“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
– Pearl Buck
Week 46 marks the deepening of late autumn, with shorter days and cooler temperatures inviting a natural shift towards rest and wellness. This time of year is ideal for prioritizing sleep, as longer nights signal the body to align with natural circadian rhythms. Creating a cozy sleep environment, reducing screen time, and incorporating calming evening rituals such as herbal teas or gentle stretching can improve rest. Seasonal wellness practices include focusing on vitamin D intake to counter reduced sunlight exposure and embracing mindfulness or journaling to reduce stress. This week, nurturing sleep and well-being prepares both body and mind for winter.
Enjoy and Be Thankful Each Day
Shared Quotes
Curiosity and the bad habit
“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.” Viktor Frankl Who…
Chooser
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do…
Tough enough
Tough times never last, but tough people do.– Robert H. Schuller Keystone Tough times are a part of life, but the resilience within us defines our lasting strength. Challenges may feel…
What is precious
Our mind is a brilliant instrument. It categorizes, analyzes, compares, and concludes. But our mind focuses on what is useful, what is logical, what is safe, what is efficient. The…
Mothering ourselves
Mothering myself has become a way of listening to my deepest needs, and of responding to them while I respond to my inner child.- Melinda Burns Setting our hearts on…
Antidotes to anger
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” – Unknown Anger held over time creates an illusion of action. It feels like doing something,…
Mightier still
“Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”- Lao Tzu, Chapter 33 of the Tao Te Ching Living a life…
Finding peace
“You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them with courage and compassion.” Running from difficulty does not bring peace, facing it does. People…
Obstacles as the path
“The obstacle to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 5, Chapter 20. I find this idea remarkably durable. It has…
Adversity introductions
“Adversity introduces a person to themselves.” – Unknown I am navigating a genuinely demanding life. Maybe you are too. This life is both beautiful and a sustained, compounding adversity in…
Resting heart
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the…
I Walk with Dragons
republished from 8/18/2024. I Walk with Dragons In the depths of gravely grasps, where demons tend to bay, My dragons guard and circle, turning old wounds to decay. With scales…
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