Today’s blog post prompt is “stairway”. One of the mindfulness exercises we do during our mindfulness meditation retreats is walking mindfully up a staircase, step by step, paying full attention to our inner sensations with each step we take. It is a form of mindfulness meditation and has the added benefit that it also gets a few muscles working, as opposed to walking our meditation labyrinth or our island-meditation-steps.
Going up a staircase also made me think of the steps needed to complete a task mindfully:
- Do one thing at a time
- Read/listen carefully to the instructions
- Divide a task into small easy-to-accomplish steps
- Give each step your full attention
- Allocate a specific time span to each step
- Undertake each step to the best of your ability
- Go for quality, not quantity
- If the steps are repetitive, develop a ritual
- Notice your progress step-by-step
- Be grateful for each step successfully completed
- Review your performance with each step
- Own your task
- Complete your task
- Note what you have learned while doing this task
- Celebrate the completion of the task
- Take time out between tasks
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“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.”
Vance Havner
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Great way to break it down to avoid anxiety and remain mindful. Your retreats look amazing
Thank you, Madeline!
Tracking your progress as you go certainly does make you more mindful and appreciative of the result!
What a wonderful way to break it down in to understandable and doable steps. I think sometimes people get scared off by the term “mindfulness,” thinking they will “do it” wrong. this is a great way to approach the start of any project or any day!
Love these steps – I really need to follow them!
So much of life is one step at a time, whether we like it or not. Thank you for the reminder!
The celebration at the end is such a great step. No pun intended.
I like it!
Love this – especially quality, not quantity! Such a good reminder I often forget.
what a great way of approaching something – each step leads to the next until you finish the journey – loved it 🙂
I absolutely LOVE this list. Life becomes so much more pleasurable when we live mindfully. Thank you!
I entirely agree. Hope you had a great weekend.
I’m prone to burnout and I have short attention span so no. 4 and 13 sounds difficult to me. Any suggestion how to overcome burnout and short attention span? Thank you.
Come on a retreat!