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Amen, Wendy! It's interesting how God works things. All the dogs I had before Cyric were not big on cuddling. They would tolerate me smothering them for a short while while then get up and move away. Cyric wants all the attention he can get and lets me snuggle him a lot. After losing my mom and my mother-in-law a month apart during the pandemic and then all the other stressful world events, God knew I needed a cuddle dog and brought me Cyric a couple years ago.
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06-29-20, 04:08 PM | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Gentler yoga practices. No power yoga or any kind of striving to attain 'advanced' postures, because I find that often comes from ego, speaking for myself. I like practices from the Sivananda school of hatha yoga. There is an Integral Yoga video taught by Swami Satchidananda that I like; also Sampoorna Hatha Yoga: At Home with Yogi Hari. Both of these are based on the Sivananda sequence. I also really like the 'Earth' DVD in Tracey Rich and Ganga White's Total Yoga series, and J. Brown's Yoga DVD.
Eating really nutritiously. I've been doing this for months now and I feel great. Spiritual reading/prayer/meditation. Listening to gentle music. Listening to "sleep meditation" YouTube videos before I go to sleep. This one by Bodhipaksa (Scottish meditation instructor) is wonderful IMO. Rod Stryker's Relax into Greatness yoga nidra CD is wonderful, too; I've had it and used it for years. Sleep.
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Betsy There is no way of telling people they are all walking around shining like the sun--Thomas Merton People have done all kinds of remarkable things because they thought they could. People routinely fail to do quite ordinary things because they assume they can't--Reinhard Engels Stay gold, Ponyboy--S.E. Hinton Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try--Ryan Bingham Disclosure: I have a personal relationship with a fitness instructor who has appeared in some videos. |
06-30-20, 11:24 AM | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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The FaceBook Diet
That's it! I have to stop going on FaceBook for a while. I've never liked it except for sharing pet, project or trip photos. I only joined because that's the only way to find out how folks are doing. (Well, the oldsters that still use FaceBook, LOL!)
I am really stunned at some of the asinine things folks I know are posting. They link to anything without checking veracity. I worry that some of the things they post will come back to bite them in the butt. It is only going to get worse with this being an election year. I'm going on a FaceBook Diet!
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06-30-20, 12:23 PM | ||
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Ohio
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