Alone Time

August 31 "So you see, imagination needs moodling, - long, inefficient, happy, idling, dawdling and puttering." - Brenda Ueland. When was the last time you just sat and looked out into a great expanse of nothing and allowed your mind, your body to be still?  Just breathed in and out, completely still in your thoughts and movements? I...

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Interruptions OR Not Interruptions?

August 30 - Interruptions "It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil". Anne Wilson Schaef writes:  How difficult it is to mesh the process of our life and the process of our work.  Yet, how sweet it is when that happens! I've been feeling really impatient...

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Who were you before the world told you who you should be?

WOW! That is such a powerful question! A few months back I had my little boy Jazz who is 11, come home from school upset because its all so hard for him (he has Global Development Delay) and he had noticed that he doesn't always do the same work as the other kids.  He asked me, 'Why am I different Mum'? I could of gone into...

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Impression Management

August 29 - Impression Management "Women's virtue, is man's greatest invention" - Cornelia Otis Skinner "A virtuous woman is someone who is herself" How much of what we do is to please others? How much of who we are is defined by how others see us? How easy it is to lose ourselves in the opinions of others! I think this quote says it all! I'm...

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Creative time with my boys....

Monday 29th August 2016 Yesterday afternoon my boys came home from their Dads and got straight into making their Book Week parade costumes for this morning. Firstly, they looked through their books and after a few mind changes decided on Steve and The Creeper from Minecraft (which is also a household favourite xbox game - I love how it unleashes...

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Humor / Relationships

August 28 I have to say that I am finding today's meditation topic kind of weird and having trouble relating to it. 'Remember one has to perform to get the prize.  One has to be to relate'. I think its because the description says 'we often marry in order not to work', but that has never been something on my radar.  Yes, it would...

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Lonliness

August 27 - Loneliness "I was looking all over for what was missing in my life, and then I discovered I was". "I've lost myself, found myself only to lose myself again and now I'm discovering the me that I truly am"! You know that feeling of just going through the motions; just doing something because its become such an ingrained...

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Parenting....

August 26 - Parenting "Perhaps one of the reasons my child chose me as his parent was because there was so much I need to learn". I believe that our children are born to us for a reason....to learn from us and to teach us.  Since I've become a Mum (Mummy, Mumma) not only have I taught my boys some things about life that I believe...

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Random acts of kindness

Yesterday (27th August 2016) I was feeling less than OK, until I received a text message saying 'I have popped a little something into your letterbox'. After mustering up the energy to walk the few meters to the letter box I looked inside and found a gift of some Aromatherapy blends for my family to use along with a little note. It's amazing how...

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Happiness / Control

August 26th The meditation for today as per the Meditations For Woman Who Do Too Much book by Anne Wilson Schaef, is about Happiness / Control. "They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods" - Edith Waharton "Happiness is a gift.  It comes like 'a butterfly in the winter woods'....

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Pssst I have a secret....

August 24 - Secrets 'As the French say....nothing is so burdensome as a secret'. We have a rule in our home that secrets are not allowed!   This has been reinforced even more so since my eyes were opened to the horribly disgusting things that can happen to you in the environment where you are supposed to be safe and protected. I...

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Struggle

August 23rd - Struggle 'Sometimes we have to struggle....sometimes not'. There are so many quotes about 'struggle' that I found it hard to pick one that truly resonated with me and so this post is photofree.   Struggle for me as hard as it is means that I am going to be stronger at the...

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Wonder

August 22nd - WoNdEr... When is the last time you got lost in the wonderment of something? Cloud Formation, Rainbow, Life in general?  Funnily enough the next day after reading this as I was driving home from the hospital, I saw a DOUBLE RAINBOW. How truly 'wonder'ful mother nature is! Zen by Natasha Hurst Looking at the...

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Duty

August 21 - DUTY 'Discipline says I need to, Duty says I have to and Devotion says I want to'.  'Duty should be a byproduct of who we truly are, and what we value, and what is important to us'.  Today's meditation has me thinking about what I do out of 'duty'?  What in my life is an horrendous unenjoyable ritualised...

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Its OK to not be OK...

August 20th 2016 - Sadness / Moving On 'My grief and pain are mine - I have earned them, they are part of me. Only in feeling them do I open myself to the lessons they can teach'.  Earlier this week after trying so hard to be strong for so long I surrendered to everything I was feeling and allowed the veils of keeping a brave front to...

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Exhaustion due to busy-ness

My thought/meditation for the day from the book 'Meditations for woman who do too much by Anne Wilson Schaef. August 19th - Exhaustion'Busyness is a drug that alot of people are addicted to'. 'It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants, the question is - what are we busy doing'?'It is not what I do, but the way that I do it that will get me...

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My Daily Meditations

I've decided that I'm going to read through this book each day and if I have something worthy of sharing that relates to elements within my life at that particular moment, then I'm going to blog about it.  This could be interesting......stay tuned :) On another topic completely..... I am trying to figure out how to add a thumbnail photo...

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What do you like?

The other night my partner (Mark) I were sharing the things we 'like'.  How incredible the feeling of when you share a thought that awakens the senses evoking the pure essence of the thing being expressed verbally is. I like the smell of rain on a warm day, the feeling of the drops falling down upon on my skin, the sound when it beats...

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Jan 2016 to Now!

I kind of feel as though I can't really capture what is going on in my life NOW without also recapping a little of what the past two years have held (other than health and fitness wise anyway as you can read the recap blogs about that). I don't want to go delving into a long in depth look into the past and for reasons outside of my control some of...

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2015 Health and Fitness Recap

January 2015 I took a month off everything to just spend time with my family and to gather my thoughts! February 2015 ....one word FEBFAST I'm running again, lovin' it and making awesome progress despite my calves working against me. There was a time that I didn't enjoy the actual running itself but loved the feeling...

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