Do you sometimes feel that you’ve been spinning in an endless circle for days and never really getting anything accomplished? This week was a busy one … not to the point where it was painful … because I like to be busy … but I felt like I had got to the end of my week so fast and couldn’t really picture what each day had been like. It’s a bit like when you go for a drive and you arrive at your destination and don’t really remember anything from the journey … you sort of just turned up!! Hmm, does that happen to other people or is it just me??!!
My deepest thinking always happens during my morning walk. I often listen to inspirational podcasted radio shows while I walk … sometimes I listen intently the whole time, other times I listen for a bit and then it gets me thinking about something and I totally tune out to the person talking in my ear and have a conversation with myself in my head instead! Then the music for the end of the radio show comes on and I haven’t listened to a word they’ve said!!!!
So how does this relate to hearts & swirls?? Well that was the topic of my conversation with myself this morning!! When I think of a heart I immediately become aware of my own heart … which is in the centre of my body … the image it conjures up in my mind brings my thoughts back to me … what am I doing at that moment and how am I feeling? And so my mindless “doing” sort of stops for a moment and I reconnect with me and how I am “being”.
Similarly with a swirl … it’s sort of a visualisation of how we can spin off from our core self into our daily busy lives … we’re still connected to our centre, but the momentum of our lives has taken us farther and farther away. But we always have the ability to turn inwards and spin back to the centre again.
So I’m using hearts & swirls as touchstones, if you like … having them around me and where I can see them each day helps me to remember to be centred. To breathe and just “be” for that little moment in time … it only needs to be a few seconds. Maybe if I do this often enough I will remember more about what happened each day and when the end of the week comes around again it won’t feel like the week has just flashed before my eyes!!
A big thank you to Kirra, my little 7 yo friend who is always on the lookout for hearts and swirls for my blog. She appeared one day with a plate and a handful of rocks and then proceeded to create these patterns so that I could photograph them. I love her generous heart in wanting to make me happy and be involved with my little project … and I love her imagination, creativity and resourcefulness.
Here’s another heart warming story about my little friend “Kirra”. You may have read in previous posts that she has made heart & swirl shapes for me especially to put in my blog and she often gets her mum to send me photos of the heart shaped things she has seen.
Yep, I kid you not and here is the photo evidence to prove it. So if this isn’t evidence that the universe is looking after this little cherub I don’t know what is.
Yep, even dogs need a bit of lovin’ every day! And what better way to get it than to chew your way through a plastic, squeaky bone emblazoned in love hearts!
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