“What is mind? It doesn’t matter. What is matter? Never mind.” -Anonymous
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A fun play on words perhaps, but how powerful is our mind and how much does it matter? What effect do our intentions and beliefs have on our daily life? And, how about health, wellbeing, and relationships?
The Placebo Effect ~ The Mind ~ Beliefs
Mind over matter …matters!: Yamna Rahim
Is there scientific proof that we can heal ourselves? | Lisa Rankin, MD
In this moment
If all your mind could hold
Was sound
How many layers
Undertones
Overtones
Could be found…
The route you take depends a good deal upon where you want to go. -Lewis Carroll
Day after day, the father drove to work along the same dreary highway to the same dreary job. Sometimes his daughter went to his office with him. On one of these occasions she noticed a winding road running parallel to the highway. “Oh, Daddy, let’s take that road today,” she suggested. After some grumbling and mumbling, the father agreed and turned off to take the side road.
To their delight, the road was lined with full trees and a rainbow of flowers. They came upon a quaint little village in which there was an office with a sign in the window that said, “Clerk Wanted. Inquire Within.” The job seemed perfect and the man accepted it with excitement he hadn’t felt in many years.
Sometimes we have to risk taking a different path in order to arrive at a different place. How else can we change things in our lives that need to be changed? And how easy to do it, once we’re willing to risk something out of the ordinary.
What can I do that’s out of the ordinary today?
From: Today’s Gift – Daily Meditations for Families
by Beth Haley
Breathing retraining is changing the way in which we breathe. Many times we breathe shallowly, only feeling our chest and shoulders rise and fall. In breathing retraining, you learn to breathe deeper through your abdomen or diaphragm. Doing this reduces heart rate and symptoms of anxiety, while changing the ratio of carbon dioxide to oxygen in your bloodstream.
Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) is another common anxiety-management skill involving tensing and relaxing your muscles which helps you notice the difference between holding tension in your muscles and having relaxed muscles.
Before doing this exercise, rate your stress or anxiety level on a scale from 0 to 10 (where 0 means relaxed and 10 means stressed or anxious) and again after this exercise, and see if you notice a difference.
In a comfortable position, put your right hand on your chest and your left hand on your abdomen. Slow and deepen your breathing. Feel the hand on your abdomen rise and fall, more so than the hand on your chest. Just focus on how it feels to draw in the air and exhale it.
As you inhale, think, RE. And as you exhale say, LEASE.
While you’re doing this, just let stressful or anxious thoughts come and go, and simply focus on inhaling and exhaling with RE and then LEASE.
Happy releasing! 🤩
PhotoCredit: Pixabay
Teresa of “The Haunted Wordsmith” has given us the following prompt today.
If you would like to join the Challenge, please see the instructions below.
Welcome to the Haunted Wordsmith Daily Prompt (HWDP). To participate, simply read this post and follow where the muse takes you.
You may select any, all, or none of the prompts…it’s all up to you. Link back to this post, or leave a link in the comments so that others can find you.
Have Fun!
Prompt A (genre challenge): haiku
Prompt B (sentence starter): “Where did all these footprints come from?”
Prompt C (photo):
One technique of meditation is to watch a candle flame.
Inhale and Exhale
Breathing keeps us in “Real Time”
Watch the dancing flame
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🦊 Thela Foxgood 2019
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If 1 represents simple,
and 10 represents complicated,
then on a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your lifestyle?
Have you simplified anything in your life so far this year? If so, what?
What changes toward simplifying your life would you like to make overall?
What aspects of simplifying your life would you be willing to change this year?
Pick any of these simplification strategies you would be willing to try or start in the next few months :
Pack a lunch
Have only one credit card
Get out of debt
Downsize your home
Unsubscribe from email lists you don’t read
Work where you live
Consolidate bank accounts
Learn to say no
Declutter your home
Vacation near or at home
Simplify eating habits to whole, unprocessed foods
Buy in bulk, and shop less often
Put your phone on silent when it’s not needed
Take only one suitcase, and pack only essentials
Stop trying to please people and just be yourself
Do what you want for a living
Stop trying to change people
Get rid of possessions you don’t need or use
Buy for functionality and durability rather than for fashion
Delegate
Drink water
Some changes are simple. And some will be a process.
A good way to decide on things to get rid of, is to put them away for a year. If you haven’t needed them or thought of them throughout the year, then it may be time to donate them.
by Beth Haley
The real voyage of discovery
Consists not in seeking new landscapes
But in having new eyes
-Marcel Proust
A journey through swamp land…
I do gather pine needles for tea. Make sure if you gather pine needles, that they are harvested in small amounts per/tree and that the trees are well away from traffic.
Some pines are poisonous, so find out what kind of pines are in your area first, and don’t drink pine tea while pregnant.
During this weekend’s drumming class, I realized that riding on the waves of rhythm could take me wherever I wanted to be.
Instead, what happens so often with drumming, is that I’m not focused on the past or future… but on the present moment; the “right here” and “right now.”
bodhrán /ˈbôrən/ noun
[pronounced “BAOW-rawn”]
A shallow, one-sided traditional Irish goat skin drum typically played with a short, two-headed drumstick.
– origin Irish
“A good drummer listens as much as he plays.” -Indian Proverb
“The rhythm is in your blood.” -African Proverb
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