17/11/2025
Sitting with tea and discovering the happiness within ....
In a few weeks' time, families will gather, hurrying and scurrying to pack cars, throw the tents in the boot, grab the pine tree & decorations. A frenzy of buying things for people you have not seen for a year, writing cards to your little one's teachers, the neighbours get a card too. Employers and employees alike buy piles and piles of things we will never use. We get short of breath just thinking of all the expectations - a turmoil of inner thoughts descends upon us like a tornado from the wild west.
This time of year, is polarizing. It has somehow lost its presence.
Peace and calm are distant, our bodies fluctuating in trauma responses like a see saw during school break time. Short of breath, aches making themselves known in places we have forgotten, and still, inside in our hearts, the emptiness becomes uncomfortable. Our soul is yearning for something meaningful, for connection.
Today I want to share an invitation to take care of yourself.
To spend two minutes just being the magnificent you.
This is the practice of:
Sit Spot - invitation to connect
Preferably outside, where you will not be disturbed.
Tell your family, house mates, children and the teenagers, this is your Sit Spot time.
Turn off your phone.
Make a cuppa of your favourite tea (or any drink you prefer)
and just sit in any spot of your choice.
Take notice of your body. Say thanks to your vessel for carrying all of you. Intentional gratitude to every cell and sinew, muscle, limb and organ. Thank you to your heart, for all the love it can hold, for doing so much for you - moving your blood through your body delivering nutrients and oxygen.
Breathe in deeply through the nose, feel the air expand in your belly. Thank you belly, smile, and let the breath flow out through your mouth. Repeat a few times - feel how the body, with each exhale, is letting go.
Now, when you are feeling the blanket of calm or the release, just sit in this moment. Take notice of the leaves fluttering in the breeze, the sunlight dancing on them. Slow down your inner thoughts and gently tell them that you are busy - you will pay attention to them later.
Take a sip of your tea, taste the flavours like it is the first time you are tasting them. Become aware of the liquid in your mouth. Swallow as slowly as you can.
You can deepen the Sit Spot practice by enthusing it with a mantra, an 'I am'. As you become more attuned to sitting in your spot, you will start hearing your soul's voice.
Smile ...
Close your sit spot practice by a gentle Thank you.
I fold my arms across my chest and 'hug' myself with a deep sense of gratitude for spending time with myself. It is my gift to myself.
Journal prompts - when you feel this calling - are:
What am I ready to let go of? What am I inviting in? What do I see, hear, feel, taste and smell?
xx Karin
"to go fast is to go alone; to go strong is to go together"
