Calm Minds

How do you know you are stressed?

Lets talk about it. Join us:
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Viktor Frankl taught us “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.”

let's get together to explore the practices that bring us this PAUSE so we can reclaim our power to choose our response.

What are you thankful for today?? You don’t have to write it here but write on a piece of paper, write on the sand, write in your journal, write in your heart..

OCTOBER- a reminder to be grateful. 31 days of gratitude. 🙏🏽❤️

We can start to become our own BFFs by taking self-compassion breaks throughout the day. What does you self-compassion break look like?

Worries..... Racing thought.........Let's learn from Rumi, again.

Be empty of worrying
Think of who created thought
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open
Move outside the tangle of fear thinking
Live in silence
Flow down and down
Into always widening
Rings of being

Kristen Neff says: When we soothe our own pain we are tapping into the mammalian care-giving system.....by triggering the release of oxytocin. ...... strongly increase feelings of trust, calm, safety, generosity, and connectedness, and facilitates the ability to feel warmth and compassion for ourselves.

When we soothe our painful feelings with the healing balm of self-compassion, not only are we changing our mental and emotional experience, we’re also changing our body chemistry. An effective aspect of self-compassion practice, therefore, is to tap into our body’s self-healing system through physical sensations.

Read more: https://self-compassion.org/the-physiology-of-self-compassion/

Join us for a self-compassion course from May 18 - July 6, 2021. Register here: https://form.jotform.com/210367609015148

The Physiology of Self-Compassion - Kristin Neff The power of self-compassion is not just an idea - it’s very real and actually manifests in our bodies.

Self-compassion helps you set boundaries. You learn to see your own tolerance levels and when they are being compromised. Bringing compassion to yourself and others, you reclaim your power to say no.

I love walking meditation. Try it over the weekend.

From inner critic to inner compassion. Be gentle with yourself. It's worth it.

When we are gentle to ourselves, we are held in our kind, caring attention. It allows us to go out and play in the world. Just like a loved and cared-for toddler in the park - playing out with other children. Their heart rests in the love and care of their parents or caregivers.
Let's be our own best friends, our own parents or caregivers, and hold ourselves in gentle, caring compassion.

You are what the world needs. Reclaim your Self.

What's your self-compassion routine?

YES!!!

Today is my favorite day.

BREATHE.......

Little things are not little. Big things are not that bog either.

Feelings are like clouds. They come and go. I am the SKY.

I am taking Angela Duckworth’s advice and reading out my letter of gratitude to my mentor. Who would you reach out to? https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-what-your-students-will-remember-about-you/2021/01. #2021

Learn to surf the waves of human experience. Becoming skilled at it. In this new year.

I followed Sandra Bullock's advice and danced this morning before work. It was fun. Try it..