscape especially in urban areas.</span></span><br />
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now, I have been taking photos of tree stumps and there are so many that I now call
my town ‘Stump City’. Recently I realised that doing this was making me feel very
sad. To counteract this, I stopped photographing, but kept noticing tree
stumps. Then I realised that this approach wasn’t working well, so now I don’t
photograph, but continue to notice the stumps, as I feel it is right to acknowledge
and grieve the loss of a tree. But straight afterwards I make myself look for trees
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going to admit two things. One is that I have done almost nothing about this
wholesale clearing of trees around my town, almost nothing that is except moaning
and groaning about it. I did do some casual canvassing among people to find out
if they too were concerned about tree removal. Most didn’t and this wasn’t at
all surprising, as I think this town has much more than its share of apathy.
The people who did express anger about the tree situation were mostly those who
lived near new housing estates. Invariably their complaint was that clearing of
trees had resulted in a lot of dust and this was very annoying, because it necessitated
extra housework. Quite a few people expressed the opinion that I was a ‘tree
hugger’, which is a derogatory name for a person who wants to protect trees.
Another group of people quite angrily stated that clearing a tree on one’s own
property was a right that should not be interfered with under any circumstances,
as in, ‘No one can tell me what to do on my own land.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">My second admission
is that I have cut trees down on three occasions. The first was when my ‘then’ husband
and I built my first house and it was so ironic. We liked the housing estate, because
the developer had surprisingly left several trees. But, as soon, as we moved
into our house, we chopped at the nearby trees to make them a ‘manageable’
height, thus leaving tree stumps that were a little taller than most. Yes, I
could claim I was young and foolish then and now I am much wiser. But recently,
my ‘now’ husband and I have built a house in a different town and to do so we
removed eight trees. Then, in another act laced with irony,
we cut down a massive mango tree in our yard in this town, so that we could
more clearly see our garden!So, when I find myself walking around my increasingly
treeless town, with self-righteous thoughts about how awful tree chopping
people are, I remind myself that I am very guilty of doing the same thing. Were
my reasons any more valid than theirs? Perhaps I could claim, ‘Well I have never
chopped down a tree just to make way for a car or to stop leaves falling on my
roof’, but really this is a feeble argument at best. </span></span>
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thinking something like, “I thought this blog was all about how mindful walking
can connect me to my surroundings in positive, calming and uplifting ways”. So
how can I salvage something ‘good’ out of all the ‘bad’ things I’ve talked
about in this post? Well perhaps you can’t always go out mindful walking and achieve
what you set out to do i.e. feel better! Perhaps there are things out there
that can’t and shouldn’t be ignored. Perhaps noting something ‘bad’ can lead to
thinking about it, and even to thinking about your behaviour. Perhaps an uncomfortable
or even ugly truth will be the outcome of such consideration and then perhaps some
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One benefit is that the act of walking can sometimes create a ‘space’ in your
head. With our time today overcrowded with so much ‘living’, walks can give us
a chance to simply think, to reflect, on good and bad things, and in doing so they
may even help us become better people. So, please don’t beat yourself up when ‘shit
happens’ on one of your mindful walks. Don’t think mindful walking has some set
of hard and fast set of rules and negative thoughts have no place in these. Accept
that mindful walks sometimes just don’t work out to be very ‘mindful’ at all
and that’s just how it is sometimes. Then simply look forward to the next time you
go mindful walking … and you will go and very likely it will be a mindful type
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suggest that if your mindful walks are more often than not filled with negativity
and sadness, then you should definitely seek some help. I highly recommend you see
your doctor and also a psychologist. I have done so several times and will no doubt
do it again. Mindful walking is just one tiny strategy in a very long list of brilliant
strategies, including medication, that you can use to lighten your load. Please
follow my sincere advice in this regard. Your life can be so much better, if you
reach out for help and, if the help is not forthcoming from one source, try another
e.g. change doctors or go to a different psychologist. Don’t give up until you
are receiving the help that you need and deserve. Also, please read back over
my blog posts, and in particular 'How to take a mindful walk' 8/6/13), for lots of very simple ideas about how to take a wonderfully
soothing and uplifting mindful walk. As part of any mental health management
plan, mindful walking can be inspirational and fill you with much joy and hope.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">There are many mental
health websites that are very helpful. The one that I use, the “Black Dog
Institute” is based in Australia but it is a world leader in the diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of mood disorders such as depression and bipolar
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">See my other posts about trees ...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Plant a Tree 22/8/11</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Jacaranda Magic 1/11/11 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Summer Celebration 11/11/12</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">See my other posts about 'difficult' mindful walks!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Is it possible to walk mindfully when you're angry? 30/8/11</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Is it possible to walk mindfully when you're with other people? 20/8/12</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Is it possible to walk mindfully when you're wearing new shoes? 14/9/12</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Is it possible to walk mindfully when you've got something on your mind? 25/7/13</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Here's one of my paintings that was initially inspired by seeing a special little tree while I was out walking. It looked frail, yet it obviously wasn't, because it was </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">growing between a concrete path and a slab of rock.</span></span></span></span></span></span> It hardly had any leaves, but instead it was dotted here and there with very pale pink flowers, and the late afternoon light and gentle breeze made it shimmer.It was so lovely that it made me stop in my tracks and say out aloud, "Oh!" in surprise.I called the painting,</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">'Between a Rock and a Hard Place' and it's</span></span></span></span></span></span> about mental health, and in particular bipolar disorder. I used the tree as a symbol of 'wellness' in between bouts of mental illness. In bipolar the bouts are either 'high' or 'low' and these states are as bad as each other.The tree trunk has these words written over and over on it ... joy, happiness, hope. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Originally this painting was the middle big one of three. On one side there was a narrower painting of slabs of rock, and on the other a dark city skyline with highrise buildings, representing a 'hard place'. I painted over these two and I regret it now, as I always do when I paint over my art or give it away! You'd think I'd learn! In any case, I can always add them back in at some stage.For this painting, I used acrylic paints, crayons, felt pens and collage - I used old crocheted doilies dunked in paint to do the circular shapes.</span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">On one of my walks with my dogs, we go around a lake set between the cemetery and the race
course, both of which you can clearly see. I’ve often thought of the irony of this:the idea of racing through life ever onwards to death. And there seems to be a
lot of racing these days, with people so busy in their lives with work and
families and just living. Everything must sometimes be little more than a
blur and, if you aren’t careful, this blur continues until your time on earth
comes to an end. It also reminds me of one of my favourite sayings, “As you go through
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anyhow, after you park your
car near this lake, you have to go across a bridge to get to the track that
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was once a railway bridge, but now it’s a walkway. My dogs always eagerly lead
the way across, as they are keen to get to the other side where a thrilling plethora of smells are waiting for them. </span></span></div>
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cylindrical uprights. They look so confident and strong. They say, “Never fear!
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crossing this bridge and, once over the other side and looking back, I often admire
its ability to fit so well into the natural environment around it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">P.S. Here's one of my paintings inspired by that saying I love 'As you go through life, take time to smell the flowers'. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Is it possible to
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I had ‘SOMETHING’ on
my mind. I’ve put the word in capital letters to try and express just how BIG the
‘SOMETHING’ was. I’m not talking about a ‘something’ that involves sadness or
anger, or a ‘something’ that’s a problem or unpleasant. It was an intense interest
in one thing sort of ‘something’. It was an idea, an activity that somehow rose
up in my brain and announced itself as far more important, far more captivating
and vastly more interesting than anything else could possibly be. It was a demanding,
engrossing, fascinating ‘something’ that was worthy of my 100% focus, and it kicked
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I <i>wanted</i> to pore over it again and again and again and analyse and reanalyse it
and then think about it some more. Perhaps by now you’ve gained the impression that
I can be a tad obsessive. <i>Who me?</i> Yes
me. And once this gargantuan, glutinous, glorious something declared itself ‘the
boss’, there hardly any room left in my head for anything else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">And in this frenzied
state of obsession … there I’ll admit that the 'something' was an obsession … it was impossible to walk mindfully.
I still went for walks, but the whole time I’d just be swamped by the ‘something’.
It smothered and clutched and squeezed and bumped loudly and shouted and
whispered in a tantalising way. I walked and I saw things, but I took no interest
in them. I didn’t take the time to notice them. Seeing is not the same as noticing.
We see things all day long, but you have to make the effort, be prepared to
pause to notice things and in noticing them we can appreciate them, wonder at
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">But, because of the ‘something’ my connection
with my surroundings and the present moment was gone. My dogs and I went for a favourite
walk around a large duck pond and it was all just a blur. I didn’t notice even
one little thing. But by this stage the ‘something’ was beginning to wear out
its welcome. I started to get just a little bit sick of the ‘something’. That’s
when I was able to force myself to take notice while out walking. It took quite
a few days of effort, but very gradually there was an improvement and, not coincidentally, the ‘something’ started to shrink … just a tiny little bit, and then another tiny bit
until the next time I took the walk around the duck pond, I noticed lots of
things. The photos here are what I noticed that day but they are also of what I<i> didn’t</i> notice the other day when the ‘something’
was in control.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">So, let's ask the question again. Is it possible to
walk mindfully when there’s ‘SOMETHING’ on your mind? </span></span></div>
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so difficult as to feel almost impossible. But if you try really, really hard
you will have a small win and that small win will grow a bit here and a bit
there as you bring back the balance in your head. Eventually you will find that
you may still be thinking about the ‘something’, but you’ll be able to think
about other things too. Then before you know it, you'll start noticing what's around you again and little by little your mindfulness will return. And when it does, it
will be such a relief because, even though the 'something' was good, being mindful is even better! </span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;">Good luck!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Take off your wrist
watch before you set out and leave behind any ‘must be home or somewhere else by a certain time’
thoughts.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">As you start out walking, take
in a lovely big breath, then exhale like you
mean it.Say 'Aaaahhh' as you do it, just because you can. Roll your shoulders this way and that. Loosen them up along with your neck. Just shake
it all out a bit and maybe pull your shoulders back and stand a little straighter without being too concerned about
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Each time they stop, take the opportunity to wind down, maybe take another big in and out breath, shoulder roll or just look around you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you go past a child’s
playground stop and use the swing. Enjoy this simply pleasure from childhood days.
Don’t worry what others might think.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sit on a park bench
and swing your feet.I promise that you will be amazed at how joyful this feels! Please try it.</span></span> </span></span></div>
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your head – a quick check beforehand for insects and spiders might be a good idea.</span></span><br />
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grass and look up into the sky. Relax. Let your eyes soak up the sky
or chase some clouds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you can't lie down, just look up at the sky every so often as you walk. We just don't do this enough.Your neck will enjoy the stretch too. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Run your hand against a tree trunk or give it some satisfying pats.It will feel beautiful. Check out its bark closely. Then look up, up, up to the top of the tree and watch the leaves and branches move against the sky. </span></span></div>
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if you can’t really see them that well, you will enjoy hearing them and knowing
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Run your hand through the tops of some long grass stalks as you walk by them. Say the word 'swoosh' softly in your head as you're doing this... just for fun. </span></span></div>
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that’s a sight to behold, don’t rush past. Linger and then linger longer. Take
a photo of it with your camera and your brain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Listen closely for
sounds like the wind through leaves and grass... or water on rocks... or maybe some cicadas or frogs. Let these sounds
fill up your ears. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Take some bread with you - multigrain is the best - and feed some ducks, some pigeons or even some ants! Admire them as they eat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Look at the ground beneath your feet. Is it pebbly? Pick one up and look at it with interest.Is it muddy? Dry mud is best for crunching underfoot. It feels good!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Shuffle your feet through dry leaves on the ground - kick them around a bit, feel them flick up softly against your feet and legs and listen to the sound they make.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Keep an eye out for any non-natural attention-seeking colours, shapes, patterns and contrasts. Maybe you'll see some razzle dazzle flags or paint peeling off a cracked brick wall or a curtain billowing out from someone's window.These things too can be worth noticing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Watch the light. It's all around you ... in between shadows, dazzling on the grass before you, reflected in some water, bouncing off some glass. It's wonderful! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Pop in a smile or two and maybe even a friendly hello to a stranger. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Don't fret if you don't get to do all or any of these things. Just let whatever is going to happen, happen. Take it as it comes and go with it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Return home feeling inspired
and revived. Congratulations - you’ve just had a mindful walk!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>P.S. This whole blog is about how to walk mindfully - there's no right or wrong way to do it - but if you like to know more ways to walk mindfully, please read my other posts.</i> </span></span></div>
Mindful walking with my dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18348911074868892304noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098455351644884200.post-76226274250353740112013-05-26T11:59:00.000+10:002013-05-26T12:03:39.892+10:00Come into my parlour...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">‘Come into my parlour said the spider to a fly’ is a very well-known old
poem that was actually written to warn against being taken in by false
flattery. I’ve written my own version…</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">The Conversation</span></u></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">“Look, Fly, at the
wonderful web</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">That I’ve so cleverly
spun!</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">It’s a palace made of
silver threads,</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">All glistening in the
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">“That sounds
fabulous!” buzzed the fly,</span></span></i></div>
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spiders leads into talking about spider lilies. I don’t know this plants scientific
name but, with all their dangley petal ‘legs’, ‘spider lilies’ certainly suits
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admire about spider lilies including their carefree hardiness. Even in a
traffic island in the middle of a busy road, these wonderful plants carry on
regardless in their confident spidery way. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">My dogs and I were walking mindfully
down a street the other day when across the way I saw a used car yard. Nothing special
there, you’d think. Just a bitumen lot with various cars parked at eye-catching
angles and adorned with signs trying to sound exciting and enticing. Even the
offer of finance was beautifully wrapped up and ribboned with the words ‘Ownership
Solutions’! </span></div>
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cars that got me crossing the road. It was a myriad of mad flapping sounds that
first grabbed my interest and once there I looked up and saw an amazing display
of plastic flags. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;">And somehow the
sight of their bight hues moving with great gusto in the strong breeze almost
immediately made me feel elated.They were joyful! </span> </span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">It seems that unexpected joy often happens on mindful walks,so it's a case of 'expect</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the unexpected' and, with that crafty car finance in mind,I'd also say 'mindful walks are joy solutions'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Similar post<span style="font-size: large;"> - 'When you least expect it...' 5/11/12</span> </span></i> </span></span></div>
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should come around the corner but an astoundingly orange fellow ... a Buddhist monk. What a
huge surprise! I searched for some photos of such monks and here are just a few
of the many beautiful ones I found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Seeing a Buddhist monk may not be such a big deal where you
live. My city dwelling daughter says she sees them quite often and she also saw
many when she recently holidayed in Thailand. But I live in an Australian
industrial town that is experiencing a massive boom and believe me when I say
that Buddhist monks are not a feature here! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In fact, instead of orange drapery, it seems the majority of the
people living here dress in blue and yellow safety gear. It doesn’t matter
whether you’re male or female or even so much where you work. This unmistakably
coloured clothing is everywhere day and night and, if you go to a pub at dinner time, you’ll
see a veritable ocean of the stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I will admit that I couldn't help but feel it was pretty cool taking a mindful walk and seeing a Buddhist
monk … and not just one, because around the corner came another and another. There
were six monks in all making a winding trail of gorgeous orange. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the mental health website ‘Black Dog Institute’,
you’ll find a very good description of mindfulness and mindful walking...</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><i>"</i></span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Mindfulness </span>is a form of self-awareness
training adapted from Buddhist mindfulness meditation...(in mindful walking)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">you concentrate on the feel of
the</span> ground under your feet, your
breathing while walking. Just observe what is</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> around you as you walk, staying in the present. Let your other
thoughts</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> go, just look at the sky, the view...feel the wind,
the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">temperature on your skin; enjoy
the moment</span>" ... </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and that’s why it seemed so apt to come across these monks. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Strangely enough, even before my monk encounter, I have recently
found myself strongly attracted to the colour orange. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s the proof … a new t-shirt! </span><br />
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it is a highly positive and powerful colour. Here’s a sample of what I found … <i>‘The
colour psychology of orange is optimistic and uplifting, rejuvenating our
spirit … we should all find ways to use it in our everyday life, even if it is
just an orange coloured pen that we use.’</i></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So with all of this in mind, I went through all my mindful walk
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grass around the town has been celebrating its luck. Maybe you could call it ‘the
luck of the Irish’ because suddenly, instead of looking like my dry old town, it
looks like those rampantly green pictures you see of Ireland. Actually while
trying to find a photo of all that Irish greenery, I stumbled upon the fact
that American country singer Johnny Cash visited Ireland and wrote a song about
it called ‘Forty Shades of Green”. So huh! (And way before that notorious and
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to be green either. One of my favourite things to see out walking is this long
stemmed grass with a reddish, very soft blossom<span style="font-size: large;">.</span> It’s a
very common sort of plant<span style="font-size: large;"> here.</span> I’d imagine that perhaps not many people would even notice
it. It grows in groups that to me are just beautiful, especially when a breeze
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late afternoon sunlight somehow gets right down there with every little blade
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thing happened in the grass before me and I stopped for quite some time to take
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referring to the passing of youth (the poem is from a series entitled ‘Intimations
of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’) as with all poems, other
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in the Grass’, starring Natalie Wood (such a lovely actress) and Warren Beatty (in
the days when he could really act), the quote is used in terms of first love or
lost love. In the final scene Natalie’s character thinks of the poem poignantly
as she drives away from the person who is the love of her life, and yet not the
person she will spend that life with. It’s a very touching scene… </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOmqJn2I8Mc">www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOmqJn2I8Mc</a><cite><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></cite></span></span></span></div>
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find it quite remarkable that a poet thought of grass in all its splendour as
he composed his poem. He searched for an image that would inspire wonder and he
came up with grass and he captured people’s imagination with the words ‘splendour
in the grass’. Actually I suspect that in that movie the characters did a bit
of frolicking in the grass (if you know what I mean!) and that’s why it was so
full of splendour!</span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: large;">o</span>ther posts I've made<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>about seemingly ordinary things…</span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">'Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go'1/12/12</span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When you least expect it 5/11/12</span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Where in the world? 4/9/12</span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Wake up to rust 12/8/12</span></span></span></i><br />
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green is associated with Ireland <a href="http://goireland.about.com/od/preparingyourtrip/qt/ireland_green.htm">http://goireland.about.com/od/preparingyourtrip/qt/ireland_green.htm</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Good discussion of William
Wordsworth’s ‘Splendour in the ‘Grass’ poem. <a href="http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com.au/2003/02/splendour-in-grass-william-wordsworth.html">http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com.au/2003/02/splendour-in-grass-william-wordsworth.html</a>
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Nothin<span style="font-size: large;">'</span> but blue skies do I see<br />
Bluebirds singin<span style="font-size: large;">'</span> a song<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">N</span>othin<span style="font-size: large;">'</span> but bluebirds all day long”</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">(from the song 'Blue Skies' by Irving Berlin 1926) </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Looking up at a gorgeous
blue sky must surely be one of the most <span style="font-size: large;">gloriously </span>refreshing things to do and
yet I find I have to remind myself to do just that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Like most people I
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">When my daughter visited
China, one of her first impressions was that the sky wasn't blue<span style="font-size: large;">.</span>No
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: large;">V</span>ersions of the song 'Blue Skies' by <span style="font-size: large;">artists</span> such as Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra <span style="font-size: large;">have a real jazz feel.But,</span></span></span>I<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>much prefer<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Bing Cosby's slow and sweet version from the movie of the same name.<span style="font-size: large;">Warning: the <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">scene from the movie is <i>very</i></span> <span style="font-size: large;">corny!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blue skies smilin' at me<br />
Nothin' but blue skies do I see<br />
Bluebirds singin' a song<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Never saw the sun shinin' so bright<br />
Never saw things goin' so right<br />
Noticing the days hurryin' by<br />
When you're in love, my, how they fly<br />
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Blue days, all of them gone<br />
Nothin' but blue skies from now on<br />
Blue skies smilin' at me<br />
Nothin' but blue skies do I see.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">(by <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Irving Berlin</span>,1926)</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">The expression ‘Little
Miss Goody-two-shoes’ comes from a nursery tale from the 1700’s about a little
girl called Goody who had only one shoe. When one day she was given a pair of
them, she became very self-satisfied and went around showing off and saying
smugly “Two shoes!”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">Well Little Miss
Goody Two shoes would become even more of a pain if she came to where I live, because
just about everywhere I go I find one shoe tossed on the ground. It's a
real mystery. Firstly, as I’ve said, it’s such a common thing to see here, and secondly
it’s just about always only one shoe, and quite often that shoe is<span style="font-size: large;">n't </span>even broken! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">I’ve included some photos here, but trust me
when I say that these are only the tip of the ‘shoeberg’. I've found all sorts of shoes too, including a ladies long boot and a man's work boot.So what is the explanation?
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">Maybe people are
walking around and they just lose one of their shoes<span style="font-size: large;"> and don't realise until they get home.</span> Hmmmm. Pretty careless and rather silly of
them. Maybe they are walking around and one of their shoes break, so they toss
the broken shoe away in disgust, then walk off a little lopsidedly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">But what
would be the point of doing this? What’s the point of keeping only one shoe? If
you are the despicable type who couldn’t care less about trashing the environment,
why not just throw <i>two</i> shoes down? After all, one isn’t going to ever be much use
and you’d look pretty odd walking around with only one shoe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">I will admit that once I did find two matching
shoes. They were a lovely and good quality pair of beaded sandals. One was a
little broken and the other was perfectly fine. If that little Miss had been
there with me, she would have said excitedly, “Two shoes!” But almost always it’s only
one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">When I am out
mindful walking, the discovery of yet another lone shoe is a bit of a
distraction. They are after all a
reminder of quite unpleasant things e.g. littering, consumerism and waste. Maybe
now I’ve written this post about them, I can start ignoring<span style="font-size: large;"> all those</span> annoying Little Miss Goody-<span style="font-size: large;">o</span>ne-shoes<span style="font-size: large;">. </span> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">Another blog post about mysterious things...</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">'It's a mystery' 7/8/12 </span></i></div>
Mindful walking with my dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18348911074868892304noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098455351644884200.post-79002672627967073922013-02-01T00:31:00.001+11:002013-05-12T00:11:22.035+10:00Tell it like it is…<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Quite a while ago I was out on a mindful
walk through a small patch of bushland near where I live and really getting’ in the groove. Look at the sky! Hear those birds! Smell that
flower! When POW!!!!! There it was! ‘The poo sign’ as I now call it, just
telling it like it is. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">A phantom poo poo dropper has obviously really got up
someone’s nose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked at the sign in absolute
shock thinking things like WTF, OMG and ooh yuk! Then I looked furtively around
me for … evidence … and immediately discerned a faint but distinct smell of
you-know-what and suspicious bits of a … shall we say soiled … tissue. Gross! But
it was also pretty darn funny. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">And it still makes me laugh when I imagine this
really angry person, who is obviously sick and tired of treading on human turds
while bush walking, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>finally cracking and
rushing home to grab some board and a black felt pen, and then energetically composing
‘the poo sign’… and a very passionate poo sign it was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh go ahead. Poo poo me
for including this startling discovery in a blog about mindful walking and ask
how am I going to justify <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this </i>one? The
answer is very simple. The sign made me laugh and laughter is one of <u>the</u>
best things in the world, and that’s good enough for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who said you have to keep a straight face
while mindful walking? I think that idea is just a load of … </span></span></div>
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Mindful walking with my dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18348911074868892304noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098455351644884200.post-41641866784618568912013-01-20T16:07:00.003+11:002013-05-13T15:00:13.871+10:00What a wonderful world…<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: xx-small; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I was
bent over the kitchen sink in that last blast of a stunning sunshiny day and enjoying
the succulent flavour and sensation of eating rich yellow mango when the
thought struck me, “Is this a moment I will always remember?” I am sure that we
all have such ‘perfect moments’ in our lives … blissful moments that stay with
us forever … and strangely they’re often small and subtle, rather than big and
brassy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: xx-small; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I think
this idea is captured really well in the movie ‘Life as a House’. Throughout the
movie the main character has flashbacks to a moment in which he and his young
son were playing in the ocean. He’s holding the boy and they’re quietly and
playfully talking and laughing as gentle waves wash all around them. It wasn’t
a huge event, but the character has the insight to recognise it as the most meaningful moments of his life. I am not saying that
eating that magnificently sunny mango was quite as significant as that! But I
am saying that some moments can be exquisitely… almost painfully… beautiful in
this life… this life which is often so hard… and such moments should be savoured
again and again, just as the character did in that movie.</span></span></span>
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this got to do with mindful walking? Well, sometimes when I am out walking
mindfully, I experience such moments. One that springs to mind is the afternoon
I suddenly came across this most lovely little red and green tree showering its
big red leaves on a dazzling patch of the greenest grass (‘Stop and enjoy’
28/10/12). At the time I wrote … <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘When I
saw that tree, did my head fill with thoughts of why, and how, and reasons, and
explanations? Or did my eyes, and my brain, and my heart just give themselves
up one by one up to the beauty of that quiet little red tree, in its secret
green corner of the world?’</i> That moment has stayed with me since and
perhaps it will stay forever. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: xx-small; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Then another time I was out walking ... and all around me was dry and desolate ... when I
heard a sweet little tinkling sound which seemed to be coming from huge clumps
of dead grass. I thought something like, ‘Surely there’s worthwhile in this
wasteland’, but I was wrong. </span></span></span></div>
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when I spied a tiny bird. He was singing his minuscule heart out and bursting busily
with confidence and cheer. I stood and watched him for some time, drawing on
the magic that emanated from him. To me, he was proof that life on this earth
was ultimately worthwhile. I didn’t have my camera with me, but went home and
started to paint what I’d seen. I called the painting, ‘King of the Clump’.</span></span></span></div>
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is why I believe that mindful walking provides opportunities to have unforgettable
moments of wonder and joy … moments that give us strength, and often when we
need it most … moments that remind us there is so much to live for… moments
that make us think, ‘What a wonderful world’.</span></span></span></div>
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a wonderful world’, as sung by Louis Armstrong...</span></i></span></span><br />
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boy by the sea photo credit <a href="http://www.123rf.com/photo_8405573_silhouettes-of-man-and-child-admiring-the-sea-while-foaming-wave-surging-onto-the-shore.html">http://www.123rf.com/photo_8405573_silhouettes-of-man-and-child-admiring-the-sea-while-foaming-wave-surging-onto-the-shore.html</a></i></span></span>
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has the effect of connecting me more to my surroundings i.e. helps me notice
things not just in one way but in a variety of ways. However, while this sounds
great in theory, it’s not always that simple.The trickiest sense for me to use on my walks is taste. I
guess that there’s just not enough tasty stuff around where I live! I once spied
a mandarin tree in someone’s back yard. “Ah ha!” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought, “Here’s a go!” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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peeled it and sunk my teeth into its inviting looking orange flesh. But I’d describe it as sensationally spit-out sour, so not much
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">But believe me when I tell you that the sound of flying
foxes huddled together is awful. They continually bicker, niggle and fight each
other like one big unhappy, and very noisy, family … they would be the ‘neighbours
from hell’ ... and flying foxes also smell. In fact they absolutely stink! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s almost overpowering and definitely
repugnant. They’re fruit eaters, so maybe that’s what comes of eating too much
fruit – be warned! So it’s best to stick to sweet smelling things and at this
time of year where I live, the sweetest smelling things are frangapani trees in
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"> What survivors these nondescript and knobbly grey branched
trees are! They nakedly stand around for most of the year, just blending into
the background, and looking as far away from spectacular as anything could
look. Then all of a sudden, as if a fairy has felt sorry for them and cast a
spell, tiny leaves of green hope appear. These grow at a magical rate, until
the trees are fully and leafilly dressed and looking ever so cheerful. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">But wait, there’s more! Next a myriad of the smallest buds
pop out their heads and, before you can say ‘abracadabra!’, the sweetest
looking and sweetest smelling flowers joyfully spring open. And smell them … please smell them! They will calm your mind
and lift your spirits. There’s no doubt about it …smelling frangipanis makes perfectly
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;"><i>Tell him he's dreamin'</i> is a quote from one of my favourite funny movies and it came to my mind when I spotted this sign while walking past a swimming pool complex in my town. My first
reaction was very strongly against this idea. I thought well you can dream all
you like, but without hard work nothing is likely to happen. I walked on
feeling quite smug in the knowledge that dreaming was not a prerequisite to
success and that this was the sort of advice that made people think life was so
easy as in ‘just dream it and it’s yours’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">Coincidentally the
next day I spotted a quote. It was the ‘Thought for the Week’ in our local
newspaper and it said, “The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not
enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">Hmmm. That got me thinking.
So that afternoon when I again went past the sign at the swimming pool, my opinion
towards it increasingly softened as I walked along re-considering the whole
dreaming and success idea… and when I say ‘success’ I am using it in a very
wide context e.g. not just success in career or business matters, but success
in other matters such as relationships, learning goals and even achieving happiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">And soon I was thinking
that dreaming really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i> an
incredibly important and powerful thing to do, for without the dream would
there be the same longing, and therefore the same passion and drive, to succeed? By
the end of my walk, I had come around to believing that dreaming can provide us
with inspiration and direction and that it was highly enjoyable into the
bargain.I also think it has a place in mindful walking. So now I say … dream away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">For another blog post on
signs see</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> 'Sign Language' 2/10/11</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">'Dreamin' scenes from the iconic Australian movie 'The Castle' </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When you least expect. it 5/11/12</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Wake up to ...rust. 12/8/12 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It's a mystery 7/8/12</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Block & Roll 10/11/12</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Temporary and Tangerine 18/8/11 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Just a load of garbage ? 25/8/11</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tankyou! 18/8/11 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">About a year ago when I started going for a walk around a large pond
in the town where I live, I sometimes heard a very gentle ‘splosh’ up ahead of
me. But, when I looked in the direction of this promising sound, expecting to
see something of special interest, there was only ever some mysterious expanding
ripple rings. This happened over and over, until finally it dawned on me what
was going on. Turtles! They love basking in full sun on the rocks at the edge
of the pond, but are so sensitive to any disturbances that, long before you’ve
realised they are there, they have realised <i>you</i> are there, and have done something very
quickly and very quietly about it . They simply do a cross between a jump and a
slide, and go off the rocks and into the water, making only the slightest of
sounds… and then they are gone, with only a few tell-tale ripples remaining.</span><br />
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up on these sun worshipping turtles. It’s just so lovely seeing their beautiful
ancient oddness, and it’s amazing at how quickly and quietly they take for
cover, little reptilian tanks that they are. These almost silent and stealthy
divers certainly make a mockery of the idea that turtles are slow. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am no wild life photographer, but these
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">And these shy, secretive or most probably just plain security
savvy turtles got me thinking about all the other things that I <i>don’t</i> see on my
walks. For instance, once ages ago, while on a walk through some eucalyptus bushland,
I found an unfortunately dead stick insect on the pathway. It was mind-bogglingly
big, easily 30 cm long, quite thick, especially in the abdomen area, and very brightly
coloured: a light limey green and a gorgeous soft pink to deep scarlet in
parts. I’d never seen anything quite like it, but I didn’t take my camera on
walks back then so didn’t record what it looked like. However I did some research,
came up with this photo of an aptly named Goliath Stick Insect, and I reckon
this was the type of stick insect I saw.</span><br />
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insect, was the realisation that I <i>hadn’t</i> seen one in all the twenty years I’d
been going on that particular walk. Yet obviously they were there, and are
there and, according to the information I found, they would be right at home in
that area, happily living up high in the eucalyptus trees.So now perhaps you are waiting for me to say something
like, "You’ve got to put your nose to the grindstone and look more mindfully,
more seriously and just plain harder to see such wonders". But I’m not going to
say this, because doing so would turn a mindful walk into a chore, a stress, another
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than a fleeting glance of something, or even nothing at all. Just delight in
the knowledge that it is there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
plant and animal life, inanimate features and even perhaps more mysterious forces, all around you:
even in the seemingly most uninteresting surroundings. And you don’t always
have to strain your eyes, your ears, and your nose, your sense of touch to
discover, uncover and experience these things. Instead, try thinking in terms of
being able to simply absorb what is around you: imagine opening yourself up and
let your surroundings permeate your brain and your whole body. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feel the energy being emitted by what you can
and cannot see. It’s thrilling to contemplate that living and non-living energy
is all around you – ant and earthworm tunnels, tendrils of vines and stretched spider
threads,wisps of wind, crumbling rocks adding to the earth, birds on the wing and minuscule droplets of water. </span><br />
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see it, now you don’t, but imagine what’s
there and feel a thrill in your heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Do you do the same as me
when you come home after a day out? The minute I am inside the house, I start vigorously
peeling and throwing off my clothing, layer by layer, and the feeling is, ”Aaahhh!”,
so soothing, so liberating. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I put on
'hanging-around the house' gear: the type that makes you want to lounge around or, at the very least, take things
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But it’s that blissful cathartic
stripping off of used clothing that is the best part: that enthusiastic exfoliating
process which so rapidly and effectively puts the go, go, go of ‘the day that
was’ far behind you.And I think this is the sort
of thing happening here at the moment with the trees. Where I live, there isn’t
a spectacular leaf dropping autumn, in which trees shamelessly compete for the
prize of 'Most Leaves Dropped in One Day’, or ‘Most Vividly Coloured Display of
Fallen Foliage’. Instead we have a ‘Bark Shedding Extravaganza’, and it’s at
the beginning of summer.</span></span></div>
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of the year, eucalyptus or gum trees are having a <span style="font-size: large;">marvelously</span> delicious time, unfettering
themselves from confining crispy coats of bark. It’s as though they are pleasurably
stretching out their bodies, and their branch-like arms: stretching until invisible
buttons pop and bark clothing splits open. </span></span></div>
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tatty pieces or great jaggy shards - making carefree piles around the base of trunks,
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the trees are saying, “Aaaahhhhh!” The joy at their new found liberty is
clear to see. Their emancipated trunks and branches emerge from their barky camouflage
bright and creamy, glowing warmly in the afternoon sun,silvery and gleaming at nightfall. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I like sliding my hand up
and down their cool torso-like trunks. It’s very pleasurable, even sensual. A
bit of advice though, if you do this, try not to get too worked up in case someone
is watching you! Better still, wait until no one is around and then really delight
in the feel of your hands on the trees almost luminescent pale skin: skin stretched
tautly over rigid woody muscle and flesh ( I warned you it could be sensual!).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I love seeing these freed
trees, I love feeling them, and I love the unique smell of their peeled bark after a
shower of rain.These trees are throwing off the restraints of their old bark; they are celebrating their new found space,
and exulting in the feel of the air on their newly nakedness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems like the perfect way to celebrate the arrival
of summer. </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">'Jacaranda Magic' 1/11/11 and 'Plant a Tree' 22/8/11 </span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">On a nothing-out-of-the-norm
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Saying it reminded me of
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I focused my eyes (and
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yet it really wasn’t
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In the last stretch
of a lovely leisurely walk, I came upon this little red tree and, like some leafy
traffic light, it made me … stop! The glorious golden rays of the late
afternoon sun lit up each of the big dollopy leaves on that not-so-big tree,
and the verdant carpet underneath was joyfully splashed with vibrant red. I
stood there for a long time taking it all in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Back at home,
looking at the photos of that tree, I started thinking about why its beauty had
struck me so much. Was it because of that special afternoon sunlight? Was it because
it was red and green? And why did I find a red and green colour combination so
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I thought well
maybe it’s because red is like pulsating blood, passion and life
itself, and green, well it’s nature’s own colour of course, and it is lush and
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to over-think it.I started saying yeh, but aren’t red and green opposite each other on the art colour
wheel, and aren’t they called complementary colours because when they are
placed side by side they make each other appear brighter? And at that point I urgently stuck my fingers in my ears and said out loud, “Lalalalalala!”, by way of
telling myself to … stop! Stop thinking about it! Stop over-thinking it! Stop
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did my head fill with thoughts of why, and how, and reasons, and explanations? Or
did my eyes, and my brain, and my heart just give themselves up one by one up
to the beauty of that quiet little red tree, in its secret green corner of the
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it’s best not to think. Sometimes thinking can spoil things a little, and
sometimes over-thinking can spoil them a lot. Sometimes thinking scribbles up a
whole lot of busy loud scratching and unpleasant noise in your head. </span></span></div>
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happens, remember to tell yourself to … stop! Because, once you stop it, you
can remember to breathe more freely and relax. Then you can open up your eyes and other senses, your brain, your heart and your whole body, and let them be oh so gently filled with wonder. Sometimes
there is no need to think about things. Sometimes you can just enjoy them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(Warning! If you aren’t a
dog lover, this post might annoy you, and annoyance and mindfulness don’t mix, so
skip this one and read another of my posts in which I promise I won’t rave on about
my dogs. Even I think it’s boring when people do that – rave on about their kids
or dogs or cats – but in my defence this rave does make a very good point … after a
long time … and after a lot of 'doggy stuff'... right at the end!) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">“Are we there yet?” That’s
what my little black and tan firecracker of a dog seemed to say when we were out
trying to walk mindfully. His name is Bruno, and I adopted him from a pet
refuge about 12 months ago, when he was 6 months old. My other dog is Eddy. He’s
12 years old, sedate and spotted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Before Bruno came onto
the scene, Eddy and I would walk at a pace that made ambling look like
sprinting. This was because I thoroughly spoiled Eddy, ‘the only child’ (I
really, really hate it when people refer to their dog as ‘the only child’!), and
let him set the pace, and his pace involved a lot of stopping. He has this
habit of coming to a full stop every so often. He just stands there, looks a
bit here, then slowly turns his attention to over there. Finally when he’s ready
to move, and not a second before, he lets us off again. Quite often on our
walks, if he did this too often and stopped for too long, I found it annoying, and when Bruno joined our walking team, he found it excruciatingly
annoying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The first time I took
Bruno for a walk, he was so excited he just about burst out of his skin. He
couldn’t walk fast enough, past this, past that, no looking sideways, no
stopping or even pausing, just go, go, go, go and go. You could almost hear his
brain saying feverishly, ‘Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there
yet?” Now I reckon there were two reasons for this obsession to get from A to B
as fast as possible, with absolutely no interest in the ‘in-between’. One is that the person he lived with
previously hardly ever, or more likely never, took him for a walk, so when he
was out on a walk, he was like a prisoner on day release. He felt he had to fit
as much as he could in the brief time he had, because it would be ages before
he could get out again, or maybe he’d never get again. Imagine that! No
wonder he was so desperately fast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The other reason was his
age. He was young and excited and busting with energy. But gradually Bruno
realised, much to his absolute rapture, that he was now living with someone who
took him walking every day, and not just for a short time, but for an hour or
so, and to all sorts of different doggy digs and highly sniffable places. So he
started to relax a bit. He started to enjoy taking his time a bit – to savour
his outing, not just to rush through it. The other thing that made him slow down
was the steadying influence of his role model – the older, wiser Eddy who is never
in a hurry, unless food is involved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Eddy was not going to be
rushed by any young whippersnapper of a pup, and he continued to do his
stopping for ages just looking around, and he’d take his time intensely investigating
a smell and really thinking about it, rather than just briefly taking a whiff
of it on the breeze as he rushed by. No, that wasn’t his walking style at all.
Me? Well I was somewhere between the two. I like walking at a moderate speed,
not just creeping along like Eddy wanted me to do, and I like stopping to let
the dogs do their sniff and pee thing, and stopping to check something out and
maybe take a photo, but I don’t want to stop for either activity for ages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So going for a walk
together was a bit tricky at first, and we all got pretty annoyed with each
other. But eventually we worked it out. We struck a deal and the deal is this. Bruno
fearlessly takes the lead, way out in front (which goes to show that we haven’t
paid any attention to the Dog Whisper who says dogs shouldn’t be allowed to be
the leader – sorry Cesar!), and he sets a brisk but still comfortable pace. I take
the middle ground which involves keeping Bruno’s need for speed in check. Eddy
trails persistently behind – as far behind as he can be, but he now walks quite
a bit faster than he used to. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Even though Eddy is little
and old and looks infirm and has deformed back legs that are shrunken and
shaky, when he wants to do one of his stops, Bruno and I know about it. It’s
like POW - we are stopped dead in our tracks. How he does this, I’m not quite
sure. As I say, you wouldn’t think he had it in him, but he definitely does. So
Bruno and I stop and wait for Eddy to have his leisurely look around, perhaps a
sneeze or two and an extra widdle and then, when we think we’ve indulged him
enough, I say, “Are you right Eddy?” to which he replies by heading off again,
head down and looking like he really means business this time … that is until
his next now-not-quite-as-drawn-out stop. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Then, when I see
something I want to spend some time looking at, or maybe photograph, I say,
“Just wait”. And both dogs stop. Bruno stops, even though you can tell it’s very
hard for him to do so. Hadn’t he just stopped while Eddy looked around, and now
I want him to stop again! But he’s learned to stop and wait, and he knows that
at the next post, when he really wants to take some extra time trying to figure
out which dogs done what, then Eddy and I will stop and wait patiently for him.
And he also knows that we are walking way faster than we used to because he
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So we’ve all learned to give
and take. We don’t annoy each other now (well not much!), and we all enjoy ourselves and each
other’s company … and this is a very useful thing to happen on a mindful walk, because
being annoyed and mindfulness just don’t mix. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Uh oh! I feel a quote coming on …</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Wilbert E. Scheer</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">See my other posts...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Is it possible to walk mindfully when you're angry?" 30/8/11 and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Can dogs help us walk more mindfully?" 17/8/11</span></span></div>
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I feel that their fences are designed for privacy and security, but also –
perhaps even at a subconscious level – this type of person likes a ‘Great Wall
of China’ sort of fence to keep their garden in … tucked away perfectly neat
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">And if one of the more devil-may-care plants starts to sneak
its way out of its plant prison, woe betide them, for a great big bloody
plague, in the form of a hedge trimmer, will descend upon them and bring them sharply
and snip, snip, snipingly back under control, back behind their de-fenceful
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">I just love seeing these never-say-die escapees. No sooner
than they are cut back, than they start their even more determined escape
attempts all over again in a never ending cycle. And I strongly suspect that,
while plants’ energy never seems to flag, the energy of their gardeners and
keepers is sorely tested, and the temptation to stop secateuring must sometimes
be hard to resist.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now when it comes to gates and gateways, some of them are obviously
meant to just keep everyone and everything well and truly out, and that is
fine. I’m of these ‘this is my house and my kingdom so be gone!’ type of
people, although I don't use barbed wire!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">But sometimes I see gates that are so obviously meant to
welcome you. They send out enticingly pretty invitations – a form of lovely
green, flowered, potted and pathed seduction, which warmly draws you towards
them. They agreeably call out, “Please! Come through! There’s so much more for
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then there are real-estate-speak ‘rustic’ gates and crumbly
gateways, and these too can have enormous charm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">They hint at a rather splendid past and a happy and content
semi-retirement. They still do their job, but with an approach that’s charmingly
approachable. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fences, gates and gateways – in or out? So much to ponder on
a mindful walk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Post on nature conquering human endeavour - 'Look upon my work ye Mighty & despair!' 23/10/11</i></span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Post re another type of fence - <span style="font-size: large;">'Temporar</span>y & Tangerine' </span></span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sound of water is not
always relaxing. At least that’s what I’ve found.For instance, I once installed
a ‘water feature’ in my garden with water bubbling up and then pouring slowly over a sphere. But the constant trickling noise it made set my nerves on
edge, and also made me want to go to the loo ... a lot. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">So </span>I couldn’t get rid of that thing fast enough. </span></span></div>
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the classic drip, drip, dripping tap in the middle of the night. It always happens
when you are too sleepy to get up out of bed and turn it off, but its irritating
noise prevents you from falling into a deeper sleep, in which you wouldn’t be
able to hear it. In short … torture!! </span></span></div>
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washing backwards and forwards, as they played with some floating leaves. A bit of litter was in there as well, but never mind.</span></span></div>
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some water, listen to some waves, and watch them run their watery fingers over
some leaves or stones or sand. It’s just so relaxing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>For more posts on leaves and litter... 'Litter of a different kind' 3/9/11, and 'Just a load of garbage?' 25/8/11. </i></span></span></div>
Mindful walking with my dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18348911074868892304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098455351644884200.post-84963183609265624312012-09-30T13:05:00.001+10:002013-05-11T13:07:55.725+10:00Frosty’s Home Town …<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It was a day in which the heat had taken on a life of its
own, and its enormous presence kept pulverising my head and body with its fierce,
red fists.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I was standing at the top of an outlook gazing at the harbour,and
trying in vain to catch a breeze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I live
in an industrial town town, and down below was the familiar big pile of saintly
white calcite. When I say it was a big pile, I mean it. This thing made the
grader trudging up its slope look like part of a Matchbox collection. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">There were two kids standing near me – one was a boy, about ten years old, who obviously thought he was 'King of That Pile', and a girl who
was quite a bit younger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the girl
said, “I wonder what all that white stuff is,” the boy rolled his eyes and scoffed,
“Everyone knows that!” And, over-awed by the boy’s vast knowledge and
experience, the girl asked shyly, “Well … what is it?” “It’s snow!” scoffed the
boy. I looked at him, my skin scalding from the sun and sweat swirling like an ocean in my armpits. Surely he was just joking, pulling her leg. But no, he
was dead serious. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Smiling to myself, I went down closer to the pile and took some more photos.
While I was there I kept an eye out for 'Frosty the Snowman', but he didn’t show. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b>“Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!”</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">I’d just bought a new pair of joggers, and because I had been
having problems with sore feet, I decided to go to a Sports
shop, rather than K-Mart, and buy what was said to be a better quality shoe. My skepticism
of such claims had been behind previous jogger purchases. So, when I walked
out of the sports shop with my new $150 joggers, they were exactly $135 more than I had ever before spent on that sort of footwear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">That afternoon I wore them out mindful
walking with the dogs. But all I could think about was my beautiful, new, expensive
joggers. They looked and felt so very spiffy that I didn’t want dust or mud or
water from sprinklers getting on them. But above all these very real concerns was my fear
– my dread – that my beautiful, new, expensive joggers would step in … dog poo.
The horror of getting dog poo in the treads of my new shoes obsessed me as I glued
my eyes to the ground and ever so carefully maneuvered my way around the
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">After a while we came to a rather ordinary park with a
rather extraordinary row of big trees.Seeing the late afternoon sun shining on
their tangled trunks instantly took my mind off my shoes, and on to these trees. I looked at them. Then I really looked at them. I noticed their solid, golden light and shadowy trunks, their strong up-reaching arms of branches,
their oddly curled-around roots, and the very last of their orange blossoms strewn prettily on the ground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">So, is it possible to walk mindfully with new shoes? Well, if your new shoes are all that you can think about, all that you can look at, then the
very simple answer is … no. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The things you own end up owning you.” </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">(From the movie ‘Fight Club’ 1999)</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">For more on trees, see my blog post 'Plant a Tree' 22/8/2011.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Scene from the movie 'Fight Club'</span></span></i><br />
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