Cuppa & Connection Recording
Thank you to everyone who joined us today. It was so lovely, after a few weeks away, to hop back online, catch up and say hi. A little apology from me too. We had a few technical difficulties with the Wi-Fi and also with the microphones when others were trying to speak, so thank you for your patience while we worked around that. In today’s Cuppa & Connection we shared some wins and challenges, and I spoke about the shift I have been moving through personally. After many years of pushing, striving, learning and trying to catch up on all the spiritual development I felt I had missed, I have reached a place where I am being asked to integrate rather than continually push forward. That has felt significant. We also spoke about the challenge of remembering to bring our spiritual practice into everyday life, especially in the very human moments, like parenting, emotion, reaction and breath. I shared a beautiful moment I had while looking out towards the Three Sisters, drinking a coffee and hearing the loud call of a cockatoo. As I softened and expanded my awareness, I began to hear more: the king parrot, the currawong, the breeze, the stream flowing deep in the valley below, and then the spinebill, which felt like the little “snag” that made me realise this was a spiritually significant teaching. It showed me so clearly that expanding our awareness to Spirit is very much like expanding our awareness to sound. At first, we may only hear the loudest thing, a little like the left brain or the everyday mind. But when we soften, breathe and give ourselves permission to notice, the more subtle layers begin to rise up to meet us. Just as the sound of the stream was there all along, Spirit is often there all along too. We simply learn how to widen enough to meet it. We also pulled a couple of cards around self-nurturance and space clearing, which felt very aligned with the conversation. Thank you again to those who came along. The recording is attached above for anyone who would like to watch back. ✨