Revisiting the Three questions that matter
2021
Vision Board, Grounded and Three Questions
This year reflect on what stands in the way of your becoming
a person of Essence and Perfect Equanimity.
“Get yourself grounded and you can navigate
even the stormiest roads in peace.” ~Steve Goodier
Equanimity-It
is the ground for wisdom and freedom and the protector of compassion and love.
In the
end, an artist’s Life is grounded in integrity and the willingness to witness
our version of truth. There are no set markets that assure us of safe passage.
This week focuses on personal responsibility for our creative caliber and
direction. Self-respect lies in the doing, not in the done.
Grounding has both spiritual and physical
benefits. Grounding is the process of connecting yourself to the earthly
plane and bonding with mother earth. Native American’s believe that mother
earth is the source of all life and is a great teacher to be observed, listened
to and respected. Her energy is nurturing and restoring, assisting us to bring
and give life to our hopes, dreams and ideas.
Science tells us that the Earth is abundant
with energy, particularly electrons, which have powerful supply of antioxidant
effects. When you connect with the ground, preferably via bare feet, you
can absorb large amounts of these electrons. Effectively you resonate at the
same vibration as the Earth.
Experiments have also proven that undertaking
grounding exercises, it can alleviate pain, reduce inflammation, improve sleep,
balance hormones and in general enhance wellbeing.
From a spiritual perspective, just as in
electrics, grounding acts as a safety switch keeping us safe from being
energetically overloaded from the spiritual plane. We are spiritual
beings (who are having an earthly experience) and even though most of us are
not aware of it we often receive information, guidance, and inspiration from
above. However, if we are not grounded, none of that is able to take form nor
channeled into something of structure.
Grounding also empowers your work (whether it
is of a spiritual nature or not) as puts the physical and spiritual bodies into
alignment. When we ground, we too bring unyielding strength to our being,
enabling us to take necessary action.
The act of grounding also allows us to bring
our spiritual messages or divine guidance into existence so that we can
communicate or create what the divine is imparting to us.
Another characteristic of grounding is that
you can release (ground into mother earth) unwanted energy or negativity as
well as excess energy. Mother earth works in such as way where will take that
energy and transform it or utilize it.
It is advised that your ground yourself daily
or at the very least once a week. Trust your intuition as to how often you need
this. In essence grounding assists you in being more present in life, therefore
if you are having difficulty in being present – ground yourself!
Grounded means-Accepting
who we are and feeling at home with in ourselves.
Who am
I?
Why am
I here?
Where
am I going?
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from an Elder I know... We live in a world of flux and it is easy to be knocked off
balance. but after we have done the groundwork to answer these three questions
and can answer them succinctly, we are now on a good solid foundation from
which to move forward. Think on these questions. Make attempts to answer these three questions
as part of your periodic checkups from the neck up. You will find for the most
part that once you are able to answer these three questions even if the
upheavals of Life knock you off balance you have a good sense of where you can
find that balance again.
The
Call to answers is upon me this morning.... But the answers may have started in
the head as you can read but ended up for me from the heart. I was getting
anxious about answering the questions. I do them annually and it was not coming
till this morning. Everything has it is time again I am reminded. I
will look at this often throughout the year. I will print them out and
have them in my morning page journal as I move through the year, I will be
present to their really meaning. Sometimes I even journal write more about
them then just listing them. Whatever is to be this new year I am Staying
Open as much as I can. This does not stop life from being life, but
it centers, grounds, and helps me balance through life.
Who am I?
I am an
aged woman
I am an
aged married woman
I am seasoned and cycled and happier for it.
I am tired from last year’s events, death,
virus, and illness of loved ones.
I am an
artist that works with paper on many surfaces
I am
becoming whole
I am
letting go of so much baggage of my past
I am a resilient
person
I am a
quiet loving caring and consider partner
I am a
contemplative one
I am
one that likes to work through things with my creativity
I am a
fire started inspiring people to come to gather
I am
one that follows through on what she says she is going to do
I am
pretty much happy
I am
one that does have anxiety
I am
one that forgets I am not doing this alone; I have a higher spirit in the
Greater Spirit to help
I am
here to be a good supportive partner to my husband
I am
here to be an elder
I am
here to be a loving daughter and daughter in law
I am
here to work a good 12 step program and relearn about life
I am
here to be a creative person
I am
here to teach others to be creative
I am
here to work with my hands
I am
here to continue a generation and pass on any wisdom I have
I am
here to learn about balance, centering, and grounding
I am
here to walk my talk and talk my walk
I am
here to witness life and share my experience
I am here
to Listen to others
I am
here to have good friendships
I am
here to love with all my heart and be vulnerable
I am
here to share a life with a wonderful man
I am
here to practice a spiritual path with a human path
I am
here to be a student first and then a teacher afterwards.
I am
here to see that my inner knowing has been a steadfast way all my life
I am
going in to elderhood
I am
reflecting on my life
I am
going to settle into the still moments of life
I am
going to keep life simple
I am
going to continue good healthy eating
I am
going to continue walking in the woods
I am
going to take some time to enjoy my husband company
I am
going to continue creating my art from a raw part of my soul
I am
going to make some hand made paper in this new year.
I am
hoping to do some small travels again with art workshops
I am
going to be a good Listening to ear for my family and friends
I am
going to pray and meditate more with the Greater Spirit
I am
going to continue my work with myself in my daily practice of journal writing
I am
going to continue my art and processing of life with my art.
I would
like to drum and sing more this year not just in the woods but with others
I would
like to see the bison close by us in Joliet IL.
I would
like to do more kayaking
I would
like to visit my mom
I would
like to go on a trip with my husband to see the ocean.
I would
like to look over life stuff and make some plans for our retirement.
I would
like to live the width of life not just the length of it.
This is very inspiring and I for one thank you for being open enough to answer the questions in a very visible way. I will keep coming back to this page to remember what you have taught me. Thank you. Maria
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