Digital Detox

For the last 28 days I committed to digitally detoxing my mornings. Prompted by a card reading I did around the New Moon in Feb.

It was an interesting practice. One which I thoroughly enjoyed, once I moved through the first few days of having to really remind myself to stop looking at my phone, and to put it down. It was incredible how often I would grab for my phone & immediately start scrolling. The muscle memory in my hands: They knew exactly which apps to open first & where they are on my phone, it was super interesting to witness and work on changing that memory.

Exploration

Originally when I thought of writing about this theme, I thought it would be about exploring in the physical sense. Maybe I talk about travel, exploring new places. When I looked up the meaning of the word: I felt into it even further & thought wow, we’ve pretty much all experienced a level of exploration this year, not we’ve not really ‘travelled’ anywhere.

Whether it has been exploring & witnessing what a global pandemic can do to you & your community/family. Exploring what life like is without work, without family, friends around, without financial security. Exploring life when working from home & juggling kids home-schooling and exploring your own expectations of that life. Exploring how it feels when you watch the news and see the panic when people think necessities like toilet paper could run out.. I mean that was nuts.

For almost 10 months we’ve all experienced some level of exploring something unfamiliar.

Musings at this Moment

This started as my November newsletter.. It turned into something else & I thought I’d share it.

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Happy November, Can you believe 2020! I'm not going to re-hash the last 6 months, but just acknowledging that it's coming up to the last 2 months of the year. And wow, haven't we all had lots going on?

I've found my energy has been fluctuating between really high & motivated to really low and questioning every decision I've made the last 5 years.. Not going to lie, it's a bit to work through. Lots of shitty beliefs & crappy behaviours have come to the surface. Old patterns have showed their scary face. Anyone else feeling this?

Finding Your Balance

I took some time off, filled myself with as much vitamin C as my system could handle. I found restorative yoga & yoga nidra.. I read a lot of books, I reduced sugar in my diet, I started walking of a morning..

I STARTED TO FEEL MORE AWAKE & ALIVE..

AND I STARTED TO COME BACK TO MYSELF A LITTLE.

I started to take ownership of my time, MY TIME. My time became really sacred to me. I began putting ‘me’ first. And the practices that I adopted that saved me from all that fatigue: they became my self care practice: before self care was a ‘thing’. This was my turning point. Ohh and learning a new way of working.

“I am Happy + Healthy”

One of my intentions for 2020 was around health: “to be happy & healthy”, is my exact intention. Something I repeat in my yoga class, when I’m clearing the energy in my apartment, or when I’m working on may grounding technique.

Some of the things/actions I wanted to work on with this was my meditation practice, working with the Ayurvedic approach to food, improve my sleep, keeping up with my gratitude practice.

My intention this year was to have this reminder around me always. I’d love to share all of my practices, there are quite a lot. So I thought I’d share a few with you.. I wonder if you can find the theme..

Creativity

How do you feel about creativity, what does your body & mind think when you hear the words ‘creative’?

I know for me, I kinda used to cringe, I would feel embarrassed, and would sort of sink my shoulders and shrug into myself. I didn’t think I was creative. I guess I thought being creative, was a maker, a designer, to be artsy, a visionary, hands on, TO CREATE… to invent?!?

Any of this ringing true for how you feel?

When I look around me, I’m really drawn to creative peeps. Artists, Painters, Graphic Designers, Interior Designers, Performers, Bakers, Visual Merchandisers, Crafty Gals. I felt like all that was way out of reach for me, that although I love nice things, and Instagram, and decorating a pie my sister has made, enjoy getting dressed up for 80’s style aerobics (iso:life).

Gratitude

Gratitude brings me back to myself. Gratitude connects me back into my heart, which connects me back into what I love about myself & my life & all that I’ve achieved, connecting me back into what I’m grateful for. And if I can tap into those things that I’m grateful for… even if it is 2/3 things.. I begin to start to see my world a little differently, I start to think better of myself, I start to think better of what is around me, I’m more aware, I’m more connected to Source.. which is now heart opening on a whole new level!

Is it Manifesting or Luck?

People say “you’e so lucky” “you always get what you want, you make it look easy”, “good things always happen to you, not like me”..

Do you want to know what I said to them? Fuck that, do you know how hard I’ve worked to get here? Working with myself to get clarity, identifying all the things that this role would be, how I could bring both aspects of my passions together, talking about it everyday, visualising it.. actually talking to myself about it (sometimes out loud.. I promise I’m not crazy) then having the courage to ask… “Yeh I’m just lucky, shit like this just falls into my lap” Yeh… fricking Nah not that simple.

I STARTED TO FEEL MORE AWAKE & ALIVE..

AND I STARTED TO COME BACK TO MYSELF A LITTLE.

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Sacred Musings

I STARTED TO FEEL MORE AWAKE & ALIVE..

AND I STARTED TO COME BACK TO MYSELF A LITTLE.

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