Make time for it
Here’s a way you’ll always find you have enough time to accomplish everything you have to, gracefully, lightly, cheerfully.
Tag: dailystillness
Finding a letter
Here’s a practice for you: Write a letter to your future self.
Say hello to happiness
9-1-2020: If you want to be happy, the first thing you need to do is accept a person as being who they are, not as you wish they were.
How to be an activist
8-31-2020: Stop the glorification of “busy.”
Make it a habit
8-28-2020: When I was young, we’d pile into our car like free-ranging puppies.
Speak the truth
I used to think that telling nice little lies was a good thing.
Wake up—open up
8-26-2020: That middle-of-the-night panic or waking-up-in-the-morning-with-dread may be related to an empowering sense of vulnerability.
Try a different way
8-25-2020: When you’re having a hard time getting along with someone, what do you do? Attack, or growl, or feel hurt, or smile, snarl, try to talk about it, see a therapist, or walk away?
What will happen now?
The art of divination has been a part of human experience from our earliest beginnings.
Keep pouring out
8-23-2020: In order to keep pouring ourselves into the world, we need replenishment and moisture. We need to infuse ourselves with rest, joy, appreciation.
What does it mean?
8-21-2020: One of the best ways to practice balance of intuition and intelligence is to become more neutral about both.
Imagine you’re a ribbon
I like to imagine the person before me as a present. Try it. What we see are lovely ribbons. It’s rare that any of us reveal the present that is inside, at least not right away. Our task is to untie the ribbon that wraps them and somewhat disguises them. It’s the untying of the ribbon that is as delightful as unwrapping and admiring the gift itself.
Lighten up! Lift off!
It was like being in a rickety, flying car. We bumped and wobbled, at first barely seeming to get off the ground. Once aloft, we dipped and glided and bounced along, hour after hour.
Being adored by the sea
Let yourself be adored–it’s the great secret of happiness.
Unseal your fountain
8-14-2020: Imagine yourself as a fountain sparkling in the sunshine. The water comes from the mountain at your back, and flows perpetually into the pipes that feed your fountain, so that it always flows serenely.
Walk a mile in their moccasins
8-13-2020: Sometimes we get way too caught up in ourselves and our overly-familiar perspective. It’s as though we were little entities peering out of two tiny windows in our head, and trying to figure out what’s what.
Try something different
8-11-2020: Become your fullest potential! We need change, transformation, and growth to survive and we need to keep expanding, through feelings, experiences, consciousness to thrive.
The real roof over your head is the sky
8-10-2020: Imagine your life as a metaphor for adventure, passion, peace, accomplishment, or wonder. How would you describe it? Would it be a mountain or a library or a ship?
Let your heart sing
8-9-2020: Your beautiful heart chakra, located in the middle of your chest area, is the bridge between spirit and body. It’s your realm of balance, calmness, serenity.
How yummy is that!
We have an incredibly complex taste system in our mouths that gives us the ability to taste in countless ways. But how do we taste energy?
That’s hilarious!
Practice exhilaration. When you exhilarate, you help others to feel cheerful, lively, joyous. You gladden them.
How much does your heart weigh?
Would you like your heart to feel as light as a feather?