Gift of the day
Gifts of the day are wonderfull insights, miracles or experiences people are encountering daily.
Sometimes you have these aha moments, these great moments of remembering who you are. Or you feel that there is magic in the air. Gifts also can be something a person said, something you hear in the train.
The most fun thing: They are everywhere!
I realised I experience the most amazing things. I always like to hear about other people's lifes. So I am happy to share my gifts of the day here.
Create instead of wait!
Sometimes we have this feeling we are waiting...
On a shift on the big change.
While doing that we can feel like all the answers for our own happiness are lying outside ourselves. We give the power to others to change our world. And others can't change our perspective and how we perceive life. Everything is in perfect order. It can be uncool to experience that others don't support your perspective, but remember that it isn't about them. Shine your light no matter what! You know what is true for you inside your heart. Let your love flow and the change will come naturally. Remember it's not a goal to change anything, it's more about the experience, about experiencing this game! About god looking in the eyes of god. We are creators with unlimited possibility's! When you are bored waiting start creating...
The system of flow
To be in the flow is very cool. It's a state of being when you are forgetting time. It's a state of being when you feel challenged, not bored, and not to much challenged so that you will experience fear.
It's great and wonderfull. There are thick books written about it. I red them, I listened to experts and professiors talking about it. I saw diagrams and date about the flow.
And in my eyes they aren't worth a thing if you don't know how to set a safe space.
The safe space will make that you can experience a flow. It's about the activity not about a goal. It's about being. About expressing passion and let the energy from home flowing trough you. Some call it channeling, some breathing, some creating.
For me it is happening when I follow the paint on the canvas, when I am finger painting,
when I am writing with my eyes closed, sometimes it happens when I am walking with my ipod on
listening to great music. It happens when I let go of the expectations I have.
When I am a leaf that falls of the tree,
When I breath and follow my own rythm,
Listening to my own footsteps in the forest.
What is your flow?
The gift of the "You are not my boss!""
Every wednesday I play with a group of children from 5 to 7 year old. Together we make plays and scenes. I love to play and teach them. I like to use a lot of music in the lessons. We dance, we shake everything and we practice. We always have a lot of fun.
It's a large group of 24 children. I choose the games we play carefully cause it has to be interesting for everyone. Last wednesday we made up rules together which would make it easier and more fun to play together. SO we promised that we would listen to each other.
During one exercise one boy forget that, so I reminded him of the rule we made. the exercise tested his patience a lot. So he forget the rule and was talking trough other kids and was playing with his key all the time. So I told him that he could wait at the side till I was done and than he could play with the other kids again.
Than he thought hey this is fun I am gonna sneak into the group and watch if the teacher sees me. But ofcourse teachers have eyes in their back and see it all.
So while the other kids where playing I called him to me. I said we made a promise and I saw you sneaked back into the group. I want to talk with you about that. Than he went so mad. He said: but but but You are not my boss!
And he looked at me like: how can you tell me what to do. So I laughed a lot in myself about the courage he showed. I could say such a things also to teachers when I was young.
I said to him. You are so right! I am not your boss. And you know what....
Nobody can be your boss. You know why? I asked him. He nodded no, with a interesting face thinking what is she gonna say..
I said to him:
You are always and always you're own boss!
That wasn't what he expected. I explained that we made rules before we started otherwise it's difficult to hear each other talk and than we can't play nicely. And if we can't play nice I can't do these fun things. Than we have to go back to the boring things, or someone has to sit to the side for a few minutes.
He didn't agreed completely that he needed to listen which was expected, but it was nice to change things around. I putted the responsibillity back to him and gave him the choice what to do. He choosed to sit at the side cause he wasn't in the mood for listening that day he said. I respected him for that and said: thanks for choosing.
I realised he was often so misunderstood and labeled with adhd. I made the commitment to myself to make my next lesson more interactive and active so that it would also be interesting for him.
I giggled in myself for the great wisdom he had showed that day.
