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Category Archive: Mind your mind

Meet Finn Bruun, Danish Furniture Craftsman

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Danish furniture has come to symbolise the almost lost world of fine craftsmanship, where making a chair completely by hand is not out of the question, but considered something to aspire to.

Maria Papasergi April 24, 2019 Mind your mind, Nature, Travel

Woohoo to no internet connection in Whroo

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Got to sneak away last weekend for some camping, two hours north of Melbourne, to an abandoned ‘ghost’ gold mining town called ‘Whroo’ and the best bit was there was no internet available!

Belinda April 6, 2019 Mind your mind, Nature, Travel

Slow, Slow Coffee on Ogasawara

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Japan is a country not usually thought of as devoted to the notion of ‘Slow’. But in fact it is an intrinsic part of life, an internal concept applied to the everyday, contemplative meditation found by watching trees, flowers, hiking, even walking the streets.

Maria Papasergi April 6, 2019 Mind your mind, Travel

Gobbet: The mornings were always the same, brilliant blue

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“Then the shadows moved sideways, shifting the sunshine inch by inch from the terrace, and the lizards disappeared, and the valley deepened and darkened back into color and the hills cooled and hardened into scarred contours of ocher and crimson, and it was evening – another day which Chamberlain and I had wasted.”

Matt Green March 21, 2019 Art & Literature, Gobbets, Mind your mind

Peace among the small things, too

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Hunting around among the small things for something interesting is a great way of switching off from the everyday. The gentle focus required to find these treasures is a wonderful antidote to the often mentally tiring demands of modern life, not to mention a great way of learning about your local flora and fauna.

Matt Green March 19, 2019 Melbourne, Mind your mind, Nature

Look up!

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Recently I’ve been practicing meditation. One of the exercises involves being ‘present’ for a few minutes in every […]

Matt Green January 7, 2019 Melbourne, Mind your mind

Why

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Sometimes it helps to put on the brakes, or at least be very conscious of activities we do, whatever they are, training ourselves to focus on the acts of seeing, smelling, hearing… being aware of being.

Matt Green November 1, 2018 About, Mind your mind, Nature

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