Soothe Your Soul 11/09/20 Living From Happiness

<p>This is a quiet and intimate show, the first in a series of quiet, contemplative shows with Melanie. She shares some of her own writing, along with insights from thought leaders such as neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson; Vaclav Havel, the great Czechoslovakian playwright turned dissident activist who became president of his country; and poetry selections.</p> <p>All the readings were chosen to help soothe your soul.</p> <p>There are lots of resources and creative ideas about finding happiness, no matter what's going on out there.</p> <p>Here's a morsel for you to enjoy:</p> <p class="p1"><em>I will not die an unloved life.</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>to make me less afraid, more accessible;</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing,</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>a torch, a promise.</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>I choose to risk my significance,</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>to live so that which came to me as seed</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>goes to the next as blossom,</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>and that which came to me as blossom,</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>goes on as fruit.</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>~ Dawna Markova</em></p> <p class="p1"><a href= "https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter">free University of Pennsylvania's Happiness questionnaires here</a></p> <p class="p1"><a href= "https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253868/popular-cliftonstrengths-assessment-products.aspx"> the Gallup Polls' StrengthsFinder assessment here</a></p> <p class="p1"><a href="https://melanieharth.com/">Melanie Harth's website here</a></p> <p> </p>