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Dec 1, 2023Liked by Phyllis Cole-Dai

I started singing!! Always loved this song 🎶

I do love to sing & sing around the house off & on all day….start the morning singing 🎶

And, singing stimulates the vagus nerve, did you know?

“Increasing your vagal tone activates the parasympathetic nervous system, and having higher vagal tone means that your body can relax faster after stress.”

How to Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve for Better Mental Health — Optimal Living Dynamics

https://www.optimallivingdynamics.com/blog/how-to-stimulate-your-vagus-nerve-for-better-mental-health-brain-vns-ways-treatment-activate-natural-foods-depression-anxiety-stress-heart-rate-variability-yoga-massage-vagal-tone-dysfunction

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Singing changes us AND the world!

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Dec 1, 2023Liked by Phyllis Cole-Dai

I watched the movie a few weeks ago. Always loved it and this song.

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Thank you for this, on my birthday. I have loved Barbra since I was in grade school! It’s not a clear day here today, but the message is clear

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Happy, happy, happy birthday!

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Dec 1, 2023Liked by Phyllis Cole-Dai

In perfect synchronicity today's quote from Hazrat Inayat Khan's Bowl of Saki says exactly the same thing: "The higher you rise, the wider becomes the margin of your view. …Besides this, we must tune ourselves to God. As high we rise, so high becomes our point of view, and as high our point of view so wide becomes the horizon of our sight. When a person evolves higher and higher his point of view becomes wider and wider, and so in all he does he strikes the divine note, the note which is healing and comforting and peace-giving to all souls." from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_2_21.htm

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How I love such synchronicities! And thank you for sharing both the quote and the resource. I was previously unfamiliar with this work and will explore!

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