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Video: What you can expect
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Many little videos like it 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 |
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Listen to the Audio of the chapter... |
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Process: Gratitude Breath & Lists |
Do this each day & Journal about it on the PDF pages provided below or in the journal of your choice. |
This micro-video will help you through the process...with some tips on GRATITUDE breaths & the process of making a gratitude list every evening. It may change your world, as it did me.
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Questions to write about ...because your experience matters.
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Read Chapter: Gratitude of Redwoods - GIFT No. 5 |
ALLOW GRATITUDE to turn what we have into enough.
My mother seemed to always be out of breath and in a hurry. My diva taught me to practice brinksmanship— not meditation. She was more about self-preservation than self- compassion. THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK WHEN YOU FEEL DOWN Like fire, gratitude is a tool. It improves your brain chemistry, which you need to stay fit for caregiving. You know what the anti‐ depressant Wellbutrin does? Boosts the neurotransmitter dopamine. So does gratitude. Know what Prozac does? Boosts the neurotransmitter serotonin. So does gratitude. Gratitude fights anxiety and fear. JUST ASKING THE QUESTION, ‘WHAT AM I GRATEFUL FOR?' DOES IT. Even on the day caregiving punches you in the belly and it feels like there’s nothing for which to be grateful. No worries. Doesn’t matter. You don’t have to find anything. It’s the search that counts. It’s about remembering to look in the first place. THE COMMUNITIES OF REDWOODS AGREE. GRATITUDE IS A superpower. |
To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we have to have three spaces opened up within us– and all at the same time: our opinionated head, our closed down heart, and our defensive and defended body....When all three inner spaces are open and listening together we can always be present. To be present is to know what you need to know in the moment. To be present to something is to allow the moment, the person, the idea, or the situation to change you....
When all of you is present, the banquet will begin.
- Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater - Spirituality of the Twelve Steps