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Countdown Reason # 25: How my Friend “S.” Shifts Her Mindset to Joy

PostedJanuary 26, 2013

: My dear friend S. shared this with me. I saw her a few days ago. S. faces her own daily health challenges — her own and her partner’s. She’s started taking a meditative walk each day, at sunrise, and marking each walk with a photo. She looks back at the scene she saw that morning at dawn, later in the day, in the midst of whatever mental, physical, medical challenge she’s facing. It shifts her mindset to joy. Meditation + Nature. Excellent combination. When she showed me this photo, she smiled. Her whole body smiled. Despite what she was going through. I smiled at the thought of her taking her morning walk, meditating with her camera in her hand. I hope you smile. I hope you’ll tell me how YOU shift your mindset to joy. In 25 days, I’ll tell you how I do. And how doing so can change us.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist and speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience and human emotion. Her books include Girls on the Brink, Childhood Disrupted, and The Angel and the Assassin. Her newest book, The Adverse Childhood Experiences Guided Journal, is available wherever books are sold.

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