REST, rest, r.e.s.t. The Alchemy - December 1, 2024
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Invitation to rest. Acrylic on canvas. April 30, 2012
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We need to learn how to REST, rest, r.e.s.t.
To ride the waves of 2025, we’re going to need incorporate rest. December is inviting us to begin to build that into our lives.
REST. Big rest. Take your holidays. Create a long weekend. Schedule a week long vacation. Get away. Turn off your work reminders. Sleep in. Don’t fill your days. Do something exciting and different that you’ve been wanting to do. Let your body, mind, and spirit calibrate to the flow of the frequency you desire.
rest. Little rest. Take a nap. Go for a walk. Put a puzzle together. Make yourself a good meal. Meditate. Journal. Watch the clouds go by. Play with your pets. Legs on wall yoga pose. Take a long bath soak. Read a book. Watch a movie. Go to a show. Do something creative.
r.e.s.t. Micro rest. Put on a binaural beats playlist while you’re working on your computer. Pause for a cup of coffee or tea and do nothing else but enjoy your drink. Smile at yourself in the mirror. Put a journal in your car and stop someplace on the way home for 5 minutes to jot a few notes. Try the Salamander exercise. Put the phone down and read a magazine over lunch.
I. Don’t. Have. Time. To. Rest.
I know. It is one of the top things I hear. That is how I have operated for most of my life. Even now, I’m still a doer, and I’ve hit the burnout wall, in a major way, on three different occasions with multiple lesser burnouts along the way. The piece of poetry below is part of my journey.
Watch any human, of any age, and one of the differentiating factors between an exciting, fun time and a meltdown of overwhelm is whether we are rested.
I’m a Sagittarius. We joke that ‘sleep is for the dead’. But I’ve learned the hard way that if I don’t build rest and time for recharge into my life, my life will set me up for a period of forced rest. And it is * never * at a convenient time.
With rest, we are more innovative and creative, less fearful, better thinkers, more curious, and more open to new experiences and connections.
December is going to be a month where rash responses are not going to serve us well. We’ll be far better off if we think before we speak and pause before we act, and we’ll be far better positioned to think and pause if we’re rested.
Micropoetry
Message from Chardon
You have chosen to live in interesting times. Some of you put other words to that description. And yet, each of you has chosen to be here for such a time as this. You are here as light bearers. You are here to create your future, and to usher in your world’s future.
You will find expansion in the deconstruction and reconstruction.
Your landscape of expansion will include your own internal landscape. That expansion will be in your rest, your rejuvenation, the opening of your heart, and the connection to your joy. The energy of love is seeking to expand within your internal light. You do not need to do anything except to allow yourself to begin to let love in. To let yourself be loved. By letting yourself love yourself.
Your landscape of expansion will include your external landscape. Bring your light to your ideas, passion, hobbies, and connection and nurture them. But do not lose yourself in the busyness of creating. For you did not come here to be small. You did not come here to keep your light in box.
You came here to be fully alive in whatever you are doing. Whether it is the joyful finds such as smelling the flowers or listening to the laughter of children or enjoying the sparkly lights of this season or those memories and experiences that come with sadness and grief. Feel it all. Be it all. Your light is composed of all of those feelings. You are multidimensional.
As you seek more light in your world, your world is seeking to welcome more of your light back.
So, honor your light. Nurture your light. Your light is sacred. Just as you are.
Upcoming events
(schedule through The Reiki Center):
What is Possible? An interview of Chardon by Katharine Daniels, Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator, Reiki Master, and owner of Bright Life. To accommodate scheduling, this will be a replay only registration (no live-stream), which will be available by December 15th.
Winter Solstice Celebration at The Reiki Center. This year's theme is Transformation! Yours truly, with another, *may* be reading The Very Impatient Caterpillar as part of the celebration, so this is going to be fabulous evening! Join us to acknowledge your journey of transformation from who you were to who you are becoming. Bring awareness to all that you have accomplished and hold gratitude for the light you shine. Saturday, December 21, from 6:30-8:30 pm. No cost to join, but please register so we can be better prepared for the evening.
By the way, if you missed the November 16th message from Chardon, The Transformation of You and the Journey to Becoming you can sign up to watch the replay by sending me an email or contacting The Reiki Center and we’ll get you added for the replay. It will be available through January 2.
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