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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
December 19, 2023
The focus for today is:
I seek and sustain connection with others daily.
Today's inspiration was written by Natureza Gabriel Kram:
We need to nourish our connections every day. Micro-moments of connection—seeing someone smile, giving or getting a hug or a pat on the shoulder—these moments of reciprocity and relationship are nourishment for our body’s connection system.
Make it a practice to feed yourself connection daily. We can seek and sustain connection with others through mindful movement, meditation, prayer, practicing solidarity, soldiering peace, working with our hands, playing an instrument, playing with a pet, smiling a lot, expressing gratitude, engaging in creative practice, or spending time in nature.
Connection arises when we’re sincere. Examine what you’re connected to and practice nourishing those connections with regularity.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
5 Practices to Activate, Nourish and Fortify Your Innate Connection System
Written by Natureza Gabriel Kram.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of nurturing your connection with others (today and every day)
Comment from Marie: We are all connected, and the quality of those connections resides with the choices we make. Let's choose to connect with Love and Joy and step away from the quarrels, division, and competition that can create separation instead of unity. Especially at this time of year, we can focus on the Good in our connections, and choose to look past what we may tend to judge or criticize.
Our focus for today: I seek and sustain connection with others daily.
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RELATED BOOK: Restorative Practices of Wellbeing
Restorative Practices of Wellbeing
by Natureza Gabriel Kram.
In this pioneering volume, connection phenomenologist Gabriel Kram addresses two fundamental practical questions: how do we address the trauma and disconnection endemic to the modern world, and how do we turn on the Connection System? Marrying cutting-edge neurophysiology with awareness technologies from a wide variety of traditions and lineages, this book maps a novel approach to the creation of wellbeing informed by the most cutting-edge science, and the most ancient of awareness practices. It teaches over 300 restorative practices of wellbeing to connect with Self, Others, and the Living World.
For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, grown up with a sense that there is something missing in the modern world, or yearns for deeper connection with Self, Others, or the Living World, this book provides a map to a (r)evolutionary approach to wellbeing so ancient it hasn't been invented yet.
For more info and/or to order this book, click here.
About the Author
Natureza Gabriel Kram is a connection phenomenologist. Over the past 25 years, he’s undertaken advanced study and research in neurophysiology, applied mindfulness, social justice pedagogy, deep nature connection, cultural linguistics, and Indigenous lifeways with support from over 50 mentors in 25 disciplines of well-being from 20 cultures. He is convener of the Restorative Practices Alliance, founder and CEO of Applied Mindfulness, Inc., and co-founder of the Academy of Applied Social Medicine.
He is the author of several books, including Restorative Practices of Wellbeing, an interactive compendium of over 300 practices that restore wholeness and well-being. Learn more at restorativepractices.com/books.
