Awakening Self Blog

Ready to Relax

School’s out and summer is here. I’m ready to relax – how about you? What I realize, though, is that I really didn’t have to wait until summer. I could have learned to relax all along. We tend to carry so much tensio…

Tranquility

Imagine sitting by the shore of a pond. There is a gentle breeze, just enough to tickle you, on a balmy, warm day. You can hear birds singing, talking to one another, with spacious periods of serene silence in-between. At the near edge of t…

Just Begin

I like to walk on the treadmill at the gym, since I don’t have a nice hilly area right out the door to walk. When I say “like”, however, that may not be the most accurate description. For the first several minutes, I constantly look at the time – h…

May Day Motivation!

I’m writing this on the first day of May. It snuck up on me like a squirrel trying to steal the strawberries out of our garden. Before I knew it, he scampered away with a ripe red berry, and I was just as surprised when May arrived. This mid-spri…

New Perspective

I remember back in college my Sociology teacher gave us an interesting assignment. For the next week, he told us, we needed to drive to and from our home by different routes each day. We were then to reflect on how the experience affected us.…

Are You Sick And Tired Of It?

It’s part 2 of my Not-So Patient Patient story. Yeah, believe it or not. Now I’m going on 8 weeks of having some sort of bug – I would seem to be almost over one ailment, and then I’d catch something else. I believe that…