(Music I-2007)
"These are some good questions to ask until one decides on the song, one's true song. What has happened to my soul-voice? What are the buried bones of my life? In what condition is my relationship to the instinctual self? When was the last time I ran free? How do I make life come alive again? Where has La Loba gone to?"
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Recently I have felt a deep need to return to mySELF. In the midst of holding my fragments together, I have gathered courage and strength. Here are some things I do to nourish my soul:
1. write in my journal
2. create (paint, bake, garden)
3. take long baths with baby
4. eat my food with my fingers-try it! Not only does the food taste better but it is deeply nourishing to touch what feeds us
5. read-words that touch me
6. touch the earth with bare feet
7. greet the sun
8. fill mySELF with gratitude
9. love
10. rest-relax, nap, sleep
What are some of the things you do to nourish yourSELF? Please share...I would love to know.
3 comments:
Fantastic list - so many of your items are on my list as well. Lately, the best thing i can do is to get up before everyone else and spend some time in my yoga room stretching and doing a breathcentered meditation. I always try to start my day this way and notice the different when I don't. I also then pull one oracle card and ponder its message for my day. Time for reflection and just being ... that is what I need to include to feel centered and grounded.
Hope you all are feeling better!
xo Lis
Dearest Soraya, i am loving your list and i am also doing alo of the things you mention in it! I love your painting so much! Thanks so much for sharing! Have a lovelym merry happy week and love to you!
p/s: i too enjoy eating food with my fingers!
Jacqueline
http://jqlinesocuteithurts.typepad.com/
Soraya, I was having a similar struggle a while back and made a list of "survival tools". As you might guess, there is a big overlap with your list! Some others I included were meditation, music, affirmations and silence. I also love reading poetry and find it so nourishing. Funny - don't know if you've noticed, but my blog posts have been following a similar vein (great minds think alike, no doubt!)
XOXOX
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