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7 Soul Nurturing Suggestions for Busy Women
By Cheryl Lynch Simpson
Looking for some ways to feed your soul in the midst of all
you do? Try one or more of these great ideas!
1.) Body Work/Movement: Tai Ji, massage,
Feldenkrais, Reflexology … there are tons of modalities which
contribute to healing in soulful ways. Try one today!
2.) Connections with Others: Support networks/
groups, accountability groups, on-line chats/boards, spiritual
direction, soul mates and soul friends all offer you healthy
interconnections if these relationships help you maintain a fluid
balance while you protect and defend your interpersonal boundaries.
3.) Daily Rituals: Setting quiet time aside for your
soul daily both refreshes and empowers you. Experiment with
meditation and visualizations. Journal your thoughts, feelings, blessings
and conversations with your soul. Discover aromatherapy. Use music
to affect your mood, energy and creative output. Take a self-discovery
walk a luxurious bath or a nurturing nap. Make time and space for
personal expression every day.
4.) Create Mini-Retreats: When you go on a retreat you
create
conscious cocooning space in your life, which allows you to nurture
your woolyworm nature into the butterfly you know you are supposed to be.
Set aside time in your lunch hour for things that enliven you. Every few weeks
take off 2-4 hours if you can, just to spend with your soul. Try to attend a
weekend retreat seasonally if possible. Retreat time need not be
complex - it can be as simple as making homemade bread or simmering
soup just for you.
5.) Express Your Natural Creative Heritage: From cooking
to music to writing to crafts, there are hundreds of ways to express
your creativity daily. Here are a few new ways to think about: Play
daydreaming games with yourself to discover who you long to be. Scrapbook
your dreams, your work life or your dialogue with your soul. Journal
your night dreams, then draw or write poems about the images you
dreamt. Learn about feng shui, the Chinese art of placement, which teaches
you how to create a soulful atmosphere in your home or workplace.
Experiment with expressive arts, which involve artistic, fun techniques for
relating with your own unconscious through metaphors. Make an inner
child play date with yourself weekly to keep life from becoming too serious
and foreboding.
6.) Dialogue With Yourself and With Your Higher Power
(whatever you conceive It to be):
Take classes or read self-help books which enable you to
identify, explore and live out your life’s purpose. Write your spiritual
autobiography. Try new ways to pray. Find a spiritual director. Journal
your personal conversations with your Higher Power.
7.) Create a Personal Wellness Calendar: All of the great ideas above will
fail to serve you unless and until they become firm, scheduled habits
in your life. Create a personal wellness calendar to enable you
to do just that. Schedule the elements above that you choose to begin
experimenting with, remembering that it generally takes 21 days to establish
a new habit. Set firm boundaries around these activities to protect
them while you learn to integrate them into your life. Try incorporating
no more than 10 new habits into your life at any one time.
Consciously downshift at key points throughout your day and week and
use the activities above to help you do so. Be flexible in
your scheduling and your thinking - it is your soul
that matters, not your planner!
Cheryl Lynch Simpson is a Spiritual Director and Solutions Coach
who helps women discover and create the life they've always
wanted to live. Cheryl is the author of more than 30 print/Internet
articles and the founder of Coaching Solutions for Women, a coaching
website that showcases and produces career, business, and life coaching
solutions to help today's busy women balance work with the
rest of their lives. For a complimentary copy of her latest e-book,
Ten-Minute Stress Zappers For Women Service Business Owners,
visit http://www.coachingsolutionsforwomen.com.
