I’m on vacation this week

Visiting my friend Sara of the Sisters Enchanted. 
It is always a strange and unusual adjustment to time travel from one coast to the other. I feel slightly out of sorts and between worlds. As if I have portaled to some other realm where time no longer has the same meaning. 

And I think that’s the point. Stepping out of the normal day to day and into a different reality shifts the narrative. Inner rhythms are disrupted. There is a sense of being in time out of time. There is a world moving all around and yet my world is no longer on the same track. 

It is a place of surrender and of opening. 

I like my schedule and my rhythms. 
But I also really like adventure, seeing new places, being in new ways. 
The two can be hard to reconcile. They can create an unsettling sensation and even confusion. 

Yet the more I lean into presence, the more I am able to suspend the challenges of this and just “Be”. 
I can begin to take in what is all around and discover the magic and awe of whatever time and place I am in. 
This sounds simple but it is not always easy. 

Simple Practice: 
Look around yourself in the place you are at. 
Place your hands on your body. Perhaps one on your heart and one on your belly.  
Or perhaps place them somewhere else that feels comfortable to you.
Close your eyes or soften your gaze. 
Take a big breath in and a slow breath out. Do this three times. 
Gently open your eyes and take a look around. 
How has the landscape changed? 
How has the way you see it shifted? 
What do you see? Feel? What stands out to you? 

Use this practice liberally and discover the way the world changes and the way you feel within the world with this new perspective. 

Interested in other ways of finding perspective? Gathering information? 
The Labyrinth is a helpful tool for both of these things. 
As we walk the path within, our perspective starts to change. 
As we make our way back out we integrate what we have discovered and learned. 
July 22nd at 9 am, we will journey into the Gift of the Labyrinth together. 
Regsiter here for this 2 hour workshop. 

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