Winter Solstice Reflections: Chaos, Nature, and Conscious Rebirth
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Winter Solstice Reflections: Chaos, Nature, and Conscious Rebirth
WARM UP. Good greetings everyone and welcome to the blogoverse. I hope everyone's holiday preparations are going well and as smoothly as possible. I’ve had the pleasure of starting this morning nice and slow, feeding the cats, doing some reading, I will eventually get around to making some mushroom coffee and go off on an adventure to a botanical garden. It’s been a busy week with many developments all working in unison.
We are correctly working on a business overhaul, which I acknowledge can mean many different things. Specifically we are redesigning our website, repositioning ourselves in the fitness space, and attempting to streamline our processes for client intake. Those are just some of the specifics. Many entrepreneurs know that the daily tasks of creating and running a business aren’t easily checked off as solo artists. I have been fortunate enough to select good business partners (this second time around) that we delegate and get things done well. We have noticed in the last few weeks an influx of people that are saying “I didn’t even know you all were here,” or “We didn’t even know you did this kind of thing.” Which leaves a door open for us to step into to show our community what exactly we do. So many people deal with pain day to day that can be eliminated, mitigated or improved. Take time this holiday season to observe your loved ones, see the amount of physical pain they are suffering through and perhaps you can give them the gift of pain-free living going into the next holiday season.
My household doesn’t observe holidays the same way traditionalists would. In fact I have done my best to not follow traditions that I do not identify with. My immediate family as well as my partners continue to carry on these traditions so occasionally we find ourselves swept up in sharing holiday cheer. We do have a holiday white elephant gift exchange for our gym community going on during the day today, so that should be fun exchanging some “conscious” gifts. Events like christmas tend to have had a really strong impact on people's childhood, many of them unnecessarily created by expectations that generally aren’t achieved. So many times people want to recreate these past dreams of elation for their own families, or avoid them all together. Currently I am attempting to establish my own rituals/traditions to some degree by observing the Earth's tilts (equinox & solstice). In fact, today is the winter solstice! HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE sun worshippers!
The sun is of nature in the same way that we are of nature. Part of nature worship should always include the sun, the sea, forest, animals, flowers, insects, anything that has the pleasure of being an Earthling. This week I had the pleasure of reading the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism daily as part of my men’s group accountability. Besides Buddhism's mental framing, nature worship should be at the top of everyone's spiritual belief system, from my perspective. It would seem if you have your belief systems grounded in tangible things, it gives you a baseline to be launched off into the greater sphere of mental universes, rather than the common “big brother is watching you so behave now so you don’t suffer later!” (Weird “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” has that same jargon).
COOLDOWN. It’s funny how those things align themselves in our culture. It’s almost as if it’s planned (no, not “god has a plan,” so jesus “take the wheel” type). It would seem that if we really wanted to plan things out better as a society as a whole, we would make drastically different choices, for our future children. I came from a mental framework of idealism, and was thrown into pessimism as I really got to get a beat on what society is choosing. I am still attempting to pull myself out of the pessimism and am using nature to do so. Mostly because I know the power of nature, it is chaos, it is order. I may say it is chaotically orderly. Chaos only seems disorderly when you are unaware or do not understand the process. With that, I’m off to prep for adventure!
Take Care,
G$