Every Day a Holy Day: Exercises, Experiments and Practices for Mindful Living (Consciousness Classics) - Softcover

Haynes, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895562782 ISBN 13: 9780895562784

Verlag: Gateways Books & Tapes, 2017

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Every Day a Holy Day is an excellent manual for the use of serious spiritual seekers who understand the importance of "being there" as a gateway to spiritual maturity and to the integration of spiritual experience in ordinary life. Rather than add special activities into our life under the banner of spiritual practices, this book demonstrates how to effortlessly fold spirituality into life. It offers 121 exercises that can be done effortlessly and without being noticed anywhere, anytime. Every Day a Holy Day is not about having a peak experience, although these exercises can be a catalyst for this. Rather, it points us to a way to live our lives, to be one with our environment and the people with whom we relate. The book offers a lifetime of keys in the guise of exercises, experiments and practices to keep unlocking the doors and deepening our relationship to our heart’s desire.

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Barbara Haynes works with E.J. Gold and the community of the Institute for Development of the Harmonious Human Being (IDHHB). She lives in Grass Valley, California.

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Every Day a Holy Day

Exercises, Experiments and Practices for Mindful Living

By Barbara Haynes, Tabatha Jones

Gateways Books and Tapes

Copyright © 2016 Barbara Haynes
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-89556-278-4

CHAPTER 1

Kitchen Hands

While cooking a meal, notice what your hands touch. Spice jars, salt shakers, and drawer handles are some of the things that come to mind. When cleaning up after the meal preparation, be sure to clean those places, items, utensils, etc. that you touched while you were cooking. As you wash each of the items used in your daily meal preparation, reconnect with the time during your meal preparation you used the item.

Attitude of Gratitude

As you prepare food, generate an attitude of gratitude toward the food for its willingness to sacrifice itself to feed you, your family and friends.

Guests

As you prepare a meal, picture the people who will be eating the meal. They may be family members, friends, business associates or people you may not as yet know. See them enjoying and benefiting from the meal you are preparing.

Plates

As you serve the plate for each individual at the table, say a blessing prayer for that person.

Silence

No talking in the kitchen. This can begin as a three to five minute exercise. As you repeat it, increase the time, in increments, with which you are comfortable. The goal is to be able to practice silence during the entire time you are cooking. Communication directly related to the preparation of the meal is allowed.

Do Talk

Work with a friend in the kitchen and talk to your heart's content. Notice the difference, if any, between the experience of not talking while working in the kitchen and talking while working in the kitchen.

Stay Put

Once you come to the kitchen to cook a meal, do not leave the kitchen to attend to other business, unless it is an emergency. Do not make phone calls or step out of the kitchen to handle anything other than getting necessary supplies stored outside the kitchen or setting the table.

Do Leave

Let yourself come and go from the kitchen as you prepare a meal. Do you notice any difference in the quality of the experience, in the timing or sense of the space created for the meal?

Special Object

Pick an object that you pass by many times a day. Establish a specific pattern in relation to this object. Walk around the object, touch it, nod to it. Create a subtle ritual which you perform each time you encounter your chosen object.

Something New

As you walk into a familiar room, notice something new. Do this for each familiar room you enter throughout the day.

Notice Me

When you walk into a room, what do you see first? As you do this throughout the day, observe if you have a tendency to notice certain types of things more than others.

Notice Me Two

What is the first color you see when you walk into a room? Do you notice one color more than others?

Room

Which element in a room defines it for you? What would the room be without this element? What makes the music room the music room? If you took the piano out of the music room, would it still be the music room?

Smelly Rooms

What do you smell in the different rooms and places you encounter during the day? Do the smells remind you of other places, times, emotions or events?

Smelly Places

Today, as you travel from place to place, notice the differences in the smells you encounter. If you closed your eyes, would you be able to know where you were? How does it make you feel? Does it bring up any associations or memories?

Lighting

Notice the lighting in each of the different rooms and spaces you find yourself in today. Does the lighting produce a mood?

Same Room

Pick a room in your home that you frequent every day more than once. Observe the changes in lighting in this room under many different conditions. Morning, noon, evening or at different seasons of the year or with electric light. Notice the differences in this room caused by the change of light.

Same Room Again

Choose a room that you are in at the same time everyday. Notice the changes in the room each time, even though you are there at the same time everyday.

Changeling

As you walk into a room, assume that one of the items in the room is not exactly what it was. Which item is it?

Details

When you find yourself waiting, select an object near at hand and notice all the details possible without moving yourself or the object.

More Details

Pick a room in your home in which you spend a lot of time, then pick an object in that room and study it or "spend time with it" for five minutes every day for a week. After spending five minutes a day for a week with the object, what do you know about the object you didn't know before?

Add Detail

Pick an object in a room you enter and leave several times a day. Each time you go into the room glance at the object and add a new detail to what you have already noticed about your chosen object.

Jumping Color

As you enter a room, notice the color that jumps into your attention. Look at the color. See the play of light, the intensity, the various shades. Watch as the change of light in the room alters the color. Does the color illicit memories or emotions?

More Color

When the one color of the room has flagged your attention, notice where else in the room the color is located.

Color of the Day

Each day for a week, pick a color you will notice for that day. Notice where you find this color most – in offices, outdoors, Dr.'s office. How is it used? On walls, in clothing, furniture? How does the observing of the color seem to affect you? How are the different colors of the different days different?

Keys

As you open a locked door, use your keys to remind you that you are passing from one universe to another. Do not assume you know what is on the other side of the door, even if you have been through that door thousands of times.

Washing Dishes

As each item is cleaned, silently repeat (aloud if you are alone or your housemates are understanding): "Thank you for your service."

Flowing Universe

When riding in a car or traveling in or on other transportation (where you can see the scenery passing by), gradually come to feel that the car, train, bus or subway is not moving, but rather the scenery is flowing by you. The vehicle is standing still while the universe flows past.

Sweep the Floor

(Notice I did not say vacuum the floor.) I prefer to use an old fashioned straw broom in the kitchen. A push broom – one you can use in the garage or on the sidewalk or pathway is also a good candidate for use in this exercise. As you sweep, watch how your body coordinates itself to accomplish the task. Watch as if you are watching a dancer. Be aware that all the movements needed to "sweep the floor" are done without you directing the activity.

Mirror

Look in a mirror. Look past the face you see to the environment behind. Get the feeling that the room you see in the mirror is the real room and the room in which you are standing is the reflection.

Mirror Reflection

Study your reflection in a mirror. Get the feeling that...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gateways Books & Tapes
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0895562782
• ISBN 13: 9780895562784
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
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