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Emotional Fitness Includes Spiritual Self Care Rituals

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Dear Wellness Seekers,

Emotional Fitness Includes Spiritual Self Care Rituals offers a Friday Wellness Tip for your heart and soul. Today is a sacred day in many spiritual circles. It symbolizes the first stage of transformation into a life of inner focus and meaning as the weekend unfolds.

Seasons of Spanista recognizes the importance of this annual ritual as a personal self care practice and as a community bonding self care practice. Weather you choose private meditation or attend services at your local place of worship, taking time away from the typical routine and busy lives to stop and consider the spiritual symbols of this season can open a door to the flow of goodness. Through the emotional door flows stillness and inner focus helping us get back in touch with our true selves. Through the door flows a sense of consideration for where we sit in the world, a sense of perspective and reconciliation. Thus a sense of overwhelming peace – the Emotional Fitness we can carry forward into the world.

Spanista Friday Wellness Tip: Find the right place. Set aside disruptive thoughts and feelings. Gently let your body, mind and spirit sink into a peaceful state. Imagine you are passing through the door of spiritual love. See the path that beacons. Feel your mind, body and  heart open and say this prayer. Reflect upon it. Allow grace to flow through the open door.

Timely Prayer for Reflection

May the door of my inner home be wide enough

to receive those who hunger for kindness for kindness, 

those who are lonely, or isolated from friendship.

May it welcome those who have cares to unburden,

thanks to express, hopes to nurture.

May the door of my heart be narrow enough

to shut out pettiness and pride, envy and enmity.

May the door of my heart be closed to self-righteousness,

selfishness and harshness.

May its threshold be no stumbling block to receiving those who are different than I am.

May my inner home be for all who enter,

the doorway to spiritual richness and a more meaningful life.

~ The Siddur of Shir Chadash

 

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Emotional Fitness Includes Spiritual Self Care Rituals encourages a simple positive and powerful way to self  care that will help you get in touch with yourself. Have a wonderful holiday weekend. See you next week.

To Your Self Care Journey To Joy,

Ginny

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