Month: January 2019

Dare to Live

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Whether grieving or not grieving, I’ve met many people who are alive but not living. There is a big difference. In Dancing Alone: Learning to Live Again, M challenges me to dare to live. Here is an excerpt:

“I’m sharing what I learned from my experience. You’re strong enough to start taking dares. Trust God that in the areas where you’re weak, He is strong. Dare to act, Ray. Dare to do the things you don’t want to do. Dare to live life, and grieving will gradually disappear. … Our two biggest obstacles are excuse-making and not letting go of the past. If you really want to live life and let grieving slip away, stop making excuses and let go of past …”

Dancing Alone: Learning to Live Again. Available in paperback and ebook formats from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Kobo.

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Dancing Alone: Learning to Live Again

Raymond Calabrese

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Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #11

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Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t often use enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eyes, your ear, your tongue, and your hand. And, above all, poetry is compacted metaphor or simile. ~ Ray Bradbury

Cherokee Blessing

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Cherokee Prayer Blessing

May the Warm Winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks
in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.

– Found on: http://www.sapphyr.net/natam/quotes-nativeamerican.htm

Today’s Reflection

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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality. ~ William James

Emotional Wellness Checklist

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Emotional wellness is the ability to successfully handle life’s stresses and adapt to change and difficult times. Here are tips for improving your emotional health: (Source: NIH)


BRIGHTEN YOUR OUTLOOK


People who are emotionally well, experts say, have fewer negative emotions and are able to bounce back from difficulties faster. This quality is called resilience. Another sign of emotional wellness is being able to hold onto positive emotions longer and appreciate the good times.

TO DEVELOP A MORE POSITIVE MINDSET:
1. Remember your good deeds. Give yourself credit for
the good things you do for others each day.
2. Forgive yourself. Everyone makes mistakes. Learn from what went wrong, but don’t dwell on it.
3. Spend more time with your friends. Surround yourself with positive, healthy people.
4. Explore your beliefs about the meaning and purpose of life. Think about how to guide your life by the principles that are important to you.
5. Develop healthy physical habits. Healthy eating, physical activity, and regular sleep can improve your physical and mental health.

Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #10

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We can learn from every man or woman or child around us when, we can learn from every man or woman or child around us when, touched and moved, they tell us something they loved or hated this day, Yesterday, or some other day long past. At a given moment, the fuse, after sputtering wetly, flares, and the fireworks begin. ~ Ray Bradbury

Today’s Reflection ~ Attitude

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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ~ William James

Beautiful Celtic Blessing

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A Celtic Blessing 

May the light of your soul guide you. 
May the light of your soul bless the work that you do 
with the secret love and warmth of your heart. 
May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul. 
May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light 
and renewal to those who work with you 
and to those who see and receive your work. 
May your work never weary you. 
May it release within you wellsprings of 
refreshment, inspiration and excitement. 
May you be present in what you do. 
May you never become lost in bland absences. 
May the day never burden. 
May dawn find you awake and alert, 
approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities and promises. 
May evening find you gracious and fulfilled. 
May you go into the night blessed, sheltered and protected. 
May your soul calm, console and renew you.

Joy ~ Poem by Sara Teasdale

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I AM wild, I will sing to the trees,
     I will sing to the stars in the sky,
  I love, I am loved, he is mine,
     Now at last I can die!

  I am sandaled with wind and with flame,
  I have heart-fire and singing to give,
  I can tread on the grass or the stars,
     Now at last I can live!

by Sara Teasdale

Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #9

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I leave you now at the bottom of your own stairs, at half after midnight, with a pad, a pen, and a list to be made. Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness. Your own thing stands waiting way up there in the attic shadows. If you speak softly, and write any old word that wants to jump out of your nerves onto the page, your thing at the top of your stairs in your own private night may well come down.  ~ Ray Bradbury

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