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CALM AMID CHAOS

What's meaningful to you these days about slogans like: "Change your mind, change your life"?  About 20 years ago, I learned a way of empowered thinking in a week-long course at the Option Institute. "Calm Amid Chaos"  offered 3 beliefs to adopt for inner peace. I...

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Uplift, continued:

Pandemic "What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit...

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UPLIFT ~ continued

For our highest good "We can "take things seriously" ...without continuously embodying the flight/fight/freeze energies being pumped through every dang article or post or podcast that flails enticingly on our doorstep." -- Beverly Shoff Belling

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Uplift

Looking for uplift as coronavirus intensity swoops down even harder. "Be on your side", my yoga-therapist-teacher advises as a gentle starting place for everything. (I decide to remember it as acronym and silently chuckle at "BOYS".) Love yourself, love others. Be...

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Ponderings from the heart of mary: 2

Always the choice between love & fear - as soft or intense as notes of piano - while the decluttering.and coronavirus vibe continue. What do I choose to feel and who am I as a human being in this situation?

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Ponderings from the heart of mary

Coronavirus on the big, global screen and decluttering on my private mental-emotional screen. I'm surprised that both have an existential quality to them. And both ask me to recalibrate and reset. Decluttering forces me into the present, with a mix of attachment, love...

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Looking for the gifts

I've been changing channels over recent months. Still relishing the choice not to drink alcohol and all the gifts that that brings; still focusing on whole foods/few carbs, improved sleep,  exercise that delights & renews body and spirit, still coaching ~...

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Going Beyond

Coming to an end of my 30-day bio-hacking venture (self-experimentation) --  sobriety with both food and wine -- emphasizing exercise, making use of lots of tools (books, podcasts, classes) that continue to motivate me. Although it appears to be a journey...

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Week Three

I just admitted to a close friend that I'm actually relishing what feels like a more wintry regime of greater simplicity: opting away from wine (or booze), keeping food at high quality yet low quantity, exercising and meditating daily…all of this leading...

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