It’s time to talk about another habit you might want to add to your day, and I couldn’t let this discussion get by without including meditation. If you watch or listen to news, spend any time on the internet, or peruse magazines while standing in line at the grocery store, you know meditation is a hot topic right now — trending, I believe they call it. And with good reason. It’s good for you – for your mind, body, and…
Valentine’s Day is upon us, and a young woman’s heart turns to … love? frustration? sadness? loneliness? What if it turned to self-care? This week we have been talking about self-care, and what better day to put it into practice than on the day we celebrate love! Love for self is so often neglected. Even the thought of it turns many of us squeamish, because well, wouldn’t it be, you know, like selfish and stuff to love my self? No,…
Self-care. It occupies a place in the current list of buzz words around healthy living. We have talked about what it is. So WHY is it necessary? I think most of us would agree that life is crazy busy these days. We are all going in many directions, multi-tasking and often trying to be all things to all people. Believe it or not, we can eventually reach a breaking point. But do we have to? That’s where self-care can come…
How do you start your mornings? Do you have a specific routine or ritual that you follow? For many years, I have been a morning journaler. I started the habit when I first discovered The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron in 1997. Since then, few mornings have passed without my scribbling down some thoughts and ramblings in my journal. Around that same time, I began to hear a lot about meditation. My main exposure to it was at the Unity church…
Have you ever encountered a quote that just won’t leave you alone? Maybe it’s not deep or profound but somehow it just gets under your skin. A year or so ago, such a quote crossed my path. We’re all just walking one another home. –Ram DassRam Dass. If you are of a certain age or belief system, you may know of Ram Dass — the former Harvard professor turned spiritual teacher, the author of the early 70’s classic, Be Here…
Grey and Yang dance it out. Stephie writes it out. Here’s a little before and after story. Yesterday I got up with things to do. Set up my planner and get my info organized. Start that course I had been putting off for days, no, weeks. I really, really needed to do these things but I kept running out of day before I got to them. I looked at the clock: 2:09. I was sitting at my desk looking at…