April 7 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was eleven minutes long, and was one of the #DailyTrip sessions from the @Calm app. The session for today was about anger, and focused on encouraging taking a breath when a flash of anger comes out of nowhere instead of reacting right out of the gate.
The narrator pointed out that anger often can speak to us about our values and what we deem as important in our lives. In taking a breath before we react to sudden surges of anger, it allows us to acknowledge where that anger is truly coming from and if what we are reacting to is really a threat.
In turn, this allows us to act in a more calm and strategic way that leaves our ego out of the equation.
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Lost and Found Prompt for April 7 : Forgiveness
Today’s draw is the Hierophant card, which is traditionally a representation of traditions, spiritual guidance, long standing institutions, teachers and guides, and themes that deal with conformity and social norms.
The card for today is a reminder that sometimes the knowledgable also learn from the young and inexperienced. Although we often look upon our elders and ancestors as guides filled with knowledge, it’s important to remember that they are also human too, and thus fallible and still learning.
They are not perfect. We should absolutely treat them and what they have to offer in knowledge, experience, and traditions with respect We also need to remember not to go so far as to put them on a pedestal so high that the answer “I don’t know” becomes an unforgivable sin, or makes them then feel obsolete to us moving forward.
It is our responsibility to cherish and respect what they have to offer us without falling into the trap of expecting them to know everything and give us all the answers.
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April 8 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was eleven minutes long, and was one of the #DailyCalm sessions from the @Calm app. The session was about effort, and how sometimes it’s not about how much effort you put into something, but if you can relax into it and let things flow.
The thing is, sometimes when we put in effort what we’re doing is over-achieving. Like with meditation. If you focus too hard on trying to do it perfectly, what happens is that you end up not doing it at all. Instead you sit there tense and straining instead of relaxed in the moment.
This is true for many other endeavors in our lives as well, and the meditation today encouraged looking at those places where we are straining with our efforts, and consider if we might not get there more easily if we ease off a bit on just how hard we’re pushing.
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Lost and Found Prompt for April 8 : Generosity
Today’s draw is the Five of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of apathy, boredom, sour grapes, pessimism, and discontent.
Combined with the prompt of “generosity” for today, the Five of Cups encourages checking in with yourself when you are feeling a sense of disappointment to ensure that you are coming at the experience not from a place of pessimism, but through an optimistic lens instead.
When we lean into negativity, whether that is negative emotions or negative inner thoughts, it only furthers more negativity and more unhappiness. Bad things happen and there’s no avoiding that, but we can look at these bad things pessimistically, which increases our feelings of discontent and disappointment… Or, we can try to see the silver lining in disappointing moments, which allows us to more easily break free of feeding into a more pervasive negative mindset.
Twisting the Leaf 