With our modern lives and the associated hectic pace of living to point of the stimulus we experience daily, the need to foster inner peace and tranquility grows perpetually.
Watching fun old Hollywood films like Desk Set and recent stellar The Imitation Game demonstrate how far we have come with technology and the experience of the world and the universe we have from it. Moving from a massive room-sized slow moving first design for a computer to half-room scale computer then to the Personal Computers and now hand held in our very phones, the universe and how we take it in has changed.
Our lives are phenomenally stress filled and we are all over stimulated with all of that.
Enter, The 5-Minutes Mindfulness Journal. Noah Rasheta understands we have frenetically busy modern lives.
He doesn’t present us with a guide to Inner Tranquility which requires a Silent Meditation Weekend-long Retreat before we start to experience a difference.
Instead, he’s put together a guide chunked down into manageable increments of just 5 minutes a day.
We could all manage that, now can’t we?
Even if we have to sneak it into the bathroom with us just to get 5 minutes to ourselves, we can all carve out just 5 minutes in our days devoted to Tranquility cultivation.
The journal is broken out into 8 sections, each focusing on a different theme to foster our inner peace:
- You Are Not Your Thoughts
- Your Inner Narrator
- Befriending Your Inner Narrator
- Finding Peace in the Struggle
- Self-Acceptance (I raced right over here to investigate first!)
- Gratitude
- Cultivating Loving-kindness
- Further Reading for Your Mindfulness Journey
Each section starts with a single beautiful page devoted to 1 inspiring quotation related to the segment. The publisher uses lovely slightly inspiring stock illustrations which inspire us to invite the creative part of the brain to engage while still keeping our 2 feet firmly planted on solid ground.
Most of the pages of each module contains the 5-Minute daily thought assignment followed by 1 page of lines to write your responses onto.
It is not the most in depth guide. But to have done that would have countermanded the very premise for this simple and quite simply beautiful journal. It’s quite lovely and I highly recommend it.
The book itself is a physical scale to foster intimacy with your journal. The size means you could carry it with you and easily tuck it into your tote bag or purse. Bring yours with you to pull out when you find yourself in a beautiful location.
The very act of carrying it with you invites your creative mind and RAS – Reticular Activating System to be on the lookout for and seek out such lovely locations so you have tranquil scenery in which to reflect.
The journal is lovely and would make a lovely gift.
I received a free copy of the Journal from the publisher for an honest review.