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RELATIONSHIPPED

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In 1996 there was a study done in the United States (exploring belonging and social connection) where the researchers asked, “HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU FEEL CLOSE TO…CLOSE ENOUGH THAT YOU WOULD SHARE YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS?” The Answer was 4. The exact same study was done just a mere eight years later in 2004. THE ANSWER WAS: 1
25% answered 0 which means that 1/4 of the population in the United States feel they have NO ONE TO TALK TO. . .

Do you want to know what the most scary part of these two studies are? Those studies were done 15 and 23 years ago. . .

Can you seriously imagine
WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
which was viritually nonexistent
and a wisp of a shadow
what the results of such a study
would fare today,
March 29, 2019. . .

Who would have thought that
W E
are the
LITTLE THINGS
(way more than
Social Media
Technology
Pharmaceuticals
Scientific Discoveries
Medical Advances)

A few years ago there was a commercial that represented,
GO TO MEETING. COM
and their mantra was so powerful
I still remember it years later
because I thought
I T
to be
THE CURE
for a lot of the World’s Ill’s;
THE HEALER
of most all shattered
R E L A T I O N S H I P S:
WHEN YOU GO FACE TO FACE,
YOU CAN’T HELP BUT TO SEE
EYE TO EYE

T H A T ‘ S G E T T I N G
R E L A T I O N S H I P P E D

ONE DAY
hopefully one
not so much found on a
c a l e n d a r
but in a heart
will pulsate
u n c e a s i n g l y
that it’s never
pharmaceuticals
medical advances
scientific inventions
therapies
interventions
technologies
or any forms of
social media
(present or unfolding)
that heal us. . .
IT’S RELATIONSHIPS

G E T T H A T

and yes,
Y E S
You’ll have been
RELATIONSHIPPED
. . .and it’ll not only last. . .
IT’LL WRECK EVERY STUDY
(for an ever)

Shadow-Thrower

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S c a r e d ?

E   v   e   r ?

I remember I didn’t sleep so well as a little kid,

hmmmmmmmmmmm,

s  t  i  l  l       d  o  n ‘ t.        .       .

When I laid in bed at night,

l        a        t        e,

when everyone else and the World

was sleeping, i

t was then I’d see them:

S         H         A         D         O         W         S

Now we all don’t know what

T  H  E      S  H  A  D  O  W      K  N  O  W  S,

do we?

.          .          .but we do know

M        O        R        E !

We know that the SHADOW

can never hurt us,

in fact,

can only really ever bother,

bug,

pester us

when we not so much allow it entrance,

but actually be the Key-Keeper to our imagination.       .       .

I   d i d.        .        .

I made it real easy for the Shadow.        .        .

I not only gave it a key,

I took the door off it’s hinges.         .         .

Every night.           .          .

until that night;

That night was different.          .          .

That night after everyone was sound asleep

and I lay there awake,

I saw THE SHADOW again.          .          .

G                  U                L                  P

We were staring each other down;

I could swear I saw it move,

taunting me,

making fun of me and I knew right then,

very clearly I had three solid choices:

1) I      c o u l d      S c r e a m
2) I      c o u l d      R u n
3) I       c o u l d      t r y      t o      m a k e      i t      t o      m y      p a r e n t s            r  o o m.       .       .

.           .           .and then,

 the     L  i  g  h  t  i  n  g      hit!

Literally,

the Lightning from a Summer-middle-of-the-night-storm,

lit up the room

and every time it did it

T     H     E         S    H    A   D    O   W

would disappear.        .        .

Yet,

O  P  T  I  O  N      N  U  M  B  E  R     4

was the best one of all:

Shadow’s      actually     need      light      to      make      a      Shadow

and  LIGHT  is what obliterates them.        .        .

I became a SHADOW-THROWER that night,

and every night since.          .          .

.        .        .Amazing how little the Shadow knows

.         .         .or ever did.         .         .

Even more Amazing,

how much we do and will.           .           .

If________________.     .     .

Pay  A T T E N T I O N,  Class:

Bring your Light

to Some One’s Shadow–

It ceases to exist.           .          .

Now,

T H A T ‘ S     P O W E R

and  it’s

Y   O   U   R ‘  S

to yield.      .      .

or worse yet,

n               o               t.          .          .

N i g h t

M E d i a ‘ D

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Ever feel like a mere

S           H           A           D           O           W

of   yourself.          .          .

It’s   most   likely

T   H   E   N

we go elsewhere to seek

a truer L I G H T

a Clearer REFLECTION of who we are.          .          .

W H E R E    B E T T E R

than   the

I         N         T         E         R         N         E         T

the massive  MEDIA  Monster

NOW THIS MUST BE TRUE.            .            .

There was this APP on Facebook that Generated

THE  RESULTS

THE  INNER  CRYSTAL BALL

ALL of THIS with an gotta-be-true-color-analysis

WAIT.          .          .WHAT

Uhhhhhhhhhh.          .          .

how does one blush in BLACK & WHITE

SO      SAYETH      THE      FACE      BOOK      SAGES

.          .          .IS  IT  EVEN  DEBATABLE

.          .          .IS   IT  EVEN  THINKABLE

.          .          .IS  IT  EVEN  IMAGINABLE

W     E     L     L.          .          .N O W

There’s always DOUBLING DOWN

and knowing that this would be the TATTOO

on my SOUL and my SIDE

Maybe this can all be DEFINED

Maybe this can all be UNDERSTOOD

Maybe this can all be EXPLAINED

May this can all be LIVED

with a mere sincere:

Isn’t      it      really      just

T  H  I  S      S  I  M  P  L  E

It’s not so much when

FACE COMES TO MIRROR

as when

MIRROR COMES TO FACE.          .          .

when the SOUL is reflected

and not your facial features.          .          .

Life    is    MIRROR

.          .          .Life gives us not what we want.          .          .

LIFE       GIVES       US       WHO      WE       ARE

.     .     .it matters not how you are

M E D I A ‘ D

to The World.          .          .

HOW        DO        YOU

  S  E  E       Y  O  U  R  S  E  L  F

(Be THAT)

THE OCEAN

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I am not an Ocean
I am THE OCEAN
A Turbulent
C H U R N I N G
Slap you Down
J U M P I N G S A L T Y

KIND OF THE OCEAN
That sees
That seeks
No Shore

But an occasional Raft
That I won’t so much Wreck
But gently ROCK YOU

From One WAVE to the Next
Or the ONE
That never Breaks

I am not an Ocean
I AM THE OCEAN
Waiting for a Fisherman
to drop his nets
or His Guard
and dance on my Tides

I am not a WAVE
I am a SAND SHIFTER
A Hurricane
not to be feared or evacuated
F R O M
but relished
invited
accepted
As a
ONCE UPON THIS TIME
m o m e n t

I AM THE OCEAN
as are You
Meet me at the Perfect Storm
that sports an
everlasting
RAINBOW
with no Pot of Gold
but the entire
undiscovered
ever rich
M I N E




GIVING IN

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https://youtu.be/CZAz4NCUPck

NO JOKE. . .

Life can kind of get a little difficult
and busy at times. . .

It’s real easy to focus

just on ourselves

and not take time to

s t o p

to help others

(which is really one of the absolutely
unequivocally
s e l f i s h
things we can ever do, , ,)

b u t

when we give in to giving

it makes a universe of difference. . .

Just one little act of kindness

of actually being a real live
C A R I N G C A T A L Y S T

is one single act

that genuinely

c h a n g e s

the lives of the

g i v e r

and the

r e c e i v e r. . .

G I V E I N

to

G I V I N G

Tis The Season

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Well.       .       .

Is   it   better   to   GIVE

than it is to

RECEIVE.        .       .

IT  DEPENDS—

DOESN’T   IT.        .        .

I learned a long time ago

I’m not a really good

G  E  T  T  E  R

I   don’t   receive   well.          .          .

not even Compliments 

but   in   case   you   needed   any

here’s some inspiration.          .          .

o k

at  least

some  information:

The scientific evidence that generosity is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are obvious. Recently, however, a neurological study published in Nature Communications found there may be some biological truth to the maxim after all. The study showed that generosity changed the activity in people’s brains in ways that increase feelings of happiness, even if the generous act is small or only imagined.

Scientists at the University of Zurich and elsewhere began by recruiting 50 men and women and asking them to complete questionnaires about their current mood. They then were given 25 Swiss francs (about $25) once a week for the next month. Half of the 50 were asked to spend this on themselves. The other half were instructed to choose a new recipient each week on whom to spend the money. In other words, half the volunteers agreed to be selfish and the other half to be generous.

At the beginning of the study, participants slid into an M.R.I. machine with a computer screen that flashed hypothetical scenarios involving monetary gifts to a loved one at a personal cost. The M.R.I. recorded their brain activity as volunteers decided how they would react to each situation.

Afterward, the researchers again asked participants about their mood, especially happiness, and compared the results with the responses on the initial survey. Those who agreed to give away money reported feeling significantly happier than those who planned to spend it on themselves. They also made more generous choices during the M.R.I. testing, agreeing to more scenarios that came at a personal cost. And their brains worked differently, too. When the study subjects who had pledged to spend money made generous picks, the M.R.I. scans showed greater activity in a portion of the brain, the temporo-parietal junction, associated with altruism. And that portion of their brains was also showing greater functional connectivity, communicating more readily with another part of the brain, the ventral striatum, known as the brain’s reward center.

In effect, the pledge to be generous primed people to be more giving. There are probably evolutionary undercurrents to this process, says Thorsten Kahnt, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich and co-author of the study and is now an assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Our early ancestors might not have been so eager to share food and labor with one another, he suggests, if those actions didn’t entail some reward — including the potent, if abstract, reward of happiness.

In the month following the M.R.I. study, researchers provided the promised cash to each volunteer and checked in about its dispersal. For the most part, the volunteers who had agreed to give the money away did. Though the experiment lasted only a short time and involved only simulated gains and losses, Kahnt says that “it does show a mechanistic linkage in the brain between doing something nice for someone and feeling better about yourself.”

Here’s   a   suggestion:

Use yourself as the ultimate

Scientific Lab;

be  your own   lab    rat.       .       .

E            X            P            E            R            I            M            E            N            T

 for just the next 26 days:

(That’s right, just till the end of 2018)

G            I            V            E

without any expectation of anything in return

G           I            V             E

anonymously

G           I            V             E

freely

G           I            V             E

without any strings, threads, ropes, cables attached

G           I            V            E

without ands, buts, ifs, unlesses, excepts, or’s, untils

G            I            V            E

u n c o n d i t i o n a l l y

G            I            V            E

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.       .       .

after  all.            .            .

T i s    t h e    S e a s o n !

and  more.     .     .

it   could   be

l       i       f       e       c       h       a       n       g       i       n       g

for

y o u

for

a n o t h e r

f o r

a n

e   v   e   r

(uhhhhhhh,  that’s  way  past  a  SEASON) 

Simply be the Caring Catalyst

Y O U    A R E

 

 

SHINING LIGHTS

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It’s usually the first thing that comes to mind

when someone says:

H             A             N             U             K             K             A             H

Adam Sandler and his famous song.           .          .

now don’t be fooled,

usually it’s the SEASON OF LIGHT is

s           i           l           e           n           t

Sometimes the greatest message come with the tune without a lyric.  .  .

a      n     d

Sometimes it’s good to just listen to The Message that’s not spoken

but absolutely

H     E     A     R     D.          .          .

Hanukkah began  at sunset last evening.          .          .

mere hours a way,  still.          .          .

The message of Hanukkah is one that spans generations and touches on the very foundation of Jewish continuity; it began with Sunset last night;

Can    HANUKKAH

teach us all a lesson we really need to learn?

1. Even on the coldest nights, the menorah will always burn bright.

Credit: Dominic Alves.
Credit: Dominic Alves.

2. Our children will pass HANUKKAH on to their children, who will pass it on to their children . . . forever. . .

IF   WE   ACTUALLY   TEACH   THEM   THAT LIGHT   OBLITERATES   DARKNESS   ON   EVERY   LEVEL!

Credit: Mordechai Lightstone
Credit: Mordechai Lightstone

3. Even after the greatest destruction, we continue to kindles the lights.

Photo: Serge Attal/Flash90
Photo: Serge Attal/Flash90

Terrorists could not stop Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg from lighting the menorah in Mumbai, India, where his daughter and son-in-law had been murdered just weeks earlier.

4. It brings light, and light pushes away so much darkness.

Credit: Thierry Guez
Credit: Thierry Guez

The Jews in Paris, France, even after the most horrific terror attacks, were not frightened to live and celebrate as proud Jews.

5. When a small menorah stood for justice and freedom . . .

6. . . . even after all else was seemingly destroyed.

Jews in the Westerbork transit camp in Holland light candles on the seventh night of Hanukkah. Some 106,000 Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, were deported from Holland to death camps in Poland through Westerbork.

7. And we lived to see the lights return to illuminate the world once more.

A giant menorah is kindled at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

8. Brave young men and women risked their lives to ensure that Jewish people will live in safety and security in generations past . . .

Credit: Micha Bar-Am.
Credit: Micha Bar-Am.

Israeli soldiers around the Hanukkah lamp in the bunker on the Suez Canal, 1971.

9. . . .and on to the present day.

Credit: Meir Alfasi.
Credit: Meir Alfasi.

10. So that we may celebrate in freedom!

Hanukkah   &   Giving   Thanks

Hanukkah is a special time for us to say thank You for all the little and big miracles in our lives. When we look into the beautiful, pure flames of the candles we remember that no day is just another day. There are blessings around all of us every moment, just waiting for us to notice them.

This year during Hanukkah, consider the following three ways to say thank you. (And not only on Thanksgiving.)

1. Write a letter.

In a recent experiment, people were asked to write a short paragraph about someone who had transformed their lives. After they wrote the paragraph, the experimenter handed them a phone and told them to call the person that they just wrote about and read them what they had just written. Some of them didn’t know the number. Some people went to cemeteries to read their letter at the gravesite of the person they hoped could hear their appreciation. Others reached the person they wrote about and broke down crying as they read their words out loud.

Across the board, the participants’ happiness levels rose by as much as 20 percent just from this exercise. So try writing a short Hanukkah card or email to someone that changed your life. It’s best if you send it, but even just writing it reminds us how blessed we are to have inspiring people in our lives.

2. Keep a gratitude journal.

On each day of Hanukkah, write down three new things that you are grateful for each day. This trains our brains to search for the positive in our lives. After a month of keeping a gratitude journal, people begin to think more optimistically and clearly. They stop constantly scanning the environment for the negative, and they notice others’ strengths instead of their weaknesses. The half hour after lighting the candles is a special time for thinking about the new blessings of today. Share them with your family as you sit around the menorah. We look into the flames shining with hope, and we remember our own ability to turn darkness into light.

3. Act gratefully.

Do one small act of kindness each day of Hanukkah. Open a door for someone. Leave a note somewhere that will make someone smile. Pay for the person’s coffee who is behind you in line. Take a coat you never wear and give it to someone on the street. Give an anonymous donation. Smile. Send a Hanukkah gift to someone who needs it. These small actions increase our own feelings of gratitude and create a chain of kindness.

4.  JUST BECAUSE SOME ONE FOR THE NEXT 8 DAYS

Maybe you’ll be in front of someone in line at a drive thru Starbucks

You could be so creative with this.       .        .

whether it be

Send an anonymous gift card

or leaving an envelope of money

or bringing candy or cookies on the porch

or putting money in a parking meter of someone’s who’s about to expire

or being a SECRET SANTA when there’s no secret Santa Party.       .       .

Here’s the DEAL:

THE     C E L E B R A T I O N    O F     L I G H T S

can last way past 8 nights

or 365 Days

I     F

you  just  don’t  so  much  want

but  simply

A       L       L       O       W

Here’s the Simple Message:

Let’s not be about

L I G H T I N G     C A N D L E S

so  much  as

I  L  L  U  M  I  N  A  T  I  N  G        L  I  V  E  S

 T  H  E       L I G H T

Y   O   U      C   A   R   R   Y

I   S       A   L   S   O

T   H   E       B   E   A   M

Y   O   U       S   H   A   R   E

Light  a  Life

Warm  a  Heart

Illuminate  A  Soul

Obliterate  A  Darkness

S             H             I             N             E

Even    a  

 F        L        I         C        K        E        R

G          L          O          W          S  

Just a TISSUE

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Being a True  C A R I N G  C A T A L Y S T
means that  Compassion  and  Love
need no Legislation or Policing and
Obliterates  THEM  and  THEY
or  I  and  YOU
and only is known abundantly as
US  and  WE.          .          .

T               I               S               S               U               E

A   T i s s u e.       .       .

Simple request, huh.        .       .

I was visiting them

for just a routine visit;

One month.     .     .

A month ago he was power washing his deck

buying a new car

going to a clam bake

and being diagnosed for the first time

with advance pancreatic cancer.          .          .

A       Month      Ago

isn’t a very long time.     .     .

a mere 744 hours

a mere 44,640 minutes

a mere 2,678,4000 seconds

.          .          .a  month

and now he’s just literally moments away from dying.          .          .

My Charting very sterilely states:

I provided supportive presence via active listening/validation of feelings/comments, life/faith/family review; I shared scripture/prayer/blessing/healing touch; the pt was never fully awake/responsive during visit but appears comfortable/managed; pt is showing s/s of actively dying with his breathing pattern and the mottling of his skin on his hands, lips and feet up to his knees; the family expressed thanks for my visit and for all services/interventions/support shown; when sharing that the he was our patient and they are our concern, I asked if I could be of any other service or if I could bring them anything; pt’s wife responded: “TISSUE.”  Can you bring us a softer tissue?”  I left room and acquired a softer box of tissues from the supply room. . . .”

Paint a picture

Just the facts

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

.         .          .as abrasive as a cheap, non-brand tissue.          .          .

He died shortly after I left for the day

and now I think of him

o          f          t          e          n

with every tissue I see

and I seem to be seeing them

e          v          e          r          y           w          h          e          r          e

The word   C O M P A S S I O N 

comes from Greek word

which literally translates:

S    U    F    F    E    R    I    N    G           W    I    T    H

and it’s never the S U F F E R I N G

that’s emphasized so much as

THE   WITH

R E A L     C H A N G E

never really is the JINGLE

in your pocket

so much as the recognition

IT   IS   THE   ONLY   THING   CONSTANT

in   our   lives

and often something we have little control.        .        .

A Month isn’t a very long time

A Tissue isn’t very much of a request in a world of

W               A               N               T               S

We’re not called to be millionaires

We’re not called to be Fixers

We’re not called to be Healers

We’re not called to be Nurses

We’re not called to be Doctors

We’re not called to be Chaplains

We’re not called to be Nursing Assistants

We’re not called to be Counselors

We’re called to be Compassionate People

The WHERE

THE WHEN

THE HOW

is inconsequential

to the T H A T

WE   ARE  COMPASSIONATE

WE   ARE  KIND

WE   ARE  EMPATHETIC 

WE   ARE   SYMPATHETIC 

WE   ARE   CARING  CATALYSTS 

IS   IT   TOO  MUCH   TO  ASK.          .          .

IS     IT     TOO     MUCH      EXPECT.          .          .

IS        IT        TOO        MUCH        FEEL.          .          .

IF     WE     FAIL.          .          .
                                                  CAN    IT   BE   IN   EXHAUSTING   EVERY  EFFORT 
                                                                               TO    L O V E.          .          .

l e t s     f i n d     o u t

even if it’s  just

a  softer  t i s s u e.          .          .

Being a True  C A R I N G  C A T A L Y S T
means that  Compassion  and  Love
need no Legislation or Policing and
Obliterates  THEM  and  THEY
or  I  and  YOU
and only is known abundantly as
US  and  WE.          .          .

You Bet. . .I’M POSITIVE

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Forgot about being
O P T I M I S T I C.         .         .
A  R  E       Y  O  U       P  O  S  I  T  I  V  E.          .          .         ?
A     Real    Caring    Catalyst?
A recent article in TIME MAGAZINE by Carly Briet brought out some of the things about just merely being
P           O           S           I           T           I           V           E

Keeping a positive outlook doesn’t always come naturally. But optimism is like a muscle — you just have to train it, says Tchiki Davis, a psychologist and founder of The Berkeley Well-Being Institute.

And learning to see the glass half full has its perks: It can improve the quality of your life and may even increase lifespan, she says. When Harvard researchers studied 70,000 women over an eight-year period, the most optimistic quartile had an almost 30% lower risk of dying from several major causes of death compared with women in the least optimistic quartile.

If you’re looking to reap the benefits of a happier, healthier and more positive life, here’s what experts recommend you do.

Reframe    or    Divert

The first step in approaching a negative situation with an optimistic outlook is to accept what you can’t change, says Karen Reivich, a psychologist and author of The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys To Finding Your Inner Strength And Overcoming Life’s Hurdles

Once you’ve done that, you have two options: reframe or divert, says Dana Lightman, a psychotherapist and author of POWER Optimism: Enjoy the Life You Have…Create the Success You Want. Both will help you to instantly feel more positive, as they draw your attention (and thus, your emotions) away from the negative.

Reframing the situation involves looking for opportunity instead of ruminating on the loss. “When you’re going through something problematic, ask yourself, ‘What potential things could I gain from this?’” Lightman recommends. For example, people going through difficult breakups may find that they’ll gain the time to understand themselves. A rejection from graduate school may lead to a beneficial year of work experience in order to better prepare for higher education down the line, says Lightman.

Priming yourself to notice opportunities in the future instantly lifts you from a downward spiral of negative thoughts, Lightman explains.

Sometimes, raw, overly emotional negatives can’t be reframed immediately, she says, and in those cases, it’s best to divert your attention elsewhere. “Shift your focus to something else,” Lightman says. That could be something as simple as watching a funny video, calling a friend or taking a walk.

Savor   the   Good

We’re really good at dwelling on the not-so-great, Davis says. But when we experience something positive — like a compliment from a friend or a beautiful day outside — we tend to let it pass without even noticing. Savoring or holding onto those pleasant moments and thinking, Wow, this is really great can actually strengthen positive emotions, she explains.

Be as descriptive as you can about the good things you notice, Davis recommends, even if you’re talking to yourself. The more you build your vocabulary of positive words, the more easily your brain will be able to access them, which will help boost your overall mood and outlook, she says.

Lightman suggests taking it a step further by writing down your positive experiences. Keep these notes in a jar, box or container. When you start to feel down, you’ll have a flow of positive thoughts and memories to read, she says.

Set   Reminders

You wouldn’t expect yourself to remember important tasks without writing them down on your to-do list, would you? Well, the same is true about positivity, says Davis. Write yourself a message on a sticky note and attach it to your computer screen at work, Lightman says. You might write down an inspirational quote you like, a reminder to smile or something you have to be thankful for. Small reminders help keep positivity front and center in your life, she says.

Do  Something  Nice  for  Someone  Else

One of the fastest, most effective ways to feel happier is to show someone kindness, according to Davis. “In America, we’re so individualistic, that we think, ‘Oh I have this problem, I should focus on me and fix me,’” says Davis. “But really, the more we focus on other people, the more effective we are in terms of positivity.” In a 2017 study by Oxford University, researchers found that performing acts of kindness for just seven days had a measurable, positive effect on well-being and positive social emotion.

Phone   a   friend

Most optimists have strong, supportive relationships, according to Reivich. “You don’t have to have a lot of them,” she says. “But you have to have people in your life where you feel like they’re there for you and you’re there for them.”

Optimists are also more likely than pessimists to use their support networks. “An optimistic thinker is more likely to say, ‘This is hard. Who do I need to call? What help do I need?’” Reivich explains. Negative thinkers tend to isolate themselves in tough situations, she says, which can breed more negative thoughts.

The comfort of knowing your own strengths and knowing you don’t have to do everything by yourself contributes to long-term happiness, according to Reivich.

Say   Thanks

Thinking about what you’re grateful for can instantly improve your mood, and as you begin to make gratitude a habit, you’ll see lasting benefits, Davis says.

It works because our interpretation of events influences our emotions more than the events themselves, Lightman explains. In negative experiences, gratitude is one of the most effective tools, as it can change the emotions you feel, she says.

Consider writing down three good things that happen to you every day — research has linked this act to increased happiness and fewer symptoms of depression.

Being grateful for the lessons learned in a negative situation, in spite of what led you to the lessons, will help you walk away from negative experiences with something gained. “If you don’t fall, you can’t learn to get back up,” Lightman says.

Are   you   Positive.          .          .          ?

You’re    just    one    kind    act    away

and      then      another

and      then      another

and      then      another.          .          .

to  absolutely

P O S I T I V E L Y 

l      i      v      i      n      g

Y                        E                        S

 

The Day of The Veteran

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I never served in the Armed Services.       .       .

BUT   I   WILL  BE   ETERNALLY   GRATEFUL   FOR   ALL   OF   THOSE   WHO   DID

ON   OUR   BEHALF’S

IT   IS   NOT

just   another   day.       .       .

There  is

 NOT      ANOTHER      DAY  

or even this one

without the sacrifices of the many

NAMED
UN-NAMED
KNOWN
UNKNOWN
Soldiers.        .        .

THREE      THINGS      ON      THIS      VETERANS      DAY:

1) Pause and watch the small film clip–Remembering to be grateful

2) THANK a Veteran. They’ve heard many words but the two they’ll never hear enough are

THANK YOU!

3) Do one Compassionate/Kind thing today–the more anonymous the better. Any act of Compassionate Kindness is gesture to an everlasting Peace the World so desperately needs.

BE THAT PERSON

that Brings Peace where you are–

in your own geographical area–

no more,

P  L  E  A  S  E.      .      .

NO   LESS!

YOU  are the Peace Treaty that needs
SIGNED
SEALED
Delivered

Y E S T E R D A Y.

Let the World wait no longer.

AT—-TEN—TION!

Fall  Out.        .        .

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