A Year to clear what is holding you back by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
It is all about slowing down, taking time for yourself and establishing new habits that will last a lifetime.
Theme – cultivate ease
The focus was to cultivate ease, peace, and joy and incorporate these energy signatures into your daily life.
What does "real ease" feel like?
Reflections on ease …
- Some the ways that ease shows up in my life are______
Then there is the wildlife, the free spirits that we are lucky enough to share this planet with. My study windows open to give a fully view of the bay looking straight out to the Isle of Arran and often when I am at my desk starlings and magpies will come in to chance their luck at finding something desirable. My cats are so used to this now that although interested they have given up trying to catch them. Then we have the foxes which visit every evening and are now so used to us taking out food that they mill around our feet. They clamber all over the walls and even look in through the lounge window if we do not notice they are waiting. I spend far too much time watching mother nature do her thing.
- Some of the ways that I experience peace in my life are______
There is nothing nicer than getting lost in a good book, and nothing worse than when you reach the last page. Also, for me it is writing. Letting my muse take wherever it is she wants me to go and not reigning her in until I edit. I have been on some amazing adventures, ones I would never have considered going or that I had enough knowledge to write about. She does go off on her own but eventually she will return, and usually with some amazing things to get me into.
- Some of the ways that I experience pure joy in my life are______
On World Earth Day 2017, Global Research (Centre for Research on Globalization) proclaimed that humans are the most destructive species on the planet.
Quote:
We are only one small part of the web of life, yet we, in this short time of our existence have treated our planet so shoddily and with such a callous contempt that we have irreversibly damaged our planet and shortened our own existence on the planet.
It is not only the blatant destruction that of the earth that I find an issue but the cruelty that man inflicts on the animal kingdom for personal kicks and in the name of sport. Big game hunting … soon there will be nothing left to kill. Medicine … the suffering caused to benefit those that can afford the price. Puppy farms, dog fighting, circuses, tourist props, and the plethora of other wrongs that inflicted through the hand of man. Thank goodness for those that stand-up against this and try and be there to pick up the pieces.
The little I do to help is never going to be enough against the flow of violations inflicted but that is not going to ever be enough for me to throw-in the towel and give-up.
“You can’t always choose the path that you walk in life, but you can always choose the manner in which you walk it.” (John O’Leary)