Beautifully Curated
Elevate your world.
This little scene is not the norm.
It is a beautiful montage of my morning today and these past few days, but it doesn’t happen everyday.
I would love to tip-toe gently into each day like this … yoga, swim, read, write, with a cuppa made for me and delivered by another. But this does not happen everyday because, like you, I have a life that pulls me in different directions - I always have. Before it was family, children and jobs, now a dog, a couple of jobs, aged care etc. I sometimes question if I could, would I even do this? Every. Single. Day? I love routine, but after a while routines get stale and need an upgrade. No matter how deliciously divine they are!
But for today this is just fine and dandy. Thank you.
We all have 24 hours in a day and how we use them is for us to negotiate. It’s not about productivity, more about harnessing time rather than letting time slip off the calendar.
I usually do all of the things I love above, but not at the same time, everyday, and sometimes not everyday. It’s true.
I am usually juggling lots of stuff around the practices that keep me afloat and fill my soul. I am telling you this because we are all the same. Pictures on social media are a snapshot.
I often ask people what their ideal day would be if they get the opportunity to experience it - both a fantasy day and a reality day.
The reality days are doable when you are on holidays, or having time away from your normal routine. A fantasy day….well, liken it to a hole-in-one. It’s a long shot.
These rare dreamlike days are my chance to embrace space and unscheduled time, to move in a languid fashion instead of rushing, as gently as the waves rolling steadily outside my window.
I planned my schedule around stepping back for a bite-sized chunk of rejuvenation. It took some doing. And once there I wholeheartedly embraced it. Aside from a natural disaster, I never stress about the weather when away from my normal life, because this I cannot control. I eat simply and beautifully. Embracing the beautiful sensations of absolutely nothing.
I fill my cup literally and figuratively.
It is great to just stop. To not want to, or have to, achieve anything.
To lie, stretch my brain playing bananagrams, wander and converse.
I always say in the final pose of my class - “there’s nowhere to go, there’s nothing to do, just be here for the next little while”.
A sage reminder for myself too.
It is not always time to grow
Find the balance between staying committed to your evolution and taking time off from continuously advancing to new levels,
Being where you are with intention and enjoying how far you have come help break the attachment to always craving results.
Making time for integration makes lifelong growth more sustainable
-yung pueblo
In a few days it will be back to normal programming.
All the demands will come flooding back - no doubt all at once, because that seems to be the way the Universe works doesn’t it?!
But the difference is, I will be fortified and restored to step back in.
Then it will be back to yoga before dawn, because that’s when I can get 30-45 minutes of uninterrupted time, then a quick cuppa as I throw the ball for the dog, a swim in a local pool once a week, not the ocean, and possibly squeezing in a few pages of my book if I can keep my eyes open just before I go to sleep. In between are the jobs that are part of my everyday that pay the bills and also give me a sense of purpose. This is life. It’s my life and it’s good.
Vacillating between and juggling the constant motion of our days is ours to do. Finding the important practices to support our evolution is the bedrock to a life well lived, and one we want to be in. Planning for the ‘fun’ times times keeps life not just bearable but enjoyable. I definitely don’t want to wrestle my way through my days.
Do You?
A few good contemplations:
What is important to us?
What are the things that raise the bar on our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing?
Why are they important?
How can they be integrated into our day?
We can still curate our lives to invite the things that are a source of nourishment and vitality. Life is where we live it, not in our fantasy dream day. We do our practices, elevated to rituals daily, to sustain us, no matter what they look like on the socials. We do these things for us, not for the perception of us by others.
Have a goody
Thanks, as always for being here
Mon x
For those in the Central West, A Midlife Conversation November 17th. More information HERE
