For these full moon journaling prompts, I thought it would be lovely to explore the everyday.
So often we can miss the beauty and wisdom in the everyday, we are surrounded in each moment by quiet, beautiful and magical happenings, and yet, in the busyness, the stress, the doing and the distractions, we may often miss these soothing and uplifting everyday moments.
Creating a practise where I worked on strengthening my senses, listening to what they pick up, and making sure to look around me with a depth of curiosity lit up my world and each day I inhabit it. It brought me closer to the gratitude and the ensouled quality of so many moments. It helped me to feel happier and safer in the world.
I had cut off from my senses growing up, mainly from leading a life where I had learnt to fit in and survive meant not listening to my senses, and instead listening to another’s, which wore away at my connection to how I saw, felt, heard, tasted and connected with the world. I stopped trusting in myself and in ding so, I stopped seeing the simple everyday things, like the flowers along the path, the smell of nettles, the golden dandelion flowers, the dew on the grass, the twinkle in my lovers eye, the robin near my head, the smell of my child’s head, the sway of the tall grasses and the light through the trees. It made my world a lot greyer.
In each moment, we are held or connected to or right next to something ensouled, full of magic and life, yet sometimes we just need to wake up and take notice again.
Yet we don’t have to scrape too far below the surface of the everyday to realise how very extraordinary and wonderful it is.
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