Category: Peace Nurturing Practices

Our peace nurturing practice for this week is Speaking Peace. Words have great power. They can soothe, incite, or inspire.  They can guide us to have great compassion and motivate . . .

Welcome to the Peace Nurturing Practice of joy. Each day offers unlimited possibilities of delight.  As we focus our attention on seeking and being joy, we create the experience of . . .

Welcome to the Peace Nurturing Practice of openness.  This peace-fostering practice grew from a conversation with my friend, Pam. We were hiking when she mentioned her four spiritual foundations:  Integrity, . . .

This Peace Nurturing Practice is kindness. We choose to be kind to ourselves and others, including those toward whom we feel some resistance or even outright dislike.  This isn’t about . . .

This Peace Nurturing Practice is reminders. This practice was inspired by Barbara, one of the members of this group, who wrote: “While I understand things like being mindful, being grateful, and . . .

This Peace Nurturing Practice is meditation. Meditation may sound formal, fussy, or simply too much.  We may say, “I’m too busy to meditate!”  Strange as it may sound to our busy, . . .

This Peace Nurturing Practice is about connection. We look for, discover, and honor connections in our lives.  For example: We look beneath the surface of our morning milk, juice, coffee . . .

Today’s Peace Nurturing Practice is an affirmation: Peace is shining in me now It’s a modification of one of my favorite quotes from A Course in Miracles. Those words are written on . . .

Today’s Peace Nurturing Practice is silence. Since we know thoughts of judgment can arise instantaneously, we choose silence in response to words of anger, forgoing defensiveness and/or our own anger.  Choosing . . .