by Deborah Bayer | Apr 14, 2020 | A to Z Challenge 2020
“Little Gidding” is the name of the 4th poem in T.S. Eliot’s book, Four Quartets. It’s an important steppingstone in my transformation for three reasons. It was one of the poems recited at the professional training I attended for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction....
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 14, 2020 | A to Z Challenge 2020
Soon after I started meditating daily, I decided to stop wearing a wristwatch. I began to observe that wearing a watch was adding to my sense of time stress. I was focusing on what was next rather than on what I was doing in the moment. After I made my decision to...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 11, 2020 | A to Z Challenge 2020
One of my fellow A-to-Z bloggers, Jenny Writes, is using Joy as her theme for the whole month of April. For me, it’s a touchstone in my transformation. When I was at my lowest point, not knowing which way to turn, there was a compass needle inside me that always...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 10, 2020 | A to Z Challenge 2020
In 1983, when I was 29 years old, I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a psychological test of preferences based on Carl Jung’s theories. The test was administered to a group of retreat participants from my church. I found out I was an introvert. Suddenly, a...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 9, 2020 | A to Z Challenge 2020
Happiness is like light in that it has wave/particle duality. It comes both as a flow of energy and in discrete foil-wrapped packets of dark chocolate. It is both an outcome and a process. Happiness can be pursued, but it often arises unbidden, when my focus is not on...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 8, 2020 | A to Z Challenge 2020
There is so much grief in the world now. It’s our milieu, like air in our lungs or water in the gills of the fish. Here is a stanza from Jane Kenyon’s poem “Let Evening Come.” To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats, to air in the lung let evening come....
