Positive Action

This Blog is my way of reminding all of us – no matter what we face, there is someone who has had a similar experience or someone who is willing to listen. We just need to take that first step, just one step at a time, one day at a time, one small achievement at a time.

Over the last several years, my immediate family has seen their struggles with illness. We lost our father to Multiple Myeloma (blood cancer), a brother to complications from epilepsy, a brother to stage IV Brain Cancer, our mother though she lived to be 90 yrs old, suffered from Dementia the last 7 years of her life and in the end didn’t recognize any of the family. Oh and lets not forget that 3 out of the 4 sisters in my family who have been diagnosed with Breast Cancer.

Sadness can be a potent force for reflection. As a wise person once said, “feel it and it will go away, ignore it and it will resurface another day”.

Reduce Stress

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It is well-known that a low level of stress is the key to a happier mind and healthier body. Meditation and proper breathing can help lower stress by clearing the mind and calming the body. This leads to a healthy heart and blood pressure. Meditation allows you to take a break from the world around you and keep things in perspective.

So take that Me Minute™

Close your eyes

Take a deep breath

Hold it for as long it is comfortable

Exhale slowly

Feel your shoulders relaxing, the energy around you change.

Congratulations, now continue to do this several times a day.

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Acts of Kindness

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Committing a random act of kindness is a demonstration of the generosity of your spirit. Kindness is an expression of love. It is an abundance concept. It is the thinking that you are full of love for your fellow human kind that you’ve got more to give, even to strangers or people that you don’t really know.

“Some measure their lives by days and years,

Others by heart throbs, passion and tears;

But the surest measure under the sun,

Is what in your lifetime for others you have done.”

– Ruth Smeltzer

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Overwhelmed

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Notice the massive amount of leaves pushed up against the rock. It all started by just one leaf getting caught against the rock, then the next one and the next one.   The water and still some of the leaves flow freely past the stagnate leaves.

Have you ever felt like these leaves? You have too many projects, demands or commitments that are starting to pile up?  Didn’t know which project to start first or became so overwhelmed you just didn’t do anything.   You don’t normally see it coming, but all of a sudden it is right in front of you. Does it hit you mentally, physically or emotionally?

First, recognize that it is temporary that by starting to do just one thing, something that you can do instantly and see the results will set the rest in motion.  Prioritize and keep it simple. Patience!

Keep the energy surrounding you and within you free flowing – positive.

Inspire. Ignite. Imagine.

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