More great tips from Sandy Davis!
Great self-care is the source of bountiful vitality. And vitality is the wellspring of personal resilience.
The sequence goes like this: Great self-care generates vitality, and vitality generates greater resilience. Vitality, therefore, is the causal link between self-care and increased resilience. You can’t get from the first to the last without going through the middle.
What this implies is that exceptional resilience is a by-product of having an abundance of vitality. If you want to increase your resilience, what you need to focus on is finding daily ways to increase and sustain your own vitality.
If you want to increase your vitality, you cannot sit still and simply think your way to having more energy and stamina. You have to take action. You have to start to actually take great care of yourself in a committed and ongoing manner.
When you intentionally start to take great care of your body, your mind, and your spirit, you will start to increase your vitality in delightful and rewarding ways. The predictable by-product of this positive shift is that you will also become more resilient. You will become more adept at meeting challenges, handling disruptions, and minimizing stress. And you will learn to handle whatever comes your way with more power, creativity, and grace.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Quotes from King
Rev. King went from being listed as "public enemy number one" in the 1960's-as an outspoken voice for human rights and against the war in South East Asia-- to becoming a national hero with a holiday dedicated to him in the 1980's. In Dec. of 1999, a jury in Memphis, Tennessee found local, state, and federal "government agencies" guilty of planning the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society."
--Excerpted from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence at Riverside Church 4 April 1967
"In a real sense all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny... I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be."
--Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear, only love can do that.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
-- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society."
--Excerpted from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence at Riverside Church 4 April 1967
"In a real sense all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny... I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be."
--Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear, only love can do that.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
-- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sustaining CONFIDENCE while building a business!
This is a great blog post from Rhonda Hess about how to sustain confidence. I especially like it because it criticizes "The Secret," a movie I found facile, dishonest and frankly creepy in that it dispensed so completely with altruism. (Of course we all love it when someone dislikes the same things we dislike, right? I had the good fortune to see that movie with some close friends who all had the same reaction.)
Rhonda breaks it down here- how the universe does provide, but, as the saying goes, "helps those who help themselves!"
Happy reading!
Rhonda breaks it down here- how the universe does provide, but, as the saying goes, "helps those who help themselves!"
Happy reading!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Looking for a way to make the world better?
I met this guy Don, and I think he is doing really solid work, mostly
financed out of his own money. If you are looking for a worthy
Christmas donation spot - I recommend this.
You can contact Karen at karen@karenschachtermsw.com
The note from Karen:
A number of you have expressed a wish to donate, or to know more about
Village Empowerment, so I wanted to follow up and invite all of you to
check out his website, www.VillageEmpowerment.com
. If you’d like to know more
about what he’s doing, be sure to sign up for his newsletter list and
you’ll get occasional updates. (They are sure to inspireJ)
Don’s work has been very meaningful to
me, primarily because I have seen, first-hand, his passion, his
commitment and his contribution.
I feel pulled to do more and to help him toward his goal of supporting the 200 villages throughout Africa
who are requesting his help to become self-sustaining.
Our family also plans to take a trip to Malawi later this year, if possible, to
see Don, and his work, in action, and to participate ourselves in the
change he is creating.
If you would like to contribute to Village Empowerment, and
specifically to our family’s goal of raising enough money to help
create self-sufficiency in a village ($10,000), please contact me.
I would like to send the gift to Don by the end of next week if possible. I am very grateful for your
generous support.
Any amount helps – Noah donated $38 of his
allowance, which is enough to feed a family of 4 for a month! Hannah
donated $10 which will buy clothes for 2 children!
So if you can give $10 or $20 or whatever your budget allows, that can do a world of
good in these communities!
financed out of his own money. If you are looking for a worthy
Christmas donation spot - I recommend this.
You can contact Karen at karen@karenschachtermsw.com
The note from Karen:
A number of you have expressed a wish to donate, or to know more about
Village Empowerment, so I wanted to follow up and invite all of you to
check out his website, www.VillageEmpowerment.com
about what he’s doing, be sure to sign up for his newsletter list and
you’ll get occasional updates. (They are sure to inspireJ)
Don’s work has been very meaningful to
me, primarily because I have seen, first-hand, his passion, his
commitment and his contribution.
I feel pulled to do more and to help him toward his goal of supporting the 200 villages throughout Africa
who are requesting his help to become self-sustaining.
Our family also plans to take a trip to Malawi later this year, if possible, to
see Don, and his work, in action, and to participate ourselves in the
change he is creating.
If you would like to contribute to Village Empowerment, and
specifically to our family’s goal of raising enough money to help
create self-sufficiency in a village ($10,000), please contact me.
I would like to send the gift to Don by the end of next week if possible. I am very grateful for your
generous support.
Any amount helps – Noah donated $38 of his
allowance, which is enough to feed a family of 4 for a month! Hannah
donated $10 which will buy clothes for 2 children!
So if you can give $10 or $20 or whatever your budget allows, that can do a world of
good in these communities!
Friday, November 20, 2009
theater methodologies for helping traumatized youth
I found this paper on the use of drama techniques for helping young people affected by trauma and violence.
There has been some discussion in the interim about how to use these methods safely, with professionals like Van der Kolk feeling they may re-expose and re-trigger if not done properly.
There has been some discussion in the interim about how to use these methods safely, with professionals like Van der Kolk feeling they may re-expose and re-trigger if not done properly.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Keeping it Simple
Top Ten from Sandy Davis
Here are 10 tips that will help you keep your self-care activities simple and effective:
(1) Because you cannot give what you do not have, make it a daily habit to pay yourself first. Once you’ve done so, you’ll be able to pay others generously, compassionately, and continuously.
(2) To ensure that you pay yourself first, you may need to invert your priorities. As much as possible, make your daily self-care your first priority, and then schedule everything else in your day around that sacrosanct priority.
(3) As much as possible, turn your ongoing self-care activities into consistent daily routines. Make them unfailing habits.
(4) Make sure you set up self-care structures for yourself that are ecological and that work well for you. If you find a particular structure to be causing you more stress than it is relieving, redesign that structure.
(5) Chunk down your daily practices until they are manageable ongoing commitments—and then do them without fail. It’s better to aim just high enough to hit the target right in the center, than to aim way too high and miss the target completely.
(6) Remember to embrace your failures with honesty and humility. If something is broken, fix it.
(7) Remember also to joyfully celebrate all your successes—big, small, and even miniscule. Small successes beget big ones.
(8) Keep your sense of humor about you. A little bit of laughter goes a long way.
(9) Dare to imagine outrageously wonderful adventures and successes, and then pursue them with abiding courage, patience, and faith.
(10) Practice, practice, and practice some more.
Sandy Davis | (207) 563-7263
Sandy@ResilienceWorks.com | http://www.ResilienceCircle.com
Here are 10 tips that will help you keep your self-care activities simple and effective:
(1) Because you cannot give what you do not have, make it a daily habit to pay yourself first. Once you’ve done so, you’ll be able to pay others generously, compassionately, and continuously.
(2) To ensure that you pay yourself first, you may need to invert your priorities. As much as possible, make your daily self-care your first priority, and then schedule everything else in your day around that sacrosanct priority.
(3) As much as possible, turn your ongoing self-care activities into consistent daily routines. Make them unfailing habits.
(4) Make sure you set up self-care structures for yourself that are ecological and that work well for you. If you find a particular structure to be causing you more stress than it is relieving, redesign that structure.
(5) Chunk down your daily practices until they are manageable ongoing commitments—and then do them without fail. It’s better to aim just high enough to hit the target right in the center, than to aim way too high and miss the target completely.
(6) Remember to embrace your failures with honesty and humility. If something is broken, fix it.
(7) Remember also to joyfully celebrate all your successes—big, small, and even miniscule. Small successes beget big ones.
(8) Keep your sense of humor about you. A little bit of laughter goes a long way.
(9) Dare to imagine outrageously wonderful adventures and successes, and then pursue them with abiding courage, patience, and faith.
(10) Practice, practice, and practice some more.
Sandy Davis | (207) 563-7263
Sandy@ResilienceWorks.com | http://www.ResilienceCircle.com
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