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Appreciation
is most powerful when it ceases to be something that you do only
occasionally, and instead becomes your basic approach to life.
You must first be willing to overcome those reasons you give yourself for
why you shouldn't have to appreciate in a particular situation, or why it
won't work, or how appreciation is just too hard in this or that
circumstance. 
Nature
is a great teacher. Its natural cycles demonstrate important truths about
life and renewal. Every year, deciduous trees must drop their leaves so that
new life can form. If the leaves did not fall, the tree could not renew
itself. It is that simple. What can this cycle teach us? I believe it
teaches us that we pay too little attention to the role letting go plays in
the experience of renewal.
Tonglin
practice is rooted in the breath. If you can breathe in and out, you can
practice tonglin. The essence of the practice is to breathe in the suffering
of another person and to breathe out loving-kindness, compassion, and
healing. As we breathe that healing out, we are making the greatest gift we
can, the gift of our loving and healing energy, to help relieve another's
suffering. 
It
is possible for the mind to become disempowered. It feels then as if reality
is just a given, and all we can do is try to deal with it. The disempowered
mind feels it has no choice about what it attends to. Training the attention
is definitely one way to begin empowering the mind. It's not as if you are
doing something special to the mind to make it big and powerful. You are
simply removing impediments, so the inherent power of the mind can spring
forth.
Indigo
Children are often perfectionists, and they can be very hard on themselves.
One of the reasons why they become aggressively defensive when you scold
them is that they're already painfully aware that they've made a mistake.
Help your children understand that everyone makes mistakes. So often, Indigo
Children feel shame due to their unique qualities, and because they've been
told that they're "disordered".