The Inspiring Connections Blog

Loving kindness. We all need it.

In the free Insight Timer app (available for ios and adroid), you can find short, 6-minute and 10-minute guided loving kindness meditations offered and led by Sharon Salzberg.

Everyone has a nervous system. One of the things that this nervous system does is it listens. And then it reflects, and then it responds.

I took this photograph today. Later, I noticed hearts lining the spines of some of the leaves.

“You expand and then you meet your own resistance. In the human body and experience, as in nature, there is a continuous play between these forces. We reach to expand and are held back by constriction.”

—Betsy Polatin, Humanual, from Chapter One, (c) 2020

I see a heart with wings.

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Daily Questions—or what I have been tending to refer to as the daily question—is a wonderful resource available on the website, Gratefulness.org, that I wanted to share here in case you or another might sense it to be a nice fit/resource for you at this time and/or it might be something you experience it as beneficial.

In case you need a reminder, may you be gentle toward yourself. (Equally, may you be gentle toward all of your selves.)

Sometimes we are the orange bird, and sometimes we are the green bird, and one way or another—and in all the different ways—we are both.