I don’t know about you, but when Spring is finally here -yesterday was Ostara, the spring equinox, the first day of spring- all I want to do is go outside, spend time with nature, and hear the birds singing loud. This morning I woke-up and decided to go for a walk, I love doing that first thing. I wasn’t feeling well, so it was a beautiful way of “walking” my worries and stress (I am very often worried and stressed). For some reason, this last weekend was full of anxiety. Whenever I go for a walk, it reminds me of a different rythm we can take, a slower more gentle one. We live in a world of “go go go”, but nature is slow, it takes time, care and love for things to grow, for seasons to change. Yet we live at 1000 miles an hour, and I don’t think it’s doing us any good.
When I go on instagram and I see some of my fellow artists being (seemingly) more productive and “out there” than I am, I start to panick, and feel I am not going fast enough, not doing enough. But the truth is, I very much feel that I have found my rythm recently. I move slowly, I just do. And I have my hands in many pies also (my art, my art classes, my cooking classes, writing a children’s book), some weeks it feels like nothing has happened, others feel very productive. It is the ebb and flow of life. I choose to follow my body, I choose to be with what is for me at any particular moment, give space for emotions to be released.
And for something fun, I recently took this quiz by Yamile Yemoonyah to find out what my spirit guide is, and it is a nature spirit. It makes so much sense to me, and somehow it’s made me feel more at home in my body to know this. I am a nature spirit, I do thrive in the silence of the open spaces, my heart comes alive in the forest. If this is all too airy-fairy for you just have a laugh for me!