Monthly Archives: April 2016

Gifts Not Gaps, Connection vs. Conflict

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These are the words that I repeat daily in my mind and out loud with my family. 

Today my husband said the words, as if they were his original thoughts. This is a huge compliment. They stuck and mean something to him too and I loved this moment.

I sometimes have a tendency to focus on the gaps, the little things that frustrate me, instead of the gifts that my family bring to my life. I want to stay in the space of creating connections and happiness and seeing the gifted moments and living happily ever after, day by day. When I focus on the gaps, I get stuck in a negative place and I don’t like that. So this is a daily practice to overlook the gaps, to let go, and to get back to joy as quickly as possible.

When my kids are arguing with each other, I ask them if they are creating connections or conflict with one another and if they don’t answer with connections, I ask them what they can do to create a connection instead of a conflict. It empowers them to choose and to take ownership of their actions and to focus on creating peace, just as soon as possible. Our goal is to create happiness and to take care of each other, all the time. 

This is how we find and create happiness day by day.

  
Choose peace.

Choose love.

Choose gifts.

Choose connections.

We get to choose every day!!

What will you choose tomorrow?

nAMaste

  

Favorite Snack Food

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What is your favorite, irresistible snack food that you LOVE to eat?

  
These are mine. I absolutely love everything about them, except for the sticky orange stuff that sticks to my fingers and the calories, of course. I love the crunchiness and saltiness of them and they bring back sweet memories of my teenage years.

Luckily they aren’t in the house that often!! What do you love?:

Namaste.

A

To React or Not?

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Today I practiced reacting slowly and intentionally without emotion attached to the reaction in response to events.

I practiced explaining my thoughts and considered the other person’s point of view as equal to mine. I considered  and acknowledged their intentions before reacting with mine. I created space for connections and didn’t overthink and flowed with what came our way. By not reacting and adding fuel to possible conflict, there wasn’t any conflict. I was part of the solution. a-ha.

This was a good, a-ha moment! I want to continue to practice this one. It’s harder than it sounds, especially when I want to be right. Don’t we all?

nAMaste

Twilight Run

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The weather and lighting has been gorgeous and I’ve been busy working inside, longing to go outside and play.

I decided to put on my running shoes and to get outside before the sun was completely set and to  enjoy the last hour of the day.

Even though I ran like a slug, I was just happy to be moving outside and feeling my lungs working hard to breathe. I loved letting my hair down and seeing and feeling it bounce it around.

I don’t normally exercise at night and I’m enjoying the change in routine and a refreshing night time shower.

Shaking it up!

Ahhhh…life is good.

Have you shaken up your routine lately? It’s invigorating!