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Oh thank you for that one. Yes, the Simple Uplift!
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That was an easy one for me !
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So glad to read your posts Sus about your trees. Also “I look for love and find it everywhere.” I’m going to borrow that statement. Thank you.
Isn’t it wonderful to have the ethernet and be able to communicate together. I don’t know what I would do with out it. Welcome 
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This surprise from the Wind and Tree Spirits was in the middle of the trail on my cold crunchy walk this morning.
A Simple Uplift, indeed.
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I love those uplifts @Sus — I feel those too! And there’s a deeper embodiment of the uplift that lasts longer, when we’re actively aware of how it feels in our bodies…
The heart sense.
The breathing with a tree.
That’s part of the power of qigong for me — it enhances those uplifts, strengthens my appreciation for my body and the world around me, with embodied awareness.
Just seeing a tree can be sweet, but breathing with it (also as a qigong practice!) allows it to deepen and last longer, as the energy of the tree fills my whole body… It’s both energizing and calming, a form of co-regulation…
Those moments of uplift make much more seem possible, especially on challenging days… They help us grow and feel more resilient, so we can thrive.
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Thank you for sharing this post with me so I could explore this deeper. Your words above have coined a missing link for me. I do notice many simple uplifts each day and even savour them in the moment. But the tension to move on and do things needed often does mean I drop the savouring and don’t take it with me.
Even the original post where you mentioned that you savour the family life and home you are crafting with Jem… I have had glimmers of that thought over the past year - noticing and connecting to the home and the life I am creating here for my family, both intentionally and unintentionally- and this post supported me to acknowledge myself in this, notice what I am doing, even in small ways, and let myself be briefly uplifted by it.
There are many simple uplifts written about here in the post that I really resonate with @Glenn @Jem @Dru and some I would like to play around with more @Sus.
So this morning as I sat reading through this post……
In a chair that I can rock in and feel the simple uplift of the movement
With the sun peeking through the wind and clouds and rain to warm me up….
Under a hand knitted woollen blanket an old neighbour made and gifted me when I was going through really hard times….
Listening to the wind and the quiet and peace of my home….
Knowing my daughter was sleeping happily and peacefully and would wake up to this peace….
Saying good morning to her when she woke and truly hearing the good morning back as a result of connecting with this topic…… being grateful and uplifted by the genuine and loving sharing of a morning greeting…… being present to that.
Now going to rise to the challenge of holding this while I move into making some breakfast for myself and unpacking the dishes and starting the day.
Maybe it would be helpful for me to create a sign to support me to remember this tomorrow….
Thank you all.
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How beautiful! A simple uplift for me… 
I had little signs with Simple Uplifts on it for awhile, and put it in my daily journal. Once it become more automatic, I took the signs down, and sometimes put them up when reminders are beneficial. (I return to these bits of wisdom in cycles, you might have noticed).
I’m so delighted you explored with us and continue to. Simple Uplifts! There so much happening that is beautiful.
Jem and Adira are playing in the family room while I answer emails. There is a beauty growing in their play and discussions. Makes my heart buoyant.
Love to you!
Rick
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“I return to these bits of wisdom in cycles”
It is a Simple Uplift for me to notice the ability to cycle back to something, to let it be what it is now, and allow space for it to not always be, and to come back… a breath to release the pressure of ‘get it now, do it now, be great at it now, don’t forget! how could you forget what you have been told! What you know! What you have experienced!’.
So interesting to see the intensity of those words on a page. Beginning to feel a tiny smidgeon of compassion for myself with that voice coming at me…!
So lovely to imagine the scene you describe…I am experiencing something similar as I sit here to do some emailing for work too and my daughter is out on the deck doing some painting in the sun with the trees and birds… for the first time in our new home. I am glad for her and also learning how to possibly do something similar myself one day…argh!
Sounds like you are feeling a little better too which is lovely to know.
Heart Hugs
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Indeed! Yay!
I told my inner voice, “You be nice to my friend!” (Stern parent voice)
Surprising how often that worked, and helped echo deeper wisdom about how the inner critic needs clear boundaries, too. And perhaps a different “task” or two. “Keep me safe by being cruel and harsh like they were” isn’t a really great program .
Painting in the sun with birds… indeed that is a good program.
Rick
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This seems pertinent, an aspect of Daoist (and other) Wisdom Traditions:
If I am really noticing… there’s curiosity, beauty, and yes, a simple uplift with it!
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So much to work with here.
Today after reading through these recent words I notice that although I’ve had some time where simple uplifts were harder to feel and needed more conscious effort, that at least a past of me knew about them.
Also, I wanted to share that I’ve had some moments where I’ve noticed the push and pull and tension of stress and thoughts and pressures and the need to do things and get things done and do it all now and fast and don’t forget this and don’t forget that and hold it all together….
And was able to shift gently into the moment and choose to Be Here Now… and savour the moment and different elements around me and then consciously step into the next part of my day with more ease and softness.
Sitting here now and thinking before I wrote this…. I noticed that the feeling of Satisfied arose for me as a Yes. And I’ve been plying around with ways that might feel and where and what it could look like. The feeling of satisfied feels so much nicer than the drive for perfection. I feel like moving toward Satisfied truly helps with reducing the pressure of perfection
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Ain’t that the truth! Today reading your words and feeling the energy of “satisfied” encourages something in me. A simple uplift, and a super useful one as I head into an evening of co-creating with Adira as Jem heads to work.
Appreciate you!
Rick
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Today reading my own words and yours and feeling deeply deeply spent. These words I wrote speak of a time where I was in a better place. And I know this also because I started journaling for the first time towards the end of July, something I hadn’t been able to do for my entire life so far-
And
Then suddenly, I could, and did,
With joy - and there are many days in there of neutral or enjoyable feelings.
It leaves me just sitting here noticing the then - when I was noticing uplifts and feelings like satisfaction - and the next - the nightmares, the deep and hidden stuff arising, shame and hate - the more recent - day after day of deep tears and anger and pain- and the now. Silence in my body. Insane winds outside. Deeply wanting to be seen and held and loved. Right now. Just someone to be with me. A gentle, kind hearted, strong someone who understands the depths, and is there with me, continuing to offer togetherness on the other side of it all. Trusting I would make it through and being there, maybe even being ok with the uncertainty of whether this new space will hold and what might come next. Holding hope for me that next time will be further away, or shorter, or easier, or non-existent, but there with me regardless.
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