Find your Tribe in 2025
Recently, I put out the call for a Reiki practitioner to be a guest in my booth at the Mower’s Meadow Flea Market.
A bit of history here: I’ve had a booth at the Mower’s Meadow Saturday Sunday Flea Market in Woodstock for several years. I began the booth as a fundraising project for an area food pantry.
After a few years, I began reading Tarot Cards and selling books at the market..
The bottom line was that I was using about 30% of the booth space and felt that I could add a healing table. But, since I didn’t think I could offer Reiki and read cards at the same time, I put out the call for a Reiki practitioner to be a guest in the booth.
The flea market hadn’t had a Reiki practitioner in years so this was going to be a whole new activity – a startup, really.
I felt that what I needed to do was invite a practitioner every week. Well, I was certainly off the mark there. .
Susan responded to my call immediately. She ‘s a Reiki Master Practitioner who I hadn’t seen in years.
Susan has fulltime employment in Kingston. She’s looking to begin her new career as a Reiki practitioner. Susan had a lot of training to offer her future and she was looking forward to practicing Reiki.
When I contacted Susan, I expected her to volunteer to work at the booth once or maybe twice at the most. Well, I was wrong there.
Susan arrived at the booth on the agreed-on date and time. She brought her own healing table, business cards, and a chair.
When I showed her the area, she set her table up under a large tree which was offering shade and protection.
Susan set out a small table at the front of the booth with some business cards and she placed a chair nearby.
“I’m ready to begin offering Reiki. I’m looking for my tribe.”
What a statement to use at the beginning of a new venture! As things turned out, it was an accurate description for her.
Susan set up her table every flea market day for the remainder of the summer. Each flea market day Susan positioned her table under the welcoming tree. Her chair and small table for business cards were right up front where Susan could see every person shopping at the market.
By the end of the season, Susan had given Reiki sessions on most market days. But that wasn’t the remarkable thing. The amazing thing was this: every person receiving a session from Susan became a client.
Susan found her tribe!
I was impressed as this whole process unfolded in front of me. I saw it all.
And, really, I don’t know why I was so astounded. After all, Susan did what she came to do at the market.
She set her goal. She focused in on what she was going to do to reach her goal. She thought about what she needed to do to get where she was going.
While Susan did this work to find her tribe, she set an example for the rest of us. Susan didn’t just say she was looking for her tribe and then wait for her goal to reach itself.
Susan mapped out and defined what she felt she needed to do to reach her goal. And she did all the things she felt she needed to do to find her tribe.
Susan found success in a way that none of us expected.
The message of this article is this: When you begin a new project in the future, include finding your tribe in the process. Decide what you need to do and then do it.
Good luck to Susan! You are a Reiki Practitioner who is mapping success. In the process, you taught all of your neighbors in the Market a few things about reaching your goals: find your Tribe!
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In Memory: Grandpa Woodstock
I found the story about Grandpa Woodstock on Trish LeaseWay’s Facebook thread. Her words and the pictures she took transported me back in time instantly to the first time I met him.
“Grandpa Woodstock is coming! Grandpa Woodstock is coming!” His very own herald announced his arrival with Lady Estar and Hector, their fluffy little white dog, as they made their way to the food pantry for Wednesday afternoon grocery shopping.
He parked his famous colorful cart at the pantry entrance under the shade of a tree so Hector wouldn’t get overheated. While Grandpa Woodstock and Lady Estar came in to shop, Hector patiently waited in the cart.
In Woodstock, Grandpa Woodstock was the most colorful of the colorful and the most charming of the charming with his props and smile. Residents loved him. Travelers from all over the globe adored him. Women, especially, responded to him. How could anyone resist?
While waiting in the hallway to shop, Grandpa Woodstock entertained everyone: “My, how beautiful you look today!” he gushed enthusiastically as he sounded the horn attached to his walking stick “Toot toot”.
I was no exception to the rule. His words melted my heart. Because, in reality, working in the pantry was tough with the overcrowded hallway, overstuffed food shelves, and overtired shoppers. When Grandpa Woodstock and Lady Estar shopped in the pantry, none of it mattered.
He made us feel special when he showed off his clothes, his cart, his horn, his peace sign, and posed for photos.
What a pair! Grandpa and Lady Estar looked alike. My eyes told me they were a pair of matching perfect size 8’s. Their long flowing silver hairstyles and their lovely matching beards only emphasized their striking appearance as they stood in the pantry selecting veggies for the evening meal they planned to serve to their closest homeless friends.
He and Lady Estar dressed beautifully in flowing silk skirts and kimonos. They favored red floral print jackets, dresses. Their toenails were painted and they wore matching Teva sandals. As they chatted, I felt they were already dressed for their evening event.
When they left the pantry, Grandpa Woodstock pushed their cart out to the village green so admirers could take pictures, buy post cards, and donate money in Grandpa’s tip jar.
None of Woodstock’s rich and famous got so many requests for autographs, photographs. They couldn’t compete with Grandpa Woodstock’s show off tricks. Maybe some of these famous people should have gotten a horn.
This was street theater at its finest. He drew us in, made us feel special for a moment. Life was beautiful!
“My how lovely you look today!” he announced to the crowd, waving a peace sign in the air. Grandpa Woodstock convinced us all with his smile and the toot of his horn that we were accepted by the community, that we were okay, and that our pantry was important.
As I remember this special moment in time, I’m reminded that neither Grandfather Woodstock, nor the Woodstock he lived in, exist anymore. Grandpa was the last of the line. Everyone else was gone – one way or another.
Time and gentrification is moving us forward – with no exceptions.
A Meditation for You and for Now
The bottom line about meditation is this: communication.
A meditation can be done anywhere. But the best location is the one where you are in a quiet place, uninterrupted, and where you can relax and feel safe.
A good meditation posture is the one where you sit or lay down with your eyes closed in whatever position is most comfortable for you.
Like other forms of communication, the more you practice meditation, the more you will be receptive to the energy and greater awareness of the activity.
At the beginning of your meditation, you may want to light a candle, ring a bell, burn incense, play soothing music. You may hold a meaningful store or other symbol such as a cross or star.
Close your eyes and focus your breathing as you inhale and exhale slowly and deeply. Think about your breath as you inhale and exhale. Breathe slowly and deeply for the next several minutes while you allow your sacred self to take control. This will let you calm your sensory perceptions.
Notice how your body relaxes with each breath.
This quiet time is a priority. With every breath, you relax a bit more deeply. Light and energy and positive thoughts enter your body with every inhale.
Allow a sense of well-being and gentle relaxation to cover your entire self.
Toxins, anxiety, and frustrations leave your body with each exhale. This is a good time to discard discomfort. Relaxation replaces the toxins with every breath.
Breathe in healing light and warmth from the crown of your head down through your body – your upper chest, your back and spine, down your abdomen and pelvic areas, hips, thighs, and down your legs to your feet.
Your breath will guide this light to encircle your body and circulate around your body several times.
When you are ready, gather the energy at your feet and let it flow up your body to your head.
See this energy flowing out from your head as a fountain of light. It gathers at your feet in a pool of energy and then flows back up to the crown of your head.
Repeat this fountain flow several times – as long as you like.
When you are relaxed, comfortable, and energized, it is time to leave the meditation and return to the room.
Open your eyes. Gently shake your arms, hands, legs, and feet.
Now, smile, knowing that you can return to this space whenever you want.
Lift Yourself Up: 6 Things That Work
Sometimes, we’re aware of life’s impacts when they happen. Other times, they sneak up on us. We wake up and realize things haven’t been “right” for a while or even a long time.
Life is many things to many different people. Over time, things change. The changes can come daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or even more slowly.
However that is for you, when you realize things aren’t what you consider ideal – or even acceptable – it’s time to lift yourself up.
This is a good opportunity to spend energy connecting with your community. You may find that your community is experiencing adjustments as well as yourself. Who are you in this community? Are you comfortable with your place here?
The important thing is to connect with people who lift you up. You find them when you connect with your community – through friends, groups, and extended families.
Check in with those who are important to you.
Take a deep breath and a break. Self-care activities such as meditation and enough sleep can be particularly healing now. (Meditation always comes up first on the self-care list. However, it is not popular with everyone. The point is to choose something that works for you.)
Returning to body work habits such as reflexology or Reiki therapy can be particularly appreciated now. While you’re focusing on these new (or renewed) connections, schedule extra sessions to keep you grounded and steady.
This is also a time to pick up a new skill through classes, books, or other ways of learning.
Finally, show up for others in positive ways which honors them. This makes you a conduit for healing in ways you may not have thought of before.
Being a conduit for healing is a basic tenet of self-healing. Being a conduit does not require that you change your story or anyone else’s.
Being a conduit for healing does not really offer therapy even. Simply being there and showing up is enough.
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Reiki and Me: A Personal Transformation
Flashback to the 90’s.
I lived in the Washington, D.C. metro area when I went to the dogs.
I took my complete professional wardrobe (conservative suits, white blouses, natural colored stockings, sensible shoes, and matching power jewelry) to the Ft. Belvoir Thrift Shop and said “goodbye” to my past life.
I dusted off my massage therapy certificate which I earned from the Potomac MyoTherapy Institute in 1980. (I wrote about PMTI in my wellness book “Healer’s Handbook”.)
I practiced massage therapy and foot reflexology as far beneath the radar screen as I could get. Except for my clients, my goal was “invisible”.
And, I studied canine massage therapy, more foot reflexology, and animal communication at different workshops and classes around the country.
Names like Jonathan Rudinger, Penelope Smith, Dawn Hayman, Marge D’Urso, and Bill Flocco bring up extremely fond memories.
This is where my life took a change.
I attended an introductory canine massage therapy class in Clinton, New York, at Spring Farm CARES. At the first (of many) class I attended there, every other student in the class was a Reiki practitioner or master.
Not only was I the only student not attuned to Reiki, I couldn’t even spell it.
Don’t get me wrong. Reiki wasn’t a part of the curriculum in this class. It was simply a part of each student’s credentials and vocabulary.
I was intrigued by this healing technique they all knew and used. As soon as I returned home I began searching to find out about Reiki and how was it taught. I asked everyone I knew about it. Keep in mind, this was the Northern Virginia suburbs where not even massage was legal.
It was also just before computers became common. I didn’t yet know about Google.
What I really wanted to know was where I could find a teacher. I definitely didn’t like being the only person in a class not connected to something that was obviously important to the rest of the people in the room.
While searching for a teacher, I discovered only 6 Reiki books. One title I remember: “Essential Reiki” by Diane Stein.
I also learned that two friends were Reiki Masters. In seeking a Reiki Master Teacher, I learned that people I knew very well were keeping deep dark secrets from the world. The secrets? Reiki.
Amazing: Knowing that a close friend’s deepest, darkest secret was Reiki says things about my close friends, about Reiki, and about Virginia.
Kathy Levin and Barbara Kaplan were healing people and not even sharing their skills with anyone. And, finally, they weren’t even whispering the names of their teachers. Both women claimed to have learned Reiki years before. Their stories could have been begun with “Long ago and far away…”
I dug and dug and finally found a metaphysical gift shop in Vienna, VA which taught a variety of interesting things on the weekends. Reiki was buried in a long list of interesting spiritual-sounding classes at Terra Christa.
Needless to say, Mary Ruth Van Landingham and her classes were a gold mine for me. I learned nine different types of Reiki and a whole host of other things. For the next few years, I was a student in most of the weekend classes in Mary Ruth’s classroom behind her shop.
Soon, Reiki joined my below-the-radar healing sessions of reflexology, massage therapy, canine massage therapy, animal communication.
The Reiki training I received fit well into every service I offered.
Not in the Reiki category, but important: Dan Chesbro ordained me at Terra Christa. Throughout the years, most of my Reiki students reached out to Dan Chesbro for ordination.
Mary Ruth Van Landingham planted the seed for my first book “Healer’s Handbook”. It took years from Mary Ruth’s guiding suggestion to an actual book. My life experiences had to catch up with the text.
While all this was happening on the weekends, something else happened that was quiet, calm, positive, and distinct.
My life changed. I turned some kind of spiritual corner.
Reiki is not necessarily an out-loud modality. Reiki touches every life differently. After all, we’re all each individual and unique.
It became a part of my life without much fanfare. And, it was certainly easy to learn. Through the years, it’s become such a part of my life that sometimes I feel I don’t give it enough credit.
Reiki is automatic and quiet. Reiki doesn’t need a lot of attention. It stays with me. It doesn’t need equipment and it doesn’t require periodic recertifications.
I use Reiki and reflexology together regularly. They work hand-in-glove without the need of a prescription.
I’m grateful for the healing modalities I’ve learned throughout my life. They served my clients and students well. Sometimes I feel I don’t give Reiki and reflexology the credit they deserve.
When I think about it, part of the usefulness of Reiki and reflexology is that they don’t need attention. They don’t need credit. They just do the work.
SO, thank you Reiki and reflexology.
And, thank you to everyone who has read and does read this blog. Thanks for buying the books and thank you for referring me to your friends, relatives, and neighbors.
I regularly invite Reiki practitioners to come on my show to discuss and receive Reiki.
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Finally, thank you for dropping by my Tarot booth at Mower’s Meadow Saturday Sunday Flea Market. This is one of my favorite places in the whole wide world. The Flea Market is both mystical and magical. Join me there!
Respectfully submitted,
Thurman Greco
Anchor Yourself in Reality
On December 25, 1968, with my two toddlers, I landed on a remote airfield in the interior of Venezuela, on the outskirts of El Tigre.
Gulf Oil had just hired my husband, Tony, to work in the Mene Grande Oil Camp. ,In the weeks before he started this job, we sold our cars, and home, located in a Dallas, Texas suburb.
Movers packed our belongings and sent them down to the seaport in Maracaibo, Venezuela by boat. We didn’t see our household goods for six months because of a shipping strike.
We lived with nothing and no way to get anything. Think of the things you feel you might need: coffee pot, dishes, sheets, towels, chairs, tables, beds, sofas.
We borrowed from the neighbors.
I found myself living in a country where we lived in a community ringed by a high chain link fence near a remote village where I didn’t know the language. My spouse spoke Spanish but he was at work all day long.
After a short time, the reality of my situation sank in. The oil camp where I lived was fifty miles from a grocery store in one direction and fifty miles from headhunters in the other. Ciudad Bolivar sat eighty miles in the third direction on the south bank of the Orinoco River.
I lived a life where a uniformed guard aiming a machine gun at me was the rule of the day as I went about my “que haceres” to the bank, bakery, gas station. Wherever I went throughout the day, I took Jennette and Michele with me. The goal was to never get separated from them.
Lastly, there was no outside phone line.
What a place to be when so much was happening in the rest of the world. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Arlo Guthrie sang “Alice’s Restaurant”. The My Lai Massacre was the scandal of the Vietnam War.
By the end of the first month, I found my anchor, my information line to reality. I read about current events and news every Tuesday evening when the previous Sunday’s New York Times was delivered to my door. As soon as the DC-3 landed about 4:30, we were all ready at our house. We loved greeting the paper delivery man as he dropped it off at our front door. Tony and I read the last Sunday’s paper from cover to cover.
I had never been to New York City and it didn’t even matter. The New York Times brought the world to me.
And, I’ve been reading the New York Times regularly since then. I read it in San Francisco, Mexico City, San Antonio, Dallas, Monterey, CA., and Washington, D.C.
Some places I got the paper daily. Others, it was weekly. Wherever I lived, I read every copy I got my hands on.
No matter how the current events of my life unfolded, after reading the New York Times, I had a calmer, more realistic perspective. The New York Times brought news with the calming reality of facts most of my adult life.
Even with all the drama of Biden versus Trump, stories in the New York Times are balanced, informative, real, and important.
To The New York times, I send a thank you for doing what you do so well.
To my readers, I sincerely hope and pray that you have found a way to stay anchored. Life is much easier that way. This anchor adds an extra layer of depth to my spiritual work. For me, this is essential.
I am simply unable to live my life from day-to-day without including planetary events. I have friends, close friends, who are able to shut everything around them out. I cannot. I live on the planet earth and cannot ignore the reality of current events.
Along with the Reiki and Reflexology, I’m a more balanced person. Current events are part of this circle of spiritual growth. Include the necessary elements for balance.
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It’s Spring. Discover One Completely New Thing
Trying something new can be daunting. I get out of my comfort zone every April. I know when the Forsythia starts to bloom, it’s time to dust off my learning skills and experience something new. It doesn’t matter what it really is. The important thing is I’m enjoying discovery and adventure.
Living in upstate New York, I live the four seasons. Coming from the south, I thought I lived the four seasons. And, actually, I don’t think I really did. Then, living in Venezuela, I learned about living with 2 seasons: rainy and dry.
Because I chose to live where I live, I look forward to each season. I see Spring as a new energy. I experience Spring as an opportunity to try something completely new. It doesn’t really matter what it is. The important thing is I’m enjoying discovery and adventure
One thing I expect is this: not getting it right. I get to enjoy being a learner again. I might not like what I learned but that’s okay.
My friend Karen is a professional learner – every time I visit her, she’s got something new in her life: this spring she’s learning how to play a concertina!
Karen has learned to take the pressure off her days. She’s leaving the stress at the door and she’s simply enjoying a new activity.
I never know how long she’ll stay with the concertina or whatever magical thing she is learning. And, it doesn’t matter. When she learns something new, she makes her world bigger and newer.
May we all be a little like Karen!
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I do have one new book coming out soon. “A Healer’s Tarot Memoir” is going to be published soon.
The role of this book is to learn to use Major Arcana cards for greater insight into your life so you can discover more about your role in the world. Representing important events in your life, these archetypes explain the wisdom in your soul while they do their work.
I’ve known about this book since 2015 when I sat down with a Tarot Reader in the Washington Square Park late one summer afternoon. He was reading my cards and suddenly, we were the only two people in the park. He read my cards and confirmed that one day I would write a book which would bring me joy.
His reading was spot on. I did. “”A Healer’s Tarot Memoir” is the book.
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Until “A Healer’s Tarot Memoir” is released, my latest book, “But for Gabriel” is available in both ebook and paperback at thurmangreco@gmail.com
Thanks again!
Thurman
ONE MORE THING!
Reiki and Reflexology are ALWAYS APPROPRIATE!
Physical Therapy – How to Get the Most from Your PT Session
We go to physical therapy because we want to get to the other side – of whatever the situation is.
Maybe you’ve been in an accident.
Maybe you just realized that your neck won’t move right.
Maybe you just finally looked in the mirror and your left shoulder and your right shoulder don’t match – at all.
Whatever the reason, physical therapy takes a commitment. It means going to two appointments weekly with homework between the sessions.
Some people go to their physical therapy sessions and do their homework and things seem to just go right.
I’ve gone to physical therapy sessions several different times in my life. Each experience impacted my life differently.
In my 40’s, I went to physical therapy, and followed the series of PT sessions up with a fitness club membership which helped me immensely. The physical therapy sessions followed by the regular fitness sessions changed my life for the better. The impact of these physical therapy sessions lasted the better part of a decade.
A couple of decades later, my physical therapy experience was just as positive but the therapy was completely different. I spent a lot of time on the table receiving heat treatments. My back and shoulders loved this attention and appreciated the healing applications I received twice weekly.
Now, with different needs, my current physical therapy experience is different yet again. My body does not want to move so fast. Healing is not so easy this time. I leave each session feeling fatigue and pain. My body needs to rest and restore. It needs attention beyond what is happening at the physical therapist’s office.
It took two sessions for me to realize what was happening. What did I do? I ran for the Reiki therapy!
I’m sharing this with everyone because I’m seeing other people coming away from the physical therapy session who need restorative healing. Some people get this information quickly. Others need a little nudge.
What I’m finding is that the physical therapy session is not completed without a Reiki session to follow up.
Actually, other modalities work well also. Reflexology certainly offers the deep calming needed to end a session totally.
But, really, it doesn’t matter whether you schedule Reiki or Reflexology or massage or ………… Many modalities available will work.
The important thing to know is that when we get physical therapy, the work takes your body “so far”. To get your money’s worth in healing, schedule the Reiki session on the same day if you possibly can – certainly within 36 hours.
Schedule these bodywork sessions think of them as part of your life. They stimulate your body’s own healing processes.
When you combine Reiki or Reflexology or whatever modality works best for you, you will receive more healing for your health care dollars.
If regular Reiki sessions turn out to be a challenge, take some classes and learn to give sessions. That way you can exchange sessions with others.
Ask a friend to join you in a learning adventure. The two of you can learn together and exchange sessions. This is self-care, an important activity which we all need to include in our daily lives.
Thanks for reading this blog post! New articles have been posted for 10 years. This blog was created to be a conduit for your own healing.
With blogs, books, classes, and sessions, I am not here to change your story. Instead, I am here to be a conduit for your own healing.
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Eight Ways to Fight the Fear
To be honest, things are becoming more and more confusing as the days go along. Every time I greet a friend or neighbor or anyone, for that matter, she talks to me as if we are all lost.
And, maybe we are.
It’s hard-to-impossible to figure out sometimes where this year is headed. Some of my friends and acquaintances are solving their dilemma by simply not reading papers or watching TV.
Others choose their channels with care, blocking out everything that seems to be problematic.
Still others are becoming information junkies, focusing their lives on a particular channel offering information they can understand and accept.
On the home front, our Woodstock community is undergoing gentrification. We’re all facing the fact that we’re living in a place far removed from the community we chose to live in when we moved here.
And, this situation comes on the heels of the stresses of Covid and everything that went with that.
Our home is hardly recognizable.
And, I haven’t even brought other news: economic, climate change, the election, our local schools – and any other thing you can imagine.
Then, there are all the economic and social changes in our country.
Sometimes, I think that each of us is on our own, private, Yellow Brick Road.
And, that leads me to the whole reason for this blog post: Fear
The Fear is palpable.
It has an odor.
I see it on the street in the way people walk and the way they talk and the way they dress.
There are some things we can do as we make our way forward into a future many of us are having trouble even imagining.
ONE. Speak Your Fear. As soon as you begin to share your fear, it begins to lose its power over you.
TWO. When fear covers you with an invisible tent, practice breathing exercises. Include meditation sessions. Find what works for you and practice it regularly. When this breathing exercise becomes a part of your life, you should be able to find calm which will send the panic running.
THREE. Exercise regularly. Regular exercise slows down the fight-or-flight reflex. The options are open here. Do what you enjoy.
FOUR. Seek out friends you can chat with who will have a calming effect on you. This step has been helpful for me. When I’m upset, I call Carey and we chat. Sometimes she calls me. Over the last few months, I’ve gathered a few friends who call me. We’re an informal support group.
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FIVE. Enjoy Reiki, or other bodywork modality, regularly I’m watching healing groups form in the area. People gather regularly to share and exchange their sessions. I cannot tell you how important these groups are. Peace. Calm. Lower Blood Pressure, Sleep………….
SIX. Get the what-ifs out of your life and your mind. These lists of fears can wreak havoc on your day. And, they will not save your situation. They are a waste of time which will get you nowhere. Instead, focus your energy on things you can manage.
SEVEN. Write something. This can be a memoir, a journal, a diary, a letter to the editor, a note to a friend you haven’t seen in awhile – whatever works for you. If you’ve never written anything before, now is a good time to begin. Don’t worry. Everybody has a first sentence or chapter or essay. I had one. I never wrote anything but my name before 2013. And, now I have 2 blogs and several books – one of which has been purchased by people in over three dozen countries!
When you begin to write, don’t be afraid of a blog. My first 2 blogs certainly kickstarted my career. I bought a book by Nina Amir: “How to Blog a Book”. I read this book and followed Nina Amir’s instructions.
EIGHT Stress and what-ifs are good invitations to develop our spiritual and religious lives. This is a good time to meet fear with a renewed trust in your spiritual and religious beliefs.
Sometimes reality can be downright scary. This week, meet the uncertainty and fear in your life with a renewed calm. Work your way down the list and see what item helps you the most.
And, finally, thank you for reading this blog post!
Thurman Greco.
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I look forward to hearing from you about how you like the show.
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The List: Things to help you balance your life when it seems to unravel.
Following is a selection of things you can do minimize and defray unraveling. This list offers ways to give yourself and others relief right now. ENJOY!
Try not to do everything at once.
Give your best self to the world.
Create your best-ever to-do list. Be sure it includes helping you chart your path.
Have fun along the way.
Learn something new.
See things through the eyes of a child.
Make sleep a first priority.
If you don’t need it, don’t buy it.
Don’t jump to conclusions.
Drink lots of water.
Let some good news into your life everyday.
Toss out old guilt.
Believe in yourself.
Arrive on time.
Know when to walk away.
Go to bed at the same time every night.
Begin each day with a smile.
Value quality.
Make someone happy each day.
Shop at a farmer’s market.
Let everyone sleep late when it’s a day off.
Be authentic.
When you like someone, tell them.
Unstick yourself: Move on!
When the opportunity is right, be brave!
Eat ice cream!
Be enthusiastic.
Pay attention to your hunches.
Teach by example.
Roll up your sleeves and get to work.
Get out of your own way.
Try to do something you always wanted to do.
Gratitude is always in good taste.
Give up things that bind you.
Make a wish at a fountain.
Don’t wait for the perfect moment because it will never come.
Move on.
Give second chances.
Do breathing exercises.
Practice the Golden Rule.
Laugh at yourself.
Like yourself.
Don’t get too…hungry, tired, angry, lonely.
Do something every day that you enjoy.
Quiet your mind with yoga.
Share what you can, when you can.
Give someone a flower.
Stop being unhappy.
This article is filled with simple suggestions you can incorporate into your everyday life. They have the ability to enliven and enlighten your life. I hope you will agree and that you’ll want to incorporate some of them into your life.
They can speak to you today. Or, they may speak to you years from now. But however and whenever they speak, take what you want and leave the rest.
It is my hope that the suggestions on this list will help you open your heart and put a spark in your spirit. Hopefully you’ll celebrate them and strengthen yourself mentally, spiritually, and emotionally as you become stronger totally in an unraveling environment.
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Let’s Live with Thurman Greco is a program aired weekly on Woodstock’s own educational TV channel 23. This show is an informative, upbeat hour with no rehearsals. Some segments support the blog information and highlight Reiki Therapy, Hand and Food Reflexology, and other wellness subjects.
Guests are various people whose lives have brought them to Woodstock for a day, a week, an hour, a decade, or more. I can truthfully boast that guests report they enjoy the experience.
Let’s Live has been running for over 15 years with an occasional intermission now and then.
Enjoy interesting and fun programs while getting a peek into Woodstockers being themselves. Search “Let’s Live With Thurman Greco” on YouTube and check out the ever-growing list of videos.
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Celebrate this blog’s journey with posts for over 10 years!
www.hungerisnotadisease.com is also celebrating its 10th year!
Check out my books on thurmangreco.com. The website is being repaired so please order your books at thurmangreco@gmail.com.
“But for Gabriel is the newest book. Like all the others, it is available as an ebook as well as a paperbook.
I’m currently working on a new book: “A Healer’s Tarot Memoir”. You can preorder it now at thurmangreco@gmail.com.
Thanks again for reading this article!
Thurman
