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Contentment Week 1
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Contentment Week 1

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
― Oprah Winfrey

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May is the month of Metta, Loving- kindness, compassion and an active interest in others.
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May is the month of Metta, Loving- kindness, compassion and an active interest in others.

“The path begins with cultivating appreciation of our oneness with others through generosity, nonharming, right speech, and right action. Then, on the foundation of these qualities, we purify our minds through the concentration practices of meditation. As we do, we come to experience wisdom through recognizing the truth and become deeply aware of the suffering caused by separation and of the happiness of knowing our connection with all beings.”

Sharon Salzberg

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Positive Psychology Week 4
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Positive Psychology Week 4

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”

The 14th Dalai Lama (1935)

Head Monk of The Gelugpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism

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Resilience Week 5
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Resilience Week 5

"Resilience: The capacity of the body and mind to undergo significant stress arousal and recover from it, returning to a baseline equilibrium so that allostasis is restored.  Each time we experience significant stress and fully recover; we widen our window of tolerance to stress arousal and thereby increase resilience." 

Dr. Elizabeth Stanley

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Resilience Week 3
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Resilience Week 3

“To be resilient, it is essential to clean out the closet in your head of past or current traumas, so they no longer control your future.”

Dr. Amen, American psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist.

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Resilience Week 2
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Resilience Week 2

Dr. Ginsburg developed the 7 C's model to center around these critical ideas. “First, children and teens live up or down to the expectations that (we) adults set for them. The young people need us (adults) to hold them accountable to high expectations and love them unconditionally. Second, modeling resilience for kids and teens is more important than discussing it.”

 

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Resilience Week 1
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Resilience Week 1

Resilience there are two kinds: Systemic what you are born with, you built through your life. Processive is what you bring to the fight that you don’t even know yet what will come, but through this struggle will come strength.

Dr Rahul Jandial

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Hurrying Week 3
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Hurrying Week 3

“When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.”

Echart Tolle 

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Discipline Week 2
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Discipline Week 2

“Everything we want to do in life requires discipline. And like strength, flexibility, and endurance, it can be built up over time.”

 -Laird Hamilton

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