50+ community Check-in April 12-15, 2021
A wonderful Monday to everyone. I hope you’re all doing okay 
Notice small things 
Repetitive tasks are on our schedules every day. Our daily routines simply include more little tasks than big things. However, often people focus on the big thing to happen, like for example going on vacation or getting a job. This is of course important and gives people something to look forward to but it is not helpful when all our energy is directed to the big thing to happen. Most of our lives though happen in that intervening time. So when we are too much focussed on something to happen in future we are robbing ourselves of the opportunity to be present and enjoy the now, the small things, the repetitive tasks we have to do on a daily basis.
Today, I like to invite everyone to do one repetitive task very mindfully.
Example: Washing the dishes or cleaning the floor
Observe the underlying calmness of your strokes when washing the plate or moving the brush.
Notice the smell of the soap
Notice the small soap bubble forming
Please come back here and share with us your experience about the task you have chosen and whether you noticed a difference in doing this task now than before?
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I have been mindful of soap lather and fragrance ever since the shutdown... Washing hands frequently gives me such pleasure to see so much soapy layer and the heady Arora soothing my senses... Ahhhhaaa makes all the difference. 😊
@RideaRainbow
It's good to be mindful of soap lather and fragrance to avoid that your skin ph-value is unnecessarily destroyed.
Got out earlier to feed the horses. Noticed how they all stretched their back legs - looked lke they were waking up.
How wonderful barn at! 💚
@barncat
It's amazing how mindful animals are, like with stretching after waking up to avoid injuries 
, guess we can learn a lot from them.
Hello all. This is my first post; I just created an account last week. Still trying to learn how 7 Cups works. I am glad I found a 50+ community.
Welcome Boo! Glad you found us in here.
Welcome Boo
This is probably silly, but each time I get to, and use different hand sanitizers, whether at home 🏡, or at a medical appointment, I really take my time, feel how different each one is, feel it going all around and over my hands and wrists, and then notice how they each feel so different when they dry and how long each one takes to dry. Some dry with a more normal feeling and some are more sticky when they dry. As for the smell I don't know as the medication over the years cause me to lose my smell over 15 years ago so I'm not sure about that and maybe y'all might know about all these smells of these things.
@Amelia2324
I don't think it's silly. It's observant.
@amiablePeace77
When I started doing this, the Mindful Washing Up, it was because I realised that I was resenting men. My thoughts were that men never do any of the housework. But one day I saw this mind worm for what it was. It couldn't possibly be true. It was a privilege to have dishes to actually wash. So I didn't have to hunt down banana leaves every day to eat off.
That day, I concentrated on appreciating the feel of the water on my hands, and the froth, how smooth the porcelain was. That these were my mother's dishes from her wedding day. I still had them. They were not all lost or broken. I had trees in the back yard to look at while I washed. I had birds to listen to. Since then, I have an epiphany about life every day while I stand at the sink, and mindfully to the washing up.
Thanks for reading.
Cool share
@Larysa
You came to a great awareness, it's our choice how we see something, either like an unpleasant chore or like something we are actually grateful for being able to do.
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