Soul Sculpting Project: One Simple Tool for Building Great Relationships Who is your most significant relationship with right now? How’s your Relational Piggy Bank doing? We keep piggy banks for all our relationships. We make regular deposits and withdrawals. When we keep the bank full we create the needed reserve to help us survive the…
Soul Sculpting Project: Playing with Habit Design
Soul Sculpting Project: Playing with Habit Design The most depressing day of the year is almost here. The third Monday in January. That’s the day when the hopes of keeping our New Year’s resolutions begin to die. To keep my hopes alive this year I am pulling out my biggest power-tool for behavioral change. Habit…
Practicing Celebration: A 5 Minute Christmas Ritual for All Ages
Practicing Celebration: A 5 Minute Christmas Ritual for All Ages Holiday Rituals Promote a sense of belonging. Strengthening our family/community connections. We are connected to each other. Provide an oasis of renewal in the midst of busyness. A slow deep breath in the midst of craziness. All is well. Remind us of our identity and…
Practicing Celebration Soul Sculpting Project: A Five Minute Advent for Week 4
Practicing Celebration Soul Sculpting Project: A Five Minute Advent for Week 4 Why we light candles. The first reason was just practical. We had small children. When we turned out the lights and lit a candle, the dancing flame held their attention long enough for us to have a short ceremony together. As our children…
Practicing Celebration Soul Sculpting Project: A 5 Minute Advent for Week 3
Practicing Celebration Soul Sculpting Project: A 5 Minute Advent for Week 3 What do you value? What rituals support that value? Every time we do a ritual, like an Advent service, we are helping ourselves, and those with us, to create a mental story that reminds us of what we value. Scientists who study ritual…
Practicing Celebration: Week TWO: The 5 Minute All-ages Advent
Practicing Celebration: Soul Sculpting Project: Week TWO 5 Minute Advent Celebration A war zone, year 2006: Israeli women find themselves living in conditions that are threatening and uncontrollable. How do they deal with the anxiety? Some of the women choose to recite Psalms. Those that recite frequently have lower anxiety levels. Sosis and Handwerker (2011…
