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    New Year Life Visioning and Planning

    Life Changes
    Christian | Standing Stones Healing Co.
    I love this time of year. I have a passion for helping us to thrive during transitions, and I love the transition from one year to the next.

    For me, it's a time of cleaning, clearing, releasing, and welcoming in the new. I reflect, conduct rituals, and plan. It's a time full of power and possibility.

    This kind of transition is different, though. For this transition, unlike most transitions, there's nothing external to mark the change. For most of us, January 1st looks a lot like December 31st. The shift, then, is all inside of ourselves and what we make it.
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    Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    Christian | Standing Stones Healing Co.
    On one of my many adventures, the bus I had planned to take from Moreton-in-Marsh (a small English town) to Stratford-upon-Avon (yes, the famous one) was not running. Stratford was 16 miles (26km) away, and I needed to be in Stratford that night, so after exhausting my options (Train? Not running. Taxi? Too expensive.), I started walking. I was wearing a large, heavy 35 pound (16kg) backpack. On foot, Stratford was far away. But surely, someone would pick me up. I would hitchhike.
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    Little Vessels: the Transformative Power of Literature

    Life Changes
    Christian | Standing Stones Healing Co.
    “Every reader finds himself.  The writer’s work is merely a kind of instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself." 
    --Marcel Proust 

    I grasp the salmon-colored paperback in my hands.  The book is worn and ripped at the edges, and the front cover is scotch taped to the spine.  Smooth and pliable, the yellowed pages smell like some old attic.  Opening the cover, the first page says only, “Henry David Thoreau.” 
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    The Hidden River

    Life Changes
    Christian | Standing Stones Healing Co.
    We all feel like quitting sometimes. Life gets us down, we have challenges, we struggle.

    And we consider giving up.

    While hiking the other day, I heard the sound of rushing water. All around me was the sound of a strong stream. It was tumbling over rocks and rushing with power. Yet no water was flowing past me. To my right and left was nothing but leaves and rocks and trees with no water to be found.

    Had I found a phantom stream?
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    Three Ways to Create Stillness

    Seven Way Path
    Christian | Standing Stones Healing Co.
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    ​Let’s face it: our lives are often a blur. We run from activity to activity, rush to work, rush home, rush the kids to soccer practice. We cook dinner, clean up, crash on the couch, and get up the next morning to do it all again.
     
    How do we break out of this rat race and create stillness amidst the chaos? We cultivate small moments of mindfulness. Stillness does not need to be an extended break to help us recharge and reset. Here are three recommendations from my own life for creating stillness within your busy schedule:
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    Slowing Down for Stillness

    Seven Way Path
    Christian | Standing Stones Healing Co.
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    We hear frequently that we need to “find stillness,” but stillness is not something that we need to search for like a hidden treasure. Rather, stillness is all around us, and rather than “find” it, we only need to slow down to allow it to catch up to us.