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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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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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Will you be jinxed if you do this?
Release the Jinx Some people say that they don’t want to say how good things are going for them out of fear of jinxing it. This superstition directly stands in the way of practicing gratitude because that’s what this practice is, drawing attention to the good things we are experiencing. Feeling fearful that good things…
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One Fact Took Me from Appalled and Judgmental to Humbled
When you see a person, see the good I once worked at a middle school and was part of a team of people from vastly different backgrounds. There were middle school administrators and teachers, University directors and staff, college students who led after school activities, medical providers and me as the health educator. This was…
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This Is Where I Feel Gratitude
The Poetry of Emotion Gratitude, like all emotions, is like artwork, expansive and uncontainable. Sometimes these feelings in my body last a long time while other times they are fleeting. This poetry of emotion sometimes emerges as a sensation in my body. Gratitude does not always show up the same way but a couple of…
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Do you remember your dreams?
Saying Thank You for my Dreams For the longest time I have been intrigued by my dreams. I like to remember them, talk about them, and explore the meaning behind the images. The problem is that I often do not remember them. Even though I know how I can remember them if I really want…
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Today We Make a Positive Change
Transforming Self We are on our final of six weeks of focusing on our inner selves to be the change we wish to see in the world. This week is all about making positive changes. What a journey we have been on these last six weeks. A journey of self-discovery. A journey of gratitude. A…
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Today We Practice Self-Care
Nurturing, Caring, Healing We are on our fifth of six weeks of focusing on our inner selves to be the change we wish to see in the world. This week is all about self-care. Stop running around buying this and that, doing this and that, saying this and that, eating this and that. Just stop for…
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Today We Practice Self-Love
Love Love and more Love We are on our fourth of six weeks of focusing on our inner selves to be the change we wish to see in the world. This week is all about self-love. So here we are at self-love though it seems this should have been the place to start. Can…
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Today We Practice Self-Compassion
You Are Your Own Best Friend We are on our third of six weeks of focusing on our inner selves to be the change we wish to see in the world. This week is all about self-compassion. Last week we talked about accepting and respecting ourselves no matter what. But we can take that one…
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Today We Practice Self-Acceptance
Notice. Accept. Release. We are on our second of six weeks of focusing on our inner selves to be the change we wish to see in the world. This week is all about self-acceptance. Earlier in the week I was having a hard time. It is hard to describe what was going on with me…
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What about You?
Make the world a better place – start with you. What does it take for you to be healthy in mind, body and spirit? You probably immediately thought about nutrition and exercise. Those are very important but what else? Maybe your gratitude practice, meditation, reading … There is so much we can do for our…