When it comes to Stress, Trust Yourself...  

“Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort…. Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life, and then trust yourself to be able to handle the stress.” ... Because it is that connection, itself, that will enable you to handle the stress of what you are trying to do.

Kelly McGonigal

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TED Talk; Kelly McGonigal's How to Make Stress your Friend

https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?language=en  

Website: Need suggestions to uplift your spirits? Then swipe through Care Cards!

https://carecards.io/cards?utm_campaign  

Website: Need to get out of your head?   

  https://witanddelight.com/2020/03/20-journaling-prompts-i-swear-by-to-get-you-out-of-your-head/

Website: What did Hubble see on your birthday?

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

First the Hubble, now a video about Bubbles!

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=FZpftZccc6U&feature=emb_logo

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Take Everything in Stride, with Grace  

“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, 

capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, 

meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times...

Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. 

Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, 

yet always staying calm inwardly.”

Ping Fu’s “Shanghai Papa”  

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Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article | YouTube: This Song Reduces Anxiety by Up to 65 %...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=112&v=UfcAVejslrU&feature=emb_logo 

https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/neuroscience-says-listening-to-this-one-song-reduces-anxiety-by-up-to-65-percent.html 

A TED Talk: Fun & Entertaining but not necessarily not informative ;-)...

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_thum_the_orchestra_in_my_mouth/discussion?referrer=playlist-the_10_most_popular_tedx_talks

17 Questions: Are you spending your time on the right things? Here are the questions that 

Lifehacking guru, Tim Ferriss frequently asks himself...  

https://1drv.ms/b/s!Av3GSIMGgOH3h6Iz1n1OI2JLyLIB7Q?e=DQ5hah

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A Metaphor for Resilience

  Become like water my friend  

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. 

When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. 

When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. 

When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. 

Water can drip and it can crash. 

Become like water my friend.”

Bruce Lee

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Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

A poem: Loving Our Beautiful Horrible World...

http://motionpoems.org/episode/good-bones/ 

A Ted Talk: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBpsV1Hwqs

Article: Appreciate Simple Things in Life After The Coronavirus

https://tinybuddha.com/blog/why-i-appreciate-simple-things-in-life-after-the-coronavirus/

Video: Bruce Lee in his own words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ

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Advice from 2 Bobs...

"Don't worry about a thing, cause

Every little thing's gonna be all right"

Bob Marley

"In every life we have some trouble

But when you worry you make it double

Don't worry, be happy"

Bobby McFerrin

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Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Don't Worry Be Happy | Every little thing's gonna be all right   ... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=224&v=d-diB65scQU&feature=emb_logo  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD3F7J2PeYU  

Need Advice?  Select an age to see what others have to say. 

https://heyfromthefuture.com/age/  

Video. A story about a dog and a dolphin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=NWzCa1E5jsA&feature=emb_logo  

Website: Looking for an antidote to social distancing? 

https://distancedisco.nl/  

Pictures. Happiness Practices from around the World

https://imgur.com/gallery/F3Fi8  

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How to Endure 

What is Beyond your Control...

“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment.

Unselfish action, now, at this very moment.

Willing Acceptance, now, at this very moment.

That's all you need."

Marcus Aurelius

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Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article... Welcome to the New Normal

https://liberationist.org/welcome-to-the-new-normal-a-quarantine-state-of-mind/  

A Checklist... Are you taking care of yourself?

https://i.redd.it/djabiaua1v931.jpg?utm_campaign=Recomendo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter  

A TED talk... The Hidden Power of Smiling...

https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_gutman_the_hidden_power_of_smiling  

A Free Online Course Offering... Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity

http://www.openculture.com/2020/05/building-your-resilience-finding-meaning-in-adversity-a-free-24-lecture-course.html  

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Bend with the Wind

"The willow is my favorite tree. 

I grew up near one. It's the 

most flexible tree in nature 

and nothing can break it - no 

wind, no elements, it can bend 

and withstand anything."

Pink

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Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times... 

For those who like to meditate and/or just listen to the soothing voice of the cello...

https://www.thegratefulcellist.com/

Article...Protecting Your Mind During COVID-19

https://thriveglobal.com/stories/protecting-your-mind-during-covid-a-how-to-guide/  

A Podcast... Troubled with all this uncertainty? Perhaps this may give you some insight

https://cdn.sounder.fm/4ca5fb52dc974e0285fba35cf9155126/audio/WzPXz-aLn9D.m4a

 

For New Yorkers who might be missing the sounds of New York City...

https://kottke.org/20/05/the-missing-sounds-of-new-york    

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The Key to Resilience

"Finding Gratitude and Appreciation Is Key to Resilience."

  Sheryl Sandberg

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Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...    

  

Article: This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome (Pandemic Edition)

https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2020/03/pandemic/  

A Time Out Exercise: Miss the Sounds of the Office?

https://imisstheoffice.eu/  

History Lesson: Start every morning off with a short history lesson...  

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-american-in-space 

Video: Take a Relaxing walk in the Rain

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1167&v=ynLpZGegiJE&feature=emb_logo

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The will to survive in the face of a severe test...

Invictus 

 

Out of the night that covers me

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance,

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE

I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL.

William Ernest Henley

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Wishing you a most beautiful and safe day wherever this may find you!

Some Inspiration for these turbulent times... 

“You may not control all the events that happen to you,

but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” 

Maya Angelou

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Care Package

Articles, videos, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these times...  

An Article on Building your Resilience...

https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience

Find out your Life Stats:...

https://neal.fun/life-stats/

Resilience, a perspective

https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/on-resilience/  

Music for Hope, Andrea Andrea Bocelli

 Easter concert from an empty Duomo di Milano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huTUOek4LgU  

 The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 Podcast

https://omny.fm/shows/the-art-of-manliness/426-the-daring-odyssey-of-apollo-8

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Handling a Difficult Situation from

an Unexpected Source... 

Some things in life are bad

They can really make you mad

Other things just make you swear and curse

When you're chewing on life's gristle

Don't grumble, give a whistle

And this'll help things turn out for the best

And...  

Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life (Whistle)  

If life seems jolly rotten

There's something you've forgotten

And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing

When you're feeling in the dumps

Don't be silly, chumps

Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing

And...

Always look on the bright side of life (Whistle) (Come on!)

Always look on the right side of life (Whistle)

For life is quite absurd

And death's the final word

You must always face the curtain with a bow

Forget about your sin

Give the audience a grin

Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow

So always look on the bright side of death (Whistle)

A-Just before you draw your terminal breath (Whistle)

Life's a piece of shit (Oooh)

When you look at it

Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true (Oooh)

You'll see it's all a show (Oooh)

Keep 'em laughin' as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you (Oooh)

And...

Always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the right side of life (Whistle) 

(C'mon Brian, cheer up!) 

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The Choices that are my own...

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters

so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, 

and which have to do with the choices I actually control. 

Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals,

but within myself to the choices that are my own…”

Epictetus, Discourses, 2.5.4–5

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