Ready, Steady, Go!
This is where you will find actions you can take on your own time to carry us all a few steps closer to a safer, healthier, happier world. These are things you can do to bolster your resilience and help prevent illnesses and injuries for yourself and your community. I invite you to share your actions to inspire others to join you.
Where relevant The Ready, Steady, Go! button will take you to more information, the sponsoring organization, or a petition, or whatever else might be necessary to take the action.
The action items offered will generally fall into the following categories:
- personal actions, things you can do by yourself, for yourself;
- interpersonal actions, things you can do that can enhance the way you relate to others;
- community actions, things you can do to engage meaningfully with the community in which you live; and
- global actions, things you can do to make our planet a smaller, more connected and caring world.
If you would like to be informed of the action items as they get posted, about once a week, then please do subscribe to the Ready, Steady, Go! newsletter. You won’t get bombarded with unnecessary emails. You’ll just get a friendly, gentle reminder to participate in making your world safer, healthier, and happier.
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Spring into Summer
Spring holds many beginnings and a wide berth for transition. Slowly heat builds Spring into Summer. We invite you similarly to grow your passions. Passions point to the heart and in Ayurveda passion is infused with heat. Feel willing to follow your curiosities early and share your processes openly. Take your interests to their point of impact.
We are currently encouraging you to connect with the earth, the soil, the plants in your surroundings. As such we suggest you bridge community by weaving your strengths and surplus with any local organizations that are also encouraging gardening education and community gardens. This could look like visiting your local community gardening, supporting a gardening business, learning something new about the plants in your neighborhood to share with your loved ones, or simply making a one-time or renewing donation. Here are a couple virtual visit options for your inspiration:
- Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: Rematriate the Land Geomorphic Visualization and Teachgiving Series (Virtual Visit)
- Street Spirit March 2022 Issue (Virtual Visit)
Please share with us your experience with all that is happening in your communities in the comments below. #gardens #communitygardens #ReadySteadyGo
-This post was authored by Wana Shue
Share Your Experience, Share Your Prosperity
Invite someone, a friend, a neighbor you like, someone on your block you see around but don’t know yet, anyone to join you for a walk around the block.
Even if anyone can’t join you at this time, share with someone a story from your walk(s). In conversation build out awareness of your environment through these changing of seasons. Broadening your self-awareness is fostered with broadening (y)our consciousness and considering the people, plants and animals around you. Speak your care.
On your path was there a plant or animal you had an interaction with?
What does this plant or animal need from the springtime?
What does this plant or animal give to the springtime?
What have you been needing differently? A loved one? Your neighbor?
What offerings have you extended to yourself in this new day? To a loved one? To your neighbor?
#SharingIsCaring #SharingIsProsperity
-This post was authored by Wana Shue
A Walk Around the Block
Take a walk through your neighborhood to engage your health, your heart, and our communities. For
our physical bodies, walking stimulates the lymphatic system, supports our lung capacity, encourages the proper operation of our muscles and joints, along with many other benefits. For our minds, our movement and breathing outdoor air has the power to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Emotionally and spiritually a relaxing stroll creates spaciousness for self reflection, development, and reconnection to gratitude.
Honor your senses through this walk. And let us know in the comments below:
How were you able to cultivate presence for yourself through this experience?
What did your senses gravitate towards today? What did you see? What did you smell? What did you listen to?
What did you notice in your body? How was your balance? How was your breathing? How was your heart?
Did any one part of your body speak more loudly?
How can you give attention, support, or praise to this part of your body?
-This post was authored by Wana Shue
Listening Local
This week we invite you to engage your local music community. Although this might have been best accomplished by showing up in person for a show or performance at a neighborhood bar, the rise of the delta variant of COVID-19 suggests that we should exercise caution before deciding to attend crowded events. There are, however, a number of alternative ways to get involved with your local music community.
Visit local parks and gardens where local performers are filling the air with their self-expression. If you pass a performer you enjoy, take the time to look for their information, they often have a social media and Venmo handle listed. If you like what they’re playing, it’s likely worth a Venmo tip or Instagram follow, or even a coin or a bill in their tip jar. Even if it isn’t your favorite music in the world, it still feels good to support your local artists who have really been hit hard economically by our society’s response to the threat of COVID-19.
Many musicians share their work on platforms like Reddit, Soundcloud, and Spotify where you can stream their content, the simplest and most effective way of finding new music and listening local, though it can’t compare to a live, in person, analog experience.
Whether you’re able to get out and see a local performer live or on a digital platform, supporting musicians in your community is a wonderful way to feel more connected. Let us know which artists you’ve found by using the hashtags #ListeningLocal and #ReadySteadyGo!
Share a Song
Chloe (age 6) and Anna (age 8) Delamotte playing strings in North Beach, San Francisco.
Music, as impactful as it can be, is even more powerful together. Scientific research tells us that listening to music stimulates areas of the brain that regulate emotions, and a result, increases experiences of empathy. To foster social connections and connect more deeply, this week we are encouraging readers to share a song you love, with a person you love. Perhaps even consider asking those close to you to send you some of their favorite tunes.
You may or may not share the same taste in genre or style but broadening your listening repertoire can bring you closer to those around you, and yourself. Whether you build a joint playlist on Spotify or burn an old-school CD, or even older, a mixed tape cassette, remember that the purpose is to listen not just for enjoyment, but for connection.
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