or at least eat less!
a collection of signs and scenes that were common in their own time
Signs of the Time
a collection of signs and scenes that were common in their own time
I love signs! Your photos are great and fun!
“What a load of crepe!” HA! 😛
Signs…sometimes they are vital…sometimes baffling…sometimes funny…sometimes ponderful… 🙂 It’s fun to read them on road trips! 🙂
Makes me think of an old song from The Dark Ages “Signs” by The Five Man Electrical Band! 😀
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Nice bunch this is.
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A bit eye opening.
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yes, I have posted them individually but thought the collective might have more impact … glad I wasn’t a teacher a century ago!
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I can imagine. The thing is we think we’ve advanced in the last 100 years but we’ve only just started. Our attitudes towards women and minorities still needs so much work.
How’s your weekend?
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busy but good, far too hot here but it’s about midnight Sunday, so my weekend is over thanks Si
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lol thanks for the thought but no fear of me forgetting that essential 🙂
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That’s always a good thing ☺️
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comes with the territory of meditation, it’s a habit … 🙂
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How long do you tend to meditate for?
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a few hours each day but more when I can .. ten minutes is good for beginners!
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Wow… A few hours??? What do you think about in that time?
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no the idea is NOT to think! To find the space between thoughts … to take respite from our usual busy mind. ..
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Ok but that doesn’t come naturally. You mind doesn’t wander? I guess you let sounds and all that wash over you?
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I have been at this Decades Simon, with loads of intense retreats … No it is Not easy but it is so worthwhile … once you get a ‘taste’ you cannot stop!
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It’s ironic you have to work hard at not doing anything… not even thinking.
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it’s forming a new habit, something quite different from our usual pattern of thinking … think of it like building my body up for Miss Universe, loads of hours, diet and discipline go into it … so this is to tame my mind! A mental workout ..
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I see that… Taming is a good way to look at it.
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taming or training, getting it under control instead of running amok!
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That’s what my brain does!
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because you let it, it is habituated that way because you’ve never tried to tame it!
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I don’t know how to stop it…
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Tame it .. start now, please 🙂
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I’m trying to find a way…
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start with what you already do eg gardening, music, walk, we all have some way of zoning out … maybe writing. But start with that and ten minutes of just sitting each day for a year .. once it’s a habit you wont want to stop but at first all the garbage arises so quitting is too easy 🙂
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Oh I see, headspace covered this. They said let your mind wander for a moment then bring it back to help train your mind. Is that good?
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no, I bring it back immediately it starts to wander, think of it like a mischievous child … if not engaged in good healthy play they will wreck havoc, our mind is exactly the same.
But first zone out with your preferred healthy manner .. relax into that then do ten minutes
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So you can meditate while doing something? I thought it would be sitting quietly
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it’s not meditation, it’s a technique to Relax your mind so you can begin meditation … a bit like a warm up exercise before you jog!
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Right. So say gardening for a while to relax and then meditate. By being still and making the mind quiet.
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Have I? I guess that’s the way part?
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I will… What advice would you give on how to sit and balking your mind and what do do if your mind wanders and stuff?
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it will for ages, spine must be straight .. I always say “body relaxed spine straight, mind relaxed but sharp!” Got to start sometime 🙂
Only 5-10 minutes and yo want to go back …
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