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My Video Confession
You May Not Know This about Me … but You Should Know Let me share an example with you. Yesterday I was working at my mom’s store. When I was telling my mom about the day the first thing I said was that my first customer was grumpy and impossible…
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She said, “The things that are happening to me are a function of my view of them.”
Freedom in Uncertainty I am preparing for the Dealing with Negativity webinar this Thursday and came across the work of Ellen Langer, Ph.D. She is a Harvard professor who has been studying mindfulness for forty years. She is quick to point out that she is not talking about mindfulness mediation and in fact instead of using…
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Check In with Yourself – What is Really Going on in There?
Your Truth As you know I’ve been sick and it is reminding me how important it is to be in touch with our bodies. If we don’t take the time to check in how do we know what we need? Sometimes I operate on auto-pilot eating because of the time of day not because…
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Remember Those Days When You Were Focused on Gratitude?
Restore That Childlike Wonder Imagine a day. A normal Monday like today. Except this day the moments are slow, filled with wonder, curiosity and enjoyment. The colors you see are vivid because they are noticed and taken in completely. The leaves on the trees are calling out to you lighting a fire in your…
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Open Your Mouth to Give
[su_box title=”Happy World Gratitude Day” box_color=”#ebeced” title_color=”#000000″]I’m posting this early so we have time to commit to doing something today in the name of gratitude. Share your ideas, experiences, photos and more in the Gratitude in Action – Let’s DO Something group. [/su_box] Your Vocal Chords Vibrate with Gratitude I watched the movie…
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Worried? Do You Keep Replaying Things in Your Head?
I Am Freaking Out Right Now! I’m stressed. I’m worried. The clock is ticking and I am pulled in so many directions with work, family, love, music and an ever-growing list of things that absolutely need to get done. On top of that I just shared whole lot of honesty with a colleague and friend…
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Dealing with Negativity
Hey! You! Get Off of My Cloud Do you have some negative people in your life at work, at home, in traffic, online or pretty much everywhere? Yeah, we all do. Actually each and every one of us are negative at times ourselves. One of my exes was so negative at a time when I…
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Saying Goodbye to the Man Who Literally Wrote the Book on the Power of Intention
The Power of Our Thoughts Wayne Dyer was a man who wrote a book called The Power of Intention as well as many other self-help books. He lived a life aligned with his intentions and inspired many with his teachings. He taught that we can choose to connect with intention to create the lives of…
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Your Health – Are You Complaining about It or Appreciating It?
Respecting Your Body and Mind You are a beautiful being inside and out. Acknowledge this beauty and show respect for it by making a list of your health gratitude. Your body functions all day and night, awake and asleep. What are you grateful for about the ways that your body functions? Your mind is constantly taking…
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We Are a Family – Gratitude Is Our Middle Name
Grateful Together – Let’s Unite in Action We are united by our values … Well at least one of our values. We all believe in gratitude. This I know for sure. Yes, we are different. We come from different backgrounds and we believe in different gods or no god at all. We live in different…
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Turning It Downside Up
Lessons in ‘Should’ I woke up this morning itching to get away. I love my house but sometimes I feel trapped within its walls. On days like this I even resent working from home, something that I thoroughly enjoy. Immediately I had a solution. I needed a change of scenery. Yes, I’m sure I could…
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I Keep Getting Stood Up … By the Moon
Make Room for Gratitude I started a practice of moon bathing and I committed to doing it for at least one week. (You can too! Join us in the Moonbathers group.) This started in part because I have found that some of my best memories of solitude involve sitting outside at night alone under the…
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This Story Has Taught Me for Nine Years
Thank It and Release It Nine years ago I learned something profound about acceptance, gratitude and letting go that has never ceased to teach me. A Curandera was doing a limpia, an energetic cleansing that helps facilitate release, on a woman who was determined to let go of something that was negatively affecting her life.…
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Ask and Thank to Connect
Asking Without Shame One of the themes of the curanderismo class that I mentioned last week has been asking permission. Asking permission of the four directions, our ancestors, and mother earth to gather, to heal, to connect. Asking permission of plants to give of themselves to become medicine. This asking struck me as similar to…
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How Will It Get Any Better Than This?
A Fountain of Gratitude Some days are so ridiculously blessed. Over the top abundant gratitude. Today was one of those days. It started with me waking up excited to start my day because I was so grateful to attend a curanderismo class. For those who don’t know, curanderismo is a traditional healing practice. I have…
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Will This Make You Laugh? You Know You Want To.
I need a break from the seriousness. The website went down again. So much stress getting it back up. In the midst of it all I asked myself, “Where’s your gratitude?”. I came up with the usual suspects like being grateful for the opportunity to bring like-minded people together online. Then I stopped myself. Is…
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They Can’t Take Their Eyes off of You
You. Lit Up. I am inspired this week by the Maya Angelou quote you see below. I love the idea of doing something I love so well that people can’t take their eyes off of me. Although it could be the extroverted part of me that likes being the center of attention. In reality it…
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Gratitude in Times of Tragedy
How Can I Be Grateful When There Is Violence All Around? Unimaginable tragedy came into our lives last week. The loss of nine lives, nine people who graciously accepted an outsider into their circle, praying together and most-likely thanking God for their blessings together. Tragedies like these can It makes everyday gratitude seem very unimportant.…
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Notice and Savor
Tell Me What You Do Every Day and I’ll Tell You Who You Are I am working on establishing a new daily habit. A learning habit. Throughout the month of June I am committed to starting my day with a few minutes of skill-building as I learn Illustrator. I have been really liking this software…
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Desperately Seeking Calm
Take Yourself on a Journey to Now On Friday I found myself racing down a deserted dirt road, a dust cloud billowing behind me, skidding on the bumps and turns as I rushed to get to our campground. The landscape was beautiful, a rare treat to see it so lush and green in the high…