Well, after a couple of months hiatus, I’m again feeling the natural impulse to write and express myself through my blog.  The world is changing always and the rate seems to be continuously increasing.  The ways that I find myself accommodating that is by pulling in more and simplifying my life to come into my centre more.  That is always where I can find a greater calmness and peacefulness.  Then something pulls me out again and I find myself on the edge of my ‘wheel’ and then things start to feel like it’s spinning again, so I feel the impulse like a wave, to return back to what makes me feel more balanced.

I have various subjects that I would like to touch on over the next few days and I’ll write about it in separate blog titles. About about energy auditing my home and energy efficient things you can do for your home, about some of my new writings that I am working on and about a wonderful world healing sound healing event coming up on Feb. 14.

In the beginning of December, the world began to wake up to the great reality of the economy.  Things began to falter, the governments began to wobble & change and indirectly, some of the work that I have in the office went on a slower track.  At first I thought this was not great, but the workload has been so heavy for so long, that my body actually felt relieved.  Now, things feel actually much more balanced and spacious and I’m really enjoying having more time to socialize, do more physical exercise & stretching and even start to do some more focused writing.  I’ve joined a fantastic afro-brazillian dance class in my neighbourhood that really get’s me moving and wakes up my soul to such an exciting depth of aliveness and vitality that is sometimes hidden from me.  I’m really enjoying myself and that in the end is the most important thing.

Hibernating in the winter is such a delicious thing.  The cold weather or excessive snow is a wonderful excuse to stay indoors and become more reflective, or more creative.  One is not so easily distracted by external things. Every week, I become more inspired by one thing or another.  I have discovered the world of self-publishing and have been deeply motivated to finish some of my old writings and pull much of it together in a series of different kinds of books.  I will be creating a small book of my collected works of poetry, and another one expanding on home energy balancing that is half finished.  It’s all very much fun!

I’ve also discovered a wonderful group called the Toronto Survivalism Meetup Group that I find fascinating.  They had a great morning in High Park over a week ago, with an expert on Outdoor Survival giving a wonderful demonstration on how to build an emergency shelter in the winter with a tarp and some rope.  It was great!  The ‘hosts’, Laurie & Michelle have a delightful energy and a good sense about what they are trying to create. Their focus is to;

They just started it in August and the discussion board threads are pretty interesting to just pay attention to, let alone the various meeting themes that they are suggesting.  I highly recommend this.

The winter also is a good time to take the space for deeper reflecting.  With the shortest day of the year on Dec. 21, we slow down over the winter due to the longer nights.  It is hard to take the time to reflect if you feel overwhelmed or are too busy, running around ‘doing’ things.  I find it is so important to take the space to ‘be’ and in this space, you will find the time to reflect and know yourself deeper.  Holding balance between ‘being’ and ‘doing’ is akin to holding balance between your feminne nature and your masculine nature.  We need both and it’s always a dance between the two.

Hibernating and self-reflection can go hand in hand.  In the ‘being’ place you can write poetry, draw art, write in your journel, trance dance to music by yourself, chant holy sounds, or meditate on certain questions, and so on.  In the ‘doing’ place you can also explore yourself through self-growth workshops or various forms of therapy.

It’s never too late to begin to truly know your authentic self and the winter is a great time to start to listen deeper within.

Tags: authentic self, barak obama, emergency shelter, energy auditing, self-publishing, self-reflection, Soul, sound healing

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