What I’m loving now…
I’m loving walking outside just after the rain.
The air feels still and quiet. I often have the place/bush/park to myself and can also be still and quiet.
I keep a plastic bag in my pocket to sit on wet areas I feel called to.
I LOVE watching the raindrops glistening in the sunlight, pausing, gently pooling into bigger drops before rolling softly yet easily onto my fingertips.
This is a place where I do not think of my To Do list, or of others for that matter either.
It is just me and the earth and the light and freely gently flowing water.
What I’m learning now…
I’m learning that honouring my needs when with others is valuable.
That ’emptying my bucket’ to try and fill another’s is not useful.
That putting my needs to the side, my wishes or hopes or desires on hold will not really help the other in the end.
It is especially when I’m feeling responsible for another, especially family members, that perhaps filling my bucket (or at least noticing I have one!) honouring my own needs first, during or after is very very useful, and powerful too.
This increased energy can free up more ideas and strengthen effects to make a bigger better difference and that is what I am hoping for.
I’m learning that maybe, sometimes, current relationships can trigger memories, old ingrained re-actions and habits from previous ones.
I’m learning that if I can observe, pause, reflect and ‘step back’ – if only for one big deep breath – then I have more clarity. Then I have more insights and a better, more real, perspective. Then I can come home to me and what I’m feeling, I’m needing. To what’s really going on.
Then, then, then, that (and therefore me and my actions, responses too) is really useful.
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