I listened to this meditation this morning while out on a walk. While all of @tarabrach ‘s dharma talks are excellent; this one struck me as being even more so…
Life goes better…
…when I take care of me! I love to wake up in the morning, make a pot of coffee and sit down at the computer for an hour while listening to a meditation from Tara Brach. However, I find that if I don’t exercise first thing in the day the chances that I’ll do it later decrease rapidly throughout the day so lately I’ve been making a few changes that seem to work well for me…
Instead of sitting down at the computer I put on my walking clothes, spend 5 minutes stretching and walk for 30 minutes while listening to my meditation. Then when I return home, I have a big glass of water before drinking coffee and I seem to need less to do more. I like eggs for breakfast but instead of eating them with butter and cheese I’m finding that hard-boiled along with some vegetables is a good way to go!
These are relatively minor changes but they make a massive difference in how much energy I have the rest of the day. How about you? What one positive thing could you do that would make a major impact in your life if you started doing it now? What one negative thing could you drop that would have a positive impact in your life?
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I’m Not Selfish. I Love Myself.
This is part of a great post by Hayley Hobson on Positively Positive:
There is a radical difference between selfish and self-love.
Selfish is acting in complete disregard for others. Self-love means nurturing yourself so you are able to give back with vitality and compassion.
We’re not supposed to be self-sacrificing, are we?
It’s already difficult enough in our modern world for a woman with purpose (like me) to balance relationship, friendship, and children with our own aspirations. Don’t you think?
Get the rest here: I’m Not Selfish. I Love Myself. « Positively Positive.
WordPress.com gets Google+ integration!
Could it be that WordPress.com is the ultimate thought leadership platform? Possibly! Especially with the addition of Google+ to publicize. Watch this…
Mapping ideas worth spreading
What do 24,000 ideas look like? Ecologist Eric Berlow and physicist Sean Gourley apply algorithms to the entire archive of TEDx Talks, taking us on a stimulating visual tour to show how ideas connect globally.
Google wants YOU to get found…
…when people are looking for you! So, they provide this handy guide to help you get found…
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Google wants YOU to get found…
…when people are looking for you! So, they provide this handy guide to help you get found…
Ich bin deutscher
Ich auch!
The latest in the category of Fun with Maps comes from London’s Daily Mail:
A truly captivating map that shows the ancestry of everyone of the 317 million people who call the melting pot of America home can now be seen on a U.S. Census Bureau map. …
Although the 2010 census left out questions about ethnicity, this map shows how it looked in 2000, according to Upworthy.
You’ll notice that all but three of Wisconsin’s 72 counties (and, for that matter, nearly every county in states around Wisconsin) are depicted as having Germans as their largest ethnic group. One exception is Menominee County, home of the Menominee tribe. The other two are Vernon and Tremepealeau counties, which have more Norwegians than anything else.
About us Krauts, the Daily Mail says:
49,206,934 Germans
By far the largest ancestral group, stretching from coast to coast across 21st century America is German…
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Are You Owned By Someone?
True dat!
As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself. — Neale Donald Walsch
Take a moment. …
Take a moment. Examine whose should’s are running your life. Are the things you tell yourself you need to be doing true expressions of your legitimate goals, responsibilities, and commitments? Or have you wandered so far away from yourself that your life is no longer a genuine expression of who you are, and what you want, in your heart?
How many hours a week do you spend doing what you want to be doing or doing what you need to be doing to have what you want—whether that’s sobriety, a family, or the career that’s right for you? How many hours each week are spent doing what you think you should be doing, whether you need to or not?
September 17- Meditation from “Language of Letting Go” | Language of Letting Go
New Beginnings At Sunrise
Captivating…
“To commemorate the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the New York City Ballet at dawn on September 12 released a film, New Beginnings, of two of its principals dancing at sunrise on the 57th floor terrace of Four World Trade Center, now under construction in lower Manhattan. This short film captures an extraordinary and moving performance of Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain. It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and a tribute to the future of the city that New York City Ballet calls home. The backdrop is the New York City skyline and One World Trade Center, which was formerly known as the Freedom Tower, and which, upon completion, will be the tallest skyscraper in North America, 1,776 feet high with its mast.”
The music in this clip is Spiegel Im Spiegel by Arvo Part (one of my favorites).
Three minutes of wonderful here to…
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1000 Serious Moves
Tara Brach writes:
We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively–resisting unpleasant experience, seeking out more comfort and ease–perpetually wanting life to be different than it is. In response to this confined way of living, the Buddha invites us to discover our innate capacity for happiness, the wellbeing that arises in full presence. These two talks explore the ways we get caught in the trance of reactivity and grimness, and the pathways to unconditioned happiness.
Here’s a small sample… Continue reading “1000 Serious Moves”
Tell Your Story, One Post at a Time…
Social Media Today says…
One of the most effective purposes for a business blog is storytelling. You can tell stories about your clients and your products or services, but one of the best ideas is to tell stories about your actual business. But what do those stories look like? Here are six different kinds of stories you can tell, as well as some general tips on great storytelling.
Continue reading…Tell Your Business Story, One Blog at a Time | Social Media Today.
Slowly I began …
Slowly I began to see that many of the boxes I found myself in were of my own making. I tended to construct them, crawl in, then wonder who I could blame for putting me there. Who did this to me? I would wonder and sometimes ask aloud. That’s when I’d hear the answer: You did, Melody. You put yourself in this box. Now it’s up to you to get out. ~ Melody Beattie
You put yourself in this box. Now it’s up to you to get out. | Thrive
Self compassion
Dr. Kristen Neff on the topic of self-compassion…
Bright, shiny objects! 
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