Healing thru writing

On Writing Letters to Famous Strangers

By A. M. Home

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Excerptions :

As a teenager, I wrote letters to strangers.

I didn’t write to strangers because they were famous. I didn’t want an autographed eight-by-ten. I wanted to tell them about my life, my day at school. I wanted to drive a wedge between my childhood and the larger world that I hoped I might join one day. I wanted a way out. 

We are all in more communication with each other than ever before: email, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc. But when you think about communicating, think about reaching beyond what is familiar. You can reach into the lives of others. You can reach into the heart of the world.

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Watering the flowers or weeds?

Water the Flowers, Not the Weeds

By Thomas Bien

Excerptions :

To encourage beneficial mental states, seek experiences that stimulate them and avoid unnecessary experiences that encourage harmful ones.

Don’t rush past these marvelous experiences (smell of the rain, blue skies etc.), treating them as if they are unimportant. To treat them as unimportant is ultimately to treat yourself as unimportant. This is your life: enjoy it!

When you encounter something positive and healing, pause with it, lighting the lamp of your mindfulness to savor and appreciate it.

There are many lovely things in the world. Why focus so much on the potentially destructive ones?

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Dementia vs Mindfulness Practice

Who Are We Without Our Memories?

By Pamela Gayle White

Excerptions :

For people living with dementia, mindfulness practice—especially guided meditations of the “leaves drifting down a stream” sort—can be very beneficial.

For care partners, working with memory loss and dementia is an invitation to shift away from the habitual focus on past and future, and to more fully embrace the freshness of not knowing, not doing—to simply accommodate what is happening right now.

Awareness of the truth of suffering and impermanence always provides fertile ground for spiritual practice.

Recognizing the emptiness component is essential to letting go, and letting go is essential to well-being and realization.

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