NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, a woman gave birth with no complications and all the family cried with joy, and a new life began surrounded by love. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today two people who are deeply in love got married, and meant every word that they said. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, some little human took their first tentative steps, then fell over, then got right back up again and tried again, excited at the prospect of a new method of movement at their disposal. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, despite political, economic and societal conditions, people laughed, and felt it, and their abdominal muscles hurt and they reached that stage of laughing where you surpass noise and you just kinda shake with the merriment of it all. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, parents read their kids a bed time story, doing voices for each character and everything, kissed them goodnight and tucked them in. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, people found the joy in the spaces between. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, someone finally passed that exam that means they are one step closer to achieving their goal. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, despite the ocean of suspicion and fear projected in the media that would suggest this was potentially a bad idea, someone stopped and asked the man crying in the street if he was OK, and for a moment the man cried a little bit harder at the sheer fact that someone had acknowledged his pain, before answering honestly about the reasons for his tears, and a beautiful connection was formed there and then based in courage and vulnerability. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, someone discovered it is impossible to skip and be miserable. Their friends had told them this, but they still had to try it for themselves. They found their friends had spoken the truth. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, someone jumped in a puddle, and laughed at what fun it was. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, someone watched a sunset for the very first time and marvelled at the nuances of colour and how fast the nightly sky dance can seem to flow. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, someone took their last drink/drug/fix and reached the point of surrender, meaning they just took the first step on the road to a new life of freedom. NEWSFLASH: Somewhere in the world today, someone passed on from this earthly plane in a peaceful way, surrounded by those who loved them, and their life was honoured and celebrated appropriately. NEWSFLASH: In a world where we are bombarded with negativity, there is still a whole lot of Love.
CONNECTION SPACE
We live in an age where we have so many different ways to Connect, and yet many people are feeling the heartache of disconnection more intently than ever before. There are those who say the Internet and technology are the very best things to ever enter this world, and others who say nothing worse has ever befallen humanity. Maybe it's a matter of perspective and how we use these great advances we have made in the ability to Connect our world. In the West, we have the capacity to Connect via the world wide web available to us pretty much wherever we go, at any time of day or night. Sometimes this does not feel like a good thing, but what if we were able to begin to use it in a more positive way?
It is well known that what we put out, we get back. What if we all began to use this amazing web for positive/supportive connection and to empower us to feel a part of, rather than using it as a platform to compare ourselves with everyone else and judge ourselves against them? How many times have you been scrolling social media and wished you had someone else's life? Or sat there feeling "better than" when you see what others are putting out there? Both ends of this scale perpetuate disconnection. They create a feeling of separation, of "I am different." Whether we are saying "I am worse" or "I am better", the focus is on the places of disconnection rather than connection. What if we were able to nurture a different attitude? What if we began to look for the places we DID connect? What if we began to come from the place of knowing that often what we let others see may not be how we really feel, and what they let us see may not be their inner reality either...
This is a place to practice and explore wholehearted connection and expression, learning to show up as you are, how you are. By supporting healthy expression and authentic healing work, we are working to nurture connection with ourselves, with others and with this beautiful world we live in. (Visit the Silence Space for some visual reminders of what is out there...) When we approach life as a multitude of opportunities to connect, then suddenly there is opening, there is space. Where there was loneliness and a feeling of scarcity, suddenly there is community and abundance. We invite you to be a part of our Connection...