Practice what you preach

Dátheangach/Bilingual

Ní shílim gur féidir leat aireachas a mhúineadh muna bhfuil tú á cleachtadh. Gach maidin bím ag canadh ar feadh 10 nóiméad, suím liom féin go ciúin ar feadh 20 nóiméad agus déanaim trí uair de EFT tapping. Leis an am ciúin seo bím in ann éisteacht le mo smaointe, mo chorp a mhothú agus tuigmháil ceart a fháil ar conas atá mé ag mothú.

I don’t think you can teach mindfulness without practicing it. Every morning I chant for 10 minutes, I meditate for 20 minutes and I do three rounds of EFT tapping. With this quiet time and space I am able to listen to my thoughts, my body and I get a real understanding as to how my body feels.

Mar thoradh ar seo, d’aithin mé ag deireadh na bliana seo caite go raibh rudaí le hathrú dom. Ní raibh a fhios agam cén cineál rudaí nó conas go n-athróidh siad ach thuig mé go raibh sé in am dom bogadh ar aghaidh, go fisiciúil. Ansin, ag deireadh mí Feabhra bheartaigh mé bogadh ar ais go Gaillimh.

As a result of this, I noticed at the end of last year that things were going to change for me. I didn’t know how or what was going to change but I did know that it was time for me to move on, physically. Then, at the end of February, I decided to move back to Galway.

Tá mé i mBéal Feirste beagnach 7 mbliana agus dá má rud é gur chas mé leis an Katie a bhog go Béal Feirste ar dtús amárach ar an sráid, ní bheadh aithne agam uirthi. D’athraigh mé go huile is go hiomlán le linn na blianta a chaith mé anseo agus beidh mé thar a bheith buíoch de na deiseanna athraithe a thug Béal Feirste dom go deo ach thuig mé ag an am sin, agus tuigim anois go bhfuil mé réidh le bogadh ar aghaidh.

I am in Belfast now for almost 7 years and if I met the Katie that moved to Belfast tomorrow on the street I wouldn’t recgonise her. I have changed so much during that years that I have spent here and I will be forever greatful to Belfast for the opportunities it has given me to change but I understood then and I understand now that it is time for me to move on.

Is as iarthar na tíre de m’athair agus chaith mé an-chuid ama ansin agus mé ag fás aníos agus ansin i ndiaidh na hollscoile bhog mé go Gaillimh ar feadh bliana. Nuair a d’imigh mé ón bpost ag an am sin, shíl mé go raibh post uaim agus dearfainn go raibh, agus sin a ghlac go Béal Feirste mé ach anois, tá an fharraige agus portaigh Conamara de mo ghlaoch ar ais. Tá mé ag rá le daoine gur bogadh anama atá ann agus gan an deis chiúin sin a bhíonn agam gach lá ní bheadh mé in ann éisteacht le m’anam agus na cogair chiúin a chloisteáil.

My dad is from the west of Ireland and I spent a lot of time there when I was growing up and then I moved to Galway for a year when I finished college. When I left the job I had at that time I thought that I needed a job and I probably did so I ended up in Belfast but now, the sea and the stony fields of Conamara ar calling me back. I am telling people that it is a soul move and without my morning practice of silence and ritual I wouldn’t have been able to hear the quiet whispers of my soul.