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Have You Thanked Your Water Today?
Drinking in Water. Drinking in the Universe. Drinking in Gratitude Water is sacred. But how often do we drink it without a thought? Mindlessly stirring it in to our food as we cook? We are taking an element into our body. An element that we can’t live without. An element that connects us with the…
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Loving Attention
love is the quality of attention Choosing Love with Our Attention Love. Falling in love. Choosing love. However you go about it the act of love is so much about paying attention. Generous with our attention. Our gaze elevating what we see into a thing of beauty. Finding that beauty and not only resting our…
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A Recipe for Feeling Alive
Acceptance and Appreciation Throughout What Makes You Feel Alive? It is such an individual thing. What makes you feel alive and what makes me feel alive are probably vastly different. But as I hold my animal companion through her last days I have been thinking a lot about how often it is the simplest things…
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Out of Hiding
The weight of those things we hide from the world. Wanting to Be Her I was writing a final paper for one of my classes and we were talking about whiteness as the default and as the ideal. At first I was writing in an academic tone and citing research but then something kept bubbling…
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The Experience
An audio download to experience gratitude. Expanding into Your Body This week we will get out of intellectualizing about gratitude and swim into the experience of it. The audio download guides us through the experience of gratitude through our senses, noticing the world around us and expanding into our bodies. Enjoy! The quality of life…
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Grateful to Notice
Let’s put down our phones and pay attention. Appreciating and Honoring Through Our Attention Last week one of our members shared a post to our FB group about gratitude as a result of paying attention. (Thank you, Forest!) And as you all know I am all about the three part gratitude process: Notice, Appreciate, Share. That…
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Mindful and Grateful
As long as I talk about gratitude I will never stop talking about noticing. Don’t Miss Out on This Moment I have said it before and will say it again: We can’t be grateful for something we don’t notice. I know that seems obvious. It really does. But still we are scattered. Busy. Worrying. Planning.…
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There Are No Words
… {Gasp} Sometimes gratitude fills you. Completely. So full that your heart just seems to expand more and more and more. And your skin can't possibly hold it all in. Those moments of gratitude are so big that everything else slips away. And we are fully enveloped in the blessing in front of us. Years ago…
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Grief and Self Touch
Appreciating your body with touch. Intentional Self Touch During Times of Grief I have been thinking a lot about grief and loss. There are people in our gratitude community who are experiencing profound losses right now. And there are people in my other communities, people in the country and all over the world, who are…
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Giving Weight
I see you. I value you. I hope you’ll stay. Welcoming In Last week was all about releasing. Letting go of that which no longer serves us. This week let's honor all of the things that we wish to welcome into our lives. The objects, the beliefs, the thoughts, the values, the people, our bodies,…
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Plot Twist Flow and Feel
I note to myself (and you) to help me flow with these ups and downs. Mijita, Sit down, mijita. Take a breath. It's been a long week. A week of celebration. Feeling the intoxicating bliss of love. Getting into the school program you have been dreaming about for so many years. A week of loss.…
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Forgotten Gratitude
I appreciated you at the time. But now that your petals have fallen even more so. Gratitude Forgotten and Remembered Those of you who have been here remember that I used to have a segment in these writings where I shared "forgotten gratitude". These were things that I was grateful for at the time and…
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Steps Before Practicing Gratitude
For those days when it doesn’t emerge spontaneously. Cultivating Gratitude Some days gratitude emerges beautifully and unexpectedly like a wildflower sprout whose seed carried by the wind took refuge in a tiny patch of dirt that lay at rest. It wasn't planned. It wasn't expected. It wasn't even desired. But there it is. Thriving. Other…
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The Way That Song Makes Me Feel
Let’s celebrate the music of our lives. The Feelings. The Memories. Thank You, Music. Oh music. You touch us all. You make us feel. You remind us of joyous and heart-wrenching times gone by. Each and every one of us appreciate music. Which connects us all. Today I would like to celebrate music and the…
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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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Growing Your Intuition
This simple intuition practice helped changed my life. Trusting Your Inner Knowing Do you find yourself distracted by the noise of stress, fears, the overwhelming voices and information on social media, concerns about what others think, and ruminating thoughts? At the end of last year I found myself really pulled this way and that with…
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The Gift of a Full Moon: a gratitude ritual
Try this centering gratitude ritual. Start With The Moon I love the quote this week but I haven’t shared it before now because I always thought it was a little contradictory. I thought if you are waiting for good things to come to you how is that giving thanks continuously? Then I reflected on the…
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Prettier Than Ordinary
Let your curiosity play. Look deeper. Find something just a little prettier than ordinary. Try This, Instead of Questioning Everything Be curious. Notice sensations in your body without telling a story about them. Go outside. Listen to the song of nature or the city or whatever song is humming. Find something alive and look closer.…
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Noticing Is Life
What teacher is life giving you right now? I Almost Stepped On It On My Way to See Something Else I escaped to the forest for three days. A little solitude. A lot of family. The entire time I never took one picture but as I was leaving I was drawn in to the…