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Soft in the Middle Now
While the struggle can feel so hard in the moment, you can do hard things. As Rumi says, “the wound is the place where the light enters you”.
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Daily Spark: Struggle to Ease
It is so easy for me to focus on the struggle, and what I DON’T want in my life. It’s much harder to feel those negative feelings, process them, and begin looking for a BETTER thought. To begin looking for EASE.
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Daily Spark: What we Resist
We have all heard the saying, “What we resist, persists”. Our feelings can be like that. If we resist them, and block them, we become disconnected from our lives, and it makes it very hard to shine!
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Let It Be
When we resist our emotions they can cause our world to seem bleak and colorless. If we can “let it be”, experience our emotions, and not get stuck in resistance, the emotions can float on by.
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Daily Spark: I am Worthy! I am Enough!
In a meditation I was listening to this morning I was implored to use as my mantra, “I am Worthy! I am Enough!” To shine, we really need to believe and know that these words are true!
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Daily Spark: Rocks in the Garden
When walking along a pathway at the hospital, I was invited to decorate a rock, to provide encouragement to others. One actually said, “Keep Shining!”
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A Life Without Reverie
An Episcopal priest once said to me that “a life without reverie is meaningless”. It is important to take time to reflect, to process, to make sense of all of the stimuli around us; time for reverie. John Dewey said, “We don’t learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.”
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Daily Spark: All is Fundamentally Well
When having a day like the character in the book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”, it helps me to use as a mantra, “all is fundamentally well”. So I encourage us all today to repeat the mantra, and set our INTENTION to believe it and see it: all is fundamentally…
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Daily Spark: Daring Adventure
Helen Keller said that “life is a daring adventure or nothing at all!” Today I choose to focus my attention, and my intention, on deliberate creation, through the conscious cultivation of noticing the good that is present in my life! And when I do that, I do in fact move in the direction of my…
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Daily Spark: We Find What We Look for
I have set my intention to find the good that is around me and to focus less on all the negative stories I sometimes so love to tell! When I look for the good it is amazing how often I truly do find it! This stuff really does work, if we practice it! And today…