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☕️ Many of us live with a feeling that somethi

☕️ Many of us live with a feeling that something, somehow is missing and that this moment we find ourselves in isn’t enough or things aren’t as they should be.

Sometimes the source of our lack is obvious to us, for example: stressful life situations, ( global health issues) health, family, love life, finances, endless responsibilities and to-do lists, dissatisfaction with something or other, things to organise.

Other times and more commonly, the sense of lack isn’t about anything in particular and instead is a quiet unease in the background that accompanies and harries many of the day the day things we do - which actually, in themselves are quite lovely and enjoyable.

In times like these having a meditation or self awareness based practice can really help you to spot what’s happening.

All of this talk reminds me of a quote from Kurt Vonnegut:

‘And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.’

What do you think?

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“I think I will do nothing for a long time but l

“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
And accrue what I hear into myself...
And let sound contribute toward me.”

#WaltWhitman, Leaves Of Grass. 🌾

Doing lots of walking at the moment before and after working and at weekends. I can’t believe the beauty of Autum. Just sublime. Listening... feeling... connecting. Just incredible.

#nature #morningfrost #beauty #peace #love #wonder #bluesky #mindfulnessmeditation #meditation #woodland #groundedness #mindfulnessquotes #waltwhitmanquote

🧘🏻‍♀️ Do You Have Slow-Happiness? By

🧘🏻‍♀️ Do You Have Slow-Happiness?

By the time someone decides to learn meditation it’s likely that they are either a truth seeker with an interest in the nature of existence, or they are looking for some kind relief. Or both which is quite common.

It’s understandable then, that by the time they sit down to meditate they want to find relief from the pressures of life as quickly as possible. Yet I can’t help but think that one of the best things meditation has to offer is slow-happiness.

To explain the difference between fast and slow-happiness let’s use physical fitness as a metaphor... to learn more on this check the latest post on Emma Mills London 🌷

What do you think about it?

Wherever you’re tuning in from, sending you all the best for this lovely Sunday morning.

📸 From a crisp and sunny day between the coffee shop, the city and the studio I practice from in Mayfair.

#mindfulness #meditation #mentalhealth #healthandwellness #training #slowliving #slowhappiness #londonmeditation #londonmindfulness #mayfair

👓 Really seeing: If we look to the brain functi

👓 Really seeing: If we look to the brain function research we see that familiar and unfamiliar items are processed by different brain regions. Familiar items being processed by the frontal lobes, and unfamiliar objects being processed by the temporal lobe, a sorting room type region which takes in sensory information and decides what it all means.

It is normal and natural to interact with things in this way and it makes sense really, or else it would take ages to recognise common objects and get anything done. Despite things being familiar it can be hugely beneficial to cultivate the ability to see them with fresh eyes. When we take the time to have another look— a proper good look at every day things, we’re often pleasantly surprised to find a fascinating and not so mundane reality right under our noses.

All this talk reminds me of that lovely line from #Monet
‘To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at’

What do you think?

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Emma ✨

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So lovely. 💚 #mindfulnessquotes #beauty #life #

So lovely. 💚 #mindfulnessquotes #beauty #life #wonder

I’ll never forget the first time I meditated 😅

I shared the story here before but sharing again as so many new people are taking it up at the moment.

A lady came into the Mind centre where I’d been working and shared a guided relaxation session for us all. (She didn’t call it meditation). She dimmed the lights and I sat back in a cozy armchair, closed my eyes and followed her visualisation. I came out of the session feeling rested and relaxed, but it was no big deal I thought.

Then a strange thing happened. Whereas before my mind was kind of busy with mental chatter, now it was silent. No thoughts. No noise. Just silence, and It stayed like that for a few days.

After a while a thought or two would appear, and the thought would say ‘oh my god, I’ve got no thoughts how will I know what to do next?!’ Which seems quite funny now when I recall it like that!

I went back to the office and called the lady to tell her I had no thoughts and to ask when they would be coming back? I’d only ever known one type of mind, a running commentary one, and so the silence was a unfamiliar to me.

She was lovely and said ‘don’t worry they will come back.’

In time the atmosphere of my mind returned to ‘normal’ and it was business as usual. But I never forgot and I was never the same again. I took up meditation with much curiosity from that day and soon after met my first proper teacher.

It was like seeing behind the curtain in the Wizzard of Oz. I’d seen that the mind and its activity could possibly come and go and that therefore it wasn’t essential to me.

Everyone’s experience is different of course, and that was quite some years ago now but with every day that passes my own personal practice in meditation and self enquiry reveals something new. It never gets old, just more and more interesting and that’s why I write my blog and books.

Curious to give it a go? Why not try it out. What might start as a way to relax could end up being the door to a whole other kind of wonder. There’s a get started guide at the link in my bio.

Emma x

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Using my new sewing skills ( @kate.s.morgan ) to b

Using my new sewing skills ( @kate.s.morgan ) to bring a project forward I’ve been working on for so long. Exploring designs and shapes...Will share more as I go in the stories here on IG.

I read two Mary Oliver poems today that really touched my heart. I wanted to share one of them with you here, let me know what you think of it.

With many facilities in UK closed due to CV, it’s always good to remember that the great outdoors is beautiful, and ‘the old woman made out of leaves’ is always ready to take you into her arms and on an adventure. 🍁

Aunt Leaf
By Mary Oliver

Needing one, I invented her -
the great-great-aunt dark as hickory
called Shining-Leaf, or Drifting-Cloud
or The-Beauty-of-the-Night.

Dear aunt, I'd call into the leaves,
and she'd rise up, like an old log in a pool,
and whisper in a language only the two of us knew
the word that meant follow,

and we'd travel
cheerful as birds
out of the dusty town and into the trees
where she would change us both into something quicker -
two foxes with black feet,
two snakes green as ribbons,
two shimmering fish - and all day we'd travel.

At day's end she'd leave me back at my own door
with the rest of my family,
who were kind, but solid as wood
and rarely wandered. While she,
old twist of feathers and birch bark,
would walk in circles wide as rain and then
float back

scattering the rags of twilight
on fluttering moth wings;

or she'd slouch from the barn like a gray opossum;

or she'd hang in the milky moonlight
burning like a medallion,

this bone dream, this friend I had to have,
this old woman made out of leaves.
🍁

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The Wellness Edit, my fortnightly briefing on the

The Wellness Edit, my fortnightly briefing on the latest in mindfulness, psychology and the arts, is out tomorrow morning. Be sure to check your inbox for your Sunday morning Inspiration. 💌

If this sounds like something you’d like to have too, you can join the list for free at the link in my bio @emmamillslondon

P. S. I just love this quote. The book it’s from, ‘The Unquiet Grave’ is also very observant and funny.

#wellness #bored #palinurus #unquietgrave #philosophy #quotes #philosophyquotes #mindfulnessquotes #neditationquotes #psychologyquotes #mindfulliving #positivevibes #positivity #positivity

Our individual life circumstances are so different

Our individual life circumstances are so different, which means we are all experiencing our own set of unique challenges. For example, the state of our health, wealth, security and companionship varies wildly and for this reason it’s not easy to share a set of generic wellbeing tips for managing in the current climate.

I’ve taken into account the comments and questions you’ve shared with me in our online sessions and combined them with questions and discoveries of my own to offer a nice jumping off point into the realms of ‘lockdown’ wellness.

I do hope you enjoy them,

Emma

Read: if you missed it in May, you can read ‘Moving from IRL to URL – 6 Ways To Add Peace To Your Days And Improve Your Mental Health And Wellbeing During Lockdown’ over at Emma Mills London now.

Emma

#wellbeing #stressrelief #stressmanagement #love #peace #bedpeace #meditation #mindfulness #emmamills #emmamillslondon

Westminster University 🧑🏻‍🎨 I’m ver

Westminster University 🧑🏻‍🎨

I’m very excited that my work at Emma Mills London combining meditation with poetry has been included on the Psychology degree course at The University of Westminster again this year. I’ll be there in February, most likely via web link and I’m really looking forward to meeting the students and talking all things poetry, meditation and their place within psychological therapies 💚

If you’re looking for a little recommended reading and fancy investing in a poetry anthology for this winter, do take a look in the review section of the Emma Mills London blog for my pick or the best mixed poetry books out today.

If you buy any of the books do tag me in your poem posts, I love seeing the poems you most enjoy!

Wishing you well for Sunday evening

Emma

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The Listeners by Walter de la Mare is one of my fa

The Listeners by Walter de la Mare is one of my favourite spooky poems.

It’s just full of mystery and lovely words. Who is the traveller? Where has he come from and is there really anyone listening in the house?

My favourite line is the one about the silence surging softly backwards. 💯

Combine this eerie poem with my black bean soup recipe. The dark liquid with the white yoghurt means that when served it looks like a night sky holding the full moon.

The recipe is taken from my book @inhaleexhalerepeatbook and it’s available to read on EmmaMills London.com 🌙

The Listeners
by Walter de la Mare

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:—
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

Source: The Collected Poems of #walterdelamare (1979)

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Appreciation Alphabet 🔤 A is for Autumn 🍂

Appreciation Alphabet 🔤

A is for Autumn 🍂
B is for Brothers
C is for Cream cakes
D is for Double Espressos/Daffodils

And so on.

An A-Z of things you are glad exist in the world. Not necessarily things you are grateful to personally have, but the parts of existence you appreciate more broadly. Practice anytime you like, to begin a meditation or perhaps on a long journey or maybe with the family.

What are the first three things on your list?

This short activity is adapted from the digital course ‘The 7 Wonders of The Inner World’ sign ups are now open at Emma Mills London 🌏

#gratitude #heart #heartcentered #heeartchakra #heartmath #emmamills #autumn #happiness #mood #positivity #joy #the7w #inspiration #stressrelief #motivation #mindfulnesstips #meditations

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