The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary 317
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 27 of our latest lock down. This morning the neighbourhood is cold with the winter freeze but soon we will experience the death of winter and the birth of spring, but also this morning in Ballinwillin we mourn the death and passing of Joe Mulcahy our neighbour, a legend in the music business and a founding member of the famous Maurice Mulcahy Band. A band that gave huge enjoyment to thousands of people worldwide. This morning our prayers are with his family, friends and neighbours. Now destiny calls Joe to a place of music where his trumpet will sound again for all our spiritual enjoyment, where his heart will always remain generous, all heavenly doors will open to his musical light as you now quietly befriend your death and you have no need to fear. You are among your own orchestra in the big band with your pure white suit you are now equal to your destiny and nearer to Earths heart. Rest in peace Joe. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 106
We have done 105 days of lock down and now it is our first day of a new freedom and I wish you all the very best in health and life and all things near and dear to you. So this morning your early morning thoughts will be anxious until you relax. Take a deep breath and meditate and be mindful of your new free world.
Well, well, well. We have done 105 days of lock down and now it is our first day of a new freedom and I wish you all the very best in health and life and all things near and dear to you. So this morning your early morning thoughts will be anxious until you relax. Take a deep breath and meditate and be mindful of your new free world. Say a few simple prayers or some warm thoughts to people near and dear to you then suddenly your day will brighten and feel more friendly. Anxiety stems from asking the wrong questions. We ask ourselves time and time again if such a thing happens how will I handle it but the real question is whether you can cope with whatever happens so remember the 10 short simple little words “if it is to be it is up to me”. Very few people doubt the quality, indeed the beauty of the messages as a people of faith we can carry. The big question for us all today is how well do we carry it?
Today can be the first day of our new life. Remember these 10 little words and continue to pray, bless and send healings to each other and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 105
Day 105 of lock down and it is the last and final day. I hope and pray it is. Today being Sunday, a holy day and rest day is the perfect way to end lock down. In a mindful, meditative and thankful way that we are emerging.
Day 105 of lock down and it is the last and final day. I hope and pray it is. Today being Sunday, a holy day and rest day is the perfect way to end lock down. In a mindful, meditative and thankful way that we are emerging. Some of us are emerging unscathed from a family point of view, others have suffered sad and deep loss of loved ones and we pray for you today. Others have lost jobs, lost businesses and many have suffered mental health issues. But now on this Sunday June 28th we must prepare to take our first step into the world. We must believe in the new world. One of the biggest barriers to achieving our true potential is the huge collection of negative beliefs we have built up in our minds over the years and especially during this pandemic. Our beliefs about certain events help us cause how we feel and because most of us are unaware of them we allow them to limit our potential for nearly all our lives. Beliefs can change the way we act, feel and think so from today onwards let us pray that we will change our belief going into the future. It will not change the past but it can change the future. It is never too late to be what you might have been. Continue to pray for the health of our nation. Continue to heal and bless each other and have a lovely peaceful, mindful Sunday and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 104
So today I want you all to be totally present in the NOW no matter your task, situation or problem. Focus on the now. Focus on your breath and repeat these amazing words “if it is to be it is up to me!”. Why worry over the future? The present is all we have.
Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on this damp Saturday morning. A busy morning so far, deliveries to Neighbour Food commenced around 4am and back here around 11.30am, now doing my blog and then off farming for the day, moving deer and wild boar to fresh pastures and the goats also need new roughage, all in a days work but I am very happy, very mindful and very peaceful in myself and I am completely immersed in the now as I complete each task. So today I want you all to be totally present in the NOW no matter your task, situation or problem. Focus on the now. Focus on your breath and repeat these amazing words “if it is to be it is up to me!”. Why worry over the future? The present is all we have. The future will soon be present and the present will soon be past. Isn’t there a lot of wisdom in those words? The past is history, the future is mystery. We always have a choice. We can be happy now in the present moment or we can choose to be happy “when” or “if”. It is always our choice. We live at the foothills of the beautiful Galtee mountains and I often say to people “it is not the mountains we conquer but ourselves and enjoy the climb”
Continue to pray, bless and send healing to each other.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 103
Today we are getting all prepared with the relevant cleaning and sanatising, signs, etc. at all relative stations and all our team have undergone the relevant training guidelines but as a team we are very excited at this announcement because we have really been missing our guests at Ballinwillin House and now we can look forward once this lockdown is over.
Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. Last evening our Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced that yes it is official, we are able to open op our business again with the relevant restrictions of course. So today we are getting all prepared with the relevant cleaning and sanatising, signs, etc. at all relative stations and all our team have undergone the relevant training guidelines but as a team we are very excited at this announcement because we have really been missing our guests at Ballinwillin House and now we can look forward once this lockdown is over. The question that I am asking myself and you out there is “how do we put our lives back together again” Can I reassure you that it is always possible to put ourselves back together again and we have all done it many times before but we must have a purpose in life and with purpose you can thrive and if you practice the following 10 little words it is amazing what results you will achieve. IF. IT. IS. TO. BE. IT. IS. UP. TO. ME. So start now repeating these amazing little words and begin putting our lives, livelihoods and businesses back together again and more importantly our families and through prayer and healing and blessings we will all rise together again just like the tide. Wear that smile and have a lovely mindful, peaceful and fruitful Friday.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 102
I will be spending a lot of my time on retreat on the farm and in the gardens where I plan to retreat and reconnect with nature. I will also be opening up for you to come on retreat and join with me to celebrate and join in thanksgiving for our survival during this very trying time.
Good morning everyone and welcome to Ballinwillin House Farm on day 102 of lock down on the farm, gardens and B+B. Today is St. Johns Day. On Monday next, June 29th, we hope to open up again for business on a limited manner until we see how things go and during that week I will be spending a lot of my time on retreat on the farm and in the gardens where I plan to retreat and reconnect with nature. I will also be opening up for you to come on retreat and join with me to celebrate and join in thanksgiving for our survival during this very trying time. In one way it is easy to retreat in lock down because you don’t have much distractions but it is another challenge to go on retreat when you are free to do many other things in your life. So now let us call for a new life awakening and to call out for a new freedom so that your heart may know the patience that can draw infinity from our limitations. May we allow time to give way to a deeper generosity so that from this day forward we will always feel a new spring time and may all that holds you fall from its hungry ledge into the second surge of your heart.
Continue to pray, bless and heal each other and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 101
Each new beginning always directs us towards that new frontier and that is why we must reach for guidance, blessings and prayer. In our nervousness and confusion, fear and uncertainty we call upon invisible structures of original kindness to come to our assistance and open pathways of possibilities by refreshing and activating in us our invisible and untapped potential.
Good morning everyone and welcome to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on day 101 of lock down. It is difficult to believe that we are entering another era of 100 days and I hope and pray we as a nation can progress out of this pandemic in a mindful and healthy manner. Well, things are very different at Ballinwillin House today as our two beautiful grandchildren Ada and JJ left us yesterday evening for their home in Leixlip as their crèche has re-opened and Mammy and Daddy are back at work. We miss them awfully but they, like all of us, must have their own life but having them for the past 100 days was fabulous and beautiful. For all of us it is a new beginning. Each new beginning always directs us towards that new frontier and that is why we must reach for guidance, blessings and prayer. In our nervousness and confusion, fear and uncertainty we call upon invisible structures of original kindness to come to our assistance and open pathways of possibilities by refreshing and activating in us our invisible and untapped potential. But when we bless and pray, we work from a place of inner vision clearer than our hearts and brighter than our minds. It is then that we can “harvest” the wisdom and ability that is dormant in us and from today onwards we can harvest the new and hidden gifts in us all. So continue to pray for a new beginning for us all and bless and send healing to each other and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 100
I initially started doing Facebook lives on a weekly basis but when lockdown was announced I decided I would do one every day to record what was happening on the farm and gardens and what was going on in my mind and family circumstances, initially we as a family and a team were in absolute turmoil with our business shut down and no income and no visible income initially but we didn’t sit down and do nothing
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin Farm and gardens. Today is really a milestone in Covid19’s history. I initially started doing Facebook lives on a weekly basis but when lockdown was announced I decided I would do one every day to record what was happening on the farm and gardens and what was going on in my mind and family circumstances, initially we as a family and a team were in absolute turmoil with our business shut down and no income and no visible income initially but we didn’t sit down and do nothing. After about 40 days planning we organised to get set up with Neighbour Food markets and slowly but surely we began to do business again, nothing major but enough for survival until this pandemic ends. The big learning curve here was that everyone was in much the same situation and if not for the support of family and the team we would not have survived. So I am forever grateful to all concerned but most importantly it was a time for “big decisions”. We all know now that this came out of nowhere. We all know now that again and again we cannot predict what life may bring to us, the time of mind is hard to read. We still don’t know what form this pandemic will finally take but we must have the courage to walk out again into the unknown and trust again that our new found life will be richer and that we will lose nothing but what has already died. Perhaps the old life had lost some of its soul or the old life where once we belonged calls nothing alive in us anymore. We must come alive now and live to the full in our new world with prayers, blessings and healings and ask ourselves “are we going to be the better people now”
Continue to wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 99
We must rebuild, renew and regrow and above all we must be prepared to change no matter what age we are. To change is one of the greatest dreams of every heart, to change the limitations, the sameness, the pain, for too often we look back on our old patterns of behaviour or on the kind of decisions we make repeatedly make and yet more often than not they fail to serve us well. We must now aim for a new and more meaningful way of life and a more mindful, peaceful pathway to our new life.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. Day 99 since our business closed down but now we are only a week away from opening up for business again and I can’t tell you how much we are looking forward to opening up once lock down is over. We really really miss our guests and the company we share here together. So one week to go and we will be offering one nights free bed and breakfast to the winner of our competition to reopen and also we are offering a wild boar BBQ pack with a bottle of bubbly and some beautiful, homemade chocolate brownies from Praline here in Mitchelstown to mark “100 days of my lock down blogs” so celebrations all round and why not? We are living in a time which may be timeless, we don’t know, but we must be positive and get on with our new life because the world as we knew it is gone and gone forever. We must rebuild, renew and regrow and above all we must be prepared to change no matter what age we are. To change is one of the greatest dreams of every heart, to change the limitations, the sameness, the pain, for too often we look back on our old patterns of behavour or on the kind of decisions we make repeatedly make and yet more often than not they fail to serve us well. We must now aim for a new and more meaningful way of life and a more mindful, peaceful pathway to our new life. So today let us all ask ourselves, “are we ready to change?” Please answer yes!
Continue to pray, bless and send healing to each other.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 98
The longer I live the more of his presence is laid down in my memory and his gentleness towards his family drew no attention to itself and he always filled our home with a climate of warmth, kindness and each of us were left free to seek our own direction in life but with his guidance. His presence was always like a sheltering oak tree where our fledgling hearts could shelter. Wen we worked in the fields you could sense the earth was able to trust his hands as we tilled the soil together.
Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on this wet and windy Sunday morning and today is Fathers Day. My dad passed away on March 5th 2004 but no matter how life changes and no matter what I do a special place within my heart is always lest for him and him only. He was a very pleasant, great man powerfully strong and an unbelievable worker and his work ethic will always be imprinted in my mind but try as I may I could never achieve his level of persistent endurance. The longer I live the more of his presence is laid down in my memory and his gentleness towards his family drew no attention to itself and he always filled our home with a climate of warmth, kindness and each of us were left free to seek our own direction in life but with his guidance. His presence was always like a sheltering oak tree where our fledgling hearts could shelter. Wen we worked in the fields you could sense the earth was able to trust his hands as we tilled the soil together. In those bye gone days there were many things we could have said but words never wanted to name them and perhaps a word that is quietly sensed across the air in another heart became the inner companion to one’s own unknown and as the song goes “I miss you my old man” but I know and feel your spirit sheltering over us all here in Ballinwillin and again in the morning we will walk to Thinking Path together.
Continue to remember your father on this day and pray. Bless and heal each other and smile that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 97
A new beginning, a time of renewal and a celebration of the sun whose power is needed for Mother Earth and for all of us to survive and thrive and survive we will! It should also remind us of the light that exists and shines within all of us. It is also a time for opening ourselves up to the light and letting it uplift and inspire us.
Good afternoon everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on this blistering day at the foothills of the beautiful and wild Galtee mountains. Today I am coming to you because of many reasons but mainly in the morning I was delivering to the wonderful Neighbour Food markets and then some farming and now that most of my work for this day is done I am going to celebrate this evening the Summer Solstice. In my childhood days in West Limerick this was always a special time and much celebrated as it marks the midpoint of the year and the beginning of summer and the longest day of the year and my parents explained it was all about embracing the sun and its electrifying power. It was explained to us as we were all gathered round that “it was always a time for new beginnings” and by God do we need a new beginning now as our great little island is struggling to emerge from this pandemic. A new beginning, a time of renewal and a celebration of the sun whose power is needed for Mother Earth and for all of us to survive and thrive and survive we will! It should also remind us of the light that exists and shines within all of us. It is also a time for opening ourselves up to the light and letting it uplift and inspire us. What I recommend to all of you on this special day is to set your intentions for the year ahead, be very focused on the now, inhale the power of the sun, focus on your breath and meditate on these powerful moments and let the life force energy from the sun beam you up. Harness the power of this years Summer Solstice because we need it like we never did before and it wont let us down.
Continue to pray also and send blessings and healings to each other like never before and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 96
I cannot stop thinking of the family of Detective Garda Horkan in Mayo this morning, a man who lost his life in the line of duty as a police man. He paid the ultimate price for our protection and safety with his life. So today I would like to ask you all to pray for his soul and spirit and for his family and friends as they weep their loss, no longer they will look towards each other in this life but the spiritual presence will always guard over us.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. A nice mild morning here and all peaceful but I cannot stop thinking of the family of Detective Garda Horkan in Mayo this morning, a man who lost his life in the line of duty as a police man. He paid the ultimate price for our protection and safety with his life. So today I would like to ask you all to pray for his soul and spirit and for his family and friends as they weep their loss, no longer they will look towards each other in this life but the spiritual presence will always guard over us. The same applies to all the people who have lost loved ones during this pandemic. Let us all pray today that the distance of all their names will dwell inside the rhythm of breath and as close to us as we are to ourselves. Though we cannot see you with our outward gaze we know deeply that our souls gaze is upon your face and smiling back to us from within and may this dark grief flower with hope in every heart that loves you.
So continue to pray, bless and send healing to each other and keep that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 95
Healing through prayer benefits those who suffer from fear, anxiety and depression. Any persons state of mind and emotional issues have physical aspects too. Both our physical body and our state of mind continually need healing and prayer from the depth of our souls. The results can be phenomenal
Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on day 95 where our hopes and prayers are rising and we are emerging slowly and successfully from this awful plague that has been suffered upon us. This morning as I do every morning, I sent out healing to you all and especially to people who request it and you know we all have this power to heal and bless each other as we send out the waves powerfully to the people in need. Healing through prayer benefits those who suffer from fear, anxiety and depression. Any persons state of mind and emotional issues have physical aspects too. Both our physical body and our state of mind continually need healing and prayer from the depth of our souls. The results can be phenomenal and I have heard back from many, many people who have made requests, especially in the area of mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. We all need strength to carry on in life but wouldn’t it be a wonderful feeling every day if we believed that there are people out there praying and healing for us also. You know what trying to push a car to start is like and then when others come along to help you push the car if makes a difference doesn’t it, now just do it.
Continue to pray, bless and send healing to each other and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 94
I could not but think this morning when I was doing my early meditation about the beauty surrounding me in the gardens and many of you may think that beautiful things are far too expensive for most of us to purchase but what occurred to me early was that the beauty of creation and this garden and all its beautiful plants and trees is there for all of us, and free for the taking.
Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. It is a nice morning here this morning, calm and a little misty. I could not but think this morning when I was doing my early meditation about the beauty surrounding me in the gardens and many of you may think that beautiful things are far too expensive for most of us to purchase but what occurred to me early was that the beauty of creation and this garden and all its beautiful plants and trees is there for all of us, and free for the taking. We always know in our hearts what is best for us but often we don’t want to hear it and so we don’t listen to it. Our hearts tell us that we are too busy to think about taking a breath so today why not take a little time out and take time to experience the beauty all around you. Consult with your inner self and listen to your heart of hearts for it is here that we will find the source of wisdom.
Continue to pray, bless and send healing to each other and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 93
I take great solace from the gardens at Ballinwillin House which I have devoted to Mindfulness. These gardens I have built and created with my own bare hands and that gives me great joy and solace when I come and rest there.
Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. 93 days of changing experiences and these experiences we feel almost on an hourly basis at Ballinwillin House in what can only be described as very challenging times for everyone right across the world. I take great solace from the gardens at Ballinwillin House which I have devoted to Mindfulness. These gardens I have built and created with my own bare hands and that gives me great joy and solace when I come and rest there. So this morning I would like to discuss “creativity” with you. Creativity is a way of living that is open to us all because it awakens the spirit within us. In school and in life we are taught the opposite “that creativity is only for the elitist few”. Of course in every generation there are some very especially talented artists whose works bring great pleasure and joy. But if we put these great artists on a pedestal to the “exclusion” of everyone else we can “destroy” the creative gifts in the rest of us. If we do that we “destroy” our “validity” as a people and more especially on island people famous for our “creativity”. Not every artist is a special kind of person “but every person is a special kind of artist”. So for today, nurture your special kind of creativity and pray for its development in the quiet garden of your life and continue to bless and heal each other and wear your lovely smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 92
I nearly got a heart attack” firstly I had to have a second take? Was I seeing something or was it real? It was real! It was our youngest daughter, our baby, arrived home safely from Abu Dhabi where she is teaching. We thought we would not see her this year at all due to restrictions
Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. 92 days of life changing experiences from family to business, from sadness to joy and yesterday when I drove into the yard from outside the farm I nearly got a heart attack” firstly I had to have a second take? Was I seeing something or was it real? It was real! It was our youngest daughter, our baby, arrived home safely from Abu Dhabi where she is teaching. We thought we would not see her this year at all due to restrictions of travel etc but thank God she was allowed travel home along with her work colleagues and now she must self- isolate for 14 days but it was magic, amazing and a beautiful surprise arranged by her and her brother John. Nobody else knew it was happening. My heart is still beating loudly and it just goes to show that even in these trying and tough times there can be moments of indescribable joy which can set the heart free and immediately all intentions and worries stop and this joy that I experienced yesterday is still inside my heart and will be remembered forever. Such experiences reawaken the wonder in your life. The years have given me many gifts but such gifts my efforts could never earn and isn’t it wonderful to have the health to enjoy this mind, family to mirror mystery that unfolded before my eyes yesterday. Now I would like to send and spread the joy in my heart to all of you out there.
Continue to pray, bless and heal each other and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 91
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!
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
The Mindful Farmer Daily Diary Day 90
I would like to discuss with you the subject of “being/living in the now”. It is something I try very hard to do each minute of each hour of each day but it can be difficult. We all have roving, fast travelling minds which causes our thoughts to become compulsive and not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction and many of us don’t realise it because almost all of us are suffering from it and so it is considered normal.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on day 90 if another world experience. On this cold June morning I would like to discuss with you the subject of “being/living in the now”. It is something I try very hard to do each minute of each hour of each day but it can be difficult. We all have roving, fast travelling minds which causes our thoughts to become compulsive and not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction and many of us don’t realise it because almost all of us are suffering from it and so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents us from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from the “being” and the “now” but more serious than that, it also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering on the inside and a picture of fake glass on the outside. We all like to categorize and compare what I suggest we must do is to find ourselves resting in the oceanic depth of the here and now for it is here we find our “true self”. So for today, take a little time out and shut out the world as only you and now matter, rest mindfully for a while and in the breath. Continue to pray, bless and heal each other and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmer Daily Diary Day 89
So when I woke up this morning I gave thanks for the arrival of a new dawn, safely and in good health. I look around me. I give thanks for the eyes to see the beauty around me and all its beauty. I give thanks for the gift of a mind clear enough to feel at home on this beautiful farm at the foothills of the Galtee mountains.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. Day 89 in dealing with Covid19. I think it is fair to say that we Irish people are dealing with this pandemic well. We have been responsible, we have followed guidelines and slowly, slowly we are making our way home to real life again. Today I am going to talk to you about “wakening”. So when I woke up this morning I gave thanks for the arrival of a new dawn, safely and in good health. I look around me. I give thanks for the eyes to see the beauty around me and all its beauty. I give thanks for the gift of a mind clear enough to feel at home on this beautiful farm at the foothills of the Galtee mountains. I give thanks for my life and the enrichment of it by all the wonderful people around me and sheltering me from the harsh winds of life. I give thanks for the waves of possibility that the breaking of a new dawn will bring and now I just wait, rest and be mindful for any furtherings of joy this new day will bring and I will be ready to embrace it with wide open arms. So to all of you out there be conscious of your waking every day and do so slowly and mindfully and continue to pray, bless and heal each other and wear that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 88
we must keep our mind bright and this is not just the optimist in me, it is very important to let that bright light shine in through our heads and down through our bodies and keep positive and that in turn will keep you healthy.
Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on day 88 of lock down.
The weather has changed, it is cold and damp here this morning but always on such mornings we must keep our mind bright and this is not just the optimist in me, it is very important to let that bright light shine in through our heads and down through our bodies and keep positive and that in turn will keep you healthy. It is also important to pray to God for help to control your mind for He will bless you with life, peace and light through your body. We cannot let fear dissipate our energy as we all know on a daily basis the battle for control of our minds is fierce and continual worrying makes us very vulnerable. We must therefore continue to focus on our breathing and our prayers to keep us, our families, friends and work colleagues happy and healthy because they are people that band us together in life and in our community no matter how small this community is. So my message to you today from The Mindful Farmer is stay bright, stay healthy and continue to mindfully pray, bless and heal each other and keep that smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 87
The Mindful Farmer is in a very grateful frame of mind, grateful for the dry weather to enable us to do the harvest, grateful to all the people who have helped along the way from the person who mowed it, turned it twice daily for 5 days (Chris), the man who rolled and baled it and all the lads who helped draw it in until late last night.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on day 87 of a new and different world. We were working very late last night drawing in our baled hay into the barn and we have a little bit more to do this morning and The Mindful Farmer is in a very grateful frame of mind, grateful for the dry weather to enable us to do the harvest, grateful to all the people who have helped along the way from the person who mowed it, turned it twice daily for 5 days (Chris), the man who rolled and baled it and all the lads who helped draw it in until late last night. It was just like the old days back in West Limerick with plenty of people helping but the machinery nowadays can do in a week what took us 8 weeks back then. It is still a very nostalgic time for me and the smell of fresh sweet scented meadow hay is never far away from my nostrils and happy dreams and thoughts. So this morning I am going to mindfully pray for all these people who helped me so generously in the past week and also thank Mother Earth for producing the crop and offers annual ground for harvest and thank her also for the gift of life so that we can walk on her soil in the shade of the glistening galaxies. Let us salute her silence and her certainty and her sublime stillness and let her dreams fill all our hearts with joy. Bless our harvest and the harvest of all farmers and thank God and the humility of Mother Earth. It transfigures all. My heart is joyous and full.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick