Resources

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This is where you are welcome to access an easy choice of supportive material as part of your process of becoming and renewal. You may use it for further reflections and to encourage your state of mindfulness at whatever stage you find yourself on your journey to whole integration.

Videos

Over the first 21 days of the most severe stage of the COVID 19 Lockdown in South Africa, I took the opportunity to share brief videos of my morning Cultivating Presence practice with others. These have turned out to be as relevant now as then and follow no sequence really. Each day’s inspiration and material was what it was. They are yours to explore.

You may also Read More here to see what material and readings came about naturally.

Day	To cultivate presence	Poem	Reflection
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?