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2018 Explorations
Gentle this heart…gentle this soul…spirit…love….
Gentle this soul…heart…spirit…love….
I’d really like to_____
2023 Lam Rim Topics Songs Pages
2023 Lost LamRim2 songs and pages
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Smiles
“hmmm…. I wonder …..???”
Lovely Little Lila
Surrounded by happy, cheerful, positive people….
Smile ’til Your Cheeks Hurt
Piles of Smiles
“Stop everybody! I’m happy now!”…from a 4 year old
“Right now, I’m alright…”
“Tests and life…” a book
“Plant Flowers”
“Calling all angels………”
“I am ONLY one, but still I AM one…I cannot do everything, but still I can do something” …Helen Keller
Nurturing One’s Own Nature
Offering nurturing and encouragement to oneself…a few ideas
Creating Ripples
Dreams…upon dreams….upon dreams…..
“Look out your window”
Surprise myself…
Good things are happening….all the time
I have a voice…and I can learn to use it
The “perfection” of…
A birthday smile…
Loving kindness
“Pull Weeds…”
Thoughts…. lead to feelings …so learning to be more careful
Why?
“Disruptions”
“Mind mumbling”
The Complaint Department Has Closed…
Letting go of preferences..
Push/Shove
“Muddy Dog” Thinking …how our thinking can be like dogs rolling in the mud
Things do change…
A day in a life…
Pick up sticks…don’t touch that one…
Stay out of the attic….
Don’t believe it…
Something “rotten”….
F.E.A.R: False Evidence Appearing Real …but it’s NOT
Pocket Card Sets
Pocket Reminder Cards: Set 6
Pocket Reminder Cards: Set 1
Pocket Reminder Cards: Set 2
Pocket Reminder Cards: Set 3
Pocket Reminder Cards: Set 4
Pocket Reminder Cards: Set 5
Thinking Strategies
Just like myself…
Patience
Sonja Lyubormirsky The How of Happiness: book notes
“Choosing a Good Path”… A gameboard
“Clear” thinking
“Hope” comes from a large family….
Helpful Thinking: “A Flow Chart”
“A Wide Angle Lens”: strategies and 5 steps to learn to accept and adust
“AIMS”: coping with feeling “overwhelmed”
“Seeding”….the clouds….
“The Greenhouse”
“Plug in…..” …spirituality, love, connection, strength, independence, wisdom
“Water is Life…Mni Wiconi, Sing” …….Calling Thunder to Mountains
1. “for the time being……”
1. “Life Awake”… “Life-quake Prepared-ness Guide” … Encouraging Well Being and Developing Resilience
1. Becoming more “proactive”… simply… OGT …. “One Gutsy Thing….”
1. Big Magic …. Opportunities!….Coincidence??? Serendipity?
1. Teaching…our own inner children well…soft, gentle, warm, loving…
1. Turbulence! “Ohhhh…of course….” BUT… “maybe not so……..”
1. “Charts”… for Using VIA Core Strengths, Positivity qualities, Perfections ….
2. The Blue Sky: Understanding “reactions” dynamics…awareness, realizing, shifting…leading to a more positive mind
3. Beauty and grace… within the flow of “comings and goings” in our lives
4. A continual flow of a sense of “I”… coming together…here for awhile…dispersing…
5. “Open the hand of thought”…and let the fixed view go…
6. Different colored ropes…specific to our own minds…recognizing getting “to the end of our rope…”
7. Rope in, roped out, roped around…colors of mind
8. “Of course it’s speculation….what do I know?”
8. The “Compassion and Love” Chair…immersing and sharing…
8. The Chair…sharing the warmth and love of “the 5 A’s…”
9. “Hush up….and “dance” with me…..”
9. “I’m in the mood to be happy….we can be happy, too”
9. “Put me on the highway…show me a sign….”
9. A joyful pledge… “never ever ever again…”
9. Dance with me…. Resilience
9. Identifying, accessing and living with…positive “qualities”
9. Nurturing kindness and compassion… “pocket cards”
“The Six Perfections” …a kind and soothing meditation
Eight Worldly Concerns…developing understanding, awareness and balance
Rekindling our light….
Believe…..in yourself
If I took fear out of my life….
The House of 1000 Mirrors … reflections of “self”
“I allow you to be you and me to be me”
Avoiding…. sigh….
Abundance and depth
Friday June 17
“Sing in me muse….” …Homer’s Odyssey
She Carries Me…lovely song
Taking back “my power”…choices, decisions, options and energy
” The sacred beauty of the everyday…. “
Charging……a Sense of Well Being
“Metta” …. loving kindness
The things we do to avoid doing amazing things
“Show me the way to go home…. “
Increasing flexibility, kindness and compassion… “I didn’t mean to be unkind….”
Life is a gift….
half full….half empty
Learning to “rest at zero”= not interpreting
Why? … “There’s naught so queer as folk”
Too many rabbit holes…
Kathy’s 4 other websites
“Reflections From a Friend”
“English for Me, Too” english4me2.com
Hold You In My Heart
Older 2008 “Pockets…”
“98 Years Old and Still Writing” Kathy’s aunt’s writing
9. “Hush up….and “dance” with me…..”
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Put me on a highway….show me a sign!
Now…here’s a positive “sign!”
……. “Dance!”…with me …….
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