Highly sensitive person joins the gym
I told my husband I was going to the gym I’d just joined online but had not yet visited. I said “I’m not sure when I’ll get home because I don’t expect to do a workout. I just want to look around and see what it’s like.” He looked up at me from his laptop and said “well, why would you go to the gym if you don’t think you’re going to workout? I replied” Because I like to get used to the atmosphere and take my time getting to know a place.” He looked up again with a perplexed look on his face and said “that...
Read MoreHappiness and connection
We are more connected than we know. We influence one another more than we know… even in our moods and weight. People living together catch one anothers eating habits and moods like we catch colds. Be mindful of who you hang out with and of how your own mood affects others. Good news — in studies on happiness this connection is revealed in a sweet way. We experience far more fulfillment when we spend the same amount of money on others rather than ourselves. Altruism and love are real and good for all. Poverty is stressful and linked to unhappiness but wealth doesn’t make...
Read MoreGoing into inner magic
In our culture we emphasize doing over being, we emphasize focusing on the future over the present and the past. We tend to emphasize focusing on our outward life, our goals, our appearance and how other people think of us more then we focus on our inner world. Our inner world far surpasses our thoughts. Magic will happen there. Some other cultures we can learn from, such as the cultures that practice Buddhism or more indigenous cultures, balance focus on the outside world with reflection and sensing an inner world. Our inner worlds can connect us to ourselves ; that is, how can we grow,...
Read Morea better motivator
We often motivate ourselves by a harsh inner dialogue. We threaten and warn ourselves of possible failures. Such harsh self talk hurts us, causes anxiety of all sorts and harms our health. Research reveals that kindness and self compassion, are better motivators and also decrease the stress of inner or outer pressure. Failure and mistakes are a part of life and learning. We are all human here together. Check out selfcompasssion.org. for the guided meditations on...
Read MoreTransitions
The light is shifting as we see signs of fall. Times of change and transition can be unsettling and… or… exciting. Often anxiety and excitement overlap and sometimes they are confused. When we find some ground moving beneath our feet, it is time to re-ground into what we know we can rely on and what we count on… good friends, our faith, good music, poetry, contemplation,…. nature. What else? Know your resources and practise using them. We cannot control so much in our lives and yet we can know what is steady… cycles, our gifts… this beautiful, complex...
Read MoreThe divine mystery we share
Who and what do we need to do more justice too, too bow before, to apologize to? When people or trees or creatures are thought of only in the context of desire or needs, when we treat them as objects to serve us, we do a kind of violence to them. Do we live in am alive world or a world of objects for our use? If you are coming from an place of ego it difficult to see the beauty of others, oneself or the world. However, if you approach the world and all its living beings from the standpoint of soul and interconnectedness then we can connect meaningfully and sweetly. There is a mystical...
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