{"id":10593,"date":"2018-08-04T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:58:40","slug":"pacify-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10593","title":{"rendered":"Pacify…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our word today is pacify, to soothe. Although, pacify has a number of synonyms, soothe is the one I like the best. I immediately thought of the phrase, “to soothe the troubled mind.” In fact, I keyed this phrase into Google and came up with quite a list of suggestions to ease the troubled mind.<\/p>\n

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1. Someone was writing a poem a day.
\n2. There were four bible verses to read, but not the one I use “I lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my (strength).” I change the word from help to strength. I’m not suggesting that I should have written the bible. It’s quite an old book \ud83d\ude42
\n3. a discussion of mindfulness
\n4. a short essay from medium.com<\/a> which included the suggestion to get up and do some physical activity.
\n5. No one mentioned Yoga, but there was a suggestion for message therapy.
\n6. And no one mentioned music.<\/p>\n

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Music is what soothes my troubled mind. Although, I can play a little piano, at a very basic level, I mostly just listen to music.  I usually listen to folk songs. I remember once hearing a friend’s disc at work. It was one of those New Age compilations and I recognized on it a very old Irish air.<\/p>\n

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Yes, I listen to a lot of Irish folk songs, sung mainly by John McDermott<\/a>. I think I have every one of the discs he ever made. I also listen to Scottish folk songs and a few Welsh ones, actually sung in Welsh. Maybe the Celts were very anxious people because they wrote some very soothing music.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick link to YouTube for a fibre related folk song The Spinning Wheel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pictures? As well as, listening to music, I also – meditate, knit, write, and try to get out for country walks, to pacify my troubled mind.<\/p>\n

Have a carefree day!!<\/p>\n

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