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VIDEO – HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRICK! MAY 2020
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VIDEO – PATRICK PUTTING THE SNOWMOBILE AWAY FOR THE WINTER
(Oh, I did get Patrick’s permission to put this up online!)
VIDEO – PATRICK GETTING OUT THE QUAD FOR THE SUMMER
VIDEO – PATRICK PUTTING THE QUAD ON HIS TRUCK
HIDDEN LAKE
JESSE WALKER – HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Would you like to achieve inner peace? Are you exhausted by the guilt, pain, and resentment you have carried through life? Are you tired of responding impulsively, negatively or overreacting? If everyone was being honest, they would admit that negative moods influence them sometimes.
It doesn’t matter how sincere you are, these old habits die hard. They aren’t harmless bad habits; they are stealing your joy. It all throws us off-center and ultimately, it makes you unable to effectively cope with life.
You cannot reduce stress and find inner peace and tranquility when you don’t feel great. That means you need to look after every aspect of yourself, spirituality, physically, emotionally, mentally, and intellectually. Look after yourself and your body will respond in kind.
The power of meditation cannot be underestimated. While experts may spend hours in meditation, you don’t have to. Create a daily schedule that dedicates 10 to 15 minutes to meditation. Meditation is all about clearing your mind and learning to be present. As you meditate, your focus should solely be on your breath.
When you focus on your breath, it allows you to push everything else out of your mind. With every inhale/exhale, push negativity from your mind and embrace the inner peace and tranquility. Meditation is a great solution when you’re feeling stressed out. It’s something that you can do anywhere and everywhere, but make sure you dedicate that time to meditate quietly at home. Anything else you do is gravy.
Mindfulness is not the same as meditation, though it’s possible to practice mindful meditation. When you’re mindful, you’re fully present. You become completely aware of your sense of smell, touch, taste, hearing, and sight.
You can practice mindfulness when you eat, when you listen to music, when you take a hike. It’s simply about engaging all of your senses to push everything else out of your mind. There is less time to worry when you’re focusing on the reality, you’re living in instead of thinking about what-ifs.
Deep breathing is an activity that promotes inner peace and tranquility, similarly to meditation and mindfulness. There are a wide variety of deep breathing exercises that you can use. However, there is one I prefer when it comes to promoting inner peace and tranquility. I imagine my breath as colors. I assign a color to positivity and one to negativity.
As I inhale, I see myself drawing in blue air, it’s all positivity. When I exhale, I imagine a rush of black air being expelled from my lungs, it’s all negativity. I inhale positivity and I exhale negativity. This simply adds an extra layer of stress relief to the deep breathing practice. The purpose of deep breathing to promote inner peace is that your mind is drawn to the process of breathing and it’s life-enhancing properties.
Take a deep breath in through your nose, focus on your diaphragm and lungs as you do and hold it for a few beats before you expel it from your mouth. Repeat this five times.
How can being true to yourself be an activity? When you are in harmony with yourself you will behave how you think and feel.
The problem comes in when you see yourself as one thing but are perceived as something else. You can use a notebook to keep track of incongruence. This is something you can correct if you develop self-awareness and try to act in line with your values.
If you want to promote inner peace and tranquility, then you need to focus on all of the positivity in your life. A gratitude journal is an excellent way to remind yourself of everything you love in life. Once you start writing out what you’re grateful for, you will find it easier to see more positives. It’s all about training yourself to be more aware of the positive things in life.
Coronavirus Self-Isolation: 101 Things To Do – Get our Free Ebook with 101 ideas.
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The Coronavirus has no doubt shaken the world and has brought us to a point where we
can no longer engage in activities that used to make up our daily routines. Our lifestyles
have been completely turned upside down, and we have found ourselves stuck at home
for an unexpected amount of time.
Whether we are working, studying, or just lazing around, somehow the days just seem
longer. So, what do we do now with all this time we have with, alone or with our
families, unable to go out except for essentials? Surely we can use this time better.
Let’s take it as a break from the world! We get to be at home all the time, and isn’t that
what we thought we wanted up until a month ago? We get to be around our family as
much as we want, which, as many of us are discovering is not all it’s cracked up to be!
But we can make the most of it, can’t we?
So how about something to help you get through this time and not go insane? This might be the perfect ebook for you!
We have suggested 101 ways to keep you and your loved ones entertained whilst you try
to get through this lock down…and just maybe reading this ebook could be the start of
something great!
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Here are examples of our 101 Coronavirus Self-Isolation Ideas:
The current circumstances have left us all feeling anxious. Engaging in some breathing
exercises or meditation to calm the nerves will help ease the stress. Keep yourself calm
during this time and take part in activities that relax you to keep the panic from
spreading…yoga, tai chi, mindfulness. Maybe we can’t stop Corona, but we can sure
combat stress.
Perhaps it’s time to revert back to the era of no internet, of landlines and self-entertainment. Engage your family in some hearty games that are sure to leave everyone laughing. It could
be Marco Polo, hide and seek, card stacking, chess, checkers, a hula hoop competition or any other game you enjoyed as a child. Whether you have children in the family or not, this could be
a fun way to spend some time together.
You might not be a hair stylist or even good with scissors, but with salons and barbers closed, cutting your own hair might be the only available option if your hair has grown to be unruly.
You can watch tutorials online to guide you as you try your hand at a new haircut. And if anything goes wrong, don’t worry; with any luck it will grow out by the time the quarantine is
over!
While you’re in self-isolation, your mind must be swarming with thoughts about all the things you could have done while you were ‘free’ but didn’t or all the things you wish you could be doing.
Jot them all down into a list and make it your bucket-list that you can try and achieve once the isolation ends.
It might not be New Year, but who says you can’t try to turn over a new leaf? Write resolutions for yourself to achieve during self-isolation and try to accomplish them while you’re at
home, such as losing weight or learning something new. You may very well come out of this quarantine, a whole new person!
* Less Sugar (You’re Sweet Enough Already)
* Eat More Green Things
* Say Nice Things About Others
* Don’t Forget to Breathe
* Ask for Help When You Need It
* This Too Shall Pass
* Drink More Water (Your Body is 55% Water)
* Make New Friends (online, I guess!)
* Give Yourself a Break
* You’re Doing Great
* Talk Less; Listen More
* Add More Colour to Your Life
* Choose to be Happy
* Get Moving Even if it’s just around the block
* Take Risks
* Step Outside of your Normal Routine
* Forget Milestones, Remember Magical Moments
* Smile!
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Are you stressed Checklist. Cravings for junk food, sugar, alcohol, smoking, all increase in our fast-paced world, and especially when we are under extreme stress, or stress for long periods of time.
Here is a checklist – How much stress are you under? Are you suffering from too much stress?
If you answer Yes to more than 4 of these questions, you are stressed.
You can’t continue on this way.
Nutrition plays a huge role in stress management:
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Thoughts and attitude are key.
Also, relaxation, rest and sleep are key.
10 Steps to Stress Management Stress Relief
– I have some suggestions
Take baby steps in your stress management program — stress relief will result in a more vibrant, more healthy YOU – with less emotional eating and less cravings for junk food, sugar and alcohol.
Diana Walker, Holistic Health Coach
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