Mindful Living

Hello Mindfulness Ladies!

Sometimes it is so hard for me to focus my mind on one thing at night. I sit down to read a book, and then I need to look up a word on my phone, and then before you know it I am deep in the albums of my phone from seven months ago.

Sometimes reading books at night becomes overstimulating for me after a certain point, for this reason. 20 minutes in I'm looking up words left and right, looking up the author, reading their bio, reading where they went to college...sometimes I need something that engages more than one of my senses, so that I can just sit there and be fed the information without having to think too hard about it.

(...something that isn't Netflix. For me, Netflix is a ticket to spending way too many nights up past my bedtime for no good reason besides short-lived emotional satisfaction.)

So I would like to share with you all one of my favorite bed-time-activity alternatives:

...Ted Talks! Ted Talks are quick, thoughtful, and engaging. I always feel that I can learn a lot from them, and there are always fresh new topics to choose from.

In the coming weeks I would like to share with you my Ted Talk pick of the week, and maybe you can follow along and tune in alongside me!

Tonight, I was feeling inspired by the title that read: How Women in Rural India turned courage into capital.

I just finished reading the Defining Decade that Angelina had recommended earlier this summer. Meg Jay talks a lot about "capital", so it must have been on my mind.

Chetna Gala Sinha tells an inspiring story about how she and other women from her rural community in India established their own bank, and the challenges they needed to overcome in order to do so. It's a fabulous talk, I hope you take a few minutes to tune in! I hope to begin discussions each week on the topics we share, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Here is this week's video:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4QaViHAULQ
#Mindfullness


‏ — with Angelina Eimannsberger