I just got back from the farmer's market at
This may have something to do with my early years. From about the time I was 2 or 3 I remember
being in a vegetable garden with my grandmother. Her first focus of the planting season was the onion bed. How
she worked over that, it was a work of art in dirt. The way she raked all
the stones out, and raked up the sides so that it was elevated. Her rows were very straight and
equidistant. Every year she ordered
onion sets from Burpee and from this bag of onion sets we had onions the whole
year long. The second was row upon row
of tomatoes. I got all the "runt" plants
to plant in my special section. I am
proud to report they always did well.
Being in the garden was one of my earliest successes, one of the
earliest moments I knew I could grow and produce something. Walking through the farmers market fed that
part of my beingness this morning and in that feast came the seeds of this
post.
As I tuned in to how much it nurtured me to be at the
market, I wondered about what we do that nurtures us and how often we do
it. I look around my living room as I
write this at the beautiful flower photographs I've produced. Walking through a bloom and bee-laden flower garden
with a camerais both the most satisfying of meditations
and the hottest of orgasms at the same time.
The colors, the sensuous dips and folds of the petals and their intimate
interactions with each other truly turns me on and at the same time being in
that garden, is a meditation in seeing that opens wider and wider in each
moment I allow myself to be with each flower.
Here's the point of this article and the important question – When was the last time I allowed myself to do this? When was the last time I gave myself this pleasure?
And what about you? What are the things that nurture you? What inspires you by just being there, smelling it, feeling it, tasting it? When was the last time you allowed yourself to do things that
nurture you? And how often do you do it?
My class on Loving Yourself – Your Relationship with
Yourself starts on Tuesday of this coming week.
I facilitate these classes for several reasons – one being that I am
forced to look at whatever issues I bring up with myself as well as
others. When a dear friend gave me yellow roses for my birthday and I felt just how delighted I was to receive the flowers -- I also noticed that I don't allow myself to do that very often for myself. Bless you Carolyn for tuning in and tuning me in as well.
It's the way the Universe and I communicate – and now I
know this first class is going to be about nurturing ourselves? And why is that often last on the list? Why do we put ourselves last? Why do we do everything else other than feed
our beingness in a way that is truly supportive of who we are. What's "wrong" with providing nurturing for ourselves?
So here are my questions for you … and me!
What do you make more important than taking time each
day/week to do something that is truly nurturing to you?
What judgments do you have about nurturing yourself?
What are the patterns in your life where you allow yourself
to become overwhelmed, over tired, or over anxious?
What are your reference points for nurturing yourself, right
now and in your family? How was it
viewed when you grew up?
These are just a few of the things we are going to be
working on in this class. Reference
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