Welcome to November, with our sparkly new theme, Trust Me.
You might have already heard, our oil to anchor in our work this month is Geranium, the oil of love and trust (more details are in your member area), which we will use to help us to restore our trust in the world, and the innate goodness of others.
It’s a strange and adventurous time right now, and in times of challenge it can be easy to revert to a more basic state, sometimes without even realising it, defaulting to a state of protection instead of expansion. When we are in such a state of stress, it becomes easy to mistrust, and misjudge as we can assume the worst in our interactions with others, and even life. My friend Amy Spolestra has a great little saying on this (that can become a nice pattern interrupt if you allow it), she says,
“Be careful, your brainstem is showing” meaning: you are reacting from the most primitive part of your brain. Which of course is not known for creativity, love, trust or even logical planning.
This month we want to explore this. We will use our oil as a guide to remember that we exist in a benevolent universe (yep, we are getting a teensy bit woowoo) as well as to explore who we can actually trust, and what unconditional love really means.
Our book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten will help us to look at the world as it is right now, but through different eyes. Hopefully for you it will be the trusting and pure eyes of a child. Chock full of wonder and curiosity and vibrancy.
The book begins with this credo:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the paint goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the styrofoam cup- they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned- the biggest word of all- LOOK.
To get started, this week we would love you to simply spend some time with the list above.
What things have you forgotten in the hustle of life, or just the mess of this year?
And which of these golden rules could you bring back into your life THIS WEEK to allow the glow back into your days?
Let’s go back in time, be a little childlike, and bring some sense back to our world.