(This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Read part 1 here. Would you like the cliff notes version? Click Here Your 3 Cures Tip Sheet!)
This is sacred stuff, sis.
Sometimes we need to be reminded that for all that pushing uphill, we are connected and supported by an unending supply of Love. Our magic precedes us, and… under the paper, the social media dings, the interruptions… we could use a little refresher on who we are in all of this hustling.
- You and your work matter.
- The energy and love you put into all that you do to help people because of your business are powerful.
- You have a ripple effect wider and deeper than you imagine.
Grounding our awareness on something physical in our environment – something deeply personal and very meaningful – reconnects us to that deeper part of our spirit. You’ve heard the phrase “windows to the soul”. Having an empowering environment is like a mirror, reflecting back to us our natural self. Our inspiration and creativity reserves get recharged.
Need a recharging station at your creation station? Read on my big-giver, big-doer friend. This is especially meant for you working from your world HQ’s (at home).
In Cure 1 of this series, I told you to Lighten Up! because the sum-total effects of a working space that has a nature deficit can zap our passion and leave us work-from-home commander-and-chiefs feeling blue-by-you.
Cure 2: Shrine Time
If you’re feeling as though the work you do isn’t making much of a difference or your creative channel is fogged over, you may need some nature-based #shrinetime to support you in focusing back on the good work you do and the sacredness of the environment around you.
This Cure Recalibrates Your Perspective for Inspired Possibilities
Desktop nature-infused sacred space encourages connectedness to your sacred purpose.
In this video and post you’ll learn:
- My shrine time practice of collecting healing nature’s beautiful bits outside to support the healing garden inside my spirit – so that I remain feeling connected to my inner world, purpose, and precious self.
- My tips for how to create a desktop healing garden shrine (aka altar) all your precious own to cure your ache for renewed creativity.
- The science and style behind this powerful talisman act that keeps your inspiration intact.
Fact: I’m deliberate in making space for my/my business’ greatness. (And my cat is an ever helpful “intern”.)
Rx: Create a sacred space right on your desk, infused with restorative nature.
- Clear space. (This alone is healing and can amp your positivity and productivity.)
- Arrange a little collection – a shrine or altar of happy, nature-infused items that you’ve picked up on a walk – that reflects back the divine and alive work you do.
- Choose a corner of your desk and create this mini happy place with an indoor plant (that’s some O2 for you!) or place seasonal budding branches into a vase.
- Arrange your nature-infused mini serene scene so that it’s seen out of the corner of your eye.
- Add candles or essential oils for a triple sensory pick-me-up (Peppermint for mood boost, citrus for spiritual support).
- Be sure to include water or the representation of water as it is a powerful money symbol.
- Take visual sanctuary sips of your shrine throughout the day, allowing yourself to rest your mind and gaze on what you cultivate with your good work paired with a sense of admiration of the arrangement and the tokens of bliss, serenity and symbolism.
Science says:
One of the top reasons people adopt shrines or altars into their daily realm is to support a state of mindfulness. There’s a meditative power that comes with your within-arms-reach arrangement of positive, grounding nature elements on your desktop. It reminds you that you are within a sacred (creation) space. Joseph Campbell commented,
“your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
The benefit of a mindful, restorative nature-infused, working environment is that it offers an ongoing state of meditative focus so that you flow back to your purpose.
Studies have shown that such a state reduces blood pressure, boosts immunity, prepares us to deal with stressful situations, helps us out of the trap of the debilitating context switching.
Bank Yourself Some Style Points:
Infuse your desktop shrine with nature’s seasonal symbolism as I did at my very own #creationstation, especially if your workspace doesn’t provide you with access to #greenviewstohelpyou.
Here’s my quick pick list of elements and their symbols so you may bring nature’s bliss and powerful meaning onto your creation station:
Pine cones – birth abundance, health, fertility, fortune
Budding branches – awakening, promise, fragility, life is short so bloom!
Flowers – love, unity, growth, connection
Pebbles – grounding, foundational, enduring
Feathers – Divine order, ascension, spiritual connectedness
Seed pods – progression, sanctuary for the seed of creativity
The presence of green, living things is curative. Why not breathe some green life into that desk space… and your spirit?
It will leave you “shrining” and “be-leaf-ing” in your natural purpose again.
(Couldn’t help that pun, hun.)
Your Cure #3 for Greening Your Work-From-Home Blues! is right here waiting for you.
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