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Margie & Barbara
Feb 3, 2023
News About the Wish Blog
We have an important announcement to make. After consulting with the "Oracles of Wishing," we have decided to take a break from our...
Margie & Barbara
Jan 6, 2023
Synchronicities in Wishing
One of our wishes in the past year has been for healing. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, be open to wishes come true from...
Margie & Barbara
Nov 28, 2022
Gratitude, Wishing, & Our Partnership
In the US, and elsewhere, we recently celebrated Thanksgiving. It is a time to reflect and rejoice in what we have - family, friends,...
Margie & Barbara
Nov 11, 2022
Wishing is A Lot Like Praying
The subject of prayer can evoke religious practice for some people. Although both of us were raised in faith traditions, both of us have...
Margie & Barbara
Sep 30, 2022
The Next Bridge to Cross
In order to cross bridges, they first have to be built. A wish practice builds bridges between what is in one’s life and what one wants...
Margie & Barbara
Aug 5, 2022
Dandelion Wishes
Barbara: Margie, you said something the other day about “dandelion wishes” when you were a child. Will you tell us more about that?...
Margie & Barbara
Jun 10, 2022
Carrying Your Gratitude Practice Forward
What is gratitude? What does it feel like? What are its benefits? And why is it important in a wish practice? These are the questions we...
Margie & Barbara
Apr 29, 2022
How Focusing Taught Us "Blocks to Action"
Before we go any further, we have to tell you that we are “jumping for joy” because our journal HAS BEEN PUBLISHED! You can learn all...
Margie & Barbara
Mar 25, 2022
Focusing Brought Us Together
Both of us, at different times, learned about a method called Focusing, a kind of mindfulness practiced in partnership and all about...
Margie & Barbara
Mar 10, 2022
Introduction to Other Thoughts
“Other Thoughts” is where we write about a variety of topics related to wishing. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when we started...
Margie & Barbara
Feb 18, 2022
Lessons from These "Pandemic" Times: How Wishing Helps Us Respond to Change
Both of us have had experiences this past holiday season with making plans, only to have them changed on us by circumstances beyond our...
Margie & Barbara
Jan 7, 2022
What to do About "Languishing" in Covid Year Two
An article in the New York Times described a new phrase, “pandemic languishing”. The author defined languishing as “... a sense of...
Margie & Barbara
Dec 10, 2021
As the Year Comes to a Close
When we started this blog six months ago, we were hoping that “post-pandemic life” would be a reality by the end of the year. It is...
Margie & Barbara
Nov 5, 2021
Step 7 - From Positives to Wishes
As we stated in our last “Post-Pandemic Life” post, it is now time to take your positives and turn them into wishes! Adding the positives...
Margie & Barbara
Sep 27, 2021
Steps 4, 5, and 6 - Sifting Pandemic Activities to Bake a Better Life
Now that you’ve identified your buckets and filled them, it’s time to separate them into different categories: positive, negative, or...
Barbara Dickinson
Aug 23, 2021
Step 3 - Fill Your Buckets!
Now that you have identified your “buckets”, what’s a good way to start filling them? You might want to sit with your calendar for the...
Margie & Barbara
Aug 5, 2021
Step 2 - Identify Your "Buckets"
Step 2 in our post-pandemic practice is to review the past year in a way that is manageable, structured, and designed to promote living a...
Margie & Barbara
Jul 9, 2021
Step 1 - Create an Attitude of Gratitude...and the Practice to Support It!
We love the expression “Even when my head is in the tiger’s mouth, my heart is as still as the lotus blossom.” What this means to us is...
Margie & Barbara
Jun 18, 2021
Introduction to Post-Pandemic Life
What we observed during the pandemic is that the world we created for ourselves presented us with both opportunities and challenges. Some...
Margie & Barbara
Jun 18, 2021
The 7 Steps to Harvesting Joy and Managing Challenges
During the past many months of this Covid-19 pandemic, we have witnessed a mind-boggling array of both suffering and benevolence. Even...
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