The Stuff of Life – About That Time

Life is cyclical in so many ways, we know that don’t we?
Each year as Christmas edges nearer I get out the cake board and purchase far too many sweets in order to make a Gingerbread House. The garden changes from season to season and within 12 months it’s back to where it started. The food we eat comes in and out of season but always comes around again. Every October we haul our Winter coats out from the back of the wardrobe and around April, the following Spring, it goes back in to the wardrobe for another rest until October rolls around again.

The same applies to my internal life. I’ll suddenly hit a space where I become much more reflective. I’ll go in to my head for a bit to have a think about all sorts of big questions. Times such as these can sometimes be triggered by a particular book I’m reading and the time spent in my ‘thought shell’ can be days or weeks long. Sometimes I can get terribly enthused about the whole process such as when I first read Eckhart Tolle’s – A New Earth. I was ready for that book. It made sense to me. I gave it to a few people to read and some of them liked it, some didn’t. That’s OK. It was such an exciting time, I was so excited by it. The new knowledge and understanding I felt I had gotten from that book.

Of course after that intense period of learning a new cycle began. It quietened down and I took the knowledge I had gotten from the book and settled into my life with it. , A more restful season had begun.

So what season do I find myself in now?

Well it’s funny because this one feels a wee bit different.

Life’s been quite full this year and I find myself wanting to find a new way to combat adversity, stress and responsibility. None of which I’m scared of but all of which can drain you of a clear head and very occasionally a good attitude. I can feel myself going into a deep thought process and I’m absolutely relishing it. It feels like forever since I stopped thinking about my work and just let the work happen. Forever since I stopped trying to create creativity and simply let the creativity work through me. I believe that there is a truly delicious resting place that I am yet to discover and I’m desperate to find it. A place of grace, emotional maturity, clarity and success.

It won’t prevent illness, accidents of heartache but on the flip side there won’t be knee-jerk reactions to situations that only make things worse. Oprah describes this journey as ‘living your best life’ and I think that’s really well put. We all want to live our best life as we only have one of them but sometimes it’s tough to find an entrance into the learning.
Well I’m going to give it shot. I have a book I’m about to start reading that I have been avoiding. Now is the time for me to read this book, I know it. I feel it in my gut and I’m starting it later on today.

I know about some of the things I have coming up over the next year or so and I want to be in the best place possible to tackle life’s adventure. So I’m prepping. I’m going inside. And I’m not afraid.

I think these times are important. Not more important than the times when we’re simply ‘living’ all that we’ve learnt and charging on through like the Trojans we are but equally important.

I have no idea what I’ll learn and tomorrow I’ll be back as usual with a recipe, or a craft project but in my private time I’ll be studying. And at this moment I’ve got a very strong hunch that it will be time very well spent.

Lots of love

Cherry

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