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Thoughts on the world, homeopathy, mindfulness and food...

A collection of blog posts - feel free to respond with your thoughts and comments - I love to have feedback - thank you!

On a possible change in perspective. And 'what would rest look like?'

6/11/2023

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As ever I've been reading and musing and pondering and observing.

Going through the current round of GCSEs perhaps has stirred something. Reading some amazing books - the latest being Entangled Life, also recently Finding the Mother Tree, Braiding Sweetgrass. Last year there was The Salt Path and our next Kindness Book Club we're reading Landlines. Long distance walking books seem to be a genre I'm enjoying, not so much the Audible book I listened to - I won't mention names - albeit he did and complained about the company PHD which has been utterly epic to my partner and having met their CEO the other day, you couldn't have met a lovelier man. So if you've read/listened to it, take the PHD complaining with a very large pinch of salt. But I'm enjoying being challenged too, listening to views I disagree with and calming my tendency to walk away. Whilst the book above had lots of moaning in I didn't resonate with, there were interesting viewpoints and I'm glad, in the end, that I persevered.

I've also just finished on Audible the great work by Dr Gabor Mate, the Myth of Normal. I highly recommend. In several there is discussion about the damage humans are doing to our earth. Discussion how we may change and improve. And yet I can't help thinking we've been talking about this for ages. And in so many ways doing what we always do. Yes, we've electric cars, yes we've more green energy, but how about the costs to the planet to each of those too? Yes we educate our children about how we're all going to hell in a handcart. Climate anxiety is a thing.

But mostly (and of course not entirely), mostly, our educational practices look very similar to how they did when I was at school. 28 years on, my daughter has studied Macbeth, the war poets, both of which I did. Where is Silent Spring? Where are the essays on the heart achingly beautiful existence that we have?

We are still told the same story. Go out there, do as well as you can, achieve, achieve, get more, buy more, show us all how great you are. It's an interesting narrative if we're wanting to step away from the constant rape and pillage of our beautiful planet. `Several times whilst I was not quite recognising I was dealing with burnout I was hearing 'I'll sleep when I'm dead'. Teaching in college at the weekend on Lifestyle Medicine, the attitude of sleeping when we're dead (on the last statistics I have anyway) costs the UK economy about £40bn a year (Dr Rangan Chatterjee). Sleep - and rest - should be serious business.

As so many times, there's no lecture from me; I'm re-learning a lifetime of being on the go. Single parenting, setting up my own business, having a lot of energy and enthusiasm for live, and coming from (at school at least) an academically driven background were perfect ways to continue my being on the go. I completed my dissertation early so I could volunteer in Thailand for 2 weeks on a trip helping out people with physical disabilities. I studied my Diploma in Reflexology whilst doing my final year of my joint honours degree.  I was good at doing a lot. And continued. There's only so long it's sustainable for, or at least there was for me.

So it has me thinking. If we're really concerned about our planetary future, or at least our future on the planet; perhaps we need a different way. Less striving (I recognise it's a part of the human condition - but how much is it nature? Does nurture play a significant part here too? My feeling is perhaps so), more rest, more downtime, less go, less sleep when we're dead.

We know from our bodies that cells out of control that can't switch off creates one of our most feared diseases. And yet we try to run our lives like that, our country. We don't hear about rest and nurture, we hear about growth of economies. How we need to do more. We don't, perhaps, value rest as essential.

In my supervision session recently, my supervisor asked 'What would rest look like?'. As a quick aside, I personally value my regular supervision highly. I consider it helps make me a better person aside from (hopefully) a more aware practitioner. I am a big advocate for regular supervision within our profession - and enjoy being on the other side too, as a supervisor for practitioners of homeopathy.

Anyway, that question, a great one, I've played with, mused over and chewed since our session. Feel free to play with it yourself. I had one morning, when after a cacao enriched cake the night before, I was up at 5 and made these:

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Ah I thought, I'll text her with my 'here's what rest looks like'. I'm super pleased with my new shorts, and really enjoyed making them... but after pondering for a while, I'm classing it as creativity, not so much rest. I do think creativity can fit into a relaxing/restful state - but what I really needed was stopping. Non-doing. I read of people described as human doings not human beings and can really resonate.

So yesterday, in the sunshine, I took to the garden with a book a friend recommended years ago, Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum. To be fair, it was my second choice, I can't seem to find the Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell, and it wasn't a light read. But it was uplifting, filled with optimism through the darkness and showed how much difference one person can make to the world around them. Gently when needed, exhaustingly at times. And, thinking about it now, when needed, Etty rests.

What would a world look like where rest was as important as attaining more? I wonder it would be a gentler place. Would would it be like to teach our children, instead of terror about how it's all going wrong, how beautiful this place is. To lie on the grass and look at the sky. To lie on the grass and look at the mini-beasts all around us.

Anyway, pondering. Trying out rest in different ways. I'm liking it. Love to hear what you think.

With love and rest,

Em x
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El link
6/23/2023 08:43:06 am

Hi: I found you thru homeopathy plus to http://s-scrutton.co.uk. In contemplating the insanity going on in the world today and getting completely overwhelmed, feeling like I should do more but not knowing where to jump in - I was transported to a bigger picture - we all know the world is in transition, all the chaos is the old blowing off, the "powers that were" grasping for life like invalidating those of us who are into Life - so I thought where is the biggest arena where I can put my LoveLight (I had an NDE in 1989 and channel Source into everything :-) - what I got was THE SUN - you don't hear much about the Sun - the ancients majorly worshipped him - the giver of Life in this solar system. So I've been working with him now, steadily, daily for several years. We are the ground crew - it is our job to observe what's going on and send it up the lines to our off-planet families & the Sun. etc. - how will they know hot to help if we don't communicate - oh, that was the other thing - don't just send problems, send solutions as well. Since my NDE, I know the highest frequency is Love and that heals everything. No one on this planet who hasn't been Home has no idea what unconditional, all consuming Love is. So that's what I keep asking the Sun - come on, amp up the frequency, just a little shift and everything will change - and he says "that's what I'm doing" & I ask for a little more. Keep an eye on spaceweather.com to see all the activity of the Sun - the higher self of our solar system.

Much Love Light to you,
El

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