Loving All Things, Including My Own Limits…
What’s been bringing you joy this week?
If you feel called to reply, I would love to hear from you!
For me, it’s (nearly) completing my Rolfing certification… I’ve just finished session 5 of 10, with my final exam behind me by the time this love letter reaches you! There’s a joy and even a sadness in being on the last leg of this adventure, because it really has been life-changing…
This new moon is on Tuesday 14th July and is in Cancer: the sign of home, feeling, and intuition. July, in the 13 moons belongs to Loves All Things, the Clan Mother whose colour is yellow, like Oshun, the Yoruba goddess of fertility, femininity and abundance.
Loves All Things’ medicine is unconditional love and acceptance. I got stung by a bee this week (which also carries her colour), and perhaps that was another July lesson too: to love everything, even when the room disagrees, or the bee stings (and blessings to that bee!) 🐝
What I Have Been Journeying:
Have you ever noticed a lot of conflict comes from the tension of people around us thinking, voting, believing, behaving differently from us, and thinking we need to change other people’s minds to be more like us? In fact, scientifically, the body’s fight or flight response can be triggered in these moments: a disagreement is often interpreted in the body in the same way as danger…
Here in Munich, I love our cohort: we span different countries, ethnicities, generations, religions and political views that sit far apart from each other. It feels like a much safer space than one that is all one ethnicity or demographic, as I’ve experienced on previous trainings.
I’ve found it beautiful, and refreshing, to witness us all hold disagreements without anyone needing to win or convert anyone else…
And I also found myself at the edge of my capacity to do that in a conversation last week, as I was about to eat my lunch, right before our new clients arrived for their first Rolfing sessions.
I began to feel angry based on my personal views, and I could feel myself preparing for debate…
But then I realised that I didn’t need to change their opinions, and at the same time, this conversation, over lunch, with supercharged emotions wasn’t the best idea for me before my first session.
I took a moment and checked in with myself, and decided to get up and go outside into the fresh air and nature… and it felt great to gift that to myself…
And what landed was what if loving all things includes loving our own limits as well as being able to love the people who see the world nothing like we do? ❤️
New Moon Journal to JOY Reflections:
So on that theme, here are some journal invitations for answering in innocence (a state of empty mind, body and relationship) this new moon. Grab your Journal to JOY, let your intuition answer without judgement and dive in:
✨ Where are you judging and trying to change others so they look and think like you?
✨ Have there been moments recently where you overrode your own yes because you thought you owed someone an explanation for saying no?
✨ Can you feel the difference between your own opinion and the ones you inherited or were conditioned to believe?
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👑 The JOY Hour — Episode 83 with Arush Bakshi
Worth a listen if choosing your own path daily speaks to you. The monster is always smaller than its shadow.
👑 The Creativity Challenge
Running through October, small real prompts to get you making something again.
I’m learning that loving all things starts with unlearning what we were taught to judge first…
Our intuition doesn’t get clearer because everyone in the room agrees with us, it gets clearer because we stop needing them to agree with us, and come back home to ourselves: our inner wisdom first.
Wishing you a beautiful month full of yellow, honey and joy (and hopefully no bee stings!) 🐝🍯
Biggest loves,
Ella xxx
