Lucy Lopez

I’d rather have your Appreciation (which would be nice but not necessary) than your Approval (which I don’t need)

Situation 1 A friend tries a dress on. She asks your opinion. You say either: A. It looks great on you. I love it. B. I like how it is so flattering. Situation 2 Your child puts his toys away without being told. You say either: A. Oh darling, thank you! That’s so nice. B.

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Why is it ‘humbling’?

We talk of humbling’ experiences and we’re grateful for them. Someone rises from a state of crushing defeat or trauma as in a competition they’ve trained all their lives for or a childhood of  unspeakable abuse or a life-threatening disease. They have lived to tell the story. We listen and mixed in with our admiration

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Meditation is healing

Meditation is the integrating process of allowing the disparate parts of ourselves to spontaneously regroup and become whole again. Meditation is both a process of healing and the state of being what we truly are Meditation, therefore, is a healing process, whether that healing is experienced as a physical relaxation or as a transcending experience

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