Some of us ‘spiritual types’ often wish we could spend more time at a quiet retreat. Maybe even that we’d gone to India to train when we were younger. Yet there’s no better place to train than in our own families. All the ingredients are here—love, commitment, and never-ending challenges! All we lack is a certain trust in knowing how to do it. A little ordinary mindfulness can be a huge help here.
The great gift of a mindfulness practice is that it reminds us over and over that whatever our reality is it can be better understood and more deeply appreciated. When we practice mindfulness it doesn’t take long before we begin to trust that the circumstances of our own lives work like teachers for us. This means we are, in a certain way, going to India or Tibet or Canterbury or Jerusalem or Mecca to train.
I plan to follow this theme over the next few weeks and welcome comments about your experience in ‘family’ spirituality.
