In his book The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer says something so obviously simple and true that it’s been messing with my head ever since. (Truth is astonishingly simple. Always.) He says we’re sitting on a planet spinning through outer space.Oh yeah! I forgot. Did you?Maybe it’s partly my line of work, but I see people
Source: Care2.com via The Wild Life I amthe One and the Allwithin you.It is time for youto fall in,to fly.It is why we gave you this experience.Surrender and let it happen.We’ll take care of it.You can be afraid, but you must fall.We gave you this experience so you can learn to let go.It’s something you
Here’s what I’m grateful for right now: being human.The whole of it. Everything that being human entails. I used to think being human kind of sucked most of the time. With our habitual patterns that run on auto-pilot and our irrationally fearful thoughts and our unpredictable emotions.Human-ness felt like a big hassle. I would fantasize
When you feel really bad, fixing things, feeling better, or getting back on track can be way too tall an order. Sometimes the best you can do is to focus on not making things worse than they already are. In Wired for Joy, the affirmation is: ‘Minimize Harm’.When things are just a little bit stressful,
Trying to gain others’ approval—or even just worrying about their opinion of you—is a bit of a pandemic. If you are one of the stricken, this comes as no surprise. If you’re immune to this particular affliction, consider yourself blessed. I’m constantly thinking about new ways to lessen approval-seeking. New ways to quiet the voice
Your rational mind knows this, but I’m speaking to the irrational part: You can’t take on other people’s pain. You can’t grieve for them. There is no amount of tears you can shed that will lessen theirs.When my kid is sick, there is no amount of sick I can make myself (with worry, no doubt)
Whose opinion do you trust? When all those outside opinions of you are screaming in your head, which one is loudest? Which carries the most weight? Which one do you believe over the others?The voice that sounds most assertive or confident?The deepest (male) one? The oldest one? The most Catholic, Jewish, or Buddhist one?The one
Are you working on something? My grandma says she’s working on a quilt; my friend says she’s working on scrapbooks for her kids. Or like many of us, maybe you say you’re working on yourself. You might say you’re working on your relationship or you’re working on accepting yourself more or you’re working on discovering
I have a favorite new visual for calming my mind and getting to the “bottom” of things.Like the bottom of a swimming pool, actually…It’s calm at the bottom of things. The trick is keeping the waves down so that you can notice the calm.Can you float on the surface all still and quiet-like? Sounds relaxing,
My daughter got a book from her aunt. It wasn’t even an intentional gift; it was thrown in with a bag of art supplies and hand-me-downs, all nonchalant-like. It’s called On the Night You Were Born.I read it to her the other day. It begins: On the night you were born,The moon smiled with such
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