Living with Awareness

First of all, our apologies for neglecting the blog! Things have been a little hectic at Greenleaf and in life. But we’re back with a creative theme to take us through the end of the year that we hope you will find enriching…

Greenleaf will be starting a series of articles on this blog about Living with Awareness. The holiday season can be one of the most hectic times of year for people, making it a great time to really focus in on mindfulness and how to live an aware, inspired, happy life, every single day.

How do you know if there’s an area of your life that could use more awareness? It requires a little digging. An area that could use more awareness is one either that your gut is telling you to tend to, or one that you simply don’t have memory of on a day-to-day basis. Let’s take a few examples. Do you frequently find yourself wrenched from sleep by a blaring alarm, blindly grasping for the coffee pot with your slippers on the wrong feet, and moving through your day from coffee to soda to latte, stomach churning under the influence of all that caffeine? Your gut might be trying to tell you that you need more sleep. Or maybe you often come home from work and find yourself asking your husband about his day, only to discover that he has been talking for fifteen minutes and you have no idea what he said. Your lack of memory of these conversations is probably telling you to bring more awareness to that relationship.

If these examples don’t ring any bells for you, think back through the last 24 hours and see if you can come up with any happenings that seem cloudy or didn’t go the way you wanted them too. Maybe you have no idea what you ate for your last meal, or you can’t remember when you last went for a walk or sat and read a book. Then ask yourself, what area of your life could use more awareness? It could be spirituality, movement, eating, relationships, parenting, self-care, or any number of things.

The bottom line is, this blog series is going to be your chance to think through different areas of your life and see if you are living them in a “present” way. We only get one life, and making peace with that journey involves showing up for all of it, the good, the bad, and everything in between, and learning how to live in accordance with our values.

We hope you will take this journey into awareness with us.