The 6 Easiest Ways to Connect to Nature When You Live in an Urban Area
The more urban our society becomes, the less time we are spending outside. As contact to nature is becoming less common, connectedness to nature is as well. So here are ways to encourage that connectedness when you are in nature. When living in a city, connection to nature can prove to be more challenging.
Breaking through to Bliss
Finding The Empty Vessel
The words that came to me upon waking this morning were “empty vessel”. How well can I receive today? Not as in getting something from someone or something else, but receiving as in the energetic awareness that keeps me aligned with harmony, peacefulness, gratitude, patience, love, forgiveness, appreciation, joy, and wonder that always exists one or two perspective shifts away.
Nameless yet extraordinary
If I lean deep into the blood red curves and crevices that mold and hold my heart, I can see them, the winding spiral of stories strung like garland and sewn together with ache and love. It’s all there, layers upon layers of divots and dents, bursts and blooms, composted and collaged together laying fertile for the next planted seedling.
What's inside a Pockitudes journal?
We often get asked, “What’s inside a Pockitudes journal?” and sometimes photographs don’t do it justice. Below, you’ll find all of the text that is featured inside all of our journals. Let’s being…
Self-care and COVID: How to shift from languishing to thriving
Three years into a global pandemic, self-care has never been more important for our mental health.
Living through the pandemic the past two years has been a rollercoaster of emotions for just about everyone. There’s no doubt that some people have taken the brunt of the burden, like front-line and essential workers. But almost everyone you talk to has experienced or is experiencing anxiety, feelings of overwhelm and being burned out.
What We Deserve - We must see ourselves as worthy.
This I know is true.
As we unfold, as we allow and try to heal, as we look at what no longer serves us well, what matters most is how we process and mindfully move through anything that comes our way. To come back to a place of equanimity so we can make choices and decisions that feel grounded, authentic, and conscious, this is how we can do the best we can.
Reciprocity and the Balance of Giving and Receiving
The Spectrum of Anxiety
5 Steps to Reduce Anxiety or Stress in the Moment
As our world continues to shift and the stressors of these shifts bombard our senses, methods to pay attention and take care of ourselves emotionally, mentally and physically are needed now more than ever. Below are five, simple and immediate ways to bring awareness, calm and shift our patterns when triggered by stressful and anxiety-provoking situations.
Our body, our antenna
Our bodies talk to us all the time. Are we listening? Are we paying attention? As embodiment practices become more popular, many of us are finding greater attunement to our bodies, not just in a physical way, but a mental, emotional and spiritual way.
The Constant Companion and the SuperPower
I feel its presence every day, some days stronger than others. It sits with me like an old friend who doesn’t need conversation, or to fill the space with meaningless chatter. Its presence gently reminds me to remember compassion for myself and others, to never forget grace and gratitude, and to make space for embodied attention.
The Healing Rivers of Regret.
When Gratitude Is Hard to Find
It does happen, failure to feel grateful, I mean. There are times when our pain or anxiety is so strong, it’s easier to surrender into the downward spiral than reach out and grab hold to stay afloat. Many of us have been in the darkness before, and the familiarity can be a comfort, despite all the pain it invokes.
The Joy List
My anger, my most prolific teacher.
In my mind, no other emotion exposes my hidden truth more than anger. Anger, in all its fury, is powerful enough to turn us into something we are not, clandestine enough to hide and fester in our subconscious, and intense enough to bring explosive and destructive consequences, causing more shame, regret, pain, and grief.
