Where were you in your life in 2010?
Do you remember the themes that were at play in your life story at this time?
What were your biggest concerns?
Your hopes?
Your dreams?
We are gearing up for the busyness of the holiday season and I encourage you to sink below the frantic external energy and demands of family to tune into the gentle flow of a river of insight, spiritual support and release which Is carrying you into the next decade.
Here in this space of stillness and reflection are gifts to be found.
An exercise for moving gracefully forward:
If you could sum up the last ten years in a few meaningful phrases, what would they be?
Free journal, meditate on your speak aloud these words as they come to you, without judgement or analysis.
Create a small poem out of them.
Example— Here are my phrases:
Seeking my way.
One eye open
Lost, found, caught.
Moving upwards against the stream
With intention
Steadfast-
Eventually
The in flow
flows out
And I am left richer and more alive
Than the beginning.
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Do with these words what you feel— put them on your altar, draw an image that represents them, burn them.
During the next few weeks, please make time to be alone or with your loved ones in nature. Talk to the trees, commune with the sky. Open yourself to receive guidance from the elements.
Listen to the silence. Reflect. And then, of course, go make merry.