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Open to a New Way of Seeing
We are resilient. We are grateful. Take a Breath. Sink into This. What a year. It hasn't been the greatest. But here we all are. Resilient and often grateful. Through the darkness we trekked. Through the pain we grew. Through the loneliness we found each other. We are here. With a new way of seeing.…
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Notice the Beauty of Nature
Nature makes you pay attention this time of year. The Call of Nature On Saturday I was rushing all day from obligations to a friend and family and home. All things I am full of appreciation for but because I was rushing and busy I wasn’t present. At one point in the day I was…
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Fall Gratitude Walk
A walk outdoors to deliberately take in moments of beauty. Gratitude Found Take a walk with me as we explore nature and the outdoors. We find gratitude in unexpected places. And remind ourselves to be grateful for things that are easy to take for granted. We explore the concept of unattachment, noticing, appreciating and letting…
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Blessed with Each Bite
Thank you, fish. Thank you, basil. Thank you, tomato. Food Appreciation The freshly caught fish from the mountain stream tasted so good. I said aloud, “thank you”. How often do we thank our food? Each meal. Each bite. It is giving us a gift. The gift of life. When I thanked that fish I thought…
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Savor That Pleasure
Immersed. Rich and thick. Fragrant and flavorful. Being fully in it. Savoring It Fully You are inspired to seek out pleasure and relaxation. How will you be when you show up for that pleasure? Fully present. Noticing. Listening. Tasting. Smelling. Feeling. Seeing. And with all of these senses, diving deep into that noticing. Noticing the…
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The Gift of Relaxation
But I don’t have time. Micro relaxation. A Moment of Relaxation Continuing our topic of pleasure from last week today we explore relaxation. Relaxation can be one of the simplest pleasures but we make it out to be this huge unattainable thing. We are so damn busy. That is true but no matter how busy…
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Awash in Pleasure
Don’t you miss feeling good? You Deserve To Feel Good For so many of us pleasure is not part of our daily lives. If it happens, great. But we do little to facilitate it, welcome it, create space for it. Then when we want it we expect our bodies to just quickly move from…
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My Prayer is Noticing and Saying Thank You
Their prayer moved with them and through them as they danced. San Felipe Feast – a prayer They danced. Moving together to the pounding of the drums. One two one two one two one two. To infinity. The drums and the bare feet of the women and the moccasined feet of the men drove…
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Listen. The Sound is Fleeting.
Mindfully enjoying the fleeting moments of spring. All The Noticing If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more. ~Mary Oliver My lilacs are blooming. The beautiful and bright pops of purple are the early signs of spring in my yard. My biggest lilac bush is directly in my path…
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Earthing
Bare feet on the earth. We connect with nature. We breathe slower. We are grounded. This Week Let’s All Try This Carve out some alone time in your schedule. Walk outside. Remove your shoes. Stand on the earth. Feel the temperature underfoot. Feel the texture underfoot. Take five slow deep breaths. Notice.…
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The Pleasure Tracker
I was wondering. What would my day be like if I had a pleasure tracker, a checkbox waiting to be filled with all sorts of delicious choices? Your Homework Assignment: Find Pleasure Each Day This week we explore pleasure. It is not the same as gratitude but it is not a stretch to…
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Float with the Flow
Flowers against my skin, dew transferred and absorbed, flowing with nature, united. Nature and My Nature I awoke before dawn. The magnificent colors of sunrise precede the actual emergence of the sun by quite a bit here. The sun languidly comes up when it is ready. Before the sun joined us I noticed…
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Gratitude Sharing Amidst a Storm
We sat quietly, taking cover from the desert sun, as the meditation began a storm blew through. The Smell of Onions Unseen. A Healthy Body. The Colorful Mountains. A Safe Place. We gathered. We, who are all about gratitude, sat together. We took cover from the dry desert sun in the shade, cooled by…
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Mindful Full Moon Solstice
Mindfulness is not only a meditation technique. It is a deep noticing. It is new possibilities. It is being present. A Mindful Experience Today is a special day, both the summer solstice and a full moon on the same day. What a perfect day to talk about being present and noticing. Imagine if no one…
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100 Thank Yous from Judaism to Einstein
If You Said Thank You 100 Times It is Passover and as my friends shared photos of their Seder it reminded me of a Jewish teaching I heard. It calls for all Jewish people to recite 100 blessings every day. The story behind the tradition is: During the reign of Kind David, there was…
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Choosing to Rush Through Life
Always on to the next Thing I have been really busy lately. Working long hours. Working through the weekend. Doing one thing and then another in less time than they need to be done right. But really, how is this different then any other day and any other week? We are all SO…
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Mary Oliver, Thank You for Giving Words to My Surrender
The Power of Letting Go The concept of our true self has been a theme lately that keeps popping up in different areas of my life. Who are you underneath that mask? Who are you when you are aligned in body, mind, spirit, values, senses, action and in ways that you didn’t even…
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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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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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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…