Category: HABITS
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MAKING MY PEACE … with not carrying the load alone – like ants !
MAKING MY PEACE … with not carrying the load alone – like ants ! On some days, life can feel heavy. Challenges pile up, and we may wonder if we’re carrying too much alone. But nature, as it so often does, has lesson for us. In this case, the lesson is from a small but mighty…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with the power of hope
MAKING MY PEACE … with the power of hope When life feels like “all attempts have failed” and you’re losing ground and losing yourself or most or yourself, the story is not over yet. I was listening to Switchfoot’s song “Yet” from the 2009 Hello Hurricane album and felt an instant hit of hope. Particularly because the…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with the lights off
MAKING MY PEACE … with the lights off … Lights on or lights off? … How lightness and darkness shape our moods and mental health … Balancing the amount and intensity of lightness and darkness in your life is deeply personal. Everyone has a preference. My mother, for example, loved to sit in near darkness, a…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with tranquility
MAKING MY PEACE … with tranquility … all I am saying is give peace a chance … and it can be mapped … Do you remember bean bags? I think it started with a purple bean bag in the corner of my bedroom. From a large family and noisy activity in the home, it was my…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with mindful strolling in nature in Paris
MAKING MY PEACE … with mindful strolling in nature in Paris … a call to walk in nature and let the mind quiet itself … This morning, I slipped away from the hum of the 15th arrondissement and followed a trail not far from home: the Petite Ceinture or PC15, Paris’s hidden railway-turned-walking path. The birds were…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with lessons from solitary animals
MAKING MY PEACE … with lessons from solitary animals … being solitary is not being anti-social, asocial … Not all creatures are meant to live in groups and neither are all people. In the animal world, some species move together in packs, colonies, or herds, while others walk alone. These solitary animals, like the snow…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with neurography – letting go with lines
MAKING MY PEACE … with neurography – letting go with lines … like mood doodling … drawing lines for releasing and healing … Neurography – neurographic art – is a gentle process of calming the mind and letting go. It is a simple but transformative drawing technique of drawing spontaneous, free-flowing lines on a page,…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with stepping inside myself
MAKING MY PEACE … with stepping inside myself Am I in my Magic Theatre phase of life? It is a metaphor for “stepping inside oneself” – conducting a self-examination – a reference to Hermann Hesse’s 1927 novel Steppenwolf which I have just re-read. The sign above the door to the Magic Theatre in the novel says: For…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with indifference
MAKING MY PEACE … with indifference … emotionally flatlining … There is a strange quiet in the emotional room when indifference walks in. It’s not the slam of anger, not the ache of sadness, not even the stretch of numbness that comes with burnout. It’s something flatter. Quieter. Blander. Lately, I’ve found myself brushing up…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with the most popular self-help books in 2024
Making My Peace … with the most popular self-help books in 2024 In 2024, the Amazon book market experienced the following notable trends in reader interests in self-help books. Popular topics and themes included mental health, personal development, mindfulness, and building personal resilience.