Power of Wellness with Lee Chamberland

There's not a day that goes by that you're not doing your best. Every day, you're doing your best. Be kind to yourself.

Shared like a true advocate for the power of play.

Lovely, and so.

When the mind is festering with trouble or the heart torn, we can find healing among the silence of mountains or fields, or listen to the simple, steadying rhythm of waves. The slowness and stillness gradually takes us over. Our breathing deepens and our hearts calm and our hungers relent. When serenity is restored, new perspectives open to us and difficulty can begin to seem like an invitation to new growth. This invitation to friendship with nature does of course entail a w...illingness to be alone out there. Yet this aloneness is anything but lonely. Solitude gradually clarifies the heart until a true tranquility is reached. The irony is that at the heart of that aloneness you feel intimately connected with the world. Indeed, the beauty of nature is often the wisest balm for it gently relieves and releases the caged mind. JOHN O'DONOHUE Excerpt from his books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe) Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store Lough Inagh, Co Galway, Ireland Photo: Ann Cahill

One of my favorite blessings, for you this weekend, with love.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. ...Napoleon Hill #lifesetbacks#copingmuscles#openheart#strongestspirit

This earth day, I say an extra deep thank you to this earth, our home, and that which sustains us.

This is AWESOME. At the 4:00 min mark of the clip, Dr. Andrew Weil shows us how to use the 4-7-8- breath technique. It's power is to stimulate the relaxation response in our body (the opposite of the stress response), is remarkable and well researched. My clients have all been introduced to it, and I used it in class with students ... before a test, or simply at the start of classes. I'd get requests often! Can we do the relaxation response? During this particularly stressful time for so many of us, this is the simplest, most powerful technique I know to feel calmer and boost your body's ability to cope and stay strong.

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows.... No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty’s glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. Leisure ... by W.H. Davies