Life for many people is ebbing and flowing so rapidly, one minute the sea is a tranquil glassy pond, the next the waves are crashing hard and we need a surf board to ride them. This seems to be happening on a personal and collective level that it feels as though we all need our surf boards ready. (I am not so great at surfing by the way 🤣). This week I have had such beautiful tranquility and peacefulness inside that it took me by surprise, I hadn't realised I was holding low level anxiety to the extent that it had become 'normal'. Then today out of nowhere disturbance hit left field which I felt with a ferocity that was unexpected. It seems that when we reach a certain point, the calm ocean, we can take a breath, float for a while, enjoy the flow, all is well, the Divine is at play in life. Then, when the ocean rises again and the waves come they often feel larger than they are because of the contrast of the peace we had been experiencing, after all, we had been basking in the Divine flow, on the right time line blah blah. Personal evolution sometimes feels like this. We get to a point where life is less hectic on an inner level, or the thing that used to trigger us no longer holds power as we have resolved and dissolved it. This becomes the new 'norm', we get to enjoy the tranquility. If something happens that takes us out of this new norm and it echoes the old patterns and feelings it feels exaggerated and more turbulent. It comes as an unexpected wave that we have forgotten how to surf. I feel that we often forget that this is a measure of evolution, the mind attempts to take us one a journey or into a story that no longer fits yet we have evolved past it. This is just the echoes of the old. That was my challenge for the day. To see that I was feeling what felt like a high and turbulent wave when it was really just a contrast to having been in the tranquil flow. The wave was not so high, I did not need a surf board, I remember I can swim. How do you deal with the ebbs and flows of life?

Please reach out and welcome @Tazeen Dutton to our community. Tazeen is a Sufi Elder and I am really looking forwards to her contributions to the community What a diverse group of members we have for sure! Welcome @Tazeen Dutton so lovely to have you here as a new member 💙

I am in the process of doing a 5 day 'challenge' which is rare for me to do. I dislike challenges as they sound and feel to me so much like hard work, and life for most people these days is already challenging. The challenging that I have joined is soft and quiet and not challenging at all which led me to thinking why did they call it a challenge? I have not as yet named my leaderboards and am allowing them to do themselves behind the scenes precisely because I do not wish for members to feel that they have to achieve something, I love that members communicate and connect in the community because they want to. I do wish more members would connect and communicate for sure, and I am aware that the some members are always active but there seems also to be gapping silence from others. I will be transparent and say that I feel a little sad that more members do not interact and wonder if they are getting anything out of the community. Who knows? THANK YOU TO THE MEMBERS WHO CONTRIBUTE AND SHARE I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL. Anyhow... I have decided that when I do groups or 5 day .... blah... I will be calling them Invitations and Events. Something to join because you feel a calling and feel the invitation and welcome. No challenges here as life has enough of these without inviting in more. What do you feel? 💙

Please welcome @Bala K who joined our community today. Welcome Bala 💙 I am looking forwards to his contributions to the community. Not much else to say as yet as he is a little bit of a mystery 💜

Please welcome @Shervin Boloorian a long time friend of mine and special soul. I posted his video and music the other day here in the community so in a way you have already connected. Shervin composes, sings, teaches and travels the world sharing his knowledge and music with others. He has his own community here on Skool called Sound Healing Online where he shares not only the beauty of sound but the frequencies of sound and how they help calm, heal, transform. I am looking forwards to interviewing Shervin and going more deeply into his work, his life and community. I look forwards to you getting to know him and connecting. 💙🎶