A simple way of making something that you would otherwise find to be a task or not like is to put on music and dance while you do it :-) then it transforms into pure joy. Everything can be fun!! By having fun you change your point of view of what you are doing. What if we chose to make everything fun?
 Life as a Drawing
I have not drawn in years. As I was drawing just now I realized what if we lived life as if it were a drawing? Viewing everyone’s point of view, ideas, vision, drawings as that. In a drawing there is no right or wrong, no consistent patterns, no fixation. It is ever changing and simply individual to that person. Every painting and drawing can take on any shape. If you choose to draw a flower you can, you can draw a home and a horse, you name it! If you prefer you can just draw colors, swirls, and twirls. You can paint anything you want! Just like life. Life is a drawing. You mural can be anything you wish and when you wish to create a new one from the start you can just grab a clean slate and start over or you can add to the pre-existent one. There is no room for judgment it is purely a matter of perception…its art! Well isn’t life the same? Have we just forgotten? Is there really such a thing as limitations? You can choose to make anything any color you want. You can make any object perform any way you want. What if life is a drawing? I actually realized I draw the way I live. No plan, no specific objects, just symbols “non existent” ones. I have absolutely no idea what will be the result, where it is going to take me. What colors I will use, it unravels as I am going along. I simply begin and it evolves as I go along. Whatever feels right at that moment. I never start at a specific corner. I move about in random corners following my instinct. It does not resonate with me to go a specific way because when I am there it might seem right to go elsewhere, I don’t know why, I just know and it evolves. At that moment it can go anyway. I do not start from left and continue towards the left. I jump from one to the other. Left to right, top to bottom, there is absolutely no specific sequence. The next move depends on what I created at that moment and what colors I used. I enjoy that. Discovering new avenues, it could never be the same. If it goes a little of course the line since I am not aiming at a specific pattern or symbol I just go with it, I change it, it takes a different form evolving into something even better. I have always said I can’t draw. Maybe it’s not that I can’t draw, maybe it’s that I cannot draw specific settings, objects, as they make no sense to me, I rather create my own. What if life is a drawing?  Listening to Our Bodies
How often do we ignore what our body is telling us? Has it ever been wrong? We meet someone, our body signals us immediately whether this person is bad news for us or not. It knows…we know. We tend to get caught up in our heads though. Our bodies are indeed all knowing. They are aware of what is good for us, foods, people, environments…things. In fact no one else knows better what our bodies need than our bodies themselves. They are constantly pointing us in the right direction. Even with pain or any other ailment. What if our body is trying to get our attention? What if it is actually a good thing, a gift. It offers us self discovery…awareness. If we choose to be ignorant we will ignore our body we will judge it, view it as separate, as a burden, as a victim. Oh! and how often do we play that game? Our bodies are never victims, they are only victims to our stupidity. What if pain, allergies, diseases, injuries are simply our bodies trying to get our attention, to tell us something, beckoning us to wake up? The more we do not listen, the more it will cry out. We can choose to view it as a problem or an opportunity for self discovery and healing. We can ignore it by taking pain killers and drugs but it will still be there. We are just choosing to be even more unaware. Your body knows…you know. We can choose not to remember certain things consciously, to bury emotions, but we are just fooling ourselves. They will never go away unless we choose to face them head on. To deal, and to basically care for ourselves and our body. To love, to appreciate, and nurture ourselves, and to be who we are. What if we are making it into something bad by ignoring it when in fact it is such a beautiful thing. Your body never forgets. We just choose to be unaware, we allude ourselves. It comes down to awareness, we have a choice. We can ignore it and suffer or we can choose to listen and take care of our self. To realize our body is actually our greatest ally, our greatest gift. Our bodies teach us awareness…  The awareness just came to me that I am my favorite person to be with. I LOVE spending time with myself. I could never get "bored" or shall we say have a lack of attention span. I crack myself up, I have fun, I laugh, play, I get to choose whatever I want, whenever I want, I create anything, do anything how great is that? Especially in nature it is a never ending fascination. There is so much to do, see, observe, be!
On rare occasions I could get "bored" around people and it is not that the people are boring by all means. It is that the energy between us at that point in time is not correct and there is nothing wrong with that. It is just not where I am suppose to be. In fact the only time I could get bored is when I am doing something I do not really feel I would like to do. How many times in your life do you spend time with people out of guilt, because it is expected, it is customary or proper, something you are suppose to do otherwise you will be considered rude or judged? That is something I have done rarely in my life because I just couldn't. For me it was being dishonest to myself and to others as it did not feel fun or happy. What is the point if it does not feel good? This is why I do not have this expectation from others. You ask a friend would you like to do this? Friend says no. Does it matter? No. What fun is it if the other is doing something just to please you? I actually really respect when people are honest. I do not take it personally if they do not feel they would like to do this with me or for me. If it does not feel good for them it is perfectly fine with me. I makes no difference. What gives me joy is for the other to be enjoying themselves with or without me otherwise I am off by myself which is just as good. It can be wonderful you know just to spent time with yourself. I understand those who like to be around other people all the time. Good for you. I choose and just love to be "alone" most of the time. Alone is not the correct word as we are never "alone." I have spent most of my life in solitude and never felt alone. Actually the times I have felt "alone" is when I was in big crowds of people. How could you be "alone" in nature??? There you have the biggest crowd imaginable and amount of life! There are trees, plants, flowers, rocks, insects, the earth. It is crawling with life!!! How can that be considered alone? We humans sure are a weird lot!! Spending time with humans can be as equally as satisfying and beautiful however there is no difference it is all part of the same thing, and so is being with yourself, and I so enjoy it! |
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My name is Gaia (Γαία) and I was born on the beautiful lush island of Kos, along the Aegean sea of Greece, where Hippocrates, the "father of medicine" was born. I am a writer (favorite being children's stories and fairy tales), artist, dancer, modern day Greek Mythologist, nature dweller, photographer, traveler, dreamer, and creator. I love creativity...I love all nature, especially trees. 
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