Appreciation

Sarah shares her thoughts and insight following random conversations with strangers, her appreciation and gratitude in relation Insight Timer Live feedback and more. She also touches upon narcissism and directs you to her course on this subject should you be interested to know more about the subject. A reflective talk during which Sarah encourages you to have those random discussions yourself as you never know where the information will take you. She concludes her talk with some inspiring and motivational tips.

Transcript

Hello,

This is Sarah Naylor for Insight Timer.

I thought I would share with you some of my more recent rambling thoughts,

To be perfectly honest.

This one is very much about hitting pause,

Very much time for rest,

Recharging and also including a few random chats as well.

The time is very,

Very nearly nigh and by the time you are listening to this,

I will no doubt be flying to sunny Spain,

Be in sunny Spain or even back from sunny Spain because my partner Gareth and I are heading off for our first holiday together since meeting in the summer of 2020,

Which as we all know,

Was the peak COVID time.

Well,

It was up and down,

Wasn't it?

It was a really challenging time.

And following on from our meeting,

We've had a bit of camping here and there.

We've done some Airbnb and we've had breaks and stopped in his parents' static caravan over in a place called Heaton,

Which is in Norfolk in the UK.

And that's where we relocated to in December 2023.

And we love it here.

We absolutely love living here.

It's very much like living on holiday,

But actually it's not because we're still working.

So this holiday means we are actually stopping.

Very much needed too,

Because I had a very challenging year personally in 2023,

Which saw my business go into administration.

That was a recruitment business I had.

Yeah,

Challenging.

Lots of things going on last year in addition to that.

However,

This is very much about stopping because the last couple of weekends prior to our going away,

We've been backwards and forwards.

We've been to London,

We've been to an event,

We've met and caught up with friends there.

We've been back to Nottingham,

Which is in the UK again.

I think there's a Nottingham in the US too,

I do believe.

I've been to a dentist.

Oh,

It's very exciting,

Isn't it?

I've been to the dentist,

Been to see my parents.

My parents are in their mid and late eighties and my mum's just had a hip replacement surgery and I'd not seen them both since Christmas.

So that was lovely,

Able to catch up with them.

Two back-to-back weekends with work,

Short weeks because we've had bank holidays here in the UK as well.

In and around all of that,

We've pulled in some shopping too.

However,

On the way home from our trip back to Nottingham,

We then ended up chatting with some people who were selling some.

.

.

You know when people have sales outside the front of the house?

This wasn't a garage sale or anything like this.

They'd obviously imported some big metal dishes to have fires in,

Fire pits.

That's the word I was looking for.

So things from India,

That kind of thing they were selling on the drive.

And having spent a couple of hours in the car,

We'd just decided after we'd parked up and had a cup of tea to go and have a walk around,

About half a mile away,

Go and have a look,

See what they were selling.

Anyway,

Randomly we got,

This is the random chats,

We got chatting to the ladies on the drive and a comment that my partner Gareth said,

Brought about a conversation regarding narcissism,

Which if you have a look at my courses,

I've done a course on narcissism,

Because unfortunately I realised,

Beginning of 2023,

That my ex-husband,

Who I divorced 20 odd years ago,

Is a narcissist,

As is unfortunately my son,

Who's now 25,

And unfortunately we haven't spoken for 18 months.

But if you want to know more about that,

Please do head over to my course on narcissism,

Because it's,

There's a lot of information I share there,

So that you recognise it,

So you can avoid it in your life.

However,

That was really enlightening,

Because the couple we got chatting to,

A mother and daughter,

The daughter's ex-partner had been,

Or was,

Is a narcissist,

And the mother would then spoke about her son,

Which is the other lady's brother.

So we're talking about an ex-partner,

And then a brother stroke son,

Of the couple that,

The two ladies that we're talking to.

So the brother stroke son is also a narcissist,

And she's had problems and issues for about 15 plus years.

So it was a very,

Very interesting and enlightening conversation that we had,

Just randomly.

You know,

Those are the conversations that we can have in life.

These are the messages that get delivered to us,

If we are observant,

If we are listening.

For me,

It wasn't so much of a validation of how I've been feeling,

But to actually have a shared experience with somebody who,

As a mother,

Got the same experience with a son,

Was really interesting,

Because sometimes you can feel a bit isolated,

Even though I'm,

I know,

And we are becoming more aware of narcissism.

It was just really interesting.

You never,

You never know who you're going to meet,

When you're going to meet,

And it's just about having a curious mind and striking up conversation and seeing where it goes.

We ended up chatting to them,

And then on the way back,

We ended up catching up with my yoga teacher we bumped into,

Who's got an allotment and been growing bits and pieces,

And actually,

She's subsequently given us some lovely vegetable plants for our garden,

Which is rather wonderful.

Then we headed off to Old Hunstanton.

I'd love you to have a look.

It's the last place in the UK that the sun sets.

So we just decided to go over and have a lovely beer and watch the sun setting,

And it was absolutely glorious.

So that was a Friday,

Saturday,

And then on the Sunday,

We'd spent the day gardening.

It was the Friday,

Saturday that we'd been back to Nottingham and had these random chats.

We spent the Sunday gardening,

And then come Monday,

It was a bank holiday,

And we were exhausted,

And we just listened to our bodies and stopped.

We were just absolutely shattered,

And I was still shattered on the Tuesday.

I had other things I needed to sort out to do with money and finances,

And money had been taken out of my bank to do with a remortgage on a buy-to-let property.

I don't know elsewhere in the world how that's referred to,

But I have a property in South Wales in the UK.

I'm an accidental landlord.

It's a long story,

And I had to sort that out in the morning,

And eventually I then got that sorted and went off to the local auctioneers to pick up a lot that I'd won whilst we were away,

Ended up coming back and getting that all sorted out.

Then I did my live on Insight Timer,

And it was really wonderful because after I had done the live,

A lovely lady dropped me a message to say what a powerfully inspirational and impactful session this morning was,

Thank you,

And she donated,

And that was lovely.

Do you know what?

I've only become a teacher on Insight Timer since February 2024,

And I think that was my fourth live,

And that was just lovely.

It's so wonderful to receive feedback.

So if you are enjoying this talk,

Please do rate and review.

It always helps.

It's lovely.

I have to say,

I look at the figures and see how many people have viewed and the ratings and the reviews,

And it's lovely.

I like replying to comments as well,

So I'd always encourage you to please do reach out and ask any questions and make comments too,

And of course the live's free to everybody.

There's a mixture of free and premium tracks,

And the courses are premium.

You know what?

I genuinely love raising people's energy and vibrational frequency and helping people look at things from a different perspective to see the positives in life,

And actually this is a bit of an irony on this one because I'm waiting for a course on positive perspectives and raising positive vibes to be approved by Insight Timer.

The reason being,

It's gone backward and forward because of the plosives,

Which when you're trying to say a P on your audio,

It spikes on the audio because it's a P sound,

And yeah,

It's interesting having a bit of a challenge on that one.

However,

Because I've been so tired and exhausted,

When I delivered the talk,

It really did raise my energy levels as well,

And that's where I get really excited,

Raising my energy levels,

And that recharges me.

But that said,

It's still important to listen to your body and to stop,

And I'm very,

Very much looking forward to this holiday.

It's nine days away.

My partner and I haven't had,

As I said right at the beginning,

We haven't had a holiday together,

And this is very much one we are both really,

Really looking forward to.

I'm tempted to take my laptop with me.

However,

I'm not going to do that.

I am going to stop.

So all things that I do will stop.

It will enable me to do lots more meditation,

Thoughts,

Journaling,

And just breathe,

Just to breathe into just stopping and just chilling out,

Which is going to be much,

Much needed.

Now,

I'm going to finish on a few top tips,

And that is listen to your body and stop when you need to rest and recharge.

And I often refer to nano-naps,

But you know what?

They really are power naps.

If you need a nap,

If you need to stop,

Just stop and power up.

It makes a massive difference.

Recognise your achievements.

That was the live I was talking about when I mentioned about going live and getting the great feedback.

You know,

You get a dopamine hit when you sort of recognise those achievements,

Be them large or small,

And feeling good is so motivating.

And know when to rein yourself in.

Your strengths,

When overdone,

Can come and bite you on the rear end.

So do just recognise when you are good at something,

Sometimes you can push yourself too hard and it's important to actually stop.

Chat,

Engage with strangers.

I say engage,

Have conversations with strangers.

You never know what you'll learn.

Enjoy life.

Look for the positives.

Be mindful of your words,

Thoughts and actions.

And remember,

Whatever you put out there,

You get back.

And that's why I like putting out the positive stuff,

Because I like getting it back.

Right,

That's me over and done with.

If you've enjoyed this,

Please do let me know.

If you've got any comments to make,

Please do let me know.

And I look forward to hearing from you.

And please do check out the rest of my content and join me on my lives.

I am regularly running my lives because I love them.

Take care.

That's me.

Goodbye.