Mindfulness – methods:

Awareness:…Allow yourself to become deeply aware of what you are doing. When you walk become aware of the movement of your feet, legs, body, arms; how you are carrying your head; the sights, smells, about you; listen carefully to all the sounds; feel your breathing.

Look carefully at a flower or cloud or stone. Allow yourself to reach out to it. Be open to its fullness.

Practising the Presence of God:…Take a particular activity, such as washing the dishes, and concentrate on each aspect of it: the appearance of the bubbles, the smell, the feel of the movements; wash the dishes to wash them, not just to get the activity over and done with. If this is done regularly, one soon becomes aware of one’s presence in all of one’s daily life, in the beauty of the day, the people and the activities.

Celtic prayers:… Celtic Christians developed prayers for every moment of their waking lives: prayers for rising and going to bed; for washing, and lighting the fire; for entering a house, or welcoming someone into one’s own; for working and shopping and playing. This praying through one’s daily activities, and thanking God and sharing everything with God, ensures that one lives one’s life in God’s presence.