Online bells and candles to keep us centred

There are two wonderful websites for people trying to establish the habit of mindfulness and focus on the interior aspect of living, whilst having to spend a lot of time on their personal computers.  I'm not sure how well they work on smart phones or tablets.  You do not have to download any software onto your computer for either of them.  Both sites are freely offered but accept donations for their work.

The first website allows you to set up a 'mindfulness' bell to ring either at random or at specific intervals.  The practice one is encouraged to adopt is (just like monks in a Tibetan monastery) to go about one's usual business, but then when the bell rings, to take three mindful breaths and regain a wider perspective of just what it is one is doing right now, right here.  To live in the real world of one's senses, rather than in one's virtual world of thoughts.

http://www.mindfulnessdc.org/bell/

The second website allows you to 'light a candle online'.  By following the instructions and clicking, you are invited to go through the same interior process as you would do in lighting a wax candle with a match.  It may sound trite; but if approached in the right manner it can be a moving experience.  What you get from it, as with so many things, is determined by what you put into it.

http://www.gratefulness.org/light-a-candle/