Nature Lessons 184

To survive the arid conditions some plants adapt their lifestyles, physical and behavioural mechanisms to enable them to survive periods of drought.  Some have adapted and grown extremely long roots which provides a better chance of acquiring moisture.  Some shed their leaves which allows them to store more water, some remain dormant.  We all go through periods of drought in life, times of stress and adversity, periods in which we are unable to control the events that are happening around us.  Sometimes it seems that the world is against us and we are not able, or fighting to hold onto the things we need to survive.  There is something to learn from remaining grounded during periods such as this, letting go of what does not serve us and keeping our emotions in check until better days come along.

~ Liza 

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Daily Prompt Word – Arid

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Nature Lessons 183

Each flower in a bunch blossoms and opens independently of the others. Each with its own beauty and individual essence. Together they are something to behold, the sight and smell breathtaking but each got there itself, each pushing itself out into the world, each with its own individual strength. Isn’t it time we took notice of the lessons of nature.

~ Liza


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The Flow of the River


The river flows across the land, made up of water from smaller streams, rainfall and water from a multitude of sources. The river is heading for the sea. It does not at source know its destination, is not told how to get there and has no life plan. The river does not have a guru to point the way it just flows through its life until it gets there. 

Are we as people so much different from the river, why the desperate search for answers, why do we need a direction, because often when we think we have one, there’s a turn of events, like the bend in a river we are guided in another direction completely. Whatever happens we will all reach our destination, maybe we should stop thinking so much about how we get there and just let go. Watch and allow the journey to unfold around us, have more time for what is now and join in with the natural flow of the universe.

~ Liza

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Where would you go?

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Imagine if there really was no such thing as time, everything was and is happening at this precise moment in some form and you could go anywhere, where would you go? If I could take you somewhere, back in the past or into the future, where would it be?  A past life maybe, somewhere to perhaps remember the lessons of that life or into the future to see where you might end up in say five or ten years or even into a future life.  Wouldn’t it be interesting, maybe we would recognise each other in another form or those we know today?

I went for regression therapy myself after my mother died, I couldn’t come to terms with her death and was in a state of grief. It had always been something mum wanted to do herself, on her bucket list so to speak so I thought I’d give it a go myself.  I was taken back in this life, taken just a short while back and then further to the point of my mothers death.  This might sound morbid but it was something I couldn’t allow into my thoughts, I was I suppose in a state of denial. Seeing it again, or rather viewing it from another point of existence sort of made it real for me, I cried buckets as you can imagine but I accepted her death.  I went back further to a teenager, oh how I felt sorry for that poor girl, know all know nothing I think the term is, I loved her anyway, I think she needed that.  I went back to being a toddler, felt the enormous love of my mother and to a baby in the womb listening to my dad sing.  This might seem far fetched to those that won’t allow their minds to travel this way but to me it was cathartic and healing.  Even if my body was just lying on that couch, my mind was able to expand, travel and heal.

I travelled back through other lifetimes, some of no interest, I looked on detached from what I saw.  One woman, who I believed I was, I had no time for, she was bitter and twisted and had wasted her life.  I experienced her as an old woman and felt there was not much else for her to do with that life but die and try again in another life.  I found myself as a doctor in one life, looking at my shoes I was amazed to find myself as a man, he is my favourite so far, he kept a journal of his findings and died with the journal open next to him on the bed.  Would you believe I found him the next day on the internet, he looked exactly the same and when I read about him it was the same as I had learnt during the session, mind blowing!

So what can we get from past lives, I think lots of lessons.  As much as I loved the doctor, loved the fact he wrote and was passionate about his lives work, I also understood his loneliness, he had sacrificed family, never marrying or having children being married to his work.  I learnt from him about balance, to be committed to your work might be wonderful but make room for love.  In this life as much as my career has been important, never more than my love for my family and friends, they will always come out on top.

Recently I’ve been into the future, or the best possible future to how I’m living today.  I’ve been forward five and ten years and it’s fascinating.  I can see potential and possibility, it has given me, above all, hope.  I’ve trained as a Past Life Regression and Future Life Progression (FLP) practitioner now, another tool for my box of tricks and I’m having fun experimenting with my new found skills. If I can help people see possibilities then that has to be good.

I think both the past and future can help us make sense of the present, I think we can understand the lessons in this life that sometimes seem pointless or cruel.  I can see why some people appear to have it all and others nothing at all but do believe in balance as in some way or another, life or lives will even out.

This post is not in any way meant to offend, I’m not pushing any beliefs on anyone as I believe being present in the moment every bit as important, I’m just curious and for me I’ve found these therapies helpful in making sense of now.  So if you could go anywhere in time, where would it be?

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Come Sit..

 

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Come  here to sit with me for a while, 

under this this kindly tree.

Let us talk some of times gone by,

and see what we might see.

Let us travel beyond those years,

to when we were together.

Cuddled up here in this same place,

sheltering from the weather.

Can you remember what we agreed,

while we sat here that day.

To remember me with happiness,

especially when I’m away.

The tree can certainly bare witness,

look at him bow his head.

He can see me sit beside you here,

he understands I’m not dead.

It’s only another dimension I’m in,

I can still sit here with you.

I want you to remember what we said,

and to remember it as true.

I’ll always be close beside you my dear,

wherever it is you might be.

But instantly I’ll connect with you here,

if ever you sit under this tree.

~

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Slur

I beg your pardon, I did not slur,

you’re mistaken it did not occur.

I’m okay, in fact I’m totally fine, 

I assure you I can hold my wine.

It must be your ears, full of wax, 

before you accuse, get your facts.

I am not drunk and I did not slur, 

but now your face is just all a blur.

~

Fun response to the Daily Prompt word – Slur

Nature Lessons 181

At times it can feel like everything is falling away, like the petals on a flower, those things we held dear one by one drop away.  Life as we know it changes and it can feel like everything that has been established over time is breaking down.  This can be frightening, we might go into panic and try to cling onto what no longer serves us any purpose.  Nothing stays the same forever, if we are to progress we need change, we sometimes need to be out of our comfort zone to move forward.  Accept the changes that come, even the difficult ones and trust that they are all part of the greater plan.  

~ Liza

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