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Calm is a Superpower.
9 Apr
If someone is baiting you to argue, don’t take the hook. Swim around and find a calm, creative response rather than a reaction. Leanne French. Secret 59 from Fairytale Love – How to Love Happily Ever After.
Someone’s got to do it, so why not you?
- Don’t jump to the conclusion that what’s going on has to be about you.
- Stay focused on content that makes sense, and try to ignore emotional outbursts.
- Be willing to check whether they are stressed or tired, and ask how you could make things better.
- Change the mood of the conversation and trick them into escaping.
We control how we respond.
When we take our time to go within we can respond to the same event with annoyance or anger, or we can search for a more thoughtful way to respond with peace and calmness. Continue reading
Shine On.
8 Apr
If the light within you is greater than the darkness around you, you are a star. Matshona Dhliwayo.
The full, ‘pink’ super moon which just so happens to be the brightest and boldest of the year, is not the only thing with the power to illuminate. We can all be light filled agents of change who spread love, generosity and kindness into the world.
Let’s brighten our day by peeking into the positives.
- There are extraordinary experts who are keeping us informed and shedding light on what matters.
- Inventors and makers are busting their butts, accomplishing amazing things that contrast the black backdrop of virus doom.
- Investors are donating dollars to incentives.
- Growers are keeping food and jobs alive.
- Food producers and suppliers are finding delivery options making sure we stay nourished.
- Entertainers are shining a light on various new ways to connect us with their art.
- Front line and essential workers are beyond heroic right now.
- Bored children are inviting parents to be brighter versions of themselves by joining in with their fun activities.
- There’s a glow of gorgeousness that radiates from tiny toddlers trying their hand at all kinds of stuff.
- Reporters and newspeople are out and about shining their light into what we all miss the most, which accentuates the things we value and highlights what we need to feel secure.
- Positive, online community pages light us up with laughter, shared culinary delights, and helpful blogs.
Hang in There.
7 Apr
Most of us have had a time or two or three in our lives where a situation bought us crashing to our knees, and everything changed in an instant.
When we couldn’t calm the storm, it passed. When we thought the fear and the flow of tears would never stop, they actually did. When our castles crumbled, they got rebuilt. When our scars healed, they were stronger than skin.
Events may differ, but those that hold the potential to disrupt life as we know it, need acceptance and require us to control the parts we can and let go of what we can’t.
Hanging in requires time to pass. For patience and co-operation. For feelings to be Continue reading
Dig Deep.
6 Apr
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Victor Frankl.
While I’m not asking you to carefully craft all of your conversations, if you’re finding it challenging being confined in closer circumstances for longer periods of time than you are used to, and conflict is causing concern, it could be beneficial to learn how to respond rather than react. Especially if you want to create a more emotionally comforting bubble to hang out in.
Choosing our response is about making sure it’s calm, considered, conscious and in line with our core values. It’s driven by wanting to get the best out of a situation for ourselves and others. Responding is more about actively taking our time to work out what Continue reading
Rest. Relax. Recharge.
5 Apr
If we want to live a wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating rest and play, and we must work to let go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self worth. Brene Brown.
Rest is when we shift from deliberate and effort filled thinking, to a more effortless, playful, peaceful, aimless wandering and daydreaming state.
Rest lowers our heart rate, stress and shoulders.
One of the most interesting things about rest is that it’s usually about carving out a wee chunk of solitary time, versus relaxing, which is able to be done in the Continue reading
More Kindness. Less Judgement.
3 Apr
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated – Lou Holtz.
Wobbly times can bring out the worst in people.
Hoarders and xenophobes is how the worst broke through, followed closely by profit motivated price hikers and reckless rule breakers. As the days pass and lockdown has many of us glued to our computers, unkind keyboard warriors are now bordering on being boringly predictable.
Whilst it’s easy to want to throw up our hands or fight back, from a Continue reading
Imagination Can Take You Anywhere.
2 Apr
Join them in their world when they’re little, so you’ll be welcome in their world when they get big. L. R. Knost.
Thanks to thebigharumph for the art.
Create Calm.
1 Apr
It’s one of our basic needs, the need for security, which is triggering fear in many people. Although many things are out of our control, we need to keep working at reducing and releasing fear, panic and anxiety because it over activates our flight-or-fight mode. When we are in what I call Meerkat Mode, our body wants to take constant action. Because present circumstances make that a bit restrictive, it’s possible that the tension that builds as a result of being ready to pounce on problems begins to physically hurt a little. It could also be the reason that people are getting ants in their pants and pushing the boundaries of their bubbles.
Calming our mind and soothing our system is not a luxury thing to do, it’s vital. It Continue reading
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