Spring is a time of new beginnings. After a long winter of resting, you can feel new life emerging. There is an aliveness in the air that brings the feeling of fresh and unlimited possibilities.
Do you feel something emerging within your soul?
With this in mind, I felt inspired to bring some women together to reflect on this new season and get a head start on planting – not tulips or tomatoes, but kindness.
We started with a meditation and spent the evening painting Kindness Rocks to later give to friends or family, leave for a stranger, or keep for inspiration.
“Kindness is free. Sprinkle it everywhere.”
I have done this type of rock painting over the past several years and love it! It feels good to be creative and uplifting to offer kindness to others simply and thoughtfully.
Our mind is like a garden.
As we watch the plants coming to life around us, it is a powerful time to reflect on the question, ‘What seeds am I planting in my inner garden?’
Where is my focus?
What matters to me right now?
What do I want to bring more of into my life?
When we reflect, journal, and be with these questions, we might find that inspiration, insight, or answers emerge, just like a new bud emerging from the fertile soil.
Be open to ideas randomly popping into your head. Maybe someone will say something, or you will read something, and you will know – Yes, that’s it.
When we take the time to pause and be with ourselves, our feelings, and our desires, we aren’t living on autopilot anymore. We are getting close to our souls. We are listening to what our soul longs for.
What we focus on grows.
When I was a young girl, my friends and I couldn’t wait for the day when it was finally warm enough to hop on our bikes and ride again after a long winter. We didn’t know where to go, but it was always a new adventure. We were curious.
What if we treated our life like an adventure?
What if we explored life with the curiousity of a child?
We don’t need to know all of the answers. We observe. We stay present.
We reflect on what matters to us and see what emerges.
Sometimes as adults, we have forgotten how to be present and curious. Quite often, when life is busy, our mind is racing, our list of ‘to dos’ is a mile long, and our mind can focus on what we don’t want.
We may find ourselves more stressed, less fulfilled, and stuck in a vicious cycle. The mind quickly focuses on the negative, worrying about the future or regret/longing for the past. Without realizing it, what we don’t want becomes our focus.
However, we do have a choice.
A choice to be more present and live life in a more embodied way, connecting to our essence and living with more fulfillment as we tune into our soul.
With mindfulness, we start to recognize there is so much more available to us; we have to stop, live with intention, and get to know ourselves and what our soul desires.
Mindfulness means we are planting seeds with intention. We are practicing being more present and aware.
Would you like to bring more kindness into your heart and your life?
An excellent place to start is with ourselves.
Try this...
Take time to pause during the day.
On the inhale, breathe in ‘kindness’, and let the kindness move through you.
On the exhale, think ‘kindness’ and send it out to the world.
This simple practice can relax our minds and bodies and change our mindsets. It’s powerful and it doesn’t have to be super complicated. Keep it simple.
When we take time to be in this moment or meditation, we open up and connect to the truth within. Something emerges.
As plants emerge from the earth, light and truth emerge from our souls.
Whenever you remember to remember, take a sacred pause and say...
‘I am grateful for my…breath, life, this moment.’
At this moment, we meet ourselves where we are at - the ultimate kindness.
I am grateful for you and the opportunity to connect with you every week in this way. It means so much to me, and I hope it does to you too.
With loving kindness,
Diane