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JFT Beach 🇬🇧 🏊 🧘‍♂️'s avatar

Ironing as mindfulness - makes sense. Washing the dishes can be similar. I will try this next time I am ironing, which is pretty infrequent though! Thanks for sharing, I just subscribed.

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Ben Detalle's avatar

Washing dishes, sweeping the floor… I recently heard about a practice apparently common in Japan where people cut grass with scissors as a form of meditation. The thing about ironing is that I found myself thinking about all the people who participated in creating the garment. Who were they? Where did they live? What were their lives like? I found thinking about that kind of mind-blowing.

In any case, welcome to Seeking Wisdom — it’s great to have you!

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JFT Beach 🇬🇧 🏊 🧘‍♂️'s avatar

Cheers Ben. I cut some grass with scissors lately as one of my kids is very pro bug and wouldn’t let me use the lawn mower. It was hard going!

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