Mindful Doodles #119:
All stores say they will exchange an item, with terms and conditions. However, for smaller stores, like the neighborhood Mom and Pop stores, exchange can be tricky when they lack a variety of stock for you to exchange with.
Mindful Doodles is a series of comic/ cartoon drawn on assimilating stimuli that comes into my mind. My surrounding and environment are dynamic. As events happen, the stimuli enters my brain and I pay attention to them. I am not mentally disturbed as I pay due respect to each stimulus. I ponder upon how I would deal with the stimulus, to manage the situation. I try to discover what lesson the Universe bestows on me in this encounter. I write my discovery as my Mindful Thought of the Day.
Why be mindful? By paying time and attention to a disturbing stimulus, you deal with it. It ceases to be new and disruptive to you. You have released anxiety. You have greatly reduced your mental stress.
Mindful Thought of the Day:
Be mindful what you buy because you will have to exchange if it is not suitable.
Meditation for Conservation – Want Not, Waste Not
If we want a lot of things, then we may be wasting a lot of things too. We can’t finish using what we want, if the quantity is more than what we can consume within the expiry period. We should only purchase what we need to avoid wasting the materials when the expiry date reaches. Organic and manufactured resources are precious. Natural resources need time, energy and raw resources to nurture growth. When we throw away resources, we are harming our ecosystem by forcing it to accept the harmful waste products from decomposition. Decomposition releases carbon dioxide and other gases. Harmful gases contribute to the greenhouse effect as they form a layer in the atmosphere, which traps heat to earth. This increases global warming.
The decomposition or destruction of Manmade materials release harmful gases which destroy the ozone layer in earth’s stratosphere. With thinner ozone layers, harmful radiation reaches earth and affects living things. Radiation causes eye damage, skin cancer and harms the immune system in humans.
Meditation for Conservation (of resources)
We must think of ways to conserve resources as their decomposition releases harmful gases that consequentially deplete earth’s protective ozone layer. We can buy less, use as needed and save resources. Subsequently, we generate less waste and cause less damage to the ozone layer.