Earth Day when we focus on our Environment!

Today is the official Earth Day, when we are focusing on our Environment.  One definition of  Environment is "the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded". In caring for our environment, doesn't  it make sense to start with what is right there in front of you?  

Do you ever look around you and have constant reminders of a project not finished (or started), or finding yourself wishing for more more harmonious or comfortable surroundings, or that you have yet procrastinated in letting go of something in your space. And around and around goes the vicious cycle.

Enlivening Environments Everywhere is process and support for moving you in action to create the environment and state of being you desire and then noticing how your world begins to shift. Here is the basic process:

1. List 5 things you want to shift or move in your environment.
2. What state of being or outcomes do you want to create that would be satisfying? 
3. What actions come to mind that move your forward?
4. Set your timer for an hour and go to it.
5. Then come back here and post what you did and what opened up for you.
6. And come back in a day or two or week if something else opened up in your life.

NOTE: Through the end of April, anyone who participates in this game of Enlivening your Environment through the blog will receive $10 off any Massage or Bodywork session by yours truly, Mary Meyer, LMT to experience enlivenment in the environment of your health and well-being! 812-212-9673 www.facebook.com/pages/Massage-Bodywork-of-Oldenburg

Why Enliven Environments & do it in Partnership?

So why have I created this blog, this invitation to Enliven Environments Everywhere Everyday?

What's important for me is to live in a harmonious way with Planet Earth, down to the very way I live everyday. This has been so important to me that I met a man who believed the same way and we co-created a green-friendly (strawbale)  home that is off-the-grid using solar power. For 10 years, we had open houses in our home as a model of living lightly on the land, and others have been inspired by our unique lifestyle. We have lived in this home for 16 years.

In addition, I have been a Feng Shui Practitioner and Massage Therapist, the first dealing with environmental harmony in the home and the second about creating harmony in the tissues of your body.

Do you ever notice there is a direct correlation between being in surroundings where projects are undone and being blocked from having as fulfilling of a life as possible. When I identify my conversations in the back of my mind that stop me, I can then create an empowering affirmation. Then from there, I can then move things around, get to projects, and other areas of my life open up.

What I identified as the missing ingredient was creating partnerships with others. Otherwise, we can talk ourselves out of things. These partnerships create a kind of accountability. This is based on the  setting up a NITT practice (see previous posts for what a NITT is) in our own environments simultaneously, then check back and see what opens up in our spaces & in our state of being. For me what has opened up is more vitality, aliveness, or... suddenly I have a new massage client calling or something gets worked out in a relationship. I have the motivation to complete things with ease.

I know harmony in our environments is a concern of many people. We want to move things in a positive direction in our lives, but either consciously or unconsciously have something in our environment holding us back.

Take a look around you.

• What inner conversations comes up about anything you see around you, pleasant or unpleasant?
• What state of being or outcomes do you want to create that would be satisfying?
• List 5 things you want to shift or move in your environment
• Set your timer for an hour and go to it.
• Then come back here and post what you did and what opened up for you.
• And come back in a day or two or week if something else opened up in your life.

NITT...The basic practice for WEEEE - We Enliven Environments Everywhere Everyday Now is NITT (Now Is The Time) as the main practice which consists of working in partnerships in a given time getting to that which you’ve been putting off that involves a check-in process that keeps us in the game to get results. Here are the basic steps...

1. Contact a partner to create or me. (this can be done at any point in the process.)
2. Look around your environment.
3. What jumps out as something to get to that you've been intending to take care of but haven't
4. What is the conversation/s around that?
5. Reach out with your hands as if it were just a gigantic mirage and move the whole mirage over to the side and notice
   
• What is now there in the space?
  
• What is the new possibility?
  
• What do you see as coming to you in your life?
  
• How will your space look in an hour?
• It can be fun to say, if it comes to you, that you are being something that captures the overall theme of what you're doing, ie. taking care of whatever is on the floor--Today, I am a Floorist!)
  
6. List 5-10 one-word descriptors of the things/actions to take care of.
7. Set your timer for one hour
8. Go to it!
9. Contact your partner or report on the blog what got accomplished.

 Ready, get set.....

We Enliven Environments Everywhere--Everyday!

I invite you into WEEEE!  Transforming and recreating our environments in which we live & work  as graceful, functional, alive!  The spaces we occupy are a  self expression of the lifestyles we choose and are simultaneously a sanctuary, a gathering place, and space for harmoniously being about the practices of daily living that we create. Those choosing to participate have find themselves being at peace with what is so and new sources of income, community, vitality, self-expression and productivity open miraculously. 


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