We've all said, I want to get healthy, I need to get healthy.  Many of us are thinking about our health.  We know that when we're healthy we sleep better, we have more energy, we look better.  Our whole life is pretty much looking up when we focus on our health.  But somehow we can't find the energy to even start making a change.  "I'll start next Monday" and next Monday never come.  "I'll wait for the weather to warm up" and our 2 months of summer is here and gone.  What is the pay off for staying stuck?

For most of us the pay off is safety.  The risk of making a change is too scary.  We think - I am comfortable but totally miserably this way so that is the way things have to stay.  That's what our minds say to us.  Once we become aware that we are sabotaging ourselves we can work to change that belief.  Or any other belief we have. 

Another belief many of us unconsciously have is that we aren't worth all of the abundance in our life.  We somehow think we can only have so much - so if we have a loving family and a good job then our quota is met.  You can't possibly expect to have great health too.  That is for the celebrities in life.  In my Introduction to Creative Living workshop we talked a lot about these very same topics.  And now that I have introduced the whole idea of living creatively it is my job now to further the discussion.  And I am doing this in 2 ways over the next couple of months.

1.  First I am going to start what Julia Cameron calls a Sacred Circle.  It will be by teleclass every second Tuesday evening for 1 hour.  It will be recorded and shared.  The first meeting will be the evening of Tuesday, April 28th.  If you are interested please register by email.  I will take registrations right up until Saturday, April 25th.  With registration you will receive the information to be able to hook up to the call and also the agenda.  The Sacred Circle will be a safe place for people to come together and support each other as we practice living more creatively.  We will talk about the book the Artist's Way by Julia Cameron week by week.  We will discuss the exercises and how people are seeing and feeling the changes come about their life.  So it's going to be very interactive.  It should be fun!!

2.  Dragonflies and Daisies will run it's first of a kind Garden Retreat workshop.  It will be held in Stavely in my backyard Saturday, June 27th.  Here you will get to see what a garden retreat can be.  The main focus will be on stillness and self care in a natural, nurturing setting.  It's time to start sharing my ideas through my garden retreat.  Block June 27th on your calendar as an Artist's Date for yourself.  I can't wait to show people all of the possibilities open to us when we practice stillness and self care.


QUOTES
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.  John Ruskin

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being.  The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.  Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899 - 1977)

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.  Chinese Proverb