How’s your relationship doing?
With Source of course. I’m not that nosy!
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Dearest all,
Below are 3 examples of different kinds of connections you may be currently experiencing with Source:
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Gorgeously connected;
Woefully disconnected;
Chasing glimmers…
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And… below, are 3 examples from my own life of how I navigate all 3 states. 😘
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As always:
enjoy what resonates;
improvise on what inspires;
& discard what seems unnessary.
Gorgeously Connected.
I love people. And… my Pareto principle ideal, is probably 80% nurturing my inner reclusive, spent being & meandering about tuning in, writing, painting, reading, getting deliberately lost in the woods, appreciating the view & then 20% with People…
🥰 as it is, I’m a mum & still developing confidence in how I reallllly like to live, so the reality of that is a little inverted 😊
Real paradise for me is the wild - some water, food for the kids. Essentials: bread. Chocolate. Dried fruit. Carrots always seem to feature. Ideally, green tea in a flask. But I never have a flask to hand, nor remember to make the green tea. So, you know: one day…
Now if marinating in the wild just isn’t your thing, but you want to turbo charge your connection to source I have a trick for you AND your family.
Electric bikes!!
I too thought them bulbous & cumbersome - until I knew!!
Seriously, go rent one.
And if your family are a little unmotivated about heading to the woods, the wild (but we can tune into Source FM so effortlessly there!) find how you can rent a bike, and all will
Be effortless.
Kids under 16 can have plain old cross country bikes and you get this springy rope
And connect it to your bike and haul them behind you. Double the work out. Maximise the joy!
Then when you’re out ..:Source FM can start its download.
And all hail, wonderful, enriching insights about your life start pouring through.
✨ suddenly you know what you need to focus on…
✨ Life once again seems more expansive;
✨ Also, if there’s been struggles going on in the relational field in your life - Mother Nature will resolve all.
And this is all Energising and joyful stuff. personally, I left the wild valley today, feeling regenerated, healed, loved, hugged… and my kids!!
Oh I love seeing that joy. Whoops of delight. Deep exclamations of love and appreciation of each other.
Without any enforced grateful circle from me!!
also,
our kids are longing for more wild, free & innocent fun.
To get off the damn screens.
For Us adults to actually be in charge. No bribery needed.
Connection to source IS effortless - when we make space for it.
In nature - there’s no need for specific breath work, or anything.
Beauty will Open your heart. Source will pour through.
You’ll Be replenished. No expensive wellness thing needed.
Nature rekindles something in our spirit.
She stokes it.
🕊️ Situation 2:
Woefully disconnected.
2 cases for you:
Over the last 10months, I’ve made several trips to Harrods & also a trip to this ridiculously smart doctor for a hearing check.
The later was so weirdly glossy, a Harrods in itself where everyone was immaculate and seemingly dressed from a place where creases on clothes don’t exist.
Whilst waiting, I fell into a kind of trance. One that’s the opposite of awe in the natural world and more this kind of wow, what a world. And the more I stared, the more I feel disconnected to my heart as I spiralled away into comparison theories and feelings of inferiority.
And then there’s Harrods…
I went last year to get my septum pierced after taking a lot of magic mushrooms that opened my heart open in a way where really you want to kind of slow things down a little… & basically led to me spending too much money on a piercing that I only ended up wearing for a few months.
(An experimentation with ways to connect to my feminine energy!)
And Harrods is kind of fascinating.
in a way it links me to a part of my childhood - where we’d go for chocolates (that I can also now buy on one of the dingiest street’s in Brighton!) and to see Father Christmas.
So whilst visiting, I stood on the escalator and people watched and wondered: does source mean anything here?
And then the other day, I took my kids to the chocolate department there telling them it was as close to Willy Wonka as could be/ was it magical? I mean honestly, I loved watching them run in through the doors as we got there. The potential. The moment of exhilaration. But beyond that… was nothing compared to what we had in the mountains.
Also eye contact is a big thing for me / I really love it. And notice in environments where people hearts open - I.e other families walking and biking in th woods / everyone beams at each other.
Harrods - I can’t think of one person who made eye contact in a lighthearted, beaming kind of way.
So that’s a good way I like to disconnect from source - compare. Get onto ‘other people’s paper’ as Laura Doyle says, especially when I know nothing about them!
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Then 3: The glimmers….
About 24 years, I walked past Christie’s near Oxford street and stopped. There was one painting in their window - for an upcoming auction. I retraced my steps and stood and stared at it for as long as I’ve ever stood and stared at a painting.
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I’ve often wondered about the painting.
I have no idea who the artist was.
Sometimes I fantasise, if I’ll ever come across it again.
Maybe even… one day I might be able to own it…!
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And then about a decade ago, I’m walking in the woods near my mother’s home and these are sacred woods and I’ve spent many many hours in them & I realise: wow, I’m living the painting…
And then a few days ago, that experienced evolved a little bit further.
For in a glimmer…on electric bikes with my family…one of my favourite moments ever all together (minus our dogs!!) I realised… wow, I’m living that painting and this time, not alone, but WITH the people I love most.
And in these moments, when the signs, omens & what the late Jungian author Robert Johnson described as “slender threads” of our lives interweave - in moments where we’re conscious of them doing so, it can feel indescribable.
And tho these glimmers may mean nothing to anyone. But to your heart. To your sense of your life… they truly are irreplaceable.
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So what was the painting of?
For some reason, I’ll keep that private…
And I encourage you to retain some things as sacred too - to live breathing in the terrain of your heart in you.
For yes, sure, the heart journey can be shared…
It can also be contained.
& Somewhere in the middle, is fertile ground, ready for connection.
With much love,
Laura x