- YouTube
- Joy requires gratitude
- Joy is the most terrifying thing that humans experience
- “When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes forboding”
- “We try to beat vulnerability to the punch”
- “I know because I’m fixing to meet Oprah, I’m going to die” lolol
- “We’re trying to dress rehearse tragedy so we can beat vulnerability to the punch”
- When happy people feel that, they practice gratitude to defeat that fear
- “In a culture of scarcity, we are always searching for extraordinary when the truth is” (that we truly love the ordinary sweet things about our life)
Tag: Yoga
Brené Brown: 3 Things You Can Do to Stop a Shame Spiral
- YouTube
- Three counter-intuitive things
- Talk to yourself like you are someone you love when you are feeling unworthy
- Reach out to someone you trust
- Tell your story
- Shame cannot survive being spoken
- Shame requires: Secrecy, silence, judgement
- Antidote: Empathy
Brené Brown: Why Your Critics Aren't The Ones Who Count
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Brené Brown: 6 Types of People Who Do Not Deserve to Hear Your Shame Story
“You share with people who earn the right to hear your story”.
Here’s to “move the body” friends.
Here’s to people who want to be, no matter how much later.
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Blueprints for Awakening
Heard good things about Blueprints for Awakening.
Interruptions During Meditation Practice Are Gifts
When you get serious about your meditation practice you will surely encounter external interruptions you had never before imagined. Your first reaction will be frustration and anger at them. That is fine and it is normal. The fun comes when you take these interruptions as an opportunity for expansion.
Turn them into your practice. Take the critical phone call about the issue that everyone will forget tomorrow. Tell the kids playing in the hallway to have fun and to be careful not to trip. Come to think of it, those interruptions seem pretty typical. It is your reaction to it that is atypical; that is what contains the magic.
Be Gentle With Yourself
A Meditator’s Map to the Mind
Precise introduction to a mysterious terrain.
Another Way to Notice You Are Doing Yoga
You are doing yoga when you start to notice truly astounding things that you would have never noticed for even a microsecond before you began practicing.
New To Me Smoothie Recipe
- 1 banana
- 1 cup of blueberries, frozen, organic
- 1 handful of spinach or kale or arugula (triple washed)
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tbsp walnuts
- Blend with water or milk or almond milk or yogurt
- On high to get the greens really mashed
Thank you Blair!