Tidbits of Wisdom to inspire your unique life journey – Jeanne Loehnis, Songs For Your Spirit, LLC
Life regularly presents opportunities for learning, growing, expanding! Here you’ll find ideas, stories and inspiration from my life. As you read, be sure to consider the unique and amazing life that is yours. Only then, discern if this tidbit is for you!
Do you ever find yourself totally distracted? You are doing “it” but your mind is somewhere else? Beyond the fact that you are likely not as effective at “it” as you might be (no, there really is no such thing as multi-tasking!), you are also missing out on life itself, missing out on what is REALLY here in this moment.
Here are a few ideas to help you be more present to your life, to practice self-management: Continue reading “Self-Management”
Where in life have you shut down, closed and locked the door, and thrown away the key? Consider:
How willing are you to break down that door and look inside?
What becomes possible when you do?
Frequently in life we say: “I don’t know”. Sometimes we proceed to ask the next person, “What do you think?” and invite their opinion on our situation.
My thoughts for you today are:
Do you NOT know?
Or, do you NOT LIKE what you know?
What is YOUR truth now?
Welcome to this day … Sunday morning in Appleton, Wisconsin … where we are on the other side of a tornado. We were fortunate. Not even 1/8 mile from our home, downed trees, power lines, flying roofs… Here, only 42 hours without power.
Yet it made me think about power from many perspectives. There is the power of electricity which we depend on and perhaps only realize how much when it is absent! Cell phones, computers, refrigerators, lights, water beds, TVs, … all rely on electricity. Some folks in our neighborhood immediately turned on the backup source, the generator. For them, food didn’t spoil, technology was available, and water beds were warm!
But what about personal power, the energy that we depend on to move through the activities of our day? What happens when yours “goes out”? Do you actually let it “go out”? Today, I invite you to check in with your internal power supply. Unlike electricity, where generators can replace it for a time, your personal energy is yours to monitor, nourish, restore. When it goes out, there is no gas-operated generator to plug into.
On a scale of 1 to 10, what level is your internal power supply at?
How effective are you at this level?
What would restore it?
What will you give yourself today?
Asking for a sign from nature this morning, (No, I didn’t see a bear!) I noticed birds flying north. Smiling here… yes from “birds flying north” my inner voice said: migrate, hibernate, seasons of turning within and rest. Okay, maybe I haven’t quite got this intuition thing down yet! Regardless, the message I heard was pretty clear. So much of non-human life knows about seasons, expansion and contraction, expression and lying low, outward beauty and inward renewal. I live in Wisconsin and every year leaves and grass and flowers and sunshine and warmth are replaced with barren and cold and snow and a shifting out of the wildlife that we see – and do not see.
Today this got me thinking about my own life. Continue reading “Bears Hibernate… Do You?”