Bringing Mindfulness to Life
We rarely pay our breath much attention as we move throughout each day. With mindfulness practice, we return our awareness . . . again and again . . . to the breath. The most important thing one SHINE participant learned recently was “that my breath is very helpful when I want to relax.”
How might our country be different if we greeted everyone we meet by honoring the greatness within them? The practice of honoring greatness within ourselves and others, borrowed from the Tibetan greeting Tashi Deleh, is the first Key to Mindfulness in the SHINE program.
Over the past ten years, ElderSHINE has been the source of much joy and connection for a group of low-income elders living in East Baltimore. This is how one ElderSHINE participant describes her experience: “You know I’d be fit to be tied if I missed my SHINE group! It’s my joy. It makes me a better person towards other people.”
