tribes and quiet

These are our thoughts feelings and experiences. We accept responsibility for them. We understand your journey may be different. We honor and respect that. Wishing you effortless joy. Eloise and Jake

Being connected to a tribe and being quiet seem like polar opposites; and they are. But it is the paradoxes of life that fill it with all that we need.

Recently a group of friends from our past came to visit. Yes a group came, and made great sacrifices to do it. It was a very short three days, but it was three days of laughter, connection, love and creating new memories. It was like a fix. Energy shifted and it felt like a wave of healing and hope.

We laughed and joked about growing old in a commune (notice I did not say nursing home). We all admitted how much younger we felt just being together. I am so convinced that being part of a group, being part of a tribe is essential in remaining full and fit.

I also know that relative to that, is the need to get alone with oneself, and shut down the brain, so that one can get connected to something else. Call it self, call it higher power, call it spirit, call it universe, call it God; but call it, and acknowledge it, and hear it, and feel it. Every time I let my meditation (prayer) practice go I gradually become disconnected from it, and then what follows is usually a “disconnect” from people.

When I get quiet, it allows me to be in touch with what I feel, and what I know (which is totally different from what I think). And when I am touch with those things, people of like minds seem to magically appear, as if I actively participated in the attraction of them to me. (Which in reality I did)

Today I am full of gratefulness, for the quiet, for the love of a great God, a beautiful universe, so many great friends and family and for this present moment.

I love my quiet, and I love my peeps, and I love all that is being attracted to me today.