Tag: joyous

  • OnTheBeach:  Embrace Your Ebbs

    OnTheBeach: Embrace Your Ebbs

    As regular readers may know, I do a practice called the morning pages every day. As part of my Morning Pages, I check in with body, mind, heart and soul. On Monday, I was feeling very Monday-ish. I have a to-do list as long as my arm, I’d got a busy week ahead, I really…

  • December Daily Practice: Joy

    Because I’m off to Rome next week, I wanted to choose the Daily Practice, and get the daily updates done early. So I’ve been thinking and pondering and trying to come up with something that is appropriate for the season and the time of year and somehow fits in with a trip to Rome, birthdays,…

  • Do You Cultivate Joy or Stress?

    Do You Cultivate Joy or Stress?

    The dictionary definition of joy is ‘a deep feeling or condition of happiness or contentment’. Sounds wonderful – I’ll have some of that! So, how often do you feel joyous? All day every day? Once a day? Once a week? Every now and again? I have a vague suspicion (I could be wrong) that it…

  • Video: Dancing How You Feel

    Watch the video here. The September Daily Practice is to feel how you feel – if you feel meh, allow yourself to feel meh, if you feel sad, cry, if you feel joyous, sing/skip/happy dance/clap. Allow those emotions to move through you. For the last week of this practice, we’re going to be using movement…

  • July Daily Practice Wrap Up: Yoga

    It’s the final day of the July Daily Practice of Yoga. Did you join in and do 10 minutes of yoga every day? If you did, give yourself a big Gold star! If you only joined in once, give yourself a gold star anyway…and if you meant to join in, but didn’t find the time,…

  • June Daily Practice: Champagne Moments

    [caption id="attachment_2758" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=" "][/caption]Earlier this week I was listening to the cricket commentary, Test Match Special. At the end of the game, they nominate a ‘Champagne Moment’ – an outstanding and memorable moment in the match. And it got me thinking…what a GREAT daily practice! To notice and to nominate an outstanding and…

  • Unstick Your Stuck Pooh Stick

    Remember Pooh-sticks? The game Winnie the Pooh and friends played where they drop a stick into the water on one side of the bridge, and the first stick to reach the other side wins. Now, imagine that life is like a game of Pooh sticks…and you are the stick. The stick is happily floating downstream…