10 Rocks Visualize that you have two vases. One vase is full of rocks and the other is full of sand. The rocks represent all the ways you care for your emotional, mental, spiritual and physical well-being each day. The sand represents all the ways you care for others well being in your life. If you make the sand priority and try to pour the rocks in after, there isn’t enough room but if you make the rocks priority and pour the sand in after, it will naturally fall around the rocks. A gentle reminder to make the rocks priority… Daily Practice We need daily self care and spiritual practice as a way to cleanse the mind and body of stale energies. Daily practice is a space for us to be able to put our minds at rest in order to come back to the present moment and connect with our source energy, which is our never-ending source of peace, joy, abundance and love. It is a time to connect with the body and listen to its needs and messages. Our daily practice helps to re-ground us and re-source us especially when our minds have worked themselves up into a flurry of stories and emotions. Spiritual practices disconnect us from the creative machinations of our minds and help us to realign with our souls. Your practice can take different forms and have a multitude of expressions in almost every faith tradition. But the aims and results are the same, in that they help us detach from the stories and chatter of our minds and reconnect with our souls. Here are some of my favourite spiritual practices. Smudging/cleansing Meditation Prayer Breathwork Sound Gratitude journal Oracle cards Yoga Exercise Nature walks Music Dancing/singing Metta Forgiveness Practice Resourcing the 4 Bodies Our “bodies” are actually made up of four distinct parts—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual—and while three of them seem intangible and ephemeral, they actually have a physical presence. “These are additional rings around your body…in fact, a lot of extra physical weight is actually in the emotional body—it’s as though the physical expands to eat up the space allotted to the emotional ring.”