Welcome to September—and the first hints of autumn…
What do we have? a little under four months until the end of the year? It's a ripe time to assess where we've been and perhaps tweak where and how we're going to move into the next year.
Change, growth, healing and evolution don't have to be built on breaks, do they?—breakthroughs; breakouts; breakdowns—lots of breakage, yes? True, there can be those crystalline moments of "Aha!", yet much, if not most of the healing process is not like that.
Often, it is the deliberate small steps that ease us into a different life or aspect of it, rather than the huge time stopping realizations.
Plus—we can have those moments of utter clarity, yet not be quite ready to act on them. We know the way forward, we just haven't begun to take the exact steps needed to get there.
So let me share a practice that I sometimes draw on when I've made a
decision, yet am not ready to put it into play.
I call it "Turning Over Stones" (2:29):