Awakening
Thursday, January 12th, 2017Sit with receptivity, curiosity, interest, and patience. Hold your expectations lightly for what may or may not be experienced while sitting.
Sit with receptivity, curiosity, interest, and patience. Hold your expectations lightly for what may or may not be experienced while sitting.
When we energize our ‘thinking machine’ with figments of the past & future, the thoughts keep coming… cascading and consuming our attention and leaving us scattered and depleted.
Curiosity… Courage… and Self-Control Research has found that curiosity and social anxiety are incompatible. Curiosity opens our attention while anxiety narrows it. Anxiety sufferers have found that increasing curiosity at the right time can help to manage and regulate its constrictive & spiraling nature. It’s taking notice with the intent of seeing & knowing what […]
To give is an act of kindness. It is something we should work on doing all year long… and something we should actively encourage in one another- the values of giving, helping, and sharing. Acts of generosity tend to be contagious especially in families, organizations, and communities that openly talk with one another about them. […]
To befriend what challenges us may help us to open up and to honestly work through our difficulties- to gain perspective and understanding.