viernes, 26 de enero de 2018

Relax into the feeling of being alive - Leo Babauta

Relaxing Into the Feeling of Being Alive

BY LEO BABAUTA
There’s a practice so simple that many people will discount it as not worthy of trying.
They’ll miss out on the transformative power of that very simplicity.
The practice is this: Sit still for a moment, and just feel what it feels like to be alive. Then relax into that feeling.
Yes, I know, sitting still for a moment isn’t something we want to do right now. We got things to do, man! But just try it, for a minute. Sit still and feel what it feels like to be alive, for you, right this moment. There’s never been another moment like this particular one, and never will be again.
Let me repeat that: There’s never been another moment like this particular one, and never will be again.
That means that at this moment, we have the opportunity to fully appreciate the miracle of this moment, and how it came to be from the infinite number of causes that created it from preceding moments. We are alive in this moment because of millions of other people who have supported us, because of everything on this planet, which just happened to be the perfect conditions for creating the person we are right this moment. What a freakin’ miracle!
So tune in, and notice what it feels like to be alive right now:
  • What sensations do you notice in your body?
  • What is the energy of those sensations? Does the energy change, or move?
  • What is the texture of your breath?
  • Do you notice pain, discomfort, tenderness, tightness?
  • Get curious and explore, investigate, look even closer.
  • Take in the totality of your sensory input, all at once, holding it in your awareness.
  • Stay with this feeling, instead of moving on. Then stay a little more.
Now that you’ve become curious, investigated, and stayed with your experience … try this:
  1. Relax into the feeling. That means if there’s any tightness around your experience, just relax that tightness. Relax into your experience. Often we have some kind of aversion to what we’re experiencing, or an urge to get away from it, and I’m suggesting we relax and just be with it, just as it is, not needing it to be different.
  2. Find gratitude for the feeling of being alive, even if there’s pain, tightness, discomfort. Be grateful for the miracle you are lucky enough to witness right now.
  3. Find love for everything you hold in your awareness, from everything around you to your own experience, your body and breath. It’s all one thing, and all held in your love.
Before you dismiss any of this, try it. Experience even the sensation of your resistance. And then email me personally (l@zenhabits.net) and tell me what your experience was like. I won’t respond (nor will I send you marketing material), but I’d love to hear about it.

martes, 23 de enero de 2018

Chema Lumbreras y el arte urbano en Malaga



En el centro de Malaga, muy cerca de la peatonal calle Larios, el paseante se encuentra con un par de obras de un artista y profesor malagueño. 

Los protagonistas de las sorprendentes esculturas son humanos y animales que juegan, hacen equilibrios en el aire o tratan de mover un pesado banco en el que se sienta a veces alguien que quiere tener una foto con un conejo y un hombre rata. 

El primero simboliza la prisa del conejo de Alicia en el Pais de las Maravillas y el segundo representa la muerte. 
En una ciudad llena de museos y de artistas se agradece encontrar muestras de arte urbano contemporáneo de artistas locales tan originales y atractivos. 

Y que otras ciudades se planteen esos pequeños y necesarios cambios para humanizar nuestro entorno cotidiano.   













jueves, 11 de enero de 2018

Giorgio De Chirico: vidas silenciosas.





Las obras que podemos ver en la exposición de Caixaforum de Madrid nos acercan a un mundo silencioso, enigmático,  que evoca sueños, tiempo suspendido, mundos ya perdidos. 
Un artista que vivió tiempos convulsos y violentos y que inspiró a otros artistas como Max Ernest, Dalí, Magritte pero que siempre siguió su propio estilo sin perder su sonrisa y su pasión por el mundo clásico. Aunque sus padres eran italianos  él nació en Volos (Grecia) y se formó tanto en Florencia, Milán, Turín como en París. 

Las entrevistas que podemos ver en la exposición, una realizada  en Grecia y otra en Venecia nos acercan a la persona amable, sensible, bromista  y educada que hay detrás de la imagen pública del artista cuya Fundación es la depositaria de las obras que se exponen aquí. 



















jueves, 4 de enero de 2018

The uses of sorrow. Mary Oliver








Probablemente caminando por la arena en Cape Cod (Nueva Inglaterra) nació este poema aunque Mary Oliver decía que lo había soñado. Su forma de escribir sobre la naturaleza (the blue sky that love us all.../there are days when the sun goes down like a fist/ my work is loving the world...) en la que busca consuelo y paz es engañosamente sencilla.

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that, this, was a gift.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/06/featuresreviews.guardianreview27