Sangha of Auspicious Companions

July 22, 2019

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Finding a Way Back

Breast cancer does not ask you if it is part of your plan for life. When the diagnosis comes, your plans must change to accommodate. And how do women find their way back into life without cancer as it’s center point? Colleen Webster, a DailyGood reader, shares her experience leading a retreat she organized for breast cancer survivors where she had to travel a similar journey. While she planned for a beautiful spring weekend of warmth and sun, what she got was a rain-soaked gift of new life emerging from the mud. Read her essay and discover how a group of women with new life ahead of them began to emerge from the chrysalis of cancer. { read more }

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Reach out to someone you know trying to find their way back into life from a difficult challenge. Share something that lights up your life and watch the light catch fire in theirs.

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July 21, 2019

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The Teachings of Grass

How do we relate to the land that sustains us–as a source of belonging or as a source of belongings? As the planet teeters on the brink of environmental collapse, botanist, teacher, and author Robin Wall Kimmerer urges us to consider our broken relationship to the Earth and the hard choices that lie before us by examining the history of her Potawatomi ancestors. Through cultivating the sense of respect and gratitude for nature inherent in indigenous teachings, Kimmerer invites us to reclaim that wisdom and renew our earthly relationships to restore honor in the way we live. By rejecting the notion of nature as supplier, taking only those gifts that are freely given, the power of the sun, the blowing wind and the rolling surf, we have an opportunity to model ancient pathways and create a new sustainable vision for the living world. { read more }

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Think about the ways you can become a better student of nature and open the door to reciprocity with your home planet.

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July 20, 2019

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A Gathering of Men with Robert Bly

In this interview between Bill Moyers and poet Robert Bly, they explore the confusion men feel about their roles in society and in their inner lives. In retreats like A Gathering of Men, their sense of loss is met with a sense of hope. Men learn from one another through sharing and listening to the wisdom, writings, and poetry of men like Bly. A father figure at these gatherings, Bly is an essayist, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men’s movement: workshops, retreats, and rituals with the intended purpose of connecting spiritually with a lost deep masculine identity. { read more }

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What myths do you live by that no longer serve you? Write a short poem about reclaiming the stories that would serve you better today.

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July 19, 2019

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How Doctors Use Poetry

While doctors are educated to focus primarily on medical science, some are beginning to expand their outlook and focus on something greater: language, in particular, poetry. While the Hippocratic Oath many physicians take requires them to “remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug”, these words are all too rare in hospitals, doctors’ offices, and outpatient clinics. In this article, medical student Danny W. Linggonegoro explores the breakthrough science that is finding that the power of words is sometimes more potent than the power of medicine. Read on to learn how poetry can boost mood, reduce pain, and help patients better connect with what it means to be human. { read more }

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The next time you face a difficulty, take a moment to read a poem or listen to music. Allow yourself to feel relaxed before you return to whatever you were doing.

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July 18, 2019

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Soft Power: A Magnetic Approach to Practice

“The desire to be in control is a normal survival response, but what I love about the art of aikido is that we can move beyond survival to a vast and universal perspective in which all life is connected and interwoven. Such an orientation is not self-conscious. Since it relates to the connecting aspect — that of the space and energy — rather than individuals, there is no thing that needs to be observed. All awareness can be involved with the movement of energy through space, organized and contained by the form. The result is soft fluid power enjoying the beauty and purity of the form. This kind of feeling is not only beautiful and fluid, it is difficult to resist or counter which makes it effective from a martial perspective.” Founder of Leadership Embodiment, and sixth-degree black belt Aikido practitioner Wendy Palmer shares more. { read more }

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

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July 17, 2019

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Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson

“For years I have been not so much envisioning Emily Dickinson as trying to visit, to enter her mind, through her poems and letters, and through my own intimations of what it could have meant to be one of the two mid-19th-century American geniuses, and a woman, living in Amherst, Massachusetts. Of the other genius, Walt Whitman, Dickinson wrote that she had heard his poems were “disgraceful.” She knew her own were unacceptable by her world’s standards of poetic convention, and of what was appropriate, in particular, for a woman poet. Seven were published in her lifetime, all edited by other hands; more than a thousand were laid away in her bedroom chest, to be discovered after her death.[…]I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed. It was, moreover, no hermetic retreat, but a seclusion which included a wide range of people, of reading and correspondence.” This essay by Adrienne Rich offers profound perspectives on the enigmatic writer hailed as ‘the mother of American poetry.’ { read more }

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How have words moved you in your own life? Is there a particular word that “shines” for you? For more inspiration, check out Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium — less well-known than her poetry, but remarkable in its own way. { more }

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July 16, 2019

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How to Have Difficult Conversations

What if collective introspection would help us to better persuade, to better advocate for a more beautiful world? What are the tools we need to disagree better? How can we improve our ability to listen and learn – especially from those we disagree with? Marcela Lopez Levy asks powerful questions to inspire us and perhaps even entice us in having more difficult conversations. Join her on this journey into open space, non-violent communication and leading forums like the Campaigning forum – where long-term community building is based on cooperation, openness, and not knowing. { read more }

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How could you create a safe space in your environment – to make it easier for someone to disagree with you – and still know that they are included and loved? Or maybe from your own perspective – what would you need to feel safe – to openly disagree and to feel good about sharing your different views?

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