May May Be Maybe …

Tis mid Autumn, on the verge of Winter and is the ideal time of year to reflect, contemplate and consider what steps to take next. Maybe if we had done something different, how different would things be? What direction do I take next? What may happen if I change? Maybe what would be different? The choices that we make, changes our life and other lives. So how may we make the best choices?

Living with the Seasons
Remember, as we are a part of nature, also the cycles of the seasons are within us. Yet, now-a-days, most people are just so busy to take notice of these cycles. Hence, they are not aware of themself. The quality of our life reflects the choices that we make. This in turn, reflects our our relationship with nature. Simply put, if we don’t care about our relationship with nature, hence the true nature of our-self, we’re not loving our-self.

Tis the Season for Reflection
Most people, most of the time are so actively seeking something outside of them-self, that they are not aware of themself. Autumn is the season of reflection. This is essentially about being in a more relaxing, passive, phase, as we’re quietly reviewing upon how things appear as a reflection of who we are. To see something for how it really is, we need to become more of a silent witness, to be still to observe and reflect.

The Choices we Make
Our choices reflect our consciousness. Everything has many aspects. We may see the polarisation of day and night, and the many active and passive phases of nature. For everything that seems apparent, there’s also another less obvious side. These are the hidden aspects, we’ve failed to observe. Yet, as we allow ourself to embrace an overall perspective, we may become clearer about who we are and how we relate to the world around us. Hence, from a more ‘holistic’ perspective we may better resolve the conflicts in our life and make better choices to move forward.

Revelations
Re-evaluation also allows us to step back and see our-self from a bigger perspective. Most problems, due to conflict are because we’ve adopted a limited point of view. So often, only seeing a situation from a fixed perspective. However, everything in this world has many aspects. As we may awaken to more greater realisations as we may review things from many different aspects of our life. Maybe, we may realise what has been working for us and those parts that haven’t been working for us. This re-evaluation gives us the opportunity to change these parts of our for the better.

Stress Resolution
We may look at stress as simply being in conflict. So often, our mind may be caught up in an alternate reality. Sometimes we need to come back to reality. To do this we may need to let-go of those perceptions that are not working for us. We may need to re-evaluate and take a different path. Interestingly, transformation is much more about letting-go. Autumn is the season of letting-go. It’s typically when the trees shed their leaves. As we let-go, we transform. Each time, as we reflect, we re-connect and it allows us to resolve and integrate these issues that s’s being holding us back in the past. As we’re more integrated, we’re more living in the present moment.

May May be the Best Month Yet!
Autumn is half way between the peak and lowest aspect of the year. As a way to reflect upon this, we may see, just as 6pm is half way between day and night. This is the transitional time to take a moment and pay our respects to the passing day and the impending dark. Much more than just the time of balance, it’s the powerful culmination of how these two opposite forces come together. More-so than merely a meeting, it’s about the merging and integration of these aspects of nature and our-self. Hence, Autumn is the season to reflect and integrate the many aspects of our-self to so as we may emerge more powerful than before.

Inner-Wisdom
From reflection comes wisdom. Autumn is also the magical season of maturity and wisdom. In ‘Traditional Oriental Medicine’, Autumn correlates with the element ‘metal’, which is about conductivity, giving and receiving, letting-go and change. It’s about reflection in our ‘maturity’ phase. From this comes wisdom, revelations, empowerment, and growth!

Transformation of Consciousness
Traditionally, once Autumn arrives, it’s time to gather the harvests from summer and determine what is needed for the upcoming hibernation of winter. To help get things in perspective, let’s compare the whole year to a day. We may consider autumn as being the late afternoon to early evening period of each day. At this time of day, it’s the ideal time to reflect upon the daily activities, to evaluate how well we did, and maybe to learn our lessons in preparation for the next days adventures.

Contemplation
Autumn is the season when the buzzing, exciting activity of summer begins to relax into the more evenly paced, more predictable rhythm of fall. Reflect upon ways you may re-connect more to your inner-self.  This is the time to contemplate how to go more within. Maybe, practice meditate or do more gentle exercises like ‘Tai-chi’ or ‘Yoga’.

Self-Development
Self growth and development is much about gaining a greater appreciation and gratitude of who we are and how we’re connected to the various aspects of our-self and our life.  Remember, Autumn is the season of appreciation and of giving thanks for all that we have. Traditionally, it was seen as for the harvest of crops. In these modern times, it may also be about having gratitude for the abundance of other blessings.

Practical Tips
Autumn is the season to get rid of any emotional baggage you’re dragging around with you. Accept that there are darker aspects to life, and embrace them, but don’t let them rule you. Appreciate ways that a healthy life finds balance in all things. Consider some practical ways you can celebrate the essence of Autumn. Take some time to reflect upon nature. Practice meditating on balance, opening to see other aspects of life that were no previously so apparent. Remember to count our blessings.

Learn More 
You can learn more about these ‘Stress-resolution’ practices in the upcoming ‘Stress-Management’ seminar and play-shop in this May on the Gold Coast. There’s options to join us for a 2 hour seminar in the morning only or to join us for a full 1 day more comprehensive play-shop.

2 hour ‘Stress-Management’ seminar – for more info. & to book – please click here

Full 1 day ‘Stress-Management’ seminar and play-shop – for more info. & to book – please click here