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14 Days of Mindfulness
Lock your eyes forward and stretch your arms out in front of you. Keeping your arms and eyes straight, slowly spread your arms apart until you reach the limits of your peripheral vision. As you walk of sit, try to focus on your peripheral vision – what movement can you see in the edges?
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Find a Leaf and Examine it What do you notice? What do you wonder? What does it remind you of?
Read More14 days of mindfulness – Fox Walk
Fox Walk As you explore the trail, your backyard, or block, silence your footsteps. Place the outside of the ball of your foot gently on the ground. Roll your foot so the inside ball and outside have equal pressure. Slowly lower your heel.
Read More14 Days of Mindfulness – Four Directions
Four Directions Face One Direction and inhale and exhale deeply four times. What do you smell? What do you hear? Rotate 90 degrees and repeat. What new sensations are you experiencing here? Rotate 90 degrees and repeat. Check in with your full body. Rotate 90 degrees and repeat. Invite any new sensations in.
Read More14 Days of Mindfulness – Close Focus
Close Focus Find something in nature close – within one foot of you, that cannot get away. Focus on this object for a full minute. What did you notice? Did your relationship with it change at all?
Read More14 days of Mindfulness – Smells and Scents
Smells and Scents What scents do you notice in this space? Point your nose up and down. Open your mouth and smell again – did anything change?
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When you leave this space, what thoughts/ feelings are you taking home with you and carrying with you tomorrow?
Read More14 Days of Mindfulness – Soft Focus
Soft Focus Find something moving in your vicinity to watch or observe for a full minute. Rain hitting the ground, leaves blowing in the wind, a bird flying overhead…
Read MoreVernal Pool Nature Video
This is part of a new series of educational nature videos from Reinstein Woods Vernal Pools provide an important habitat for insects and other invertebrate animals. You can often find beetles, caddisflies, phantom midge larvae, aquatic sowbugs, and scuds swimming in these shallow pools. Almost all of the creatures in the video live in a … Continue reading Vernal Pool Nature Video
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