National Outstanding Educator and Project Green Tree Trailblazing Teacher, Kathy Rusert, is blazing a trail teaching students, parents and teachers the practice of "Pause For Your Helpful Self". Ms. Rusert is using our new book, Kids Can Pause and Parents Too! Get to Know Your Helpful...
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"You start loving you when you start pausing. We have to be in touch with ourselves. How do we find a way through our problems? Pause. Your Helpful Self will make good decisions for you - we think too much," Danny Bandres volunteered to...
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Pause for the moment. I can’t say it enough. My favorite month is October so here I am pausing for October before it disappears the way September did! Did September actually happen or did some wayward elf sneak off with it with nothing better to...
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We live in a green light world. One of the main messages is to GO. We are told by others or we tell ourselves to keep going, go faster, you go, way to go, go here, go there, go now . . . go, go, go, go, go. I am suggesting today to PAUSE FROM GOING. The world isn’t going to fall apart if I pause, if you pause. It’s all right to Pause. Not only is it all right to Pause, it is highly necessary to Pause. To not Pause is to get in one’s own way, to rule your own show, follow a crowd that is not your crowd and make decisions under stress. Decisions made in the state of stress cause more stress!
How often do you judge someone by their appearance? Something happened today that truly woke me up to how much I size people up or down depending on their appearance.
Today began as any typical morning, but then the phone rang! Now, I had a full agenda ahead, butttttttttt sometimes we are moved in a different direction than planned and it is wiser to go with the flow – today is one of those days.
Finding The Pause in your mind is a reliable practice for "being with" whatever you are experiencing so as not to push away, project or deny your inner experience. Acceptance of an experience of pain and suffering lends itself to consolation, leaving you free to...
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