Earth Send On 23 August 2024
I got a last minute invitation to go on retreat for the weekend, and I accepted it, gratefully.
Our Earth Send will be fine this Friday without a lot of words. Join — with your creativity tools — when you are ready.
Connect with your inner inspector to assess the progress of your manifestations and evaluate the state of your well-being. Last week’s invitation featured some key questions, and you can find the building blocks of well-being in many Earth Send invitations:
water intake, quality of sleep; stress management; mental outlook and calm; close relationships; finances; service and work; creativity and play; home and turf maintenance and de-cluttering; health care appointments…
And so on. All these are not guarantees for wellness, but they all contribute. And once pushed to the side, well-being suffers. You can give yourself a number for where you are at. Or write down a nudge you get for any of these areas, an idea worth exploring soon. Numbers are plain and self-explanatory. That helps you get into gear.
Ask your inner detective to suggest the next best step for you — the outing, the service, the educational program, the network, the shop, the library, the knowledgeable person… Commit to the next best step, and attach a date, or a due date, to it.
On this beautiful day, we also want to wake up our inner appreciator.
It is easy to be smitten with the land in August and enjoy the continuous harvest of warm weather vegetables and fruit and the health and appearance of most plants that made it through this year’s changeable (oftentimes, erratic) climate. You get clues about the plants that are better adapted to the conditions and that will persevere. Hopefully you decide that you will grow more of them.
If you think about it, a long time ago, people survived on what was growing and what could be turned into meals and medicine. Research about species that struggled was not exactly part of mankind’s history and field of expertise; and while observing in a meticulous style has its place, we accept that what fed our ancestors was that which grew freely and profusely rather than under ultra-careful supervision. Descendants of nobility can disagree now, I am rolling with the universal experience here.
Restorative land management practices and permaculture encourage adopting the attitude of “Grow what wants to grow”. Rather than “worry yourself sick about why a particular plant can not establish itself in this microclimate”. By exaggerating the message you can glean a perspective that is useful beyond growing food.
It is emotionally intelligent to focus on what works rather than making a fuss over what is toilsome and too complicated. I know that many of us were taught the opposite, and there is entertainment value in making improbable things happen. But there is something so sane and beyond dispute about “Grow what wants to grow” that might appeal to you enough to rethink the prickly and perplexing fields of your life and let them be what they are and dwell less on them, and bring your attention to what wants to grow and delight (you)!
I am almost at the retreat. May everyone have a serene and inspiring Friday and a restorative and delish weekend.
Reiki is going out to all requests, to your three creativity tools and to all participants. Thank you again for being here. Make your Inner Smile visit every part of your organism today. May peace prevail on Earth.
I humbly receive. In gassho.
23 August 2024
