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"If the only prayer you ever said in your entire life is 'thank you,' it will be enough."
- Meister Eckart
"One Deep Breath" is a weekly mindful newsletter that brings heart connected content straight to your inbox. Each edition features easy to read insights, and personally practiced tools to share and support you in deepening your felt connection to the present moment and the wonders of the world around you.
Stress is the experience of our "Parts", the mind body system trying to get more of its core needs met.
Gratitude is the remembering of how many of our core needs we already have..
Start this week breathing into the heart space of enoughness. Not in the comparative realm of mind, but in the felt connection to life, the absoluteness of existence, the freedom found here in awareness and choice.
In this lives the gentle reminder, the choice to be present to the process and enjoy the journey..
One of the practices I am finding helpful on my path towards allowing myself more time to relax into the present, is bringing non judgemental awareness and curiosity towards the ways that parts of my mind are pulling me out of the present.
Befriending our parts, from a place of safety, and self awareness, gives us the opportunity to understand their intentions and support them in a more balanced way.
The most effective way I've found to do this is through Shadow work and IFS.
For this reason, I felt inspired to create and share a Free 5 Part Blog Series A Beginners Guide to IFS (Internal Family Systems) a model brought to life by Family systems Therapist Dick Schwartz.
Released today, is the Second week of the series!
You can find a link to the blog here.
Week 2 | The Psyche & Human System Through the lens of IFS
In this series it includes an overview of Parts Work, and also self paced exercises that help you to get curious in deepening your own connection to parts, and Self Understanding.
Gratitude Practice Invitation: Breathing in Appreciation
Allocate time for a 5 minute meditation. Breath in thankfulness for the abudance that is all around you. The things we can often take forgranted living in developed countries, and yet bring us comfort, peace, and ease.
Fresh water supplied by the city.
Abundant grocery stores full of fresh produce.
Road Networks to drive safely to where we want to be.
What are 3 everyday ammenities you can feel gratitude towards today?
Traveling and backpacking through different continents over the last several years, I experienced third world countries that has brought a deepened connection to gratitude for how abundant we are in our developed world.
May your week be filled with grateful noticings.
Greg
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