Play

 When was the last time you found time for play. It's not about age, it's about finding peacefulness and your center. Whether it's board games, going for a walk in nature or playing a team sport. Enjoy the music that makes you happy! When was the lastime you just foussed on just being!

Find what makes you happy, take a break from social media and cell phones. Soak into silence and take time to enjoy the quiet. When was the last time you spent time with family and just had fun being silly. It can be hard when your used to the stresses of corporate life.

Give yourself permission to take a mental health day or three. Take time to go hiking or camping. Go to a bed and breakfast and tour or see new places. Go sliding down a hill minus the trees this winter. Paint a picture or draw. Go to a movie and enjoy all of it.

If your out in nature, drink in all of it. It will bring peace to your soul. Smell that earthy smell of fall, from those fallen leaves. If cooking or baking is your jam, then enjoy the process. Knitting, embroidery, turn on your favorite music, light a candle and get your cider or hot cocoa and get cozy.

Play with your pets, it will help both of you release pent up stress. Pets are a joy, they welcome us when we come home. They love unconditionally!

Penny J. (MN, USA)

Raven Hawke

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Finding Your Balance

I am writing this, because so many people have very chaotic lives. They run, run, run . . . They have no idea who they are any more. They chasing money so much to make ends meet. When I look at whats going on. It almost seems like we're stuck in the 1950's with the mentality. The discrimination against anyone that thinks outside of the box.

The technology that we have today is not making peoples lives easier. It's making their lives crazier. The commercials on TV are working very hard to sell you on the craziness being efficient. When its anything but. Instead of people taking time to talk to the people right in front of them. They are texting or chasing the latest app. or game.

These people are not living their lives, they are simply existing to make money and pay bills. Its actually more like a robot existence. These people are over worked and stressed out. Instead of using a vacation to relax people are working on things that they can't get done in their normal life.

One by one these people start to drop out of society as their stress level gets to such a point that they can't handle it any more. Either they lose their job, as their employer looks at them as being disposable.
Some will try to enter the rat race again only to fail multiple times. Others will try to follow their interests to create new lives for themselves. They will find that they are more satisfied and less stressed out. They will find that money starts chasing them now. They will be very surprised at how little effort is required.

They are starting to appreciate time with their family or friends more. Life is finally calming down. They are looking at their phones less; actually enjoying time by themselves just thinking and feeling. Some people will find their bliss in exercise and making their bodies more healthy. Others will find it in nature and listening to the musical chorus of the bugs and birds all around them. It's always amazed me that people don't take enough time to smell the change of the seasons.

For those of us that are workaholics, learning how to play will feel like something forbidden. It is through play and creativity that we learn new things and how to have more fun in our lives. So when will you start taking time to start living your life instead of just existing?

Penny J. (MN, USA)
Raven Hawke, Llc
www.ravenhawke.net
info@ravenhawke.net

Good Fortune

We see changes when we are on the right path. Our pets are more playful, and other things in our life start to fall into place. It's like a giant road opener! Sometimes its just doing one thing. Here's the trick, if you can't figure out where to begin. Just try a step in different areas of your life til you notice a change.

At different times in our life, different areas of our life need attention.

Sometimes its our health.

Other times its our career or home life.

Sometimes we need a life makeover.

When we start taking out the garbage in our lives, we start to see changes.

Bit by bit we start to see the changes. 

Then come the bigger gifts.

Sometimes its money that starts to come in at all the right moments.

Finding the right clothes that we've been searching for.

Or getting rid of the people that cause us stress.

When we actually participate in our lives.

The changes are huge!

New people enter our lives that treat us better.

New opportunities open up in our career.

We find co-workers that we like.

Environments that are suddenly healthy.

Serving TwinCities Area:

Penny J. 

Raven Hawke, Llc (MN, USA)
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