Everyone always needed healthcare. Everyone always needed to eat. Everyone always had a right to live. With dignity. When shit happens, the most vulnerable are the ones most affected… first. Priorities always mattered. Civil unrest and individual health are interrelated.
Category Archives: Personal Practice
The single most effective tool
is our breath. It turns on our rest-and-digest parasympathetic response, our calm, our clarity, and our spirit. Sit with your spine tall, close your eyes, and breath through your nostrils, including on the exhale. Expand the body on the fullest inhale you can make and breath into your solar plexus (just below the diaphragm).Exhale asContinue reading “The single most effective tool”
When you got nothin’
By that I mean nothing more to think, say, or do to make it better. Except not to rush to fill that space. To sit in that void, feel the sensations of the body, and to breathe,not looking for answers, or to numb, just letting the emptiness itself replenish the cells, giving them the muchContinue reading “When you got nothin’”
This is like a spiritual bootcamp
Spirituality is to know oneself. Right now, we get a chance to feel and be okay to sit with the myriad of emotions that flow through us at any given moment. We get to practice patience with ourselves, with the situation, and with others. We get to learn to carry the pain that is outContinue reading “This is like a spiritual bootcamp”
When life throws a curve ball.
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? Rumi Whatever comes up for you, listen. Any judgments youContinue reading “When life throws a curve ball.”
Kindness
def (noun): Loaning someone your strength instead of reminding them of their weakness. Unknown
When things seem to be moving slowly in your work
Start with this self-evaluation checklist… How long does it take you to get back to someone? If you need time to think of a response, do you let them know within 24 hours that you received their message and you need a day or two to respond? My bet is, you are incredibly thoughtful andContinue reading “When things seem to be moving slowly in your work”
You’re not alone
Maybe you know that, but make sure that you do. We can feel alone even when we are surrounded by friends and community. We can also feel complete in ourselves when we are literally alone in our room. And sometimes vice-versa. What dictates feeling alone is often in the level of connection we’ve made withContinue reading “You’re not alone”
“I witnessed the cause of all my suffering…”
…I believed my thoughts.” –Byron Katie
Savitree Kaur 