Cultivate Wellbeing & Self Care

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✨Radiate loving kindness.✨

Bring attention to others' happiness. Compassion for others' suffering.

No expectation of self-benefit. Non-attachment to outcome.

Practice self-forgetting with pure heart.

#Metta #LovingKindness #Compassion #Wellbeing #SelfCare

Side by side view of the same landscape scene in a forest clearing with new pine and fir trees, 24 hours apart. On the left, before snow, the ground is bare. On the right, the exact same view but with snow covering the ground and tree branches. Guilt-Free Self-Care logo, Cultivate Wellbeing title, copyright guiltfreeselfcare dot c a.

✨ 24 hours later…✨

Brisk morning walk in fresh, snow-blanketed forest clearing. Mindful steps. Mindful breath. Inhaling the scent of crisp winter forest.

Warm inside. Hot tea. Thankful for this view out my window.

#WinterLandscape #Snow #BeforeAndAfter #Wellbeing #Mindfulness #Beautiful

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✨What is your life’s purpose?✨

Big industry has been built on finding your purpose.
But it is much simpler.

We need only open heart and eyes to what is in front of us.

Ask one simple question.
“How can I best be of service in this moment?"

#LifePurpose #SelfCare #Wellbeing

Instantly calm your mind and body with just 1 minute of ReMindfulness practice of mindfulness meditation. Restful, mindful focus on the ebb and flow of gentle sandy beach waves washing over rocks… 1 Minute Mindfulness Meditation to De-Stress #meditation #beherenow #vagusnerve #anxiety

Pause a moment.
Long, slow, deep breath.

Quiet mind.

Be. Here. Now.

#Mindfulness #Release #Waves #Meditation #SelfCare #Wellbeing #ReMindfulness #Stress #Anxiety #Calm #Serenity

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✨Create sacred space.✨

A place and time for solitude. A container for wellbeing. A launchpad for BEing in the world with compassion, kindness, grace.

Breathe.
Allow monkey mind to settle.
BE in full presence.

Deep peace.

#SelfCare #Wellbeing #SacredSpace #Mindfulness #BePresent #Breathe #BE

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✨Breathe into LOVE.✨

Peaceful, vibrant life force flowing deep within.

Beyond feelings, beyond romance.
Simple presence.
The experience of pure Love.

Breathe.
Allow.

Heart waking up.
Expanding.
Opening and softening.

#SelfCare #Wellbeing #ValentinesDay #Love #Breathe #Mindfulness #Presence

Cartoon of a monk and a rabbit. Rabbit: 'I have a hard time taking compliments.' Monk: 'Then don't take them. Borrow them. Tuck them away for the next person who needs one.' By James Miller of @asmallfiction.bsky.social

#SaturdayMotivation
#SaturdayThoughts
writingforwellbeing.co.uk

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✨Awe. Childlike wonder. Magic.✨

Pause from everyday routine.

Turn quiet, reverent gaze to the expanse of a starry night, across the vastness of a barren desert, into mesmerizing ocean waves.

Allow eyes and spirit to see as if for the first time.

#SelfCare #Mindfulness #HeartSmiles #SoulFull

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✨Pay attention, or give attention?✨

Paying usually means an exchange of something for another.

Is there expectation of receiving attached to my attention, or am I giving it freely?

Which is the better way?

#SelfCare #Wellbeing

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✨Change is like a pendulum.✨

It begins with slow momentum. Builds up to empowered, faster energy. Swings to the other extreme before it settles back into the center.

Release extremes. Allow completion.

Settle into a healthy, balanced middle path.

#EmotionalMaturity #Change #SelfCare #Wellbeing

My heart is with the community of #TumblerRidge, BC, after the shock of yesterday’s mass shooting. I have no words… just love to all affected. 💔

Wishing peace to all in this time of horrific grief.

#Canada #Grief

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✨Admiration for the courage to be vulnerable.✨

Wounds, even the ones healing, can feel so tender and raw.

Natural response may be to protect them out of fear.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable enough to hold the rawness without apology nor shame.

So brave.
Deep peace.

#SelfCare #Wellbeing

Wavy Gravy. Far out. ☮️

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✨ Emotional maturity lives in the pause between action and reaction.✨

In the heat of the passionate moment, instead of trying to control the circumstance, control your reaction.

Interrupt the wild mind with deep breath, then choose a different way forward.

#Mindfulness #SelfCare #Wellbeing

Synchronicity. I just wrote about this exact thing this morning. Not nearly as eloquently as she, though. Wonderful to have this show up in my feed. Thank you. 🙏🏻

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✨You don’t have to be an artist to create a life in which you are at peace.✨

The space around you reflects the space within.

Add delightful splashes of colour. Enjoy the calmness of monochrome. Relax into earthy, natural tones.

Choose and cultivate space that nurtures YOU.

#SelfCare #Wellbeing

Another sister-in-fury. Powerful, awake, unstoppable force, indeed.

“Oh HELL no.”

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Deeply emotional morning. Ability to play guitar continues to creep away like an unhurried, snail-paced thief.

Breathing through sadness, comforted by wisdom. Life is a series of shifting joys at different times. Changing perspectives, different heart-smiles.

New joys await.

#Disability #Grief

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✨ Dim the lights. You never know what you’ll see when you can’t see. ✨

There is so much more info we won’t percieve when the eyes are distracted by “always on” overwhelm.

Lower the lights. Rest into the quiet.

Allow healthy space for other senses to see differently.

#SelfCare #Wellbeing

Instantly calm your mind and body with just 2 minutes of ReMindfulness practice. Restful, mindful focus on the swirling smoke from a burning stick of incense with soothing, ambient meditation music… 2 Minutes of Mindfulness Meditation for Instant CALM #meditation #anxiety relief #mindfulness

ReMindfulness. A restful, calming two minutes to relax the nervous system and breathe into calmness. So beautifully relaxing.

Beautiful.

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✨ Movement is a medicine that heals where other things can’t reach. ✨

Tempted to shrink and hide or procrastinate? Choose one movement, no matter how small.

Gently wave your arms in the air.

Walk 10 steps.

Stretch like a cat.

Energy flows.
Notice anything different?

#SelfCare #Wellbeing

Thanks so much for your posts. 💕 I’m wondering if you have plans to use ALT text in your images? I use a screen reader part of the time and it comes up as no content. But I’d really love to be able to enjoy your thoughts whenever you post.

Today #selfcare looked like a whole bunch of FUCK THIS. And then this photo came across my feed and I smiled so deeply, I started to cry.

Thanks for your daily “Today #selfcare looked like…” posts, @evslash.bsky.social

I’ve used a couple of schedulers. One is Buffer @buffer.com , which I like because they have an app as well as online. The other is SkyPilot, @skypilot.social. I don’t see that they have an app yet so I haven’t been using it, but they really have stepped up their game lately.

I do the impromptu posts at times too. It all depends on the day. But for the most part, I liked the idea of being surprised and delighted with daily inspirations, so I created this space where they’d pop up for whomever may need to see them.

Much respect for looking after your wellbeing. Anxiety can be such a challenge. It’s wonderful that you’ve sought support to help return to a state of calmness and health. 💕 An ongoing work in progress… I hear that.

A bronze bowl sitting on a piece of frayed burlap on a rustic wood table. ✨Gratitude for the sacred treasure of conscious connection.✨ Surprise meeting with a stranger-now-friend on the same path. Accidental typos that turn out to have deeper meaning. Unexpected common dates and celebrations. Holding the treasure in a blessing container with love. #SelfCare #Wellbeing Guilt-Free Self-Care logo, Cultivate Wellbeing title, copyright guiltfreeselfcare.ca.

✨ Gratitude for the sacred treasure of conscious connection. ✨

Surprise meeting with a stranger-now-friend.

Accidental typos that turn out to have deeper meaning.

Unexpected common dates and celebrations.

Holding this treasure with love in a blessing container.

Gratitude.

#SelfCare #Wellbeing

A foggy frozen pond in the centre of a forested clearing. ✨We don’t always need to solve, fix or propel. ✨ Sometimes there is no need to do anything, nor process, nor talk/type. There’s nothing to work out or work on. Relax into the simple, quiet state of BE-ing. Allow things to move or to remain still as they need to. Trust. #SelfCare #Wellbeing Guilt-Free Self-Care logo, Cultivate Wellbeing title, copyright guiltfreeselfcare.ca.

✨We don’t always need to solve, fix or propel. ✨

Sometimes there is no need to do anything, nor process, nor talk/type. There’s nothing to work out or work on.

Relax into the simple, quiet state of BE-ing.
Allow things to move or to remain still as they need to.
Trust.

#SelfCare #Wellbeing

As an aside, it’s always a delight to see which of my posts will pop up on which day, as they’re queued ahead. The photo is the view out my window and was taken a year ago, just before a big dump of snow. This year, we’ve had no snow at all. It’s like they cancelled winter here. Loving the warmth.