A Wealth Bringing Mindfulness Practice Inspired By Poet William Wordsworth
It’s lovely to treat yourself from time to time. Maybe for you that’s a hot bath, a speciality coffee, a scented candle or a lush new outfit perhaps.
But not all self care treats require a trip to the shops. For todays post I’d love for us to consider a new type of wealth bringing mindfulness activity: a poetry infused self care practice inspired by the poet William Wordsworth.
Let’s get into it!
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lie
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
