New Video! – Gavotte

This Moment is Enough

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When we are fully present, we know this moment is “enough.” In this short talk we look at our chronic habit of feeling “something is missing,” and how it pre…

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12 Signs You’re In A Toxic Relationship

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Sometimes it’s hard to know whether you are in good, mutually supportive relationships with your partner, friends and family. If you’re worried about what kind of relationship you’re in, here are…

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Excellent insight from Victoria Kasunic at MindBodyGreen…

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Thanks for curating this great story, @davidkanigan…

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A goose bump story from Deadspin.  Anthony Robles was born poor and one-legged in Mesa, Arizona. Anthony never met his biological father.  He longed for acceptance from his stepfather who wouldn’t forgive him for the color of his skin.  He criticized his step-son mercilessly and physically abused his Mother in his presence.  Anthony was bullied at school and he chose wrestling to toughen up. He lost every match at first. Then he found the key… Opponents were baffled. Four years later he was a national champion. And now he planned to quit a sport just as he had come to dominate.

Whether you love, hate or are indifferent about sports or wrestling, this is one of the most powerful human interest stories that I’ve read. Some excerpts:

“The day Robles entered the world, doctors whisked him from the delivery room, to spare his mother, 16 years old and single…

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Blue Ice

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How to Increase Your Odds of Finding a Miracle

Full story at:  How to Increase Your Odds of Finding a Miracle « Positively Positive.

Choose How You Want to Feel

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Instead of trying to change your feelings (as cognitive therapy attempts to do), change how you choose to view your thoughts. Practicing this way, we can notice what’s without immediately reacting, thus become better to choose how we want to react.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

You DO have a choice; in fact, how you want to feel is one of the few things you can actually control in life…

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What Your Busyness Really Says About You

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“If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: ‘Busy!’ ‘So busy.’ ‘Crazy busy.’ It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint.”
–The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

Hear, hear…

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Touching Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Free download! Developing upon teachings on the art of mindful living begun in Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh shows the connection between inner peace and peace on earth. Recorded live in New York in 1991, he teaches us how mindful breathing and awareness is refreshing and healing, and how it can be used as the basis for examining the roots of war and social problems. His vision for rebuilding society through strengthening families and communities coalesces the ultimate reach of each act in our daily lives.

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Small Things

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Buddha Doodle – ‘Small Things’ – The Huffington Post

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I enjoy Molly Hahn’s art…

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You are not your story

Every negative experience or thought is an opportunity to awaken. What thoughts are holding you back from connecting to your inherit love and light?

Every negative experience or thought is an opportunity to awaken. What thoughts are holding you back from connecting to your inherent love and light?

via Molly Hahn: Buddha Doodle – ‘Not Your Story’.

How Can a Few Seconds Be Useful?

By using them to ‘reboot’ yourself! Ctrl-Alt-Del for the mind…

Do you like me?

Being a WordPress consultant in the WordPress.com community is a terrible thing. I’m always coming across things that I’d like to change or add to my blog as I read your content on your sites. Changing the look and feel of my blog is something that I could do even more often than I do, but recently, I changed to the Splendio theme and I’m quite happy with the results. It’s a little bit edgy for me, but I think the generally upbeat ‘feel’ is consistent with my message of wholeheartedness and self-compassion…

What about you? What’s your take?

A Tale of Two Coaches: What Kind Are You?

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There’s more to coaching than sharing your expertise. The way you communicate that expertise is as important as the knowledge itself.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

Michael Hyatt shares an interesting story about picking up golf again. More interesting to me is this question; when coaching your Self, which one of these two coaches do you most resemble? Which one would you like to be more like?

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Crazy Train

Funny. A year ago this time I thought I was doing well to know that I could get off the Crazy Train. Now, thanks to the works of Brene Brown, Tara Brach and Kristin Neff I am realizing I don’t have to react to every opportunity to get on the train; I can respond to those opportunities by sitting at the station and watching the Crazy Train go by. It may seem silly to you, but it’s a big revelation for me…

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I’m not much of an Ozzy Osbourne fan but I heard the words to this song for the first time today and I actually thought it was quite good…

Crazy,but that’s how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it’s not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Drivin’ me insane
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I’ve listened to preachers
I’ve listened to fools
I’ve watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role
Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words
Yeah
Heirs of a cold war
That’s what we’ve become
Inheriting troubles I’m mentally…

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“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings” ~Henry Ward Beecher

4 Quickies To Improve Listening Skills

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Meditation, mindfulness, and introversion

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Zen Habits: “But what many people don’t realize is that meditation is perhaps the most important habit if you want to change other habits.”

I have been asking myself more frequently why I am writing about mindfulness and its benefits and yet my meditation – just sitting down and doing it – is pretty non-existent.

Thankfully there are little pockets of the memory of meditation from years past, but it is barely enough.

Then I got two prompts in the same day. An email from Zen Habits about how meditation is the most fundamental habit. An article in Australian Yoga Life magazine on re-energising your focus on meditation. Both reminded me about the importance of commitment, and about placing meditation within the rhythm of your daily life.

Starting small and starting now are great ways to begin a habit. But it’s often useful to unpack why I am resisting…

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what is mindfulness?

How we carry

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....in the ordinary moments of this life.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us

is essential to being at home in ourselves,

and present to the world with all of its failings.

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