How I Found New Ways to Express Myself!
Wow, I can't believe its been just over three years since I started this blog. I initially started it to coincide with the launch of the 100 books I sent out on a travelling wellness journey (see post dated October 13, 2011).
It is interesting that writing my book felt different than this form of communication. I remember my fears at writing something that anyone could instantly read, and the thought of my words and thoughts travelling around the world was terrifying, This new way to communicate offered the words click here to get started which wasn't bad but the publish tab was very hard to do. Well I got over that as you can see and this last year the page visitors have more than doubled. And, I am especially excited to have now had visitors from 62 countries.
Absolutely Fabulous! Thank You! Thank You!
As with all the things I seem to be getting myself into these past 10 years I owe it all to yoga and how yoga taught me to take my time, that it was Ok to just do what I could that day, and how I could move slowly to improve over time. My teaching yoga also gently challenges me to keep learning and improving especially my weaker areas not only on the mat but also off the mat in my life.
All this has become my retirement to do's, and before retirement my list of things I thought I wanted to do had none of these things except yoga. I guess it's better to say the old list was ripped up and the only thing I did take from it was yoga teacher that I put on the list during my second last week of work. I am so glad I tossed out the old as my time now revolves around new thinking, new ideas, new learning, new dreams, new people and hopefully it will continue that way for as long as I'm able.
It's interesting how when we enter this change/not working/retirement phase we sometimes forget about how efficient we were and we may forget about how to make new contacts and find new resources. We sometimes forget about planning for the future and how to organize and prioritize the day. I remember how we usually got less done on the long weekends because we sat too much and sometimes we had to give ourselves that friendly kick in the butt.
Even though I still do sit too long it is now always at the computer working on something because my life has new uses for my time, new uses for my creativity, it has new problems to solve, new ways to express myself, and it has many new magic moments to reflect upon.
This last year I also got to sit here and listen to some wonderful wellness related free online conferences. I got to learn about Tapping, I did meditations with Oprah and Deepak Chopra, heard lots of the great interviews from the Hay House World Summit, and just finished listening to most of the Recovery 2.0 conference.
We all have our lists to work with and I hope the small contribution I make here through my blog will also help send a few seeds of wellness out to blossom!
Thanks so much for your visit!
Namaste.
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