Category: Peace

DIY: Tree Hugging and Other Summer Activities

Level of Difficulty: Easy

Time Required:  10 “ 30 minutes

Now that the beautiful weather is finally upon us, let’s spend some time outdoors for ourselves. I know you have all heard the hug a tree expression but when was the last time you did it?  For some it may have been recent, others not since being a child. Well in the interest of keeping it short and simple, nature vibrates at the same rate as love and gratitude. So when we spend time in and with nature we sync or vibration with love and gratitude. How can that be wrong!

Ever notice how a child drops and rolls on the grass or your dog. Once again they both know better than most adults.

Here’s how to make to most of your summer vibes:

  1. Brown-bag lunch at a park or sit on a rock or fallen tree in a forest.
  2. Take a detour on the way home, spot a park and run to the swings. Swing as high as you can without creating nausea.
  3. Take some seeds, grapes and feed the ducks (bread’s not good for them).
  4. Go skinny dipping in a lake. (Ask first if it’s in the neighbour’s pool).
  5. Walk barefoot in the mud and don’t forget to squish your toes.
  6. Lay in the grass and look for shapes in the clouds.
  7. Walk in the rain without an umbrella.
  8. Bird or insect watch.
  9. Close your eyes and just listen
  10. Hug a tree. Feel free to hug more than one tree; others do get green with envy!

Tips:

  1. Take a child along with you next time and watch closely (Make sure to have permission if they are not your own).
  2. Plan a date with a friend or spouse to work through the list together.

 

Namaste,

Karen

4 Thoughts to Change Your Life

It is up to you to take complete responsibility for yourself, your choices and your life. The moment you stop making excuses and blaming is the moment in which you will start moving towards the success you desire. No one else can do it for you and only you can make it happen. You are the life you’ve been looking for.
You’re the only one that has to experience your life. All success requires, is for you to accept the responsibility for where you find yourself at any given time. Only you have the power to choose the thoughts and actions needed to lead you to success.
Life can be everything you make of it. However, nothing will happen without your courage, determination, and effort to just move a little out of your box. No need to jump out, just a toe to start. With each change we choose to make and practice daily soon it becomes a part of our life.

  1. Have a clear choice in your mind, be committed to it and work it daily with discipline. Without discipline, your success is compromised. You must bring your vision into the present moment to bring it alive and part of your very being.
  2. Yesterday has passed and cannot be changed regardless of how often we replay it over and over in our minds. Spend your time instead imaging tomorrow as the life you want.
  3. Tomorrow is what you are creating today and believe it or not it is beyond your control. The only thing you have control over is yourself. The path to tomorrow is made today and there is nothing on that path that you can’t handle. You’ve already proved that in the past.
  4. Today, now, is the only real moment you have control over, so use each moment to create the direction you want to go, the changes you want to make.

You are the life you dream of.

My GPS: A Love/Hate Relationship

I bought my husband a GPS last year for Christmas. It was one of those gifts I really wanted because let’s face it, men don’t need one: they always know where they are.

Personally, I have really never been directionally challenged. I can read a map, Google directions and, if I watch the sun long enough, I can figure out which way north is. But I must say having Justine (that’s what we call the GPS) tell me how long it’s going to take and when to turn and when I’ve arrived is great, makes for a relaxing drive. Should I ever forget where I live she can tell me that too. For all these reasons I love my GPS.

Why could I possibly hate it you wonder? Not only does it tell me I’m going to be late, it has the nerve of being specific! Two minutes, ten minutes… there goes the calm and relaxing drive out the car window! And may the force be with me if I hit a red light or two lanes merged into one! I begin to break the speed limit more than normal, and change lanes whenever I get the chance all in an effort to change time. I watch the arrival time constantly to see if I’ve saved a minute or two, only to lose them with the next red light. There goes stopping for a chai latte.

So what have I learned over these last few months? Doesn’t matter how fast we go, because we can’t change time. We get there when we get there. If I’m going to be late, I’m going to be late so I might as well enjoy the ride. Much like life, don’t you think? We plan to be at a certain point by a certain time in our lives. Our career, our family, our health or maybe our spiritual path. But one thing for sure is we get there when we get there and we can only enjoy the ride.

This is Living Without Resistance.

“Tis the Season of Receiving”

I don’t mean gifts, although those that know me are aware that I do really enjoy gift receiving.

What I refer to is Receiving is a gift. Let this season be a time for you to give and receive.

How much time do we spend each day focused on others? Why do we think of giving and receiving as such a tangible thing during this time of year?

My gift for you: some resolutions for the New Year that you can begin to practice over this coming Christmas Season.

Each day wake with the intention that you are open, willing and worthy of receiving all that is good in the universe

(Try doing this one for the rest of your life).

Look around at the family and friends that will surround you over the next few weeks. Selfishly receive all the love and blessing they have to offer you.

Only smile and say thank you when someone offers kind words or kind gestures to you. Know that you deserve to receive them and not just give them.

Embrace and receive what life has to offer as this is the only way to live
Life with the Least Resistance.

Do let me know how you manage with receiving and not just giving.