Welcome to the new month of June, welcome to our meditation for the well-being of all life, welcome to our Earth Send.
We are bathing each other in reiki and in heartfelt blessings for our evolutions.
We are sending reiki to everyone on our personal reiki recipient list and to everyone on the group’s reiki recipient list.
We are sending our good thoughts to all who have asked for spiritual assistance, prayers and lightwork and to every region that calls to us with its own community of people, animals, plants, soil organisms, minerals and water bodies. May every place on earth be purified and come into balance and thrive!
Sending out gratitude in the morning or in the evening to your neighbourhood, your municipality, your city is a rewarding practice that you can join me in, going forward. Many cultures have engaged in a “Hello! Good morning!” greeting to the land, the fresh air and the new day. At night, as you relax, recall and savour what was good about the day that passed. A Hello! to the day and a thank you! to the night are doable, friendly practices for every day. You can use your own words of greeting and gratitude. Combine your words with a favourite chant or mantra, if you like, to make it more festive. You can also practise Hello! and thank you! with a non-negotiable self-care routine that you have down pat. (Brushing your teeth would be a example of non-negotiable self-care routine that you have down pat. I am sure you can come up with a few more.)
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So we are approaching the mid year. Solstice is less than three weeks away. Now is a good time to assess how far you have come and if you want to course correct. If you wrote down your year’s goals in January or at the onset of spring, ask yourself:
Are those still my goals? Have I come closer to them? What have I been manifesting so far?
I looked at mine this week. I noticed where I need more consistency, where I am sailing in smooth waters, and where I am going to fine-tune this June.
Five months ago, I jotted down my vision of the ideal life. From it, I extracted both time-sensitive and realizable and open-ended, out of reach, exact goals for the year. Right at this point, I am nowhere near where I want to be – in regards to my goals.
Ha ha.
I feel good about life, though. I feel good about pursuing those goals. I am confident that I will make them happen. If not by December, a season or so later.
Now I have a history of getting stuff done that casual observers find daunting. And I don’t just believe and persevere; everything that I decide to do is what I work on.
This check-in was funny, though: I noticed progress in areas that I found too pedestrian to put on my goals’ list. Several issues that bothered me sorted themselves out. I developed systems to complete annoying, little tasks within blocks of time that may not impress a lot of people, but that were not exactly “my normal” in December. Whatever inner reorganization process had to occur for me to get closer to my destination, well, I can not claim that nothing has changed and that my attitude is optimistic only for the sake of being optimistic. Let’s sum it up as: I am more organized.
Woohoo!
I will keep going!
What about you?
Did you struggle with formulating your goals for 2023?
Consider the resolution of recurring problems your goal for the year. Overcome a challenge. Break an unskillful habit. Let an illness go. Help yourself in every way you can.
These may sound like modest goals, but are terrific improvements to commit to! Don’t worry about the timing. The year has enough months left for you to experience something good and experience what you desire.
De-clutter. Detox your home. Detox your diet. Let go of toxic ties. These are respectable goals that boost the quality of your life.
I want to credit my parents whose courage and readiness to subtract made an impact on my sister and me. When I was an adolescent, it didn’t seem like much beyond the embarrassing parental vibe. But I took in models who refused to resign to “fate”, complaints, excuses and laziness. On the contrary, getting active and staying active until it got done was my parents’ mode of operating. Just for today, I am grateful that it was part of my upbringing.
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In my corner of the earth, we are having a mini heat wave that informs us that summer has started in the land. The plants are growing rapidly from this infusion of light and warmth.
Like the plants, I am ready to make strides.
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Thank you for reading. Thank you for participating.
Let me wind up with the moving words of Thich Nhat Hanh:
“One day in New York City, I met a Buddhist scholar. I told her about my practice of mindfulness in the vegetable garden. I enjoy growing lettuce, tomatoes and other vegetables, and I like to spend time gardening every day. She said, ‘You shouldn’t spend your time growing vegetables. You should spend more time writing poems. Your poems are so beautiful. Everyone can grow lettuce. But not everyone can write poems like you do.’ I told her, ‘If I don’t grow lettuce, I can’t write poems.”
In gassho, I humbly receive.
2 June 2023
Nanda Jurela 