I hope you had a lovely summer if you’re UK based … I can’t quite believe it’s already the beginning of October.
I’ve ended September on a very sad note for me and my family with the sudden death of my dear uncle, my Pa’s younger brother. So, to be honest, I haven’t felt much like writing newsletters, and have been in what can best be described as ‘hibernatory’ mode.
As I write that, there’s a small part of me thinking should I be sharing that information, might it be depressing for you to read? But then a much larger part that feels right to share openly about real life so to speak, without over censoring myself.
Living through difficult times
I decided to look up what I was writing to you about this time a year ago, and, spookily, it was a nudge about living through difficult times. I found it interesting to re-read what I wrote now through the filter of what’s currently going on.
As you’ll know from my nudges, I share a lot about a new understanding of the nature of thought and how we create our experience. How we are always living in the feeling of our thinking, not our circumstances. And how we all have access to an innate wisdom that’s always working away for us, even if it might not feel like it sometimes.
Living in the flow
I refer to this understanding as living more in the flow (of life) and less in our heads.
Well, I can safely say that living in the flow has been definitely tested in the past few weeks.
But, that said, what I also know is if I did not have this understanding of the nature of thought and how it works, I would be feeling a whole lot more anxious than I find myself now.
Yes, of course, as any of you will know who have experienced death, those waves of sadness are never far away. Yet I find it fascinating that life does just go on … almost like life continues to live me, regardless of the situation.
Thoughts continue to come and go, but the less I get caught up in their content, the quicker they pass through. That, and just seeing we all have access to an inner wisdom and resilience beyond all our personal thinking, has helped me to navigate this time so much better than I once might have.
So, I can report that last year’s nudge on living through difficult times still rings true. Living in the flow might not give us a ‘get out of jail free’ card, but it does enable us to handle life’s more difficult moments with more grace and less suffering. And my dear wish is that all of us can experience more of that.