Silence.....

Kym awoke feeling excited about going to the Silence Retreat tonight at Brahma Kumaris in Baxter. She had such a great experience in May at her first silence retreat and she had been waiting eagerly since then to attend another.

Kym was particularly eager to experience her connection to Source again. While she knew that she was always connected to Source, it was the physical experience in her heart that she craved. It was also the opportunity to not speak. She found this to be such a profound experience last time and in fact, an experience that was totally unexpected. What Kym realised was that she became more connected through silence with the people sharing the retreat than through making idle chatter (the kind of chatter you have with people you've never met before which to be honest Kym found quite tedious most times). It was such a relief for Kym that she could just be.

People who know Kym laughed when she told them about the retreat in May. They looked at her incredulously because she is often known for her talking. Kym came to realise at the last retreat, and it was something that had entered her thoughts over the past few years, that her talking was often due to her feeling uncomfortable in a situation, wanting to be liked and other similar reasons. Being silent gave Kym the chance to be silent by mouth, by mind and by heart and therefore truly connect to Source.

This weekend is going to be great and Kym can't wait! Kym's husband and kids can't wait either because in the words of her husband, "it gives us a chance to have some silence too" with a smile on his face and love in his heart.

What the heck am I doing..........

Kym had been asking herself "why was she trading her time for money?" for some weeks now and the more she asked the question the more emphatic she became about changing that situation. She wasn't sure how to change it but she knew it was time to change it.

Asking this question prompted Kym to query why humans spend the majority of their lives trading their time for money usually in some job they don't even enjoy because, and this thought sent shivers up her spine, time is our most important commodity - it can NEVER be retrieved no matter what! Money can be retrieved, health can be retrieved, even love can be retrieved - time cannot.

With this Kym realised that she was trading her most important commodity and if she wasn't careful she'd be on her deathbed wondering what the heck had she done with her life....more accurately.....what the heck had she done with her time!

So what the heck is Kym doing with her time? To be honest, she was trading it for money. She didn't like this answer. What could she do to change this? One thing she did know for sure was that she needs to do things that bring her joy. Cross stitch brings her joy. Baking brings her joy. Funny movies bring her joy. Singing brings her joy. So that's it. She will do things that bring her joy during the times she is wasting her time with pointless activities and by doing this, more things of joy will come to her. That's it she realised! Do what she enjoys and therefore live in the moment. Joy.

The power of colours....

As Kym watched a DVD her eyes wandered to the array of ornaments that were carefully arranged on the cabinet the TV rested on. The colours were a mixture of greens and oranges and as she looked at the oranges she experienced feelings of warmth and joy. She once read somewhere that it when arranging ornaments choose the colour range that first comes to your heart because that colour will play a significant role in your life until your inner voice signals that it's time for a new colour scheme.

Kym recalled the day she set the range of green and orange ornaments and the feelings she experienced as she followed her inner voice. Over 18 months later these colours still resonate with Kym, so much so that when in Puerto Rico last week she had two ornaments to choose from and it was the orange one she selected to purchase. It now resides with the other orange ornaments proudly in front of the television set.

When Kym investigated the meaning behind the colours orange and green it made sense to her. She found that orange is associated with joy, sunshine and the tropics, and represents enthusiasm, fascinations, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement and stimulation. She discovered that green is associated with nature, and it symbolises growth, harmony, fertility and freshness. It has strong emotional correspondence with safety and is commonly associated with money.

This made so much sense to Kym because she has always felt at peace with green and in every house she had green somewhere in the colour scheme. She realised that different shades of green had greater significance at different times in her life also. However over 18 months ago was the first time she had selected orange.

Kym found it fascinating that colour has such an impact on the human physical and mental states, however she was not surprised.