What would y o u write?
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Cover photo by Jasper Benning
Tag: Reflection
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Post-It Notes 23
“Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them.
Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.”
-Unknown
Cover photo from Pixabay
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Thoughts on Self-Love
“You’re worthy simply because you exist.”
–Terri Cole
When we talk about self-care and self-love, there are so many ideas and examples of ways in which we can take care of ourselves, embrace who we are, and keep our own cup full so that we can share out of our overflow with others.
Giving yourself some TLC:
Emotionally
Taking time for grief
A hot bath
A good book
Physically
A walk in nature
Yoga
A Massage
Spiritually
Quiet time
Prayer time
Taking time to journal dreams and messages
Chanting
Mentally
Meditation
Body, Mind and Spirit
Aromatherapy
Reiki
Out of all the ideas I’ve read about or practiced (we are probably all familiar with at least some of these acts of self-care and love), I never considered the act of receiving compliments and praise as one of them.
How do you talk to yourself?
How do you talk about yourself?
What do others compliment you on?
When we deflect a compliment, we do not take responsibility for the work, talent, and effort we have put into our successes. We deny our own value. We belittle our own worth.
A compliment is like being given a beautifully wrapped gift. – Terri Cole
We receive the gift by saying, “Thank you!”
When our response to a compliment is to deny its merit, it is like throwing the gift down and stomping on it. –Terri Cole
Do you deflect compliments by putting yourself down?
For example:
“That is a beautiful painting!”
“Yes but, I messed this part up.”
“Someone else can’t love you enough to create self-love. It’s only you that can take the actions that will create a good relationship with yourself… and true self-love creates self-esteem.”
–Terri Cole
It’s an inside job 🌟
Cover photo by Allie Smith
Article photo by Christin Hume
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Today’s Shot 43
Water’s Edge
Manifest
Bringing into focus,
The ideas along the edge.
Speak them,
See them,
Write them,
Feel them,
Manifest!
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Today’s Shot 41
Bare-Rock Growth
Moss Thoughts…
Sometimes the landscape around us can seem like bare stone. It seems like the type of material where nothing can grow. And yet, it’s the perfect landscape for certain kinds of growth. It offers the kind of growth that is resilient and finds its own way where other plants would perish. It may not be in the preferred garden of fertile soil, but it is it’s own fertile soil of strength and tenacity. This is where the bare rock is not shunned but embraced and the things which have seemed like deficits are grown into beauty.
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I Love You
I never thought of the phrase, “Love You” as a danger phrase. I only knew that it didn’t feel the same as the whole phrase, “I Love You!”
Why does it feel different? The words that we speak to others have a direct biochemical affect on them. When we say “love you”, there’s very little biochemical affect. However, using the whole phrase, even a quick, “I love you!” has a significant biochemical affect upon the person to whom you say it.
We all have the opportunity to use the full phrase and give this gift to our loved ones as often as possible!
Resource: Online Communication Skills Training
Cover photo by Ali Yahya
Article photo by Elly Johnson
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Piece by Piece
by Beth Haley
Puzzles are like Life
Christmas Puzzle 2019
Potential
How do you pick the puzzle? You probably liked something about the picture on the box, and then you open it – and it’s a mess. It’s just a chaos of jumbled pieces. It’s not the pretty picture… not yet. At that moment, it’s potential. You know what it can become.
Organizing Chaos
Have you ever had a strong vision for a project or for your life as a whole? And, what does it look like? You may see the full picture down the line of time. Yet in this moment, it may just be pieces of ideas, thoughts, or hopes. So, where do you start? Do you start with the details in the center, or the foundation and framework around the edges?
Out of the mess, you notice certain colors. Those can be grouped together, like supporting ideas.
With the straight edges, an outline of becoming can be built. Piece by piece, you build the foundation, but the whole picture is not there yet, even though you know the picture well.
The foundation of a home may hold it up, but without building the details of the home on it, it is not yet a home. It is the blueprint, the outline and the forming of order from the pile of pieces or ideas.
The Process
Some say the edge pieces are the easy part of the puzzle. That’s where you begin to make sense of all the mess. From the edge (the foundation and outline), the details of the picture begin to evolve.
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If you can’t see the full picture of your dreams, take some time to really visualize what you want or need:
See it. It looks like sunshine on a glorious day!
Taste it. It tastes like sweetness. It tastes like milk and honey.
Smell it. It smells fresh and clean: like the smell of damp earth after the rain. Is that incense? What kind?
Hear it. It sounds like laughter and communion. It also sounds quiet and peaceful. It sounds like birds singing in the woods and the trickle of the stream.
Experience it in full. It feels like joy. It feels like easy flow. It feels like happiness and fulfillment in the art of creating. It feels abundant. It feels like goodness and kindness. It feels like warmth. It feels like success. It feels like rest of body, mind and spirit – and like action as well – the right action at the right time. It feels like home. If feels like a warm fire on a cold night and the relief of shade on a hot day. If feels like safe travel for the journey. It feels like the life I’ll never want a vacation from!
The full vision is in both the foundational pieces, and in the details we build from it, on it, and around it.
Missing Pieces
Sometimes you can almost have the complete picture and find that there are missing pieces. If you know what you’re looking for, the chances of finding it or re-creating (creating) it, are much higher.
A Helping Hand
Thank you to the brave soul who stuck their arm down the heater vent to fish the fallen piece of the puzzle out. If it had been up to me, this picture would have just remained as is, with one piece missing.
Sometimes, we just need a helping hand on the journey 😊
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Today’s Shot 36
Moss Forest
A World within a World
A small patch of moss nestled on rocks by the little stream, takes on new character close up. It has its own landscape of mountains, river, and taller trees reaching up through the mossy forest below. Perhaps a small fairy lives here who has tamed the frog croaking nearby.
We never did find Jeremiah, but he called to us all the same. 🐸
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