The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 91

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. A wet and windy morning after a fierce day and night yesterday of thunder, lightning and torrential rain and sometimes there can be a beauty in this type of weather if you have time to experience and look through it. I accept it is difficult for everyone but we must always have open eyes and mind for beautiful experiences and in a way this was one of such but beautiful experiences always come and go quite fast and always afterwards there is an undercurrent of peace. A special peace, almost palpable and at other times it is like a distant melody. But again this experience can be different for everyone. You have to have peace in your mind to appreciate any experience pleasant or otherwise. People sometimes say to me when I give a talk on mindfulness that they would love to have “what you have, can you show me how to get it?”. My reply was immediate – “you have it already you just can’t feel it because your mind is making too much noise”. We must declutter our minds and be aware of the world around us and all its beauty even if it is a thunderstorm!

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other and wear that smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick