Sangha of Auspicious Companions

June 16, 2019

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Sleep is Your Superpower

Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature’s best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep — and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don’t, for both your brain and body. Walker shares the research on how quality of sleep impacts our immune system, hormones, heart, learning, memory and even our genetic code. He offers some helpful tips here. { read more }

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How would you rate the quality of your sleep. What is one thing you could do improve in this area of your life?

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June 15, 2019

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Deepening Our Comfort with Uncertainty

While many of us associate uncertainty with discomfort and fear, there is an exquisite beauty to be found in the transformation that takes place when we can welcome the unknown. Kristi Nelson, the Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living, examines what it means to surrender to the unpredictable nature of our days and the rewards that manifest as a result. “Much of our freedom depends on cultivating greater perspective about being with uncertainty, however and whenever we can,” she writes. Read more to learn how you can lean into the impending unknown with gratitude and awareness. { read more }

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Identify an area of uncertainty that’s particularly challenging for you. What would it be like if you could free yourself from any related outcomes or expectations? Practice taking a step back when you feel stressed or worried by what’s to come and practice tuning into the present.

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June 14, 2019

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Lessons of Impermanence

“As a palliative care doctor, I spend much of my time face-to-face with pain and suffering, debilitating disease and death. When I began my training, I thought I was comfortable with the idea of mortality, and with the notion that fighting death at all costs wasn’t the sole purpose of medicine. But I hadn’t expected that the type of medicine I’d chosen to practice would require a strength and perspective that medical training hadn’t offered. It was a chance encounter with a sand painting that helped me learn how to doctor patients I knew I would lose.” Sunita Puri, author of “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour” shares more. { read more }

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For more inspiration join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Sunita Puri. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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June 13, 2019

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The Power of Everyday Rituals

In a world often fraught with stress and disorder, the Balinese ritual of canang sari is a reminder of the sacred nature of all things and times. On Balinese street corners and in hallways, at the entry to shops and homes, these small baskets of flowers remind the giver and the passerby of how one can enter into what is essential in everyday life. Author Jay Griffith experienced the value of ritual expressed in canang sari while on a trip to Bali and realized that, “Tiny, everyday rituals are a hand-crafted prayer to domestic order, beckoning the divine to step inside a moment.” She explains here how she saw traditions in every culture with new eyes, and realized how rituals can give life a depth and sacredness we all need. { read more }

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What rituals do you have that remind you of the sacred in everyday life? What rituals would you like to invite into your life again or for the first time?

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June 12, 2019

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In Which the River Makes Off with Three Stationery Characters

The river beckons the lumberjacking beaver and spawning chinook salmon to capture its currents, to countervail its flow. Befurred and befinned they dance to its gurgling song but do not yield to the flow, living for their time as dissenters, laboring at cross-purposes against currents as frantically stationary characters in their water world – “there is music that will dissolve your anchors, your sanctuaries, floating you off your feet, fetching you away with itself… until it spills you into a place whose dimensions make nonsense of your heretofore extraordinary spatial intelligence.” In the life and tides of the river, only the reflection of the moon remains constant, bobbing along to its own celestial tune. In this delightful essay from The Iowa Review, Amy Leach captures the eternal rhythms of an ancient, aquatic serenade. { read more }

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Quiet your mind and listen to the music that calls to you from banks of a river–the gently murmuring currents that connect you to sea and the heart of the living world.

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June 11, 2019

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Free Trip to Egypt

Seeking to build a bridge of mutual understanding and friendship, a Canadian-Egyptian entrepreneur living in Switzerland decides to reach out to the very people who fear him. He travels across the United States to find Americans concerned about an Islamic threat and makes them an intriguing offer: a Free Trip to Egypt. { read more }

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Learn more about the film and join the #PledgeToListen Day of Unity. { more }

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June 10, 2019

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Helping Hospitals Discover the Person Within the Patient

“Bob Hall was recovering from yet another surgery when the volunteer first walked into his hospital room. It was March 2014, and unfortunately Hall had been in and out of the hospital quite a bit. It had been a rocky recovery since his lung transplant, three months earlier, at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, WI. But the volunteer wasn’t there to check on his lungs or breathing. Instead she asked Hall if we wanted to tell his life story.” This story from NPR shares more. { read more }

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Take time to listen to someone’s story today.

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