Empower Newsletter – September 2020
Welcome to the September 2020 edition of the Empower Newsletter. Being the beginning of spring, I thought I’d talk about how the seasons can affect our lives in a positive way. |
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What the seasons can give you!
Do you get excited by the seasons and appreciate all the differences they have to offer? For example are you someone who relates to the warm weather that Summer brings so you can enjoy the outdoors even more! Maybe you prefer the colder weather that comes with winter so you can hibernate like a bear and snuggle up to regroup to store up energy getting ready for regrowth in the spring!
I’m curious if you have ever looked at the seasons from the prospective of how they can benefit you and then utilise those benefits to your advantage?
Just like the environment around us, evolving with the seasons is full of rewards. As humans we do evolve instinctively, but what if we consciously took the opportunity each season presented to create even more conscious benefits.
Winter is cold so we tend to spend more of our time indoors. Winter allows us to rest by staying home and still more which allows us to rejuvenate and re-energise. This is the season of your life where you pause and consider how to move forward. Before you begin to birth in spring, you need to conceive in winter.
Spring is a beautiful season with so much colour and life. Things begin to bloom and flourish. Hope abounds. Spring signifies what is new in our lives or what is being birthed. It could be a new job, a new business venture, a new relationship or a renewed relationship. This translates generally as the start of better times. At this time of year we begin to feel less sluggish, and become more open to inviting changes, both big and small, into our lives. Essentially, they give you a reason to keep going.
Summer brings sunshine which in turn ignites energy. Summer is the time between sowing and reaping. You sowed in the spring of your life. You pluck out weeds and water your plants in the summer of your life. There is nothing that will grow without being watered. Whatever you have planted in the spring of your life, needs to be watered (nurtured and looked after). Be it a job, a relationship or a project.
Autumn is a time to reap, celebrate and reflect. The things that you started in spring are coming to an end. Some of those things could end successfully, while some may come to completion in a manner that was not expected. In autumn you need to think about the things that have ended. Celebrate in those that have ended well and learn from those that did not end so well.
So as it’s the beginning of spring, let’s reflect on what it can mean for us. Since it is a time for rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth, this translates generally as the start of better times. We become more open to inviting changes, both big and small, into our lives.
What changes are you going to bring into your life?
Definition
Seasons
The passing of a year can bring a marked change in the weather and the surrounding environment. The four seasons — winter, spring, summer, autumn — each of which run for three months, can vary significantly in characteristics, and can prompt changes in the world around them.
Something to Ponder |
Creation follows a sustainable rhythm, year after year, but we charge on in cycles of our own making. Seasons are best lived very differently from each other. The plants and animals know this, but we humans with our schedules and technology forget.
It ought to be simple, really: In summer we play, in winter we stay.
There are times of activity in the winter but the colder weather and the shorter days urge us to slow down and to rest.
In summer we can also rest sometimes. It wouldn’t be a true summer without occasional boredom or lazing on the beach. But more often than not we dance all about.
What do these seasons look like for you? Do you revel in their differences? Do you invite a change of pace when the seasons turn?
Quote of the Month |
“The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.”
~ Arthur Rubinstein ~
Affirmation Corner |
‘Living in rhythm with the seasons enhances my life.’
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August 31, 2020 10:16 pm
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