Hello and welcome to day 19 of my experiment of living from a place of love rather than fear.
My name is Liz Scott and for 30 days I am bringing my awareness back to a place of love intentionally every day.
When I get lost in fearful thoughts and feelings,
Unsettled thoughts and feelings,
I notice them and rather than try and get rid of them or think positively,
What I do is I bring my awareness away from those feelings and back to that sense of peace within me.
And I write a journal and I encourage you to join me in this experiment.
What happens when we do this for 30 days?
Like I say today is day 19.
Today has been a really lovely day in so much as I wanted to meet a friend and have wanted to meet a friend for some time just to thank her for the support that she gave me on the pilgrimage I walked earlier in the year.
If you remember during March and April I walked a 630 mile journey across England following the Michael and Mary energy currents and I walked for the best part of seven weeks,
Day in day out.
And this particular friend she joined me on the pilgrimage in spirit and what she did is that every day after I had written a blog post she would read it,
Absorb it and then the next morning would send me a haiku,
A little haiku.
A haiku is a 17 syllable Japanese structure of a poem which is three lines,
Five syllables,
Seven syllables,
Five syllables.
She'd send me this haiku and she would also send a little message of what she had seen having read the blog.
This was an extraordinary boost to me on my pilgrimage and I hadn't realised how extraordinary it would be.
There's one thing about people saying you know well done and keep going and sending kind and generous messages of support but that's another thing when somebody actually reads,
Digests and then responds to what you've written and shares what's landed for her.
And what I noticed is that on the pilgrimage I felt as though she was walking it with me in spirit.
I felt really held,
It felt special.
So I really wanted to explain to her and to thank her in person for what she'd done and this was the first opportunity I've had to meet up with her.
So I met up with her for a cup of coffee and I feel as though I've been really living from a place of love in that sense of gratitude and communication and friendship that I felt towards her.
What I did today is I thanked her and I really helped her see how special it had been for me to receive her messages every day.
I wanted to make sure this wasn't a quick thank you.
I wanted her to know this wasn't just me saying thank you and let's move on to other subject.
I spent time with her really acknowledging her for what it had brought to me,
Having this sense of a companion on the walk albeit somebody who was with me in spirit rather than in person.
And in the same way that I had felt seen by her,
I wanted her to be seen by me today to really recognise and hear the thank you that I wanted to share with her.
Love showed up in this space of thanking her and sharing with her and in having this very slow conversation.
It's a conversation that went backwards and forwards and we were listening to each other.
We were really seeing and hearing each other.
It's so delicious when a conversation doesn't feel rushed and it's not about two people waiting for the other one to stop talking so that they can talk.
For me this felt like a really honouring conversation and that was for me love showing up today.
Today in this conversation love reminded me of the importance of seeing others.
In the same way that I felt she had seen me on my pilgrimage,
I was reminded on how important it is to see others,
To see their world,
To reflect on the world that they're sharing with you and to feed that back to them,
To reflect it back to them so they know that you've heard and seen them and are attempting to understand their world.
So love really reminded me of that today and it just reminded me of the importance of acknowledging and taking time to say thank you,
To express gratitude.
So today love has shown up in a slow conversation in the sense of being with someone who wants to have a conversation and backwards and forwards in a slow way.
Love has shown up by me being reminded of the importance of seeing others and being reminded of how important it was to be seen by this friend when I was walking my pilgrimage.
And finally love has shown up by just reminding me of the importance of gratitude and acknowledgement and of taking time to say thank you.
So that's what has happened with me today.
I feel like I've really been in a bubble of love.
It would be great to know how you're getting on.
Don't forget you can join me for the full 30 days or just dip in and out but each day that you bring your awareness back to love rather than fear,
I'd love to know how you get on and what turns up for you.
There is no successful or right way to engage with this experiment other than turning up,
Giving it a go and reflecting and sharing on what you've learned for the day.
So do let me know how you're getting on.
