Finding Balance

Creating new norm's, spreading your wings, feng shui, strengthening your chakra's, clearing your plate, calming down, taking time to breathe, stepping back for a new view...

However we say it.

However we do it.

It all boils down to finding balance. In any and all area's of our lives.

Sometimes we don't know what we are trying to balance, we just know that balance has been lost causing us to not only want, but, need, it back.

I.

Being a creature of habit.

Liking my routines very much thank you, finding comfort in their consistency.

While at the same time becoming fidgety in my ever increasing confines. Longing to break free of many of them, creating new habits, routines and a lot less rigid invisible self imposed regimes along with redefined boundaries.

Longing to find balance.

So I started to implement changes in my world once again. Not huge earth shattering changes. (At least not yet.)

I brought in an arm full of flowers from the yard...



Noticing that while I try to tell those who mean the most to me that I love them often, I have been forgetting to let me know I love me.

That is not an easy thing for many of us to do I know.

I also know, it is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and those you love.



Finding balance after spending years growing comfortable in your routines and surroundings can be a bit overwhelming.

So I chose to...

Dive in head first.

By starting to play with dormant dreams, painting, writing a book, that I am having so much fun doing by the way. Picked up my camera's again, got a kayak (even though my fear of water is deeply ingrained). Why I even started walking. My favorite walks are actually at night in snow storms, or rain with a really big umbrella. I started doing a morning cup of yoga .   

I also contacted a few people offering free e-courses, a few others who I hope to be working with soon in area's I didn't even know existed. Ordered a stack of books on new subjects that interest me immensely.

And after seven years of not rearranging any furniture, in any room.

I did.

We have all sorts of feng shui going on up in here now.

The things I have found great joy in as I've matured are still with me and thriving. The stuff I've hung onto, in case someone, someday, might need them, I'm finding I can let go of now. Old mental blocks are breaking away to new understanding. I stopped beating myself up for things I think other people think I should or shouldn't be doing, when I know the logic they aren't privy to.

The kid in me is daring to come out and play again.

However, the most interesting thing I see happening as I find balance, is that those who have been silently watching me, notice the things I am doing, and are starting to play with things to bring new balance into their lives too. 

Finding balance is a process that is filled with events in several area's of our lives , It is a growing living thing that isn't done once and set in stone, it is something we are able to work with all the time.
So whether you are working on improving your inner balance or your not falling over balance...
Remember we are all divine.

My Second Childhood

I am seldom without a camera and finding that with the age of digital camera's there are many, many folks like myself, who pack at least one camera with them all the time, for those 'just in case' moments.

That means that we are looking for the 'photograph', the 'picture', the 'capture of memories', where ever they may turn up.

And one of my favorite things to watch is the sky.

It is always changing and can not be truly duplicated.

Is not this most beautiful?

When I was growing up I would hear the grown ups talking about people they knew, who 'thought they were in their second childhood', like it might be considered to be a scandal.

I wondered what they meant.

Did we get two? What about being a teen ager, was that different? And just how old did you have to be to get this second one?

All very important questions to be sure.

As I have gotten taller, I have learned many lessons on life and would like to share some of my vast stores of knowledge with you.

No. Not all of us have two childhoods. 

Unfortunately some don't even have one.

Teen is a different age and thing altogether, revolving in a world usually all its own.

A second childhood can come at really any age.

Mine never really left me totally, though I'm sure that people who knew me during my three teen age years might beg to differ.

But you know I've found that when you really start to dream that anything is possible again. That you can reach the long forgotten or even the never knew you had dreams and goals...that...that right there is when you hear the grown ups talking about you being in your second childhood.

And that, my friends, is where I have been able to live for a long while now. But even that world is finding new height's and breadth's...

As many of you  know I have been fancying myself a photographer, author and recent R'teest...My first semi serious attempt at painting was ok.

Then one day while Tiny Dancer and I were playing in the water colors I started painting myself...and much to my surprise I found...

                                        ~ME~

However you don't really just wake up one day and decide to become.

I'm finding that it is a process.

That involves a certain amount of letting go, and that very often we have dream blocks that we have in our thoughts that need to be removed, reassigned, or just plain old gotten rid of.

And...

It helps to have a goal in mind, with a certain kind of plan to reach the place you want to be.

I have been lucky enough to be finding the help and encouragement I have been looking for. The gentle pushes and pulling to lock me securely in dream mode...The cheering section.

One of the best Cheer leaders I have is, Fashion Designer grand daughter, Who graciously helped me get a plan in place to become...

It is true that I have many irons in the fires of 'second childhood', searching many old and new dreams and directions.

With my latest dream in the baby steps beginning stages...

To help coach others to find and follow their dreams to a happier life.

Because the sky may not be the limits after all ;)