Don’t Miss Out On What You Already Have
Hi there, and welcome back,
Have you been more Mindful during your morning dog walk, and/or at any other times? If so, no doubt you will have noticed the experience left you feeling calmer and generally more aware—as if someone had given you a pair of spectacles that sharpened your vision.
Every moment is precious. Once it passes you will never know it again. Don’t miss out on what each moment has to offer!
When I was a child I used to read the lost and found column in our local newspaper—in the hope, I confess, of reading about a dog who’d been lost nearby, because then I would then go outside and try to find it! But one day, I read an item I’ve never forgotten. Hidden among the lost cat and dog notices was something completely different, and to this day I don’t know who wrote it or why. But I remember every word:
‘Lost, yesterday, sometime between sunrise and sunset. Two golden hours. Each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.’
We waste far too many of our golden hours and diamond minutes on auto-pilot, not noticing, waiting for something else. Please, don’t miss out on what you already have! As Jon Kabat-Zinn said, we only have minutes to live, meaning that we can’t revisit our past nor can we know our future. Now, each diamond minute, is all we have for certain.
To make your experience even richer, remember to invoke all your senses. That lovely flower: what’s the scent? The dewdrop on that blade of grass: how does it feel to touch it? Those birds nesting in the tree outside my bedroom window: what is their special song?
Enjoy what you have. You’re already rich.
Until next time, all the best,
Linda