I have a ton to say about profound gratitude but today is not the day because I am busy being profoundly grateful. Where are you on the gratitude meter?
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Category: Mind
Slow Motion Underwater Healing
Disease and ongoing illness take its toll on our bodies, working them too hard and wearing them down. Wearing the out if we are not careful. When we slow everything down, we can heal faster. Here, we don’t even need to stick our heads under water. We are simply turning the moment into slow motion as it would feel underwater. Slowing our breath, our reactions, our thoughts, our heart rates so that our resting bodies can kick into high gear healing.
Continue reading Slow Motion Underwater HealingCalming Underwater Exploration
Most of us won’t be doing any deep-sea-diving during chronic illness but we can still go there. We can release some of the stress by using our Blue-Minds. This is a beautiful way to calm the mind and body while in the safety of your home. This one is traveling the depths around the world in one breath.
Continue reading Calming Underwater ExplorationUnexpected Laughter
Boom, the unexpected laughter hit me. I mean it hit. It hit big. Hit like a boom. Still laughing. Still loving the unexpected thrills out of life during a healing journey. This particular laughter has provided so much stress relief that I wanted to share the story…
Continue reading Unexpected LaughterNutty Black Holes in Chronic Illness
Oh my golly gee wiz… the nutty black holes that we get sucked into during chronic illness is awful. It is BLACK. It is scary and there never seems to be a way out. Black holes in space, supposedly, don’t have a way out. But we do. Nothing easy about it but we can do this. Really, we can escape out of the black holes of chronic illness.
Continue reading Nutty Black Holes in Chronic IllnessStir Up Your Music Box for Better Health
We get stuck in our boxes, our comfort zones, and we miss out on music that lifts our spirits right out of chronic illness intensity. Stir up your personal music box to gain better health.
Continue reading Stir Up Your Music Box for Better HealthLaughing More During Chronic Illness
Laughing is the best true medicine. It is one of the strongest medicines and it is free. Laughter boosts the immune system, triggers the release of endorphins, helps protect the heart, reduces pain, lowers stress hormones, enhances oxygen intake which stimulates your organs and lightens the load. That all sounds good but you can’t run to your local pharmacy and pick it up in pill form. During chronic illness many don’t have the energy to muster up laughter. And exactly what is so funny during illness anyway?? There is one resource that would surprise you…
Continue reading Laughing More During Chronic IllnessExpressing Love to Someone Who is Suicidal
Suicidal people are humans too, needing love from other humans. Taking away some of the stigmas of suicide and viewing the suicidal as precious lovely people, real people, we can express unconditional love. Instead of ONLY passing off the difficult situation to someone else’s responsibility, can we also look at our own resources that we can give to those during a
Huggable and Buggable
One minute we find ourselves quite huggable and delight in the peace of it all. Then, another moment we realize we are buggable to others. We are all huggable and buggable — wherever there is light, there are bugs!! How can we shine the best during chornic illness?? Oh stars, I don’t know!!!
Continue reading Huggable and BuggableSuicide is a Leading Cause of Death
Suicide rates are rising. Sad to say but understandably so. As we are starting to face the issue head-on, the conversation has opened up more. Though the stigma for those in crisis may still exist. By continuing to keep the dialog open and move toward more action we all can contribute to saving lives, precious human lives.
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