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Video: What you can expect
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Many little videos like this one will guide you through
the eight steps to resilience. |
SWEET SMALL STEPS are powerful, no matter what stressors you find yourself within. Incrementally, you will return to your LOVELY ENOUGHNESS at center –your center...and that, my friend, makes it a better day.
It's simple...but not easy. |
The antidote to despair is not to be found in the brave attempt to cheer ourselves up with happy abstracts, but in paying a profound and courageous attention to the body and the breath, independent of our imprisioning thoughts and stories, even strangely, in paying attention to despair itself, and the way we hold it, and which we realize, was never ours to own and to hold in the first place. To see and experience despair fully in our body is to begin to see it as a necessary, seasonal visitation, and the first step in letting it have its own life, neither holding it nor moving it on before its time.
- David Whyte, Consolations
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Listen to the Audio of the chapter... |
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Process: Slow & conscious breathing |
Do this each day for 2 minutes...One minute each & remember, sweet, small steps yield big results.Set a timer on your phone at a convenient mid-point of your day to remember.
Another method might be whenever you begin a specific task: when you take a bathroom break or get a glass of water, or hang up the phone or some other action-metric in your day. |
This micro-video will help you through the process...with some tips on relaxation breaths & allowing the body to do what it was designed to do...be well and wondrously made.
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Questions to write about ...because your experience matters.
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Read Chapter: Diva Breathe - GIFT No. 4 |
GENEROUS PEOPLE BREATHE DEEP BUT REAL DIVAS LET IT GO. THINK PAVAROTTI.
In caregiving, even a small spark in the dark is a great mercy. Being full or running on empty is in my control (which so little else that matters is). There is always something within me to tap this sap. The unexpected frequently happens. It shifts my day and (miraculously) it twinkles back at me. This benign wink from the Universe reminds me that life is full of commas: pause, Wait Here, and keep breathing. |