What does it mean to do something with love?
It need not always be about grand gestures and dramatic expressions. Rather, it can be grounded in the quiet rhythms of our daily life — the way we wash a cup, fold a shirt, or pass the butter across the table.
When we approach everyday actions with awareness, gentleness, patience, and care, they become small acts of reverence.
To do something with love is first and foremost to pay attention.
Not with the detached gaze of analysis, but with the presence of a warm, open heart.
When we meet each moment with heart, our movements slow, our breath deepens.
The mechanical gives way to mindful, and the ordinary begins to shine.
Doing everything with love and heart is not an act to master or perfect, but a thoughtful way of being — an invitation to infuse awareness in all that we do.
To move, to rest, to speak, to listen, to observe, to breath — with wholehearted attention.
And perhaps in doing so, we touch the depth of existence and awaken to the life that has always been here.
In this Take A Pause session recorded on 6 July 2025, the TAP community practiced attending to their body and breath with love and heart.
We closed the meditation by sharing the poem, The Forgotten Corners, by Jeff Foster.
Meditation Begins: 10:02
Reading Begins: 27:49
Meditation Duration: 18 minutes
Let Yourself Be Very, Very Bored
When I am guiding the body scan meditation during a mindfulness session, I tend to repeat the same phrases over and over:
