A Poem by Danna Faulds

Let the Mind Be the Mind

Let the mind be the mind. Behind its restless activity, just one layer deeper is stillness, and beneath even that, is an ocean of mystery and truth.

Swim in this eternal sea until you know yourself to be infinity, and bring that knowing back into your day. Why struggle to be what you are already?

Let the mind be the mind, but don't bind yourself to its limited reality. Trust your experience of vastness. Trust the truth that never loses potency or disappears in fear. Let the mind be the mind and identfy not with thought, but silence.

From Head and Heart to Hand Part 2

No picture today so I have more space to write! A book about journaling that I find very helpful is Journal to the Self by Kathleen Adams. In it there is a section titled The Journal Toolbox.

Here are some suggestions or as she calls them, "springboards" to help get you started:

There are 2 kinds of springboards: statements and questions. Each statement or question will be a beginning idea that you can then elaborate on: What was the best/worst part of my day? My job is maddening! Things I can do on a rainy day. Today I feel ___ years old! I'm proud of myself for...Today was a ____ day. You can generate a list of springboard statements and questions on the first page of your journal to reference each time you begin a new entry. Try coming up with your own springboard statements.

Remember there is no right or wrong way to journal. This can be an exerise that will be fun for you! All you need is a piece of paper and a pen. Enjoy!!

From Head and Heart to Hand

Have you ever considered starting to journal? Journaling can be a powerful transformative tool to use to help you get a glimpse of your inner self. It can help you to better understand where you are in life, how you got to where you are and where you might want to go!

Why journal? Because it may be the only time you give your "self" a chance to be heard. To be listened to. To express what you think, feel and know. Who does that for you? Who can do it best for you? YOU!

Ira Progoff, Ph.D says this about journaling: " Spiritual contact is the awareness of the profounder meanings of life which can only be experienced in the silence of privacy". So, why not try to take what is in your head and your heart, through your hand and onto a piece of paper and see what you have to say! Next blog I will show you ways to jump start journaling.

take a snapshot

Taking a big picture snapshot of how fulfilled you are in different areas of your life is a great way to see how things are evolving for you. What may have been fulfilling for you 5 or 10 years ago may not be the same for you today. In the following areas of your life, on a scale of 1-10, how fulfilled are you in the areas of nutrition, personal and professional development, your physical environment, relationships and communication, spirituality, mind-body connection and movement, exercise and rest? What would a fulfilled life look like for you?

Once you take notice of what areas of your life you would like to rebalance, you can begin to move from stuck to possibility and from possibility to action!