Honouring the natural cycles of my experience on the microcosm and Nature on the macrocosm has been one of the greatest journeys of my life.

I went from being an insanely driven workaholic 20 years ago, a condition that was spurred on, not from a drive to make a difference but from a place of ‘not enough/trying to be successful/needing to be acknowledged and accepted’, to learning to surrender, listen, observe and allow. I can’t even tell you how much those changes altered my life. It wasn’t an easy program to disrupt, but I had no choice, I HAD to change. Living in a way where I was pushing my limits in such extreme ways was literally landing me in hospital. It took me pulling the drip out of my arm to get back to work the second time I was hospitalised with exhaustion to realise something was VERY wrong in my world.

When we can tap into our natural rhythms our experience goes from pushing and forcing to dropping into the inherent flow and intelligence of life. You can’t force a seed to germinate. You can’t plant a tree in the middle of winter and expect it to bare fruit the following day. So why do we expect this of ourselves?

Our bodies, the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the Stars are all intricately interwoven in a complex tapestry of perfect functionality and abundance. When we can observe those connections, begin to work WITH them and not against them, the most incredible things happen. We begin to move as one with life. Things flow. We begin to see how we can work smarter not harder.

What areas in your life have you been forcing? How often are you ignoring your system when it asks you to slow down? How can we begin to unwind this addiction to ‘busy’?