The Routine

 Healthy routines once established provided nourishing support.

Unhealthy routines are detrimental.

What makes a routine healthy or unhealthy?

Are there magnitudes of healthy routine, where some less intense healthy routines can be more effective by establishing more effective healthy habits?  

Sometimes simply starting a healthy routine magnifies the eventual effects.

Only sad negative reasons exist to not establish healthy routines throughout the day, year, and life.  The sun will set and rise again; winter comes and goes; - we are all going to die.  

A positive reason to establish healthy routines throughout our day, year, and life is that by doing so we can enjoy the sweetest fruits of experience and live a life full of meaning, purpose, and enjoyment.

A routine has purpose.  The purpose gives meaning.  The practice is enjoyed by the positive, healthy, expansive meaningful purpose.

100th Post

This post is our one-hundredth!

How are we doing now since our first practice?

To Everyone, Especially You

You are a gift to the world.  Your experience and expression gives us the opportunity to grow.  We have the opportunity to learn from you.  Your curiosity of all things intrigues us.  No matter what mistake you make, those mistakes give us the opportunity to grow.

We Heal Together

We are social living beings, not reptiles.  We depend on one another for all of our necessities.  We have our whole life to eventually figure out how to have our needs met.  As we heal, the world around us is also healed. 

We will always need healing as trauma can occur daily.  How we respond to the continual traumas of the day is how we will heal.  Almost any breakdown can be traumatic.  Responding to those breakdowns mindfully will be the healing necessary to mitigate the devastation. 

Sometimes we cannot stop a traumatic event from happening to us.  We have varied responses to such traumatic events.  Coming back to life will take a support network.  The support network must be inclusive.  Exclusion will diminish our ability to connect to the living beings around us who need us and we them.

How we need one another and how we participate in the reciprocal exchange of attention will also vary.  Each individual has varying needs depending on their physical, emotional make-up.

Old Man

How long can a man be old?

How long may he be young?

Fifty years?

When did he start being old?

Was it at birth?

Is his perceived age a result

of his perspective?

What then, of this man’s practice?

Will he build the courage 

necessary to be vulnerable,

at his age, to share the sage

of his perspective?

How can he share his perspective?

The world of man now seems new,

though the thread of light everlasts.