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Archive for the ‘Awareness exercises’ Category:

September 10 2010

Inspire with each inhale

What if, instead of breathing to catch our breath from the last thing we just said, we actually inhaled in preparation to inspire the words or sounds about to be expressed? Susan Lincoln’s idea to INSPIRE as the intention of an INHALE was truly a gift for me.  Read more...


Tags: breath, inspire, song
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May 20 2010

Can we be “too compassionate?”

While I don’t believe we can be “too compassionate,” I do think sometimes imagining being in someone else’s shoes can become “too real.”

For some of us, empathizing with someone becomes so real that we take on another person’s energy, burdens, or even illness. We can even take on a society’s problems, to the point where we imagine they are ours alone to solve.  Does this sound even vaguely familiar?  Read more...


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February 03 2010

Are you plugged in?

As I saw the icon on my cell phone go down to one little bar, I thought “Huh.  How did that happen so quickly?  Better find an outlet.”  And this got me thinking . . .  Read more...


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