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7 Days of Rest Day 6: Rest in Loving Wisdom

Reflections and practices will be offered each day. Journalling the thoughts, images, dreams, emotions, sensations and experiences that arise throughout the entire week can deepen your journey and the process of healing and transformation.

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Offered by Shelley Ostroff

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Sensing wisdom: Find a comfortable position, close your eyes and after quietening your breath imagine awakening all your senses smell, your sight, your taste, your touch, your hearing, your intuition, your instinct, your inner vision! Spend time with each as if it is an encounter with a new friend.

 

Future present: With your imagination, reach out into the best of all possible futures… Connect with the essence of that future that will be most vitalizing for the core of your being, as well as for the whole planet.  Welcome that vibration into every cell of your being. Allow it to seed within you and beyond you.  Ask it to become the compass for all of your actions. As we become conscious that our own wellbeing is intricately connected with the well-being of all aspects of creation, so we co-create health for the planet and all its inhabitants.

 

Wisdom healing:  Scan your life and sense into what is asking to be transformed. See what emerges as that aspect that most wants attention right now.  Ask it to show you what needs to be transformed and what the first step would be. Notice your response – are you ready to take that first step? If so, sense into the following step after that. If at any point you notice ambivalence or fear in taking a next step, pause and give it some loving attention. Ask for guidance as to how to honor and move through the fear, or find an alternative route or smaller step forward that is easier. Imagine into the support you need in order to take the necessary steps and commit to moving forward gently in this transformation.

 

Community wisdom: Sense into what your manifest and potential gifts are – spending time noticing them and acknowledging them. Consider what you may need in order to manifest your gifts more fully,  and the steps needed to ensure that you have what you need to take these gifts to the next level? What do you need from yourself? What do you need from the world?  Sense into how you can offer your gifts to the world in a way that is deeply mutually nourishing – in a way that creates healthy abundance, deep value and healthy circulation of energy and resources. Consider that your talents do not belong to you but are nourished by the system and must in turn nourish the system of which you are part like in any healthy eco-system. How does this understanding shift your perspective and relationship to your gifts?

 

Interspecies and planetary wisdom: Sense into yourself as one part of nature’s extraordinary eco-system – an eco-system in which all other species play a role in enriching the environment for all while maintaining optimal harmony in diversity. Consider the impact of your everyday behavior on the plants and animals around you, on the land and the water and the air.  How does your behavior nourish other species and life on the planet? How does you behavior harm other species and life on the planet? What would you want to transform in order to live in greater harmony and mutual nourishment with Mother Earth and all her Children? What is your plan to move forward in making this happen?

 

Looking back – looking forward: Imagine yourself at the end of 2018, what would you like to say has happened for you over the year? What can you do to make this happen? What would you like to see happen for Mother Earth and all her Children over the next year?What can you do to make this happen?

 

Gratitude wisdom: Thank all your senses and innate intelligences for this visioning process recognizing the complex weaving of so many different aspects working together to enable you to move imaginatively between past present and future and consider how you may want to continue to cultivate all your different senses and intelligences.