The landscape has shifted from stormy rains and heavy winds to gentler days and nights. We have decidedly moved into another season and you can feel, smell and taste it!!
And now for Spring! New life, manifestation from those gestating seeds held by Mother Earth, nurtured from the falling water, warm sun, and waiting, waiting, waiting for the time to unfold. Ahhh… such a supportive testimony!
Time for winter clean-up, Spring cleaning and all things renewing. This time of year naturally calls us into a consciousness of reconciling, writing-off old debts or wounds, preparing our taxes, clearing things out from the prior cycle. We are less hesitant to let go of those plants that are struggling, or that project we didn’t finish in the fall. Starting fresh is what Spring energy teaches us.
“Where” is your sanctuary and how often are you “in” it? The word sanctuary is traditionally used to refer to a place of worship, church, spa, quiet place in the woods, or personal safe place. It can also be used to describe an inner state of being. In eastern disciplines like martial arts or Buddhism it is encouraged that one develop this place and access to it to support well being for self and the influence we bring others. Through meditation, yoga, gardening, writing, or just making time in our schedules to have alone time; we can create this connection, this inner “place” in and for ourselves.
How do you know when you are triggered, upset or out of balance? What helps or brings you into balance from that place? Life’s array of experiences, emotions and circumstance affords us great abundance to respond through our perceptions of what is happening. One of the most effective ways we learn as humans, is through the contrast of in-balance vs out-of-balance. When we learned to walk, we experienced our bodies + gravity+ motion, and through contrasts or trial and error, we gradually adjusted to the point that today we don’t “try” to walk anymore; we just walk. Many things we learn are like this.
To be triggered, refers to a current feeling or situation unconsciously reminding us of an old experience. (Usually an unpleasant one but not always.) If we are unaccustomed to being aware of ourselves and our inner world; we might easily miss the fact that it isn’t happening currently, but instead; reminding us or triggering an old unhealed wound. As we become more familiar with our inner landscape and patterns, we find we have more choices for response than we used to or than we knew we had. This brings us more empowerment and freedom, more personal power and confidence.
We learn and grow at our own pace. There are no measurements outside of ourselves. Individually, we are the ultimate authority about our own self.
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