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Mindful Strides
Before we start, I'd like for you to pack a bag, any kind of bag to bring along with us on our walk today. You will need to pack the following items; beach towel or blanket, sandals, bottled water, matches or lighter and your favorite scented candles. As we walk down the sandy path towards our destination today, I would like for you to know that no matter how far you may think you are from being in a "better place", that it is really just as close to you as a blink of an eye! Great! Now that we have packed what we need, we will start to walk down a path of heightened positivity all the while bringing us closer to obtaining genuine feelings of happiness, gratitude, serenity and peace. As we walk, pay attention to your surroundings, sounds, smells, and feelings. The sand crunches beneath our feet and the birds chirp directing us closer and closer to the salty air. Please disconnect yourself from anything and everything that does not have to do with our walk as it will interfere with our journey of bliss. We now have arrived at the beach, so let's get started. Please lay down your beach towel or blanket and take out your scented candles. Light the candles, I've brought with me Lavender-Vanilla scented candles and they smell fantastic!! Now remove your sandals, feel the sand beneath you lay down for a bit on your back and look into the deep blue sky, what do you see? A great way to connect to the earth and its surroundings is through a technique called "grounding". This is achieved by touching physically our feet or bodies, to the earths magnetic field by stepping barefoot on the land or laying on it. It is now time to walk towards the water. Take in five deep breaths, now with every exhale you are to release all negative thoughts and feelings and with every inhale you are going to let in you all the renewed positive, peaceful thoughts. Step into the water until you become submerged and drift out into the sea slowly. As you float think of what you want the ocean to take away from you. With every sound of the drifting waves you will release any negativity, bad energy, insecurities, and thoughts. They will be taken slowly away from you and brought out to sea. Listen to your breath, your heart beat... listen. While drifting farther and farther out to sea, you must allow a flow of renewing waves to bring to you any positivity, gratefulness, peace, harmony and replenished energy. The calm crashing waves have now helped you surrender naturally what was unwanted baggage and impurities. You have now filled your body and mind with new hope and a different perspective of life. Bring awareness to your eyes, so they can now see what you have not been able to see clearly. Bring awareness to your ears so they can hear what you have not been able to hear before. They now have an exquisite heightened detail in each and every sound. Bring awareness to your body to feel what ever it may touch with elevated senses of touch. Your lips must also experience a new awareness while speaking new words of meaning, full of inspiration and motivation. With all of these new super senses let a beam of light bring them into, the sun. It is time to drift back to shore, while drifting back please reflect on your new gifts, evolution, empathy, growth, potential and abundance. Breathe in with joy and relief now as you come closer to leaving the water. Please make sure that when you have left the water that you have also left the old you behind, washed away into the never ending sea. Life is like water, a constant cycle of renewal, cleansing, fluency and change. In order to achieve change you must always flow with the current and never against it, letting everything go, just drifting away.
By Gitana6 years ago in Motivation
A Voice for The Foreigner
Every twenty-four hours we are given the blessing of a new day. We possess fresh eyes, a clean mind, recharged legs, a quick tongue, and supple hands ready to seize the day. Your failures, mistakes, and short comings from the day before do not exist in the present day.
By Angel Gabriel Wolf6 years ago in Motivation
Forever Pondering the Concept of Self Love
Today was pretty good but I'm feeling off tonight. It's about 11:30 pm. I'm painfully insecure and I have a horrible habit of comparing myself to other women, particularly on Instagram. Sometimes it's people I know in real life, sometimes it's someone I would probably never meet. I was feeling okay about myself today but then randomly started thinking about some girl I know who is a million times prettier than me and decided to scan her profile just to wish I could be her. It's a self-sabotaging thing I do, I intentionally view the profiles of these people who I feel so insecure about to figure out why I wasn't lucky enough to be that pretty or have that life or whatever it is. There is just a sense of satisfaction that I imagine comes along with being gifted with a perfect physical body, to look good in all pictures and from all angles, and to go about life feeling good about oneself. I wish I knew what that felt like. Sometimes I can agree that I'm pretty attractive, but it takes a lot of work for me to not crumble at the sight or thought of someone who is so much better than me, whoever it is that day.
By Loretta Flowers6 years ago in Motivation
Our future lies within the child
Our future lies within the child “Within the child lies the fate of the future.” — Maria Montessori COPYRIGHT DISCLOSURE “All rights reserved. No part of this Mental Toughness Power Action blog publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recorded, scanning, displaying, modifying, republication, republishing, posting on any website, platform, social media, RSS feeds or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher or author. Requests to the author should be addressed to [email protected].” — Copyright 2007, CIPO, USCO Mental Toughness For Life, Coach Franco Cianflone
By FRANCO CIANFLONE 6 years ago in Motivation
Something inside of me...
Something inside of me says to stop moving forward. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is, and it probably has lots to do with the massive amounts of pressure the external world wants me to believe exists, so therefore I do. For isn’t it merely human to output our words, our thoughts, our feelings based on the inputs around us?
By A Human Experience6 years ago in Motivation
PURE JOY
We search for it. Suffer greatly at times to capture it. At the median of the the spectrum tilts hope mix with uncertainty - call it faith. I will not oversell or undersell honesty. It keeps me from faking the orgasmic bliss of total surrender. Nothing compares to the all encompassing warmth to be free, at that moment, of anything less than uphoria. Doubt, pain, anguish, lust, hardship, all that once written suffering: absent and without substance when pure joy is at the core of one's soul. I'm guilty of lying to myself about finding it. Wanting it so bad, you'll pull regret right out of the ashes and show it to be true. For it can be difficult to know when pure joy is enjoyed or it's a forced feeling one is supposed to feel. A lie told to us from what others see it to be for themselves. Therefore, what it's should be for ourselves.
By Danny Newsom6 years ago in Motivation
when you're young and "unsuccessful"
In a few months I will be 25. To be honest my whole body shutters at the thought of it...my mind explodes, my legs start to feel numb and my palms start to sweat. To tell you I'm not ready for it, is an understatement. What I really need is for time to pause so I can catch up to the life goals I thought I would have achieved by now.
By Leysan Timirboulatova6 years ago in Motivation
Not Learning From Failure- the Greatest Failure of All
Whether it be a test, a business endeavor, a relationship, or a new skill, everyone has experienced failure; it is an integral part of life, though often one that people will go to great lengths to try and avoid. But failure is how we grow, right? A 2019 study by Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and Ayelet Fishbach discussed this phenomenon, and how experiencing failure can actually make people less likely to learn from their mistakes, as well as how to change that in order to learn for the future.
By Kiersten Fox6 years ago in Motivation
