Do you notice any difference between before and after a cup of coffee? A new career prompted me to explore the different kinds of energy and attention at play. Listen to the podcast below:
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We are Gold (short film)
Chloe Lubinski, friend and filmmaker, created a short film on my poem ‘We are Gold’. It includes footage of her cockapoodle Rua as she goes on an adventure in St Anne’s Park, Dublin.
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A look, an embrace, a kindness
yes, you are precious
my child
You are gold
I hear your breath in the
darkness of the night
I am with
you
Compassionate presence meditation
This meditation involves paying attention to how we are in our mind and body, and goes further into the experience of our heart. An opportunity to turn to our source of compassion with imagery, energy and love. Also with light instrumental music to accompany to us.
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“I think you are born to do this!”
“You look like you’re
enjoying it!”
– Yes, I guess so friend –
The softening of the body
is out of this world
Confidence tools
Confidence is being open to connection. It includes openness to intimacy, acknowledging and allowing my real self and accepting my truth. I honour my strengths and weaknesses and I build courage to share my heart. It also includes calmly and assertively communicating my needs, despite pushbacks and challenges.
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In this poem I continue to imagine the embodiment of parental love. It is an extension of my previous short poem (a Haiku) called Parental Bone-Weariness.
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A friend recently shared the poem ‘The Invitation’ by Oriah Mountain Dreamer in which the following words deeply resonated with me:
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
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Seeing our beauty (meditation)
An invitation to recall a recent situation when we saw our beauty and goodness through the eyes of another person. It includes paying attention to the stirrings in our hearts and using loving words to express what the person saw in us. Note: It’s best to let the scene gently emerge in our mind’s eye.
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Roshi Robert Kennedy SJ, an Irish-American Zen master and Jesuit, put the following challenge to us after we sat in silent meditation at the Earth + Sky Dojo (meditation hall) in Dublin. He said: “Why are you here? Why are you doing this? You need to know why you are doing it because Zen demands a lot from you.”
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Gratitude In All Things 