Easter Appreciations – QFY 424
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I spent Easter Sunday alone in a beautiful house with a blooming garden. And this made me feel grateful for all the wonderful people I have in my life and everything they teach me. This episode is a list of appreciations. Maybe you find them applicable to the people in your life.
Sometimes its just a good idea to bring to our mind what each and everyone contributes to our lives.
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Episode 424 – Easter Appreciations
- My friends
- Welcome to another episode
- I am sitting here on Easter Sunday at a friends house
- The door to garden is open, sunlight and slightly chilly California morning air is coming in
- Not cold enough to run for a sweater
- Just cool enough to keep me alert and my mind fresh and focused
- Bees are buzzing around the flowers outside
- A lonely fly lost inside the house
- The sun shines through the leaves of the trees – making them appear bright green and vibrant
- Next to me my beloved coffee that I brewed myself today
- A quiet and relaxing morning
- Nowhere to go at the moment,
- All I need to do is be here, be with myself
- I feel my muscles sore and my fingertips slightly burning from yesterdays climb
- And as I look out into the garden, admiring the spring flower and the bloom – I am thinking about Easter
- Lots of people, maybe even you – are celebrating it today in your tradition – whatever it may be
- I know my friend and owner of this beautiful house here in Berkeley is celebrating Passover with her family on the east coast
- And here I am wondering about the meaning of Easter for me
- As a child I spent it hunting for Easter eggs in my grandmothers beautiful garden
- Today Easter is whatever I decide it to be
- This holiday falls into the beautiful season of spring and therefore represents for me much the same of what I already shared with you
- Renewal
- Hope
- A new start
- A blooming and flowering and a moving forward into new things
- As I am looking out into nature that mirrors all my feelings I cannot help myself but smile and be thankful for all the wonderful people in my life
- In this podcast I speak a lot about our journey, our quest for our best life
- That is often a lonely quest as it requires a lot of inner work
- Silence
- Thinking
- Alone time
- Reading
- Contemplating
- But, it is also time that readies us so we can be our best when we are with others
- And a lot of our time is spent in the company of others
- Yesterday I went climbing with a wonderful group of people – some I knew, some I met for the first time
- Today I am here in my friends house alone
- Being with others requires a lot of energy from me –
- All the time I am thinking of my words, my actions, and my expressions while at the same time absorbing those of the others
- Alone time is my recharge time
- Its only me by myself
- Allowing me to reconsider who I was yesterday and correct and improve who I want to be today
- Spring and Easter remind me of this renewal and rebirth
- Everything around me is in a process of becoming
- Me and my life are constantly becoming
- And the people in my life help me with that
- They are my feedback
- Their energy, their words, their actions allow me to reflect on me
- So today – on this Easter Sunday – surrounded by complete beauty and stillness – I want to give thanks to the people in my life because they help me become a better Janine
- They are my Easter – my hope, my renewal, my second chance to do a better job tomorrow with how I show up
- I have names for every single person but I will not name them here because I don’t want to make this about me and the people in my life
- Rather
- I would like you to insert the names of the people in your life that may help you with something similar
- Every person in my life, whether it’s a close friend, a gym buddy, a former partner, an old acquaintance, a teacher, or a someone I only see once a year, they all help me with something important that I still need to work on
- That is why they are part of my journey
- That is why the people in your life are part of your quest for you
- Lets recognize them today for their contributions – small and large, subtle and direct, deliberate and unintended
- Because during our mostly hectic days – we often don’t recognize their value
- We are to stressed to think about their impact on our lives
- We are to consumed with our own needs to see how they push us forward
- Today – on this quiet Easter Sunday – I want to pause and thank the amazing human beings I have the pleasure of sharing a part of my journey with
- And for everything they teach me
- And while you will listen to this episode when Easter is already over, you can do this on any given day
- It doesn’t require a holiday to recognize and be grateful for the people in our life
- I – today – want to thank each person in my life for the things they teach me:
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- To be more genuine and kind
- To not react to everything right away but think about my words first
- To interpret their messages in a positive way and then respond in a positive way
- To check in with myself before I accept their invitations
- To reflect on my values and my priorities more often
- To not question their motives – only my own
- To Be ok with silence
- To listen when they speak
- To defend myself less and acknowledge them more
- To hear more with my heart and less with my brain
- To respond more from my heart and less from my brain
- To not expect them to say or do something specific but to simply thank them for their contribution – even if its hard to accept
- To ask for clarification when I don’t know what their messages mean
- To reach out more frequently and not always wait on them to reach out
- To be more generous with my time when they need some of it
- I thank them
- For their patience with me
- For their calm when I am stressed
- For their balance when I am unstable
- For their encouragement when I only see dark
- For their courage to approach me even when I make it difficult for them
- For their push even when its harsh
- For their honesty especially when I don’t want to hear it – because that when I need to hear it
- For their loyalty even when I have been absent and away
- For their support even when I am not there for them when they need me
- For their help anytime I need
- I thank them for what they see in me, which is often so much more than I see myself
- And For their love which teaches me to love more
I hope you can find something in common with the people in your life
Give them a silent thank you today for being in your life and part of your quest
Much love
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