A touch of reflection

reflection

It’s just over a year since I started this blog and I’m not a very regular blogger, but thought I ought to take a moment to think back over the last year.

I gave up full time work in August 2012 and have spent the time since then developing my own new business as a Reiki and EFT Practitioner. I have also managed to fit in a wonderful month in Australia, visits to friends around the UK,  as well as joining a creative writing course, and achieving a proofreading diploma,

The business is growing slowly but steadily and I now have my own premises – though I don’t work full time.  The whole point is to make enough of a living for those extras like long holidays in faraway places without having to slog my guts out in a 40+ hour week!!!  I also enjoy Reiki and EFT as they are wonderful therapies that can help people without doing any harm.

On the whole it’s been a pretty good year, despite the sadness of losing my 97 year old aunt in April.  At a recent checkup with my GP she commented that my cholesterol and blood pressure levels were better than they’ve been for years – and the only thing that has changed is my work situation.  Proof, if any were needed, that stress has physical manifestations!

My birth certificate says I am 66, but I have decided to start counting backwards so on my birthday last month I turned 64…  Roll on being 60 again 😉

Time to think

reminder of summer
reminder of summer

I spent this evening with good friends in a meditation group.  I came late to meditating – always too busy doing stuff (usually work) to take time to think.

Since I became a Reiki healer I have taken more time to stop and reflect on all sorts of things – and sometimes nothing!  Meditating is a great way to switch your brain off the day to day nonsense that we insist on filling it with, and instead focussing on random stuff that pops in to our consciousness.

Tonight we went on a guided walk in a forest and I found it immensely peaceful and energising at the same time.  It’s brought me back to what I want to do with the rest of my life and restored some of the motivation that seemed to be drifting.   Tomorrow I have much to do – and hope the motivation is still with me in the morning.  Carpe Deum and all that jazz!