What a fascinating synchronicity: tonight I spent the evening resting, just resting…
I didn’t pull out my inchy-art to play, I didn’t pull out my notebook to write, I just read and rested and puttered.
It felt great. I don’t putter much. I pretty much go-go-go-go until I am too tired to see and then I sleep. Then I wake up and go-go-go-go again, loving every minute of it and yes, even as I love every minute of it, the intentional rest has been primarily missing from my life.
I borrowed my friend’s empty house and asked myself the intention setting question, “What do I want to spend my time on tonight?” I waited and heard, “Nothing to do with work. Nothing that is about ‘progress’. Nothing that has anything connected to building my business or increasing my clients or plugging away at the blog posts or building relationships via social media.”
There was a quiet spring to my step as I opened the door and began my one-evening-mini-retreat.
It was the perfect foundation for Jamie Ridler’s Wishcasting Question – “What do I wish to nourish?”
I wish to nourish this sweet-spot of time with myself, regularly.
Eons ago when I first started my life coaching practice, I took retreat days once a month. I took one Friday a month to retreat from “business as usual”.
I wish to nourish this retreat practice and re-weave it into my life.
My heart feels different as I finish this post then it did when I started. It is as if it is smiling, in gratitude.
I heard it, I responded and I mean what I say in this wish –
I wish to take a monthly, day-long-retreat starting in August AND I wish to take at least one mini-retreat in the month, also… on a PRN (as needed) basis AND I wish to remember that even when it feels like I don’t NEED it, I WILL take it.
I wish to nourish this sweet-spot of time with myself, regularly.
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