Purpose – Winter Blooms

Building Bridges through Loss: Two/Arshay Cooper/A Most Beautiful Thing

Signs of the improbable healing at work in our world just keep coming. One of these signs appeared in a recent edition of the News & Citizen, a local/regional northern Vermont weekly paper, announced by the headline, “From gang to crew: Black rower finds peace on the water.” Rowing is one of those sports Ivy League colleges support to ensure high enrolment. It is expensive and exclusive, so the story of an all black rowing team from west Chicago is startling news, as is the linking of three words: gang, crew, and peace.

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Holidays – Part Three – Conscious Endings and Beginnings

Please Note: Winter Blooms is an educational website only and is in no way meant to replace experience with a trained EFT practitioner, counselor, or therapist. To find an EFT Practitioner, visit the AAMET website, the EFT Universe website, the Tapping Solution website, or contact Jane at 802-533-9277 or jane@winterblooms.net for EFT coaching support.

Renewal. Rejuvenation. Reinvention. These are important concepts throughout our lives, but they are especially potent at this time of year. We often feel the powers of renewal and rejuvenation after time spent in nature, after visits with true friends, and even after a good night’s sleep. Reinvention is a little trickier and never more so as we navigate our fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and beyond. Many of us actually tell ourselves daily: “I’m too old to change,” and “I’ve always been like this,” and “I’ve tried before and always failed,” even when the habit we’re speaking of – smoking, processed foods, sedentary lifestyle – are robbing us of energies that would otherwise be spent creating the lives we really want to live. Despite our beliefs to the contrary, renewal and reinvention are possibilities until we draw our last breath, and, who knows, perhaps even beyond. We are always invited to fashion lives that bring joy to ourselves and others. We simply have to learn and then practice certain skills in order to do so.

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Tapping and Purpose

Purpose. We all long for one, admiring people who find theirs early and spend their lives doing the thing they love to do in an environment that makes them glad to be alive. As I write this sentence I can’t help but think of Jane Goodall, primatologist, anthropologist, writer, and activist who has brought so much information about our primate cousins, the Chimpanzees, to our general store of knowledge, who began her work as a girl in her teens and now, at eighty, continues to deepen our understanding of the consequences of environmental degradation through works such as Reason for Hope. People who find their niche early in life appear to live charmed lives, because no matter the challenges they face, their purpose fuels their desire to get up each morning and embrace what is with courage, wisdom, and enthusiasm. We all want such lives. Privately and publicly, we want our lives to matter, to have purpose, in spite of whatever cynicism we express when we feel defeated. Tapping, if applied with gentle persistence, can help us to understand our purpose in the broadest sense, and in doing so, increase our zest for life.

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