Last week had a very strange mood about it, perhaps it was the new moon lunar energy or the solstice, but I think a more likely conclusion would point to me. Perhaps my chakras are out of balance and I need to meditate, cleanse and do a bit more self reflection on myself, those around me and my current life.
Anyway all this rambling does and will lead to a point. I had been wanting to write on my blog all of last week, but couldn’t (or wouldn’t perhaps) find the inspiration on what to write. I want my blog to reflect my best intensions and thoughts, so that it serves as something to strive and push towards. To become a better person to myself and to those around me. It’s a long journey.
So while I was self consuming last week, I guess my mood started to lift on Friday and then when Cherise sent me this picture this morning I just looked at it and the message I saw behind it. A message of giving. And giving in all its many forms, from a simple gesture to an elaborate declaration. How brave those are who dare to take a leap, weather for their faith, friendships, studies, career or love.
Where there is giving, there is bound to be taking. They go hand in hand and too frequently do we forget that they are actually mutual actions that need to be circulated in order for the flow to remain in a constant state on equilibrium. And it’s so much easier to take and I often have to consciously remind myself to keep that flow going. And as much as one gives, the more will be returned, its simply karma.
And with life happening all around us, we get caught up in our own whirlwinds so its hard to focus and put forth energy and love to others, especially if we don’t feel we are or will get any in return. Or I find that too often my own inability to clear my own thoughts then manifests into negative energy with my relations with others, which just frustrates me even more, because its unintended. Many times I think that the negativity I feel towards others (often those clostest to me) is just a reflection of the negativity that I see mirroring itself in me. So perhaps if we spend some time on not just giving to others, but also giving and expressing our own thoughts and dreams to ourselves, we will enrich our own souls which will ripple happy and loving energy to those around us.
When it comes to giving and receiving (in every sense of our mind, body and spirit), I hope that I can aim to give more of myself to others so that I may be blessed enough to receive whatever they are able to give of themselves to me. Because although it may seem greedy, but I couldn’t think of anything more precious than being able to be completely open with even just one other person, being brave enough to expose your own inner soul and in return by giving yourself, you allow them to give a part or a whole of themselves to you. I think there is a lot of healing to be found in the sharing of giving, its liberating and freeing.
And as Jo and I always say: “Sharing is Caring”!
I am probably making no sense, so when in doubt I always turn to those little gems of quotations that I stack up along with way. They seem to express things so simply, so purely, and so…perfectly.
“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.” – James M. Barrie
“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Norman Macewan“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.” – William A. Ward
“If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.” - Peyton Conway March
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