Start by thanking yourself and telling yourself your love yourself. See how that feels.
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Grateful: for feeling like I keep adding little tasty ingredients and spices to my practice, my mornings, and my day to day routines. FUN!
Intention-embrace being a student of your own mind and life
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As strange as it may sound, it was a vast experience to be around my mother as she died. Of course it was difficult, however I feel fortunate that I was able to be close and around my mother during her cognitive and physical decline the last few years of her life. I was incredibly happy to know that she had people that loved her and cared about her within a mile or two of where she was at, and that we were going to help walk her home and make sure she was comfortable and as happy as possible.
I also feel truly fortunate that I’ve had the opportunity to visit friends on their last day or two of their lives as they were dying from cancer. The reason I mentioned the ailment that was the main cause of their demise is that it is a particularly insidious disease and how it eats away at the physical body so rapidly and leaves the person that you knew as a shallow seemingly hollow shell of their former physical self.
Even if you had seen the person a few months earlier, the last part of this decline is precipitous and if you’re not emotionally prepared or what your senses will experience in terms of how the person looks, it can be quite jarring. It’s quite jarring no matter what it’s just the second or the third time you’re a little bit more prepared for what you’re about to experience when you walk into the hospice or the hospital room.
The important thing to remember is that they were never their bodies to begin with.
In other words, the person that you love, and that you still love in memory today was not the recipient of your affection and care because of their physical attributes or the shape and size of their body. It was about the things inside of them that you can’t see their mind their spirit, their personality, their heart, their soul, and those energetic key ingredients remained active all the way till the end.
I did a bit of reading and research a few years back when my mom was getting ready to transition and for her soul to re-integrate at depart from this physical world. I was curious about which senses remains most active until the very end, and it was interesting to know that hearing is one of those things that is one of the last senses to go.
I found great comfort knowing that I could whisper into my mother’s ear and reassure her that her work was completed and that she had done a wonderful job here and that we were all safe and that we loved her very much and we appreciate her beyond words.
According to medical research, hearing is considered the last sense to be lost when someone is dying; meaning even if a person appears unconscious, they may still be able to hear you, so it’s important to continue talking to them during their final moments.
Key points about hearing at the end of life:
Scientific evidence:
Studies have shown electrophysiological evidence of preserved hearing even at the end of life, indicating the auditory system can still respond to sound even when someone is unconscious.
Importance of communication:
This is why healthcare professionals encourage loved ones to continue talking to a dying person, even if they don’t seem responsive.
Not a guarantee:
While hearing is considered the last sense to go, individual experiences may vary based on the circumstances of death.
I could simply reassure her repeatedly, reassure her and tell her how much I loved her, and I knew that even though she wasn’t physically responding in real time that my words were going into her mind and heart just like water fills up sponge.
For me, this is another reminder of our opportunity to encourage and for most people introduce the concept of positive self-talk and for creating your own soundtrack for your mind that is built upon a foundation of abundance and love instead of fear.
Now that we understand the science behind neuroplasticity and the power of internal dialogue in shaping our mental reality, it is incumbent upon us to find new and practical ways to introduce these concepts to the youth and to adults who are willing to put the oxygen mask on themselves first.
The gift program is an acronym for:
Gratitude
Intention
First
Things
We activate the program by having youth cohort leaders exchange a daily text message that starts off everyone’s day with a focus on abundance and intention and specific commitments to themselves for tasks or activities that they will complete before they go to sleep, no matter what.
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We are teaching that happiness is an inside job and that personal behavior and accountability is necessary.
We believe that this program is ideal as a steppingstone to reach into the communities at the grassroots level and then partner with organizations like First Tee, Youth on Course, Girls Inc. and take the collaborative approach that one hand washes the other and together, they wash the face.
Choose your words carefully and I’m not just talking about the words that you say aloud to other people.
Choose the words that you’re saying to yourself most carefully because those are the words that will allow you to produce, and to create the kindest, most compassionate version of yourself to put on a display for others.
Happiness is an inside job and time is wasting.
So, get up on it like a Puppy on a pork chop and make this your last million-dollar Monday of 2024 by shining your sparkling attitude of gratitude.
EVERY DAY:
Love
and
Gratitude
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Thank you sincerely.
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Every day, every way, grateful.
KC
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