Reflections & Realizations
A place to share our learning and realizations in real time. Inspiring others to relate, reflect, and grow.
Reflections & Realizations
Led by Andrew Fayad
Visible disorder can send a signal that nobody cares. And once that message lands, people stop protecting what already looks neglected.
And our brain works the same way.
Somehow this post helps me to see how I’ve done this to myself more than I’d like to admit: The overwhelm I’d sit with without addressing; The help I needed but didn’t ask for; suppressing negative emotions for a prolonged period of time…
I didn’t realise I was sending my own body and being this same signal — when things are slipping, it …
by Dasyati
• 1 month, 1 week ago
An update: We let her loose and she’s been roaming the whole farm freely. Just like with us, we can see how much time and growth it’s going to take to drop the invisible chain we continue to hold.
by Andrew Fayad
• 1 month, 1 week ago
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence commits too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issue from that decision, raising in one's favor all matter of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no one could have dreamed would have come their way.
Whatever you can do …
by Karen Sherbina
• 1 month, 1 week ago
In the fire are lava stones, referred to as Grandmothers and Grandfathers -from time before time.
Inside the lodge men and women sit and offer medicines like dried sage, cedar and sweet grass to the stones the smoke is part of the purification process before entering into rounds of song and prayer. The door to the lodge is closed, sacred songs are sung and water put onto the stones …
by Karen Sherbina
• 2 months, 1 week ago
My doing (or lack of) has brought me to this place where much ended
Though, something more has never been more alive in me
When I focus on the past, I feel like I’m over
When I focus forward, there’s incredible energy and stillness that can never be over
All that I knew and could do didn’t amount to creation, and how could it?
Knowingly or unknowingly I wanted that to come to an end, to fail
This fate was meant to be, born out of the …
by Andrew Fayad
• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
