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Day | To cultivate presence | Poem | Reflection |
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1 | Connect to your breath when you find yourself on unknown shores | Don't despair, walk on by Haféz | How can you walk on amidst the despair you might be sensing today? |
2 | More embodied in your heart space by opening up to it and letting go of the inner battle. | Love after Love by Derek Wolcott | How can you create space to love who you are in this moment, to feast on your life and let go of the battle? |
3 | Tune into the inner quiet and allow space for silence | Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda | How can you keep on tuning into the inner quiet whilst doing your daily task today? |
4 | Be open and keep on listening in times of uncertainty | Having loved enough and lost enough by Mark Nepo | How can you listen to yourself and others in an open way today? |
5 | Allow gravity to support you and surrender tension in the body | How surely Gravity’s law by Rainer Maria Rilke | What are the things that you need to let go of and trust that gravity will hold it? |
6 | Loving-kindness for ourselves and others | Gate 22 by Elen Bass | How can you when you engage with others today share your love with them, by looking at others like their mother would have looked at them as if they were the first gift on this earth? |
7 | Have a daily practice that cultivates your deeper connection to life | The sunrise ruby by Rumi | What is the practice you commit to, to cultivate your deeper connection to life? |
8 | Come home to the moment | For Presence by John O' Donohue | How can you experience today as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder? |
9 | Live close to your truth and keep on seeking what it is in order to be present to the moment as it unfolds and respond to it in your unique way. | All the True Vows by David Whyte | What is it that your own voice would like to say today? |
10 | Accept that you are not in control and can’t control life | Allow by Danna Faulds | How can you allow yourself to let it all in today without resisting? |
11 | Commit what you want to cultivate and set your intention | I will not die and unlived life by Dawna Markova | What is it that you want to commit to? |
12 | Compassion for others and realising we are all one | The Praying Mantis by Mary Oliver | How can you treat others differently and compassionately today, by knowing he/she is a fellow human being just like you? |
13 | Sit in and be with the not-knowing | The Real Work by Wendell Barry | How can you allow yourself to be with the not -knowing so that your real work can reveal itself? |
14 | Keep a joyful mind amidst the pain. Our joy does not diminish the pain, it dignifies it. | A brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert | How can you risk delight today? |
15 | Face your own brokenness and humanness | "Christ of the burnt men" by Sheila Cussons | How can you allow space today to just sit and be with your own broken humanness? |
16 | Stay connected to the present moment as you are while you are doing ordinary daily tasks | What the living do by Marie Howe | How can you stay connected to your inner aliveness today? |
17 | Let go of the old questions that does not serve you anymore and keep you from living from a space of love | The Answer by Ronald S. Thomas | What old questions do you need to let go of today so that you can be more with yourself and others from a space of love? |
18 | Knowing when it is time to act and discern what the appropriate action is for the moment | The Rising by Ian McCallum | Where in your life are your soul asking you, with a holy rage, to rise up? |
19 | Allow yourself to feel lost and be found again | Lost by David Wagoner | How can you allow yourself to be found anew today? |
20 | Include others with various perspectives on life | In my Soul by Rabia | How can you live from a space of gratitude today for the diversity of all beings? |
21 | Dance with life in the moment | The Dance by Oriah Mountain Dreamer | How can you dance with life amidst the uncertainty? |
Embody your purpose meaningfully
In this video we reflect on questions such as - What is my purpose? Where do I find meaning in life? What is embodiment? - from an Integral coaching perspective.
Day 21 of 21: Cultivating Presence Practice with Gretha Cronje
I read the poem The Dance by Oriah Mountain Dreamer that reminds us to dance with life. We end with a brief meditation focusing on the breath, the dance of life inside each one of us.
Day 20 of 21: Cultivating Presence Practice with Gretha Cronje
The poem In my Soul by Rabia reminds us of the ability of the soul to be inclusive of diversity. After that we do a brief meditation focusing on being grateful for the variety of life in the present moment.
Day 19 of 21: Cultivating Presence Practice with Gretha Cronje
I read the poem Lost by David Wagoner followed by a brief meditation where we allow ourselves to be found again.
Podcasts
This is a 10 minute guided meditation to relax and be more present as you connect to your body.
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Publications
Non-epileptic seizures in our experiences, Accounts of Healthcare Professionals
Oxford University press
Reuber, M. (Eds). (2020)
Foreword in book