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We decide the majority of our life internally and carry this attitude through all the external stimulus we incur.
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For instance, misery, suffering, happiness, sorrow, gratitude, loss, acceptance, awareness and dissociation are under our control.
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I never realized the last statement until I practiced mindfulness, daily.
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I thought I was stuck with horrible days when I woke up in a bad mood.
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We can let whatever mood we wake to, go. Yes, we can release anything and be happy and excited about the day to come.
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It is all we have.
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17 May
Where do we have choices in life
17 May
We are the inventor!!!
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
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Way back in 1838 happiness followed the same rules, stay present, live now and be happy.
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Let go of thought if you want to be the artificer of happiness in life.
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Reach out and find the joy beneath the surface of now.
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17 May
Wasting life and time is what PTSD does to us.
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The present moment, the only moment we have to feel or to think, is a hidden dimension for most of us. We are so absorbed with planning for the future or blaming people for what is over and done with that we lose the lives we are living. We die a thousand deaths wasting our energy on what was or what will be. We need to wake up a little more and liberate ourselves from our self-destructive habits — greed, hatred, racism and selfishness. There is no reason to starve for well-being.
Jon Kabat Zinn
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Time and again the answer is in this moment with dissociation a waste of time and life.
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Be here without doubt or worry dominating our consciousness.
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Will you practice and heal or just read?
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16 May
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin!!
. Vladimir Kush Paintings:
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Discontent bubbles up from the ego, a true meditator accepts life as it is without discontent.
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Content may be numerous things, awareness of this moment, acceptance of life as it is, or maybe a calm that we are exactly where we need to be.
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Search no more externally, focus internally and become familiar with the perfect you, true self.
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It is so present moment it has no concept of past or future.
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Happiness abounds in this space.
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Real life opens up with opportunity, intrigue and excitement.
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Practice and unleash the power of mindfulness on life, on thoughts, on fear, on panic, on running away and especially on feeling inferior.
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Life changes when we stay present, trauma integrates and heals as we observe fear without grasping.
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Rejoice and know the power of healing is only a breath away, literally!!!!!!!!!
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16 May
Let go of worry:…. Yes it is a choice!!!!!!!L
. Vladimir Kush Paintings:
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Whatever assumptions you have about yourself, no matter how reasonable they might be, they are still a creation in the present. By believing in them, by thinking and holding to them, you’re continually creating yourself as a personality. Awakeness is not a creation
Ajahn Sumedh.
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Quit worrying about oneself and live freely.
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Let concern about oneself fade, opening up the world, healing and bringing happiness to life.
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Let go, surrender to fear, the story, the panic and the desire to escape.
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Healing is right in front of you, inside you not externally located.
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15 May
A Quote for today!
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snow flake
— M.B. Ray
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We put off living when PTSD is active.
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We avoid and dissociate into the story line.
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Whether it is beauty or calamity stay here, now.
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15 May
Happiness: Not what you think
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Your notions of happiness may be very dangerous. Happiness can only be possible in the here and now. Go back and examine deeply your notions and ideas of happiness. So let go of what you believed yesterday. Let go of what you thought last week you needed to be happy. The conditions of happiness that are in your life now are enough.
Thich Nhat Hahn
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Our daily mindfulness practice allows us to be present for happiness and life.
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Happiness can be brought with us from one moment to the next.
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Search what you thought was happiness and adjust.
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