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I heard these Buddhist metta phrases from Sylvia Boorstein, at Spirit Rock
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- “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
- 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…
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