Embracing the Good In All
“Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world
and our hands are long enough to encompass the world.”
Amit Ray
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EMBRACING THE GOOD IN ALL |
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We have a Guiding Light inside of us. This Guiding Light, or energy, is all the feelings and emotions we experience inside our body. When we feel good feelings, like love and happiness, these feelings expand through our whole being and we are encouraged to keep wanting to find things that feel good to us. When we experience friendship and kindness from and for others, we become grateful and happy and we feel really good and these good feelings guide us towards more experiences that feel good.
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When we pause a moment to really feel the good feelings that arise within us, we are embracing those feelings and we are embracing whatever it was that caused the good feelings. Remember, when you give attention to good things, more good things will come to you.
When something doesn't feel good, it is important to know that there is good in everything and every experience. We just need to take a moment to discover the good in any situation or in any person. Maybe a rainy day make you feel sad or disappointed because you can't go out and play. If we take a moment, we can begin to see the good in the rain. We realize that the rian will help the trees bloom and the spring flowers grow. Maybe the air feels warm and you can have a different experience playing in the rain. Looking for the good in everything can make us feel excited, happy, grateful and so many other good feelings!
When we embrace something it is just like hugging, but we are hugging with our emotions and feeling like gratitude, faith, love, peace, or joy. We pull all of these wonderful into our hearts and we wrap our minds and hearts around them, accepting them as a part of who we are.
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“Some moments are happy. Some moments are sad.
Live each moment. Embrace life!”
Avijeet Das
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EMBRACING THE GOOD MEDITATION
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This embracing meditation helps us to take a moment to acknowledge and be present, or in the now moment, with our emotions and feelings. The more often that we can embrace and feel good feelings the more good we grow in our lives.
These feelings and qualities may be things that we already possess and want to nurture and grow, or they may be qualities that we want to begin to grow. For instance, if we are nervous about meeting new people, we may want to embrace our courage by spending time embracing feelings of being brave and strong.
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PROCESS:
- Gather something soft and huggable like a stuffed animal or pillow. You can also hug yourself!!
- Sit comfortably and take a few deep breaths
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Hug your animal, pillow or self and ask, “What good feeling or quality do I want to embrace?”
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Sit in silence. Let the answer rise into your mind. What positive quality about yourself or what good feeling do you want to embrace? Gratitude, Love, Belief, Joy, Peacefulness, Courage, Creativity or any other that comes to your mind.
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Inhale deeply, and embrace the animal, pillow or yourself while feeling the good feelings or quality.
- Exhale and relax into feeling good.
- Repeat for as long as you want. You can focus on the same qualities and feelings or you can move through the different types.
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“I embrace new experiences every day. I revel in the fun adventures I create for myself and absorb their blissful gifts.”
Amy Leigh Mercree
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Grow your roots deep into the ground, stand straight like a sapling reaching for the sun and pretend you are all the animals living in the great oak tree. |
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Easy Acorn to Oak Tree Pose Yoga
Thinky Dinky
Mindfulness for Kids
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“I embrace every day as an opportunity
to live fully and with total heart!”
Amy Leigh Mercree
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AND HERE'S TO YOU!
By David Elliott
This joyful picture book invites us to observe our world and celebrate the vast diversity within it, from people to bugs to birds, and makes us feel pretty happy with our place in the world, too.
LET'S GET CREATIVE!!
• Draw a picture of yourself or print a photo of your self. (If you print your portrait without color, then you can have fun coloring your picture)
• Think about all the wonderful qualities that you have and the qualities that you wish to grow. Write these down on strips of paper and glue around your portrait like rays from the sun.
• Place your portrait somewhere you will see it everyday to remind you of all the good in your self that you wish to embrace.
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“Every day is a new adventure so embrace it fully
with your whole heart and soul.”
Crystal Tyler
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Penn State University
“Just like adults, children need to develop strategies for managing their emotions, so that they can build social-emotional skills. When children are more socially and emotionally aware and skilled, they can more effectively navigate relationships, calm down and problem solve when challenges arise.”
"Helping children to identify and label emotions is an important first step. Many preschoolers do not yet have the vocabulary to identify feeling words like angry or frustrated, or have the skills to “read” facial cues or to interpret body language. Adults support children’s social-emotional development when they label and talk about emotions".
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“I embrace now—this moment—with my whole being.”
Amy Leigh Mercree
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HUGGING MEDITATION PRACTICE
by Brother Phap Lai
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This hugging practice is a great way to 'embrace' the good in ourselves and the good in others. Even if we cannot physically hug some one right now, we can use a stuffed animal or a pillow or ourselves to represent the other person. |
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I BELIEVE I CAN FLY!!
Performed by Yolanda Adams
"If I can see it, then I can do it
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it "
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I AM EMBRACING THE GOOD IN ALL.
Practice using this affirmation as you imagine sharing
good feelings with yourself and others.
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Send in your artwork, ideas and thoughts about this week’s lesson and it will be added to next week’s newsletter!! I’m looking forward to seeing what you send to share with your Youth Community and families!
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MONTHLY YOUTH FELLOWSHIP
Sunday, March 28th, 9:00am
This is our monthly online Zoom Program on the Fourth Sunday of the Month. We look forward to this opportunity to build on the month’s lesson and to share projects & activities. ALL are invited!! Children will participate in new lessons and activities as well as sharing our weekly activities.
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Meeting ID: 850 8501 9460 Passcode: 261116 |
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2021 Youth Newsletter Links |
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This hugging practice is a great way to 'embrace' the good in ourselves and the good in others. Even if we cannot physically hug some one right now, we can use a stuffed animal or a pillow or ourselves to represent the other person. |
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Use the links below to revisit the
2021 Youth Newsletters
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