It’s a new year, the hoopla, the holidays after over. Now the long silent winter is here. Winter is a wonderful time to be warm and cozy, it is time to be home more and it is a time for self reflection. Winter is also a wonderful metaphor for our inner journey. In winter it doesn’t look like much is happening to the naked eye. The trees have shed their leaves, the annimals are surviving in the cold. We humans, are still bustling around keeping busy and hopefully not ignoring this change to look inward. For in order for spring to happen there is alot of work being done unnoticed.
This is the time in nature when all the work is being done underground. We humans, have periods of time when we are working internally doing alot of thinking and planning, making changes silently, as we go about our business of transformation.
Some people use meditation as the method of transforming their selves, others use therapy as a method of coming to terms with who they are and where they want to go in their lives.
This is the time to ask questions of oneself, 1. Who am I? 2. What do I want to accomplish in my lifetime? 3. Am I being the best that I can be? 4. Am I connected to the important people in my life? 5. If I had a short time left on the earth could I leave feeling peaceful?
So winter is a perfect time to reflect, to plan and to get ready for the spring.
Dear Frieda,
this is lovely. Thank you. Barbara