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Thanks Again Heartmath

Did you know that heartfelt appreciation can facilitate the healing of the human body and spirit?       

Sincere, heartfelt appreciation uplifts, inspires and drives us to achieve that which we did not think possible. 

Why not try a simple Appreciation Exercise right now. It only takes a minute – we think you will be surprised by the results. 

Appreciation Exercise

Heart Breathing: Focus your attention on your heart area, and breathe a little deeper than normal, in for 5 or 6 seconds and out 5 or 6 seconds. 

Heart Focus: Imagine breathing through your heart. Picture yourself slowly breathing in and out through your heart area. 

Appreciation List: Make a list of things you appreciate – people, places, activities, pets –and choose one or two each morning to hold in your heart during the day. Choose an item again at night to hold in your heart while you rest. 

How do you feel? Do you notice a greater sense of ease, wellbeing or relaxation? Want to go even deeper? Try incorporating greater Appreciation into your life in these simple ways:

Appreciation Breaks: Take two or three appreciation breaks each day – ideally in early morning, during work, school, returning home or before bed. Just follow the above simple steps. It takes as little as two minutes to achieve mental, emotional and physical balance.

Appreciation List: Make a list of things you appreciate – people, places, activities, pets – and choose one or two each morning to hold in your heart during the day. Choose an item again at night to hold in your heart while you rest.

Appreciation in the Moment: Keep your Appreciation List close all day, in a pocket or purse, by your computer or elsewhere. In stressful moments, choose an item that can quickly evoke appreciation. It can turn a stressful day into one that flows – in 30 seconds or less.

 

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou

Engage the power of your heart to generate and sustain feelings of appreciation to help increase your own welling-being. Practicing these appreciation exercises accelerates your connection with your own heart. Appreciating ourselves and others helps restore the color to our black-and-white perception of life. 

By simply activating a positive feeling of sincere appreciation, you can increase your heart rhythm coherence, reduce emotional stress and improve your health. 

Say What?

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Heartmath

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The Future

Future: one

morning it

will appear,

right there on

your breakfast

plate, and you'll

yell "Take it

back," pounding

the table.

But there won't

be any

waiters.

Everette Maddox

 

Siren

Siren

by Robert Hass

Here is the poem I meant to write

But didn't

Because you walked into my study

Without any clothes on.

I had just been thinking of how the Aegean sun

Must have lit up the faces of Troy's fallen heroes

When you walked into my study

Without any clothes on—

Walked in and stood there,

Holding a glass of sherry

Over your left breast,

Which looked soft and firm as Brie.

Your tone of voice this morning

Should have warned me

That you might walk into my study

Without any clothes on.

I should have lashed myself to my chair

And stoppered my ears with wax.

But I forgot.

And I'm glad I forgot

Because when you walked into my study

Without any clothes on

You sang sweetly, sang sweetly,

And I died nobly, like a man.

The Buddha's Father

 

The way in which you are part of the web of life, of incarnation, is around the dimensions, you could call it, of compassion, suffering or dealing with suffering. That when you have a society that is built on the denial of other people’s suffering, for the myths of the society to be lived out, you have a very frightened society, and you have all the pathology that comes from fear. And what is the fear is that people are afraid to look at. You got cancer, there’s inner city violence, there’s somebody starving. The first part is just acknowledging what is – just acknowledging what is. And what you will see when you sit down quietly is how frightening it is to acknowledge what is. That has to do with your suffering and it has to do with everyone else’s as well – including the earth.

There is a story of the Buddha and the Buddha’s father. The Buddha’s father created a castle which was a protected environment to keep the Buddha, the young Gautama, from seeing suffering. Because the father knew that if the son saw the suffering, the son wouldn’t become the next king. The son would be busy finding out how to end suffering – which is what happened. And that’s just such a simple story, and it just works. Because it says, here’s a person that came along, that had everything. And then he saw through the cracks, and he saw that everything was in relation to everything else. He saw that a lot of people were just scrambling for food, or for survival, or for warmth, and dealing with loneliness and alienation. And what kind of contract you make with people’s suffering determines how happy you can be as a human being. And the funny thing is, the model most people function under is, “If I open to their suffering I won’t be happy.” And the truth is, if you don’t open to their suffering you definitely won’t be happy. And there may be a way to open to suffering and still be happy. And I firmly believe that is true; were it not, I wouldn’t be in the position I’m in, in my work and in my life. Because what I find is the closer I stay to the truth of people’s suffering, my heart opens, and by allowing myself to feel it, the more I experience that I am part of the living truth. I am part of the living spirit of the universe. And then I do what I can.

The trap is, if you’re identified with being a do-er, your predicament is that when you see suffering you feel you’re supposed to take it away. And if you can’t take it away you feel inadequate, and you fear feeling impotent in the face of suffering. Your heart’s breaking and there’s nothing you can do about it. Well that’s true most of the time. And if that’s true most of the time and you can’t stand it, most of the time you can’t stand yourself and it. The fact is, I can’t take away people’s death and suffering when I’m working with their death and suffering. But I can be a presence where they can shift their consciousness in a way so they don’t experience their death and suffering the same way. But I can’t take away all the stuff from people. And the ability to be with somebody where your heart is breaking because they’re suffering and you do not have the power to take away that suffering… and the feeling you have under those conditions has got to be reflected upon. You have to take the time to reflect upon that, in order to find peace within that situation.

~Ram Dass, October 15, 1995

Soul Questions

 

Soul Questions

Do I perceive the world around me through the perception of my shadows or my graces?

Am I stuck in the “what's the meaning of this and why did this happen to me?” or am I willing to KNOW that it's not about the wound?

Am I willing to continue to ascend in my journey of empowerment?

Am I fully aware that the search for reason produces minimum benefits?

Do I hang onto my scar tissue and suffering in order to justify feelings of entitlement?

Is my heart wrath-filled?

Do I protect myself from love with anger?

Am I only willing to hear good news?

Do I think I deserve only sun with no moon?

What thought forms do I indulge in when I'm in darkness?

Do I indulge myself by psychically drugging myself with negative thought forms?

Do I mistake a spiritual crisis for a psychological one?

Have I given my thought forms gravity making them dense?

Does my fear of humiliation cause me to fall to pride, even hubris?

How are pride and fear of humiliation effecting my choices?

Do I empower never enough thought forms?

Have I committed a sin of conscience by deliberately meaning to hurt someone?

Do I believe I'm entitled to special favors?

If so who do I think I am?

Do I harp about fairness as if I know what it means???

Making Lightening Bugs

Filled with Day-Glow paint...

Julie's House of Renewal

 Of course I'm back in my jeans today!

The Mustangs

Mustangs are a mythic symbol of freedom, heroism, romance, and limitless possibilities, an iconic symbol of America running free under blue skies. 

 

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ARIZONA VETERANS' RESOURCES

 

Chinle: Chinle Vet Center Outstation

Navajo Route 7, Old BIA Complex-B59

Chinle, AZ 86503

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 1934

Chinle , AZ 86503

Phone: 928-674-3682 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 928-674-5640

Normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.

Hotevilla: Hopi Vet Center Outstation

Hopi Vet Center Outstation

P.O. Box 929, 1 Main St.

Hotevilla, AZ 86030

Phone: 928-734-5166 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 928-738-5531

Normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.

Lake Havasu:Lake Havasu Vet Center

1720 Mesquite Ste 101, P.O. Box 3237

Lake Havasu, AZ 86403

Phone: 928-505-0294 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 928-854-5239

Mesa: Mesa Vet Center

1303 South Longmore, Suite 5

Mesa, AZ 85202

Phone: 480-610-6727 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 480-464-3526

Normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.

Peoria: West Valley Vet Center

14050 N. 83rd Avenue Suite 170

Peoria, AZ 85381

Phone: 623-398-8854 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 623-398-6478

Normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.

Phoenix: Phoenix Vet Center

77 E. Weldon Ave., Suite 100

Phoenix, AZ 85012

Phone: 602-640-2981 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 602-640-2967

Normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.

Prescott: Prescott Vet Center

3180 Stillwater Drive, Suite A

Prescott, AZ 86305

Phone: 928-778-3469 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 928-776-6042

Normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.

Tucson: Tucson Vet Center

3055 N. First Avenue

Tucson, AZ 85719

Phone: 520-882-0333 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 520-670-5862

Normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.

Yuma: Yuma Vet Center

1450 E. 16th St, Suite 103

Yuma, AZ 85365

Phone: 928-271-8700 Or 877-927-8387

Fax: 928-726-1343

Normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.

PTSD PROGRAMS

AboutFace

Northern Arizona VA Health Care System

500 North Highway 89

Prescott, AZ 86313

Phone: 928-445-4860 Or 928-445-4860

PTSD Clinical Team (PCT) Outpatient

Louise Holt (928) 445-4860 X 6708

Women’s Stress Disorder Treatment Team (WSDTT) Outpatient

NA (928) 445-4860

Phoenix VA Health Care System

650 E. Indian School Road

Phoenix, AZ 85012

Phone: 602-277-5551 Or 800-554-7174

PTSD Clinical Team (PCT) Outpatient

Karen Kattar (602) 277-5551 X 2507

Substance Use PTSD Team (SUPT) Outpatient

Karen Kattar (602) 277-5551 X 2507

Southern Arizona VA Health Care System

3601 South 6th Avenue

Tucson, AZ 85723

Phone: 520-792-1450 Or 800-470-8262

PTSD Clinical Team (PCT) Outpatient

David Beil-Adaskin, Psy.D. (520) 792-1450 X 4299

PTSD Day Hospitals (DH) Intensive/Inpatient

N/A (520) 792-1450

Women’s Stress Disorder Treatment Team (WSDTT) Outpatient

Nadine Cole (520) 792-1450 X 5127

Evaluation and Brief Treatment of PTSD Unit (EBTPU) Inpatient

Nicholas Heinecke (520) 792-1450 X 6394

Useful Hotline Numbers & URLS

• Veterans Crisis Line1.800.273.TALK (8255)
• Military Crisis Line1.800.273.TALK (8255)
• National Call Center for Homeless Veterans 1.877.4AID.VET (424.3838)
• 838255 TEXT TO CHAT
• VA Caregiver Support Line 1.855.260.3274
• Wounded Warrior Resource Center 1.800.342.9647
• http://maketheconnection.net/

Phoenix Downtown

3333 North Central Avenue, Suite 1052

Phoenix, AZ 85012

Phone: 602-627-3261

Fax: 602-627-3275

Toll Free: 800-852-VETS (8387)

Antoine De Saint Exupery - The Little Prince

"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, "Yes the stars always make me laugh." And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I have played on you."