Snakes and ladders
Play a game: Stamp your foot, shout for joy, cry, yell, frolic, pat yourself on your back, and cheer.
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Find a new way
9-9=2020: Most of us live the lives we’re living for good reasons. It’s not usually a new life we seek but a new way of looking at the one we have.
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?
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.
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.
How much does your heart weigh?
Would you like your heart to feel as light as a feather?
Why do you weed?
In the spring I made a conscious decision not to weed this year. What would happen, I wondered.
Unfurl into boundless potential
Practice unfurling … it’s a great way to remember your limitless potential.
Be safe and sound
Sound is a beautiful word, and it means a lot of things. For example, to be sound in mind and body connotes health and well-being.
Plenty of light
One thing I’ve learned about tunnels is that they don’t last very long.
Feel your green ray
Green is the color of sympathy, courage, wisdom, and devotion. It’s the color of truth, hope, and love.
Feel a gentle, reassuring touch
Activate your sense of touch today by closing your eyes and grazing an object lightly with your fingertips.
Make it anyway
Creativity is not about finishing something but about making something.
Relax your heart
We learned to be super-vigilant about protecting our hearts from a very young age. It’s time to relax.
Try making friends with it
How to make friends with perceived danger, or aches and pains, or yourself.
It’s time to retreat
“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two.” –Seneca
Love one another
The more you love, the more love there is.
Where go the boats?
Meditation is as essential to our well-being as is physical exercise.
The color of time
Although it’s someties considered a sort of neurological disorder or aberration, it seems to me that synesthesia is more like extra-sensory perception.
Beyond forgiveness
If you want to remove from your life anything that does not bring you joy, try the stillness practice of “beyond forgiveness.”