a warm hug that instantly comforts you that you’re not alone a soft and reassuring pat on the back that says, “It’s going to be alright” encouragement to be true to your heart and stay your course an affirmation that because you’re doing your best, life can get better someone cares how you feel you… Continue reading Kindness feels like…
Peace is contagious. We have the power to choose peace. In our thoughts, actions and interactions. When everything around us seems to be upside down and we're struggling with personal change, one thing we have immediate control over is ourselves! Find time to get quiet and focus on the peace there. Then try to bring it with us in whatever we're doing throughout the day.
When I first embraced awareness in my twenties, I was bombarded with a long-list of behaviors and corresponding attitudes I felt needed attention. I was like a child in a candy store. "I want this, and this and this, and not that, or that, and definitely not that!" My energy was also like a child… Continue reading Gathering the Scattered Thoughts
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. Lawrence G. Lovasik
I’m putting a hold on my follow up blog to last weeks blog Getting Comfortable With Our Thoughts which will share suggestions of what to do with our journaled thoughts. Today, I believe it's more important to address the rise of concern and helplessness that's spreading throughout the world and hope to ease and diffuse… Continue reading Hanging On When the World Turns Upside Down
Nobody said life was easy. Life is good. But life isn’t easy. In our youth we don’t understand the natural law of compounding. If we did, we may have paid closer attention to our decisions and perhaps listened more to our elders. But no, youth is king, and we knew better. Just watch us prove… Continue reading Trying To Save Someone Who Doesn’t Want To Save Themselves
Many people consider self-care to be about pampering but it’s more than aesthetic body care at a spa. It’s taking care of ALL of you as a whole in some surprisingly simple ways. Self-care is a life-long commitment that is most effective when repeated in even the smallest amount on a daily basis. It’s giving… Continue reading How Deep Breaths are a Powerful Self-Care Practice
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” ~Paramahansa Yogananda I’m a habitual smiler. I’ve always been. As a child. A teen. A young adult. It’s just me. The thing is, smiling has always felt good. It raises good feelings… Continue reading A Smile Is Contagious
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. ~ Shel Silverstein Hugs feel good. Oh, so very good! No matter our age, we all… Continue reading I Could Really Go for a Hug
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