I love how we can leverage HUGE energy and mental-emotional freedom, through shifting our perspective especially of the seemingly biggest 'problems' in our magical story!
Letting go of the negative weight of assuming big challenges as a 'burden' - seeing them in fact as a gateway into learning, being a bigger person, seeing more of the world, being more connected and interconnected...
Making a transition into this perspective of true Gift - it ripples immense change into all our interactions!
My own journey to settling into a new town also involved similar realisations to yours, dear Corina - to begin with; my initiation into the town: in my fear-mind I was homeless, alone abroad, without the language, with no income, no connections or friends, no potential opportunities or signs....
ALL of that turned around completely, through my trusting in spirit, trusting that I was actually in the perfect place NO MATTER HOW IT LOOKED TO MY FEAR-MIND in that moment - and less than two weeks later I was standing in my own home, with the keys in my hands, eyes-mind-heart blown open, and beginning my grounding of the dream that I'd originally been drawn here by... :-D If I'd let me fear-mind drive me, I'd have turned of my heels and run home, and would've missed out on my dream (of owning my own home) ENTIRELY.
As I am reading your wonderful text @clareartista and almost able to feel the wind and coolness on my face by looking at your photo ... one realization springs to mind. It can be taken almost like a small daily practice.
I have begun paying attention to what kind of greetings I leave people with. 'Have a nice, easy day' started to sound really damaging to me because it somehow eliminates the possibility of having a wonderfully challenging day, or a day that brings up a 'burden' that we are able to deal with, no matter how hard it might be.
It's an ongoing practice really, especially by email, I find it more difficult to stay true to what my heart wants to spread toward that particular person (sometimes love, water, sun, warmth, determination, compassion, courage...) still feeling embarrassed to write like that. But I am getting there.
I wonder what your thoughts are on this? What daily practices can we apply to open us up to gift?
Yes! I love that we can keep our focus on people's courage to change, on their ability to navigate and their grace to hold energy in a day - rather than trying to force a smile when Life can be such blood-sweat-tears. It's a very valid point to expand on this idea, and be more conscious in what we're actually transmitting to people with our words!