Accessories You will need a nice petal which can be any color, but many choose green. You will need a clip, needle, thread and some nice gems to brighten up your hair accessory. This will only take you about 10 to 20 minutes to complete and then you are done, so make sure that you leave some time for yourself for this project. Paper button flowers are great and you will love them. You can use these for hairpins or just to decorate your clothing. You may need about 20 minutes to make these and then you can use them for whatever you like.
A Gift of Loving Kindness Meditation Happiness is in your ability to love others ~ Leo Tolstoy Have you ever wished you could meditate but just didn’t know where to start? There’s a reason for that! When people talk about meditation, they sometimes make it sound as if there were just one type. But there isn’t, there are so many types: mantra meditations, breath meditations, sound meditations, concentration meditations, awareness meditations, visualization meditations, compassion meditations and the list goes on! Each was designed with a specific purpose.
Summer 2011 Sewn Egg Chick Tutorial by Kata Golda Making lots of eggs and some baskets for spring, I came up with the egg chick because something felt missing....an egg with a cute face...looked like Humpty Dumpty. A Meditation on Lovingkindness This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others. With each recitation of the phrases, we are expressing an intention, planting the seeds of loving wishes over and over in our heart. With a loving heart as the background, all that we attempt, all that we encounter will open and flow easily. You can begin the practice of lovingkindness by meditating for fifteen or twenty minutes in a quiet place. Let yourself sit in a comfortable fashion. Let your body rest and be relaxed.
Banana-will you want to taste again? - Secretly Healthy Bananas are natural repositories of energy. Bananas are rich in many beneficial ingredients that help us stay fit, but also to prevent the occurrence of lots of diseases. It’s a great meal to start the day. If you eat a banana in the morning with a glass of milk and a piece of whole-grain bread, it will give us enough energy to start a new day. But energy is not the only thing that we get from bananas. Loving-Kindness Meditation How to Do It This exercise draws on a guided meditation created by researcher Emma Seppala, Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. We recommend listening to the audio of this guided meditation in the player below; you can read more about it on Dr. Seppala’s website.