Finding Steady Ground
7 behaviors we can use right away to strengthen ourselves, so we can keep taking more and more powerful and strategic actions
tools to support us journeying climate grief, despair, hope, rage, caring, loving, and staying grounded
7 behaviors we can use right away to strengthen ourselves, so we can keep taking more and more powerful and strategic actions
Meditation is like a bird with two wings – one is stopping and the other is deep looking. In sitting meditation, we always start with stopping. We stop the mind from ceaseless thinking and wandering by bringing the mind back, first to the breath, and then to the body.
Many people are finding themselves exhausted from the never-ending video calls and virtual experiences. It is not that they do not want the option of connecting in digital spaces, but that they are finding them emotionally and energetically costly. It is crucial for you to pace yourself in this time of physical distancing.
To teach empathy on climate impacts
7 behaviors we can use right away to strengthen ourselves, so we can keep taking more and more powerful and strategic actions
You have every right to be fully in climate grief and despair. Feeling ungrounded is a common feeling these days. Let’s take it in. Don’t push it away. Feeling angry, anxious, fearful, means we’re empathetic. These are our natural responses to the loss and devastation produced by the climate crisis. So let’s not harm ourselves by keeping our feelings at bay.
Meditation is like a bird with two wings – one is stopping and the other is deep looking. In sitting meditation, we always start with stopping. We stop the mind from ceaseless thinking and wandering by bringing the mind back, first to the breath, and then to the body.
We have to overwhelm the world, not ourselves, with those “little bits of good” that Desmond Tutu talks about. Show care to ourselves and to others, as a simple intention from our heart, and then honoring it through everyday actions, nurture our love, liberation, interdependence, and regeneration to reimagine our culture, economies, communities, and our relationship to the web of life. Express love because through it, individuals find their center, core, power.
Many people are finding themselves exhausted from the never-ending video calls and virtual experiences. It is not that they do not want the option of connecting in digital spaces, but that they are finding them emotionally and energetically costly. It is crucial for you to pace yourself in this time of physical distancing.
Self-nurturance is about treating yourself with compassion by prioritizing your mental and physical health. After all, when your health suffers, so does your ability to function at your best. By learning to self-nurture, you can get so much more out of life. Nurturance also means caring for, feeding the body with energy, love, and touch. Anyone can nurture, everyone needs it.
Getting outside helps us get grounded and centered. We go back to the basic form of healing in a time when there was anything but: natural healing.
Self-massage is an easy way to stimulate your body's energetic channels to relieve tension, mild pain and discomfort. Your body is the place you wake up in every day. It is your primordial household, your temple, the place that you can go back and find safety when things get rough. Your body knows even when your mind does not.
The health of body, mind and heart is continuously affected by trauma, violence, stress, fear, diet, environment, daily news, and the challenges of life. The following simple exercises are offered for use at times when we feel stressed, distressed, overwhelmed or scattered. These tools are for all of us, whether we are survivors of trauma, activists confronting injustice and oppression, caregivers working with others or persons overwhelmed and stressed by daily life.
To teach empathy on climate impacts
Meditation is like a bird with two wings – one is stopping and the other is deep looking. In sitting meditation, we always start with stopping. We stop the mind from ceaseless thinking and wandering by bringing the mind back, first to the breath, and then to the body.
Getting outside helps us get grounded and centered. We go back to the basic form of healing in a time when there was anything but: natural healing.
The health of body, mind and heart is continuously affected by trauma, violence, stress, fear, diet, environment, daily news, and the challenges of life. The following simple exercises are offered for use at times when we feel stressed, distressed, overwhelmed or scattered. These tools are for all of us, whether we are survivors of trauma, activists confronting injustice and oppression, caregivers working with others or persons overwhelmed and stressed by daily life.
To teach empathy on climate impacts