Mindful Mentor Jim

08/02/2023

08/01/2023

https://www.facebook.com/100063475155257/posts/594560449336455/

There is a great wise loving silent awareness that is here already, behind and within us all, waiting to be realized as the source of who we are. Happy Holidays, from my family to yours. —Loch Kelly

04/01/2023

Tai Chi at 1 pm

14/12/2022

Tai Chi at 1:00 pm pst
Intermediate class 1:45 pm pst

19/10/2022

The midterm elections...we need to show up and vote!

Mind Our Democracy is a community of meditation, mindfulness, and yoga practitioners who recognize voting as an extension of contemplative practice. When we participate regularly and fully in our democracy, we protect its integrity and contribute to our collective well-being.

12/10/2022

Awakening means thought-based knowing no longer dominates our perception.

When we practice nondual effortless mindfulness, we are shifting into an awareness-based way of know-ing and being.

There may a period of disorientation before we become reoriented at our new level of mind. We begin by glimpsing the end goal, which is already here.

Rather than doing any technique to calm our chattering mind, we start with a direct glimpse of awake awareness, which is beyond the thinking mind. Awake awareness is naturally already calm, intelligent, loving and inclusive.

Open-hearted awareness begins with awareness of awareness. It is an essence approach, also called the direct approach.

Direct refers to the ability to access our essential nature immediately, knowing it's already fully here and doesn't need to be created or developed. We only have to move past conceptual thought based knowing to access it.

12/10/2022

Rainbow 🌈 as seen from a plane

12/10/2022

Milky Way over Mount Fuji, Japan.

05/10/2022

Preparing for Inigenous People's Day by examining our history...

Mark Charles, who works with the ministry 5 Small Loaves, is a program affiliate with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and an expert advisor on indi...

05/10/2022

Milky Way Over Mt. Rainer, Washington St. USA 🇺🇸

01/10/2022

Listen to The Way Knows the Way by Lyndsey Scott by TheBirdSings on

If had to be stranded on a desert island with one mantra, this song would be it. This gem of music medicine landed in the voice of my dear friend and singing sister Lyndsey Scott, as she biked around

12/09/2022

Is it real?

…Well, it’s funny, because that’s one of the misunderstandings in a lot of discussion. It’s, “Is it real?” No, it’s not real—but it’s actually really happening.

In other words, it’s not real—meaning there’s not an actual little ego-identified Me in there. It’s just a pattern of thinking. But, that doesn’t mean there’s no ego identification happening, because there is—because it feels like it’s real.

So, it feels like it’s real and we’re operating from it.

However, it’s not real in the sense that it doesn’t have to be there, because it’s actually just made of a combination of functions—thinking, and a kind of survival program of the body.

And when thinking and judging and survival programs relax or unhook or deconstruct, then they remain available—but they’re no longer the center of identity. Thought becomes a tool or a useful part of us rather than the center of who we are.

—Loch Kelly

19/08/2022

Science-Based Practices

Modern versions of ancient meditations tested by neuroscience research. Relieve stress at the root with positive psychology and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Psychotherapy.

Try it now: https://lochkelly.org/em

19/08/2022

Sequoia National Park, California photographer by Samuel Lethier Photography

19/08/2022

A cloud tree.

19/08/2022

Light path viewed from Mount Torimi, Japan.

19/08/2022

Perseid Meteor shower peak over Stonehenge☄️☄️☄️🔥⭐️

With the peak of the 2022 Perseid's falling on the 2 nights of the Sturgeon super moon and crystal clear skies i thought i would give it a go with a north facing composition and see what i can get from it so i set up my 2 cameras to cover as much of the northern sky as possible running both at 30s F4 iso 400 at 14 & 15mm wide angle lenses taking close to 2000 images, i threw away about 25 really faint ones but i'm more than happy with the outcome with Mars and Pleiades also in the shot😍

Sky 120s tracked F4 iso 100 during the full moon.
2 x shots for foreground also during full moon.
Foreground shot 1 - 120s F4 iso 100
Foreground shot 2 - 180s F4 iso 250 for shadow filling

18/08/2022

https://youtu.be/Ue2gzGbG8u0

"Music to Save Earth's Songs" is a series inspired by Kathleen Dean Moore's book "Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural Worl...

16/08/2022

I did...a loooong time ago 😂

16/08/2022

From “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” to “Killing Me Softly” and beyond, Roberta Flack gave voice to a global soundtrack of beauty and pain, love and anguish, hope and struggle. American Masters: Roberta Flack illuminates where reality, memory and imagination mix to present music icon Rober...

16/08/2022

LARGEST TREE IN THE WORLD
Location : Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California, USA.
The General Sherman Tree is the world's largest tree, measured by volume. It stands 275 feet (83 m) tall, and is over 36 feet (11 m) in diameter at the base. Sequoia trunks remain wide high up. Sixty feet above the base, the Sherman Tree is 17.5 feet (5.3 m) in diameter.

It is estimated to be around 2,300 to 2,700 years old.

16/08/2022

From Iceland

16/08/2022

The Sun in the exact place.

16/08/2022

Unbelievably best shot of Storm... Supercell near Leoti, Kansas, USA

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