Daily message

Goodafternoon!

From the book,"A way to God"...

Here is the exercise:

While pacing up and down a room or corridor slow down your movement to the extent that you are fully aware of each of the movements of your legs.Become aware of the following: the lifting of your left foot...the movement forward of the left foot...the left foot touching the ground...the weight of your body shifting on to your left leg...

Now the lifting of your right foot...its movement forward...its coming to rest on the ground in front of you...and so on.

As an aid to concentration you might say to yourself mentally, as you lift your foot, 'Lifting...lifting...lifting...' As you move it forward,'Moving...moving...moving...'And as you place it down on terra firma,...placing ...placing.'

This exercise is most emphatically not recommended for moments when you are in a hurry! And you have only to do it once to understand why I would dissuade you from doing it in any place where you are likely to be seen by any but the most non-judgemental of men!

Being in my parents'place for the last few days, I see my elderly father affectedwith Alzhiemer's and yet very capable of climbing up and down the few steps with focus and with his hands on the pillar nearby and was amazed.

Few nature hacks from the archies calender of old:

1.Read books pertaining to nature. Learn and apply ways of saving the environment.
2.Carry your own bag (paper or cloth) which can live up in your purse. Use for impulse buying on the way home and which folds upto a couple of inches square.
3.Along the way, as we treat nature as a model and mentor, amd not as a nuisance to be avoided or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now."
Have a good thursday!

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