Day 87 – Word of Wisdom the Day After Thanksgiving

It is the day after Thanksgiving and I feel more grateful than ever.

Hope you all do too.

Since I am away today, wanted to share some comfort stuff that have come into my in box recently.

Sharing this stuff,  circulating it out there in the world, makes the world a better place.

At least I think that to  be so.

My dear friend Tom Stine writes, “So, if you want the single most practical “personal growth technique” there is, one that works in all areas and in all ways, then I strongly suggest you get serious about awakening. Yes, I’ve written that you have no control over awakening and that it is not something you can make happen, and that is unfortunately true. However, even going down the path and stumbling along is FAR superior to anything else out there. You need very little in the way of techniques, experience, fancy retreats, etc, to bump along the path. And you never know what will happen. I believe it is Ken Wilbur who says:

“Awakening is an accident. But we can make ourselves more accident prone.”

Jerry White, co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in banning landmines, has asked thousands of amputee survivors this exact question. His new book, Getting Up When Life Knocks You Down: 5 Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, outlines five cycles, or stages, to help survivors overcome their worst nightmares:

1. Face Facts
Breaking through denial can be the hardest step of all. White says it took him two years to reach this phase following the loss of his leg.
2. Choose Life
Despite dark times, hold on to the hope that tomorrow will be better than the pain of today.
3. Reach Out
Resist the temptation to isolate yourself. Seek support from family, peers and other empathetic individuals.
4. Get Moving
Find the emotional determination to get unstuck from the past, get to the next day, get in your wheelchair, get out of the house and so on.
5. Give Back
The “secret sauce” for resilience. When you get out of entitlement mode and give to others, you’ll succeed with style and power.

The secret to happiness:

Make peace with your mind.
Make peace with the person you think you are.
Make peace with the world.
Make peace with life.
Make peace with everything.
Everything.

You, consciousness, make peace.
The mind can’t make peace with itself.
Make peace with all that you are.

The only cause of suffering is your argument with what is.

I suggest you love, today and every day. Just love and love more. Feel and feel more and lean into support through it all.

I love you, XO

Laura

P.S. Leah, enjoy your vacation in surfers paradise and I love your new intentions for weekly blogs…

And I am super duper proud of you for your accomplishments, the trade and all you have changed and moved through over these almost 91 days.

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