Question Asked and Answered

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

Having answered this before, let’s go off at a tangent and talk about the Native American way of life. Something I learned about on a course,

Pre-artificial living

The ancient people lived with the seasons and responded accordingly.

Sew crops in spring, tend in summer, harvest in autumn, keep as warm as you can, and rest in the winter.

All very logical. But the tutor applied it in a different way. Each year:

• In the Spring you sew the seeds of what you want to achieve that year.
• In the summer you choose only the strong shoots to nurture and let the rest go.
• In the autumn you reflect on your achievements and harvest the knowledge.
• In the winter you rest, reflect, and plan for spring. What will you sew next year? What do you want to reap?

Living with the seasons

Is a good way to become mindful about your life. To stop the drift and start the shift. To deliberately set intentions, to be observant, and not waste your energy on what isn’t working. Put your energy where you get the best rewards.

In other words, if it’s making you unhappy or just refusing to work – let it go. Find what will work.

Sometimes we feel that we shouldn’t give up and end up hurting ourselves, and wasting time; often years of it.

People consider giving up to be quitting, but you wouldn’t keep a car that had been written off, so why keep something in your life that’s defying your every attempt to make it work? It makes no sense.

If it’s right any obstacles will be overcome. If you simply can’t make it happen, take the message. It’s not for you.

The seasonal idea will help you to pace yourself, sew, three months late choose what to tend. That’s not giving up, that’s common sense. You don’t let a field of tomatoes die while you try to keep one plant alive!

Don’t let your life die tending only to what’s broken.

This is why

You should love every season. They all have a point. They can help you to pace yourself.

It’s healthy to give yourself permission to rest and curl up with a good book. Spend quiet time, or time with family and friends. To just stop.

Stopping is what keeps you going.

It’s sensible to take time and think about your life, how it’s going, how you feel. To be ready to re-plan, redirect, sew new ideas. Conscious living is the path to happiness.

Sew in the spring to spring into summer, reap the rewards, and rest on your laurels with a sense of satisfaction at a year well lived!

Best love

Deb xx