Comments on: Day 10 Ten Zen Seconds Blogtour stops at Riehlife:Eric Maisel on How Ten Zen Seconds Helps Foster and Maintain Connection http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/ Creating connections through the arts and across cultures Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dani http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Dani Thu, 10 May 2007 19:32:23 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/#comment-99 I've been criticized almost all my life for being scatter-brained. Then, about twenty years ago, I went to an inner works seminar, and when the subject of my "scatteredness" came up, the facilitator asked me if I'd ever allowed myself to be just that - scattered. What would happen if I did? Well, it happens to work very well for me to work on many things at one time, and I've learned to not only allow the process, but to welcome it. Ten Zen Seconds just guides me to transfer my attentions in a more seamless way, as Eric puts it. It gives me more consciousness of my own natural process. Nice angle on the process. Beautiful blog, Janet! Thanks to both of you for sharing your time, space, and insights. Peace ~ Dani I've been criticized almost all my life for being scatter-brained. Then, about twenty years ago, I went to an inner works seminar, and when the subject of my "scatteredness" came up, the facilitator asked me if I'd ever allowed myself to be just that - scattered. What would happen if I did? Well, it happens to work very well for me to work on many things at one time, and I've learned to not only allow the process, but to welcome it. Ten Zen Seconds just guides me to transfer my attentions in a more seamless way, as Eric puts it. It gives me more consciousness of my own natural process. Nice angle on the process. Beautiful blog, Janet! Thanks to both of you for sharing your time, space, and insights.
Peace ~ Dani

]]> By: Anne Marchand http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Anne Marchand Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:32:30 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/#comment-85 Thank you, Janet. This passage from Eric about demarcating “islands of mindfulness” throughout the day—this particular hour for our novel, this next hour for our business planning, this next hour for our blue-sky dreaming, and so on—we get in the excellent habit of effortlessly switching gears and “returning with strength” (incantation 12) is incredibly insightful and an excellent habit for artists. Anne Marchand "energetic and colorful abstract paintings with poetic connections to life" www.annemarchand.com Thank you, Janet. This passage from Eric about demarcating “islands of mindfulness” throughout the day—this particular hour for our novel, this next hour for our business planning, this next hour for our blue-sky dreaming, and so on—we get in the excellent habit of effortlessly switching gears and “returning with strength” (incantation 12) is incredibly insightful and an excellent habit for artists.
Anne Marchand
"energetic and colorful abstract paintings with poetic connections to life" http://www.annemarchand.com

]]> By: Melanie http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Melanie Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:40:17 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/#comment-82 Hi Janet, What an interesting interview. I really liked the parts about how TZS techniques can help us stay more centered with our children. Great stuff! Melanie Author of, "Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me? True Stories of New Motherhood" motherhood.booklocker.com Hi Janet,

What an interesting interview. I really liked the parts about how TZS techniques can help us stay more centered with our children. Great stuff!

Melanie
Author of, "Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me? True Stories of New Motherhood"
motherhood.booklocker.com

]]> By: Susan Gallacher-Turner http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Susan Gallacher-Turner Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:09:06 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/#comment-80 Janet, Great interview!! I especially liked the question on using the TZS to move between 'mediums' and tasks. I found it very insightful and helpful. Susan Janet,
Great interview!! I especially liked the question on using the TZS to move between 'mediums' and tasks. I found it very insightful and helpful.
Susan

]]> By: Ray and Bernadette http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Ray and Bernadette Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:21:50 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2007/04/26/day-10-ten-zen-seconds-blogtour-stops-at-riehlifeeric-maisel-on-how-ten-zen-seconds-helps-foster-and-maintain-connection/#comment-79 Janet, You and Eric touched on some great stuff. Eric’s answer regarding the use of Ten Zen Seconds in "...switching gears as seamlessly as I can ... without any drama or inner complaints" really hit home. Those of us actively involved in a variety of creative expressions can sometimes forget that we started the "plates spinning." And when the need to be present for an elderly parent (93) is added to the balancing act, the value in developing the ability to "switch gears seamlessly" is not soon forgotten. You beautifully exemplify the healing creativity offers when invited to merge with real life in your Creative Process with "SightLines - A Poet’s Diary." You express "... Putting together this poet’s diary has been a little like that. It’s a chronicle of my family and I picking up the puzzle pieces of our lives, studying them in light of Julia’s absence, and then looking where to place the next piece. Sometimes we get just the right fit. But, there are a pile of pieces still waiting to be sorted." Something we can all identify with! Great site. We will be back. Ray and Bernadette Publishers of "Bernadette’s Pages: An Intimate Crossroad," www.enlightenedink.com Janet, You and Eric touched on some great stuff. Eric’s answer regarding the use of Ten Zen Seconds in "...switching gears as seamlessly as I can ... without any drama or inner complaints" really hit home. Those of us actively involved in a variety of creative expressions can sometimes forget that we started the "plates spinning." And when the need to be present for an elderly parent (93) is added to the balancing act, the value in developing the ability to "switch gears seamlessly" is not soon forgotten.

You beautifully exemplify the healing creativity offers when invited to merge with real life in your Creative Process with "SightLines - A Poet’s Diary." You express "... Putting together this poet’s diary has been a little like that. It’s a chronicle of my family and I picking up the puzzle pieces of our lives, studying them in light of Julia’s absence, and then looking where to place the next piece. Sometimes we get just the right fit. But, there are a pile of pieces still waiting to be sorted." Something we can all identify with!

Great site. We will be back.

Ray and Bernadette
Publishers of "Bernadette’s Pages: An Intimate Crossroad," http://www.enlightenedink.com

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