Tag: life journey

Explore with a piece of paper…it will change your life

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If we want to free ourselves to open up, let go and allow ourselves to flourish from our soul then grab a large piece of paper and whatever pens, pencils, crayons, paints, or other stuff like that lying around and just start to make a mark on the paper.

Do not think it, feel it. Do not think about an outcome, do not worry about what it looks like. We instinctively know what to put on the paper when we align with our feelings and not with our thoughts.

When we have got going then go to what we enjoy and like on the paper and explore more of that. There are no art police looking in, there is no one judging, only ourselves if we go into our thoughts. Just let go and create what you feel.

Then we can apply this process to anything in life…music, writing, talking, exercise, work, cooking, and the choices we make.

We are the captain of our ship, we decide where it sails, we are the creator of our choices, we are the creativity of our lives…we hold back because of our fears and conditioning. When we just do what we feel in this moment and let go, who knows where our choices will take us?

The legacy we leave will depend on what we do now

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After my morning swim in the sea at Seaford, which was so nourishing and envigorating, as always, we went to the beautiful little village Rottingdean by the sea.

After a lovely tea and food at Shane’s Kitchen, we wandered around Kipling’s gardens and then took a stroll around the graveyard of the beautiful Norman church.

I felt quite emotional reading the lovely and wonderful tributes on the remembrance plaques and the gravestones. It was a gentle reminder that all things are temporary including our own journey.

We have a limited and unknown number of moments here in our current carnation and having read many of the loving tributes, I thought to myself, firstly, never waste a moment to show love to others that are still here. We often wait for funerals to say the things that we wanted to say about that person who has died but didn’t while they were alive or we do not say them often enough. We didn’t show the person when they were able to hear our loving words or receive our love through our actions, gestures and care towards them.

Secondly, it struck me that now is the only moment that we are actually alive and therefore it is important to make the most of this moment, not just loving ourselves or another soul, but to make experiences, and do the things that we feel and that the mind fears most, say the things we feel, create experiences and share our gift with all other souls.

After all, we will all end our journeys and the legacy that we leave will depend on what we do now.