Nancy Monson, a health coach, comments on the touching message on a sign written in chalk in a town 30 min outside of Newton, CT: \u00a0a town that has become known for the deadly elementary school \u00a0shooting two weeks ago today.\u00a0 Nancy spreads the idea of engaging in 26 acts of kindness in honor of the 26 people who lost their lives in this tragedy.<\/p>\n
Such acts of violence often leave us feeling uncertain, anxious, and helpless overall.\u00a0 Yet many people are left with a strong pull to do \u201csomething.\u201d\u00a0 In fact, this unresolved vague feeling is frequently the impetus behind some individual\u2019s inclination to point fingers to external reasons for massacre such as the educational system or gun laws, or mental illness.\u00a0 However, these arguments do little to assuage our sense of dis-ease.<\/p>\n
Psychologically, one powerful method of coping is to focus in on what is good and what good we can become involved in right now.\u00a0 Even during the crisis it is advisable to direct our attention to the helpers and heros such as police and kind strangers who offered assistance.\u00a0 At the same time it’s crucial to minimize immersion in repetitive images of violence in the media.\u00a0 Next, doing good can be a way to combat strong feelings of loss of control.\u00a0 Those who are in a position to provide monetary support may find it personally rewarding to do so.\u00a0 Alternately, finding a way to help others in need, even if not directly related to the tragedy, can help build back a feeling of empowerment.\u00a0 For more ideas and to read Nancy\u2019s post visit http:\/\/creativewellness.us\/blog\/2012\/12\/peace-and-love-newtown<\/a>.<\/p>\n Please share additional tips you may have found helpful in coping with such tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nancy Monson, a health coach, comments on the touching message on a sign written in chalk in a town 30 min outside of Newton, CT: \u00a0a town that has become known for the deadly elementary school \u00a0shooting two weeks ago today.\u00a0 Nancy spreads the idea of engaging in 26 acts of kindness in honor of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-loss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YyuX-3d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}