Well Being
While I'm sorting through boxes, brushing off faeries and dusting off dragons, preparing for our moving sale, my knees are grumbling, my elbows are growling and my feet are screaming. My throbbing, complaining body reminds me to slow down, to move at the pace of wellness. I don't know why physical challenges exist, why our bodies ache and age, but I do know there's a wealth of vitality available to us if we open our consciousness and reach beyond the surface of seeming reality.
So that's the topic this week, as I ponder my throbbing back, WELLNESS. How do we embrace more well- being in our lives? Open to it? Embrace it? Attract it?
Until next week, be well.
Well I am spending my time making sure I read over everything I can! Just so you know I do love you. BTW Christa says that she has now claimed your house as ChristaDome!
Posted by: Zabrina | April 27, 2008 at 07:03 PM
My thanks to Miss Aimee for sending me the link to Affirmation Monday. Now I must go log onto Ebay for the big sale!!!
Posted by: Gwen | May 01, 2008 at 04:24 PM
For me, well being really begins with my effort to follow through with things I wish were more true about myself. I know that sounds strange, but hear me out.
How many times in my life have I watched a movie, or read a book which detailed the way a certain woman lived her life... and how many times have I stopped in my rushed, chaotic day to think "Gee, I wish I was more like that?" Say, for instance, I greatly admire people who make a ritual out of drinking their tea. They purchase the finest teas, the most delicate tea pots, the prettiest cups... and they savor every moment of the process. For a long time, I would sigh and wish I could be so genteel. Then I would run through my day, complaining about my back, fussing about my hair, worrying that I wasn't going to be able to finish my errands... when all along I could have added a very lovely element to my day. I could have purchased the fine tea, I could have made some time for myself to savor the ritual. I could have become *that person*.
Well, one day I stopped wishing. I stopped admiring from afar...the life I wanted to live. I decided, for my own well being, that I was going to stop letting circumstances dictate that every little minute of my day was going to be filled with stress, and rushed activity. It was up to me to actually want to invest... in myself. Invest in my dreams. Pay forward good things to my well being.
So while not every day can be perfectly orchestrated, many moments within that day can be. I can stop for fifteen minutes, and revel in a rich coffee with a sweet pastry, and treat it as if I were at a sidewalk cafe in Paris. I can steal 30 minutes in the evening, and take a bubble bath worthy of a gold-guilded claw foot tub in the most lavish bed and breakfasts. I can sit outside in the warm breeze, close my eyes, and tilt my face to the sun and enjoy the simple pleasure of being in the here and now.
So, the image I posted is me, drifting in all the lovely gifts I give myself, so that my Well Being has enough dream-infused nutrition to keep going. Any one of those words drifting on the water is something to reach for, and make happen during the day. Revel in them, and feel your Well Being gain strength. If you are going to feed anything, feed your soul, your spirit, and your enthusiasm. Those things will sustain you through all else.
Posted by: Aimee | May 05, 2008 at 07:14 PM
Not being a graphic artist, but a photographer and writer, I've been using the Monday Affirmation topics as writing prompts. Had been concentrating on short-short poetry, but the Well-Being topic really caught my attention, and a sort of prose meditation came out of it. Thanks so much for the jumpstart.
Posted by: Liz Bennefeld | May 10, 2008 at 09:14 AM