Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things;

the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes.

The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time.

It is transformed by our deliberate attention.

~Katherine May

when it’s time to do the hard things…

inquiry for today~ where is your heart knowing?

kissing the ground….

The practice of growing inner strengths is both simple and authentic.

First, look for opportunities to have an experience of the strength. For example, if you are trying to feel more cared about, keep your eyes open for those little moments in a day when someone else is friendly, attentive, including, appreciative, warm, caring, or loving toward you – and let your recognition of these good facts become an experience of feeling cared about, even in small ways.

Second, help this experience actually sink into your brain – the good that lasts – by staying with it a dozen seconds or more in a row, helping it fill your body, and getting a sense of it sinking into you as you sink into it.

In essence, growing inner strengths boils down to just four words, applied to a positive experience: have it, enjoy it. And see for yourself what happens when you do.

~Rick Hanson