“There’s no place like home for the holidays and no matter how far away you roam, if you want to be happy in a million ways, for the holidays you can’t beat home sweet home.”
I love that sentiment. Come to think of it – who will you be hosting this holiday season? Will your table include a place setting for your dearly departed loved ones? If that thought has not yet crossed your mind please allow me to share with you…
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like if you were eternally accompanied by someone who loves you as deeply as you love him or her? Someone who ‘has your back’ and is always available to provide advice and guidance?
As we prepare to return to school and step into the spirit of academia once again, I wonder if it has ever crossed your mind as to who is teaching whom? I’m referring, specifically, to schooling with spirit.
We love waving our flags as much as the next ‘guy’.
We love celebrating and we welcome every reason to do so.
Most of all we love connecting and communicating with you – those in the here and now… our loved ones in form.
But here’s our struggle (this is where we get stuck.)…
This question does not have a simple answer.
There are a zillion factors that affect our attitudes and vulnerability to include what we have inherited to what we have picked up along the way.
This conversation has been going on for centuries, and general consensus boils down to everything is within our control. To fly, or remain in place, be happy or miserable, achieve success or failure, enjoy good health or not… are choices we make.
What is holding you back?
Weighing you down?
Could it be something about which you aren’t consciously aware?
Unseen?
Just because you cannot see it or articulate the feelings, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
You have to believe – to thine own self be true.
I didn’t rail against society and its conventional standards. I longed to be seen as ‘normal’. My valiant attempts to ‘change’ and be like ‘them’ never worked.
I stood out.
I stood apart.
I wasn’t unpopular – I just never fit in.
Fitting in didn’t feel like a good fit.
Is it truly that simple? I think not, as we are complex creatures with a will of our own. And we get to choose how we nourish our body, mind and spirit.
The question is – are you nourishing anger, irritability and fear or are you nourishing sensibility and love?
