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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Irises in morning mist
tomo
Optional Task 480
Winter This Or That!
1.) Peppermint Mocha or Gingerbread Latte 2.) Sledding or Skiing 3.) Egg Nog or Hot Cocoa 4.) Snow Angels or Snowmen 5.) Staying Fireside or Playing In Snow 6.) Cozy Socks or Warm Mittens 7.) Christmas or New Years 8.) Chili or Soup 9.) Warm Blanket or Warm Fire 10.) Ice Skate or Movie Marathon 11.) Cinnamon Rolls or Cookies 12.) Pillow Fort or Blanket Fort 13.) Winter Olympics or Superbowl 14.) Gloves or Mittens 15.) Cold Hands or Cold Feet 16.) Winter Party Guest or Winter Party Host 17.) The Grinch or Santa Claus 18.) Hibernate or Migrate 19.) Chop Wood or Shovel Snow 20.) December or January 21.) Sweater or Scarf 22.) Fireside or Ski Slope 23.) Melt It All or Let It Snow 24.) Snowflakes or Snowball Fight 25.) Snowboarding or Snow Tubing 26.) Meet A Yeti or Meet Bigfoot 27.) Fire Inside or Bonfire Outside 28.) Polar Bear or Penguin 29.) Coat or Hoodie 30.) Snow One Day or Snow Every Day 31.) Winter Baking or Winter Shopping 32.) Read Books or Watch Movies 33.) Cozy Cabin or Tropical Vacation 34.) Flannel or Turtleneck (BOTH) 35.) Ice Sculpting or Winter Scavenger Hunt
How we respond to the context of our obstacles can be an opportunity to examine our semi-conscious patterns. In what ways do we avoid, sugarcoat, or cling? The outcomes of these challenges are often secondary to the growing freedom you can find within by dropping these patterns once they are recognized. The obstacles never stop coming and so we cannot afford to wait until there are none. Instead we can accumulate an intense familiarity with our inner freedom and meet our challenges with an exquisite confidence in our primordial nature. #spirituality #consciousness #zen #inspiration #mindfulness
Easy Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Siesta, Luca Boni / Nude on Purple with Yellow Ground, Hester Finch / Didier Lourenço / Alex Katz, Ada in a purple dress, 1958-59 /
some journal prompts I use
three to five good things that happened today
experiences I welcome into my life
I forgive myself for…
what makes me feel safe
more journal prompts
a habit I wish to break
I feel shame about...
my favorite ways to calm myself are...
my goals now vs. my goals six months ago
I am cultivating more joy in my life by...
Kenton Nelson, (American, b. 1954)
Monica Morrill, Canadian
"Coastal Splendor"
acrylic on canvas painting
"Freedom is the space that happiness needs." Fernando Sabino
Italian Kitchen in the Summer light by Carlo StangaItalian Kitchen in the Summer light by Carlo Stanga
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instagram.com/traitspourtraits
the best colors ever actually
for those gradient enjoyers
How I'll be tracking habits in the Spring! I'm excited, I did something similar from January but I've added a bit more detail to define achieving the habit, and I think the discipline is really helping me feel good right now.
Break the stigma
I could not reblog this fast enough
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
THIS BOOK is life changing. (Even Bill Gates thought so!) I learned so much, and not just scientific facts that satisfy my curiosity. My (seemingly defunct) sleep habits have been validated, and I’m now empowered with ways to drastically improve my physical, mental, and emotional health. Ever since finishing the book I’ve been enthusiastically telling others to please read it.
Some things I’ve personally learned:
Being a night owl, early bird, or somewhere in the middle is genetic. We literally can not change this “habit”, because it’s not a habit; it’s a biological function. About 40% of people are early birds, 30% are night owls, and 30% are in the middle. The theory as to why we’ve evolved this way is because as a social species, this natural ability to take turns keeping watch at night improves our survival as a whole. Thus we as a society need to rethink and rework the ways that our world favors early birds and shuns night owls.
All teenagers have a shift in circadian rhythm that is different than young children and adults. They literally can not naturally fall asleep until well past midnight, and thus should not be waken up until after their 8 hours of sleep. What parents–and society–expecting teens to go to bed by 10 pm and wake up by 6 or 7 am for school is like asking an adult to go to bed at 7 or 8 pm, and then wake up at 4 am. Horrible, right? And yes, that chronic sleep-deprivation does have real consequences, such as a link to increased physical and mental illness.
The natural human sleep schedule is a continuous 7-8 hours at night, and a brief 30 - 60 min nap in the afternoon. Studies have shown that in cultures where this schedule has been suddenly disrupted (like a study in Greece), people with no history of cardiovascular disease suddenly showed a 37% increase in the chance of dying from heart disease (vs those who still maintained a mid-day napping schedule) over the 6-year study period. Yikes.
Oh, btw, that whole observation in Western Europe about people sleeping in 2 segments in the night (and waking up in the middle to eat, socialize, etc) is not a biological thing, but rather, cultural. That is not how humans have evolved to sleep.
I think we’re all kind of familiar with knowing that sleep is attached to remembering facts, but sleep is also necessary for learning new facts. Thus a good night’s rest is not just essential for doing well on tomorrow’s exam, but also for remembering tomorrow’s lecture in another class. To put it another way: you retain short-term memories in the hippocampus, but it has a storage limit (like a USB stick). Thus sleep helps move those memories into long-term storage so you can remember them, and by doing so, also frees up that space for new memories.
Sleep is also essential for learning new motor skills. If you’re having trouble with say, playing a difficult piece on the piano, try again after a full night’s rest. When you’re sleeping, your brain is still actively working perfecting that sequence of piano keys you need to press. Thus the adage of “practice makes perfect” should be amended to “practice and sleep makes perfect”.
Sleeping 6 hours/night for 10 days straight will cause a cognitive decline equivalent to staying up for 24 hours straight. And for those of us who keeps that exact same sleep schedule and think we’re “fine”, we really don’t realize how not fine we are because we think that’s our baseline normal. If you’ve ever wished to have more energy and be more productive, sleeping more may just be your magical wish-granting-genie.
Every hour in the US someone dies from a car accident caused by someone behind the wheel not getting enough sleep, due to the brain essentially “blacking out” to outside stimulus for a few seconds during a micro-sleep. As a perspective: a drunk driver is merely slow at reacting to say, slamming the brakes; a sleep-deprived driver going through a micro-sleep doesn’t react at all.
Heart attacks across the US spike significantly the day following daylights savings when everyone loses an hour of sleep. The opposite is true when we gain back that hour in the fall: heart attacks drop the following day. And that’s just one piece of evidence that sleep supports a healthy heart.
Sleeping 4 hours/night for just six nights increases your blood glucose levels so much you would be classified as pre-diabetic.
It’s well known that alcohol can disrupt REM sleep. What was interesting is that alcohol-disrupted sleep can interfere with memory (and thus learning) even up to three nights later, even if you get 2 full nights of sleep before consuming alcohol. Therefore, if you have an exam on Monday, drinking on the Friday before will interfere with remembering everything you’ve studied the previous 2 days.
Blue light, like those emitted from LED lightbulbs and the phone/tablet/computer screen you’re reading this from, stimulates our brain to wake-up and to stay awake. The evolutionary hypothesis for this is that we–and all land animals–evolved from marine life in the ocean, where the only visible light is blue, and therefore our brains recognize blue light as a cue to wake up.
And that’s just a small fraction of the super interesting life-changing things I gained from this book. So if you found these tid-bits fascinating, I highly suggest checking it out!
I was having an awful morning but then I read this Polly excerpt I saved and felt a lot better, remembered my priorities: to work on and treasure the things that won't "dry up and blow away"!!!