Comments for Sally Lever

Comment on Returning Home – Nurturing Inner and Outer Environments by Sally

Sally — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:37:44 +0000

Hi Beverley. I enjoy reading your reflections and insights and appreciate your courage in sharing how home is evolving for you. I particularly like

: ‘We gather things around us that reflect who we are back at ourselves.’

Good to take a good look at that occasionally, isn’t it and see what needs to happen next. I know that you’ve already achieved some amazing feats that others would find very challenging, I’m sure. So, I’m waiting with eager anticipation to see what happens when you start doing what you regard as challenging! Wow!

Comment on Returning Home – Nurturing Inner and Outer Environments by Beverley

Beverley — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:35:22 +0000

As usual, right on cue with what I need to ponder… (love that about your newsletters Sally!)

Home was something I craved for decades and then thought I’d found within me, but now I realise I’d attached it to a dream of what I wanted life to be like, my life. My vision and goals relied on the work of other people, a sharing of the vision and goals. I invested so much of myself into this that it came as a surprise to myself and especially to others that I’d changed.

I still want the vision and the goals but not in the same way, not for the same purpose, not to meet the need they once did.

I sometimes feel lost and confused experiencing this change. I allow these emotions to pass through me. I know that one day I will feel at home again. I don’t know how to reconcile the past need with the present need, or indeed, exactly what the present need is. I don’t know if holding onto my vision and goals is what I need to do right now. Home doesn’t feel like home right now – that’s okay – and I’m happy to experience the grief that brings up for me. Once again, I’m looking for home and this time I know that it’s definitely not out there, but inside here, in me. It is me.

We gather things around us that reflect who we are back at ourselves.

I really think I need to come out of hiding and BE… bold, brave, big, beautiful. Colourful, crazy, courageous. Stop hiding behind what I can do and start doing the challenging things I need to do to fully express ME.

Thanks again!

Comment on Conscious Communication for Challenging Times by Rajiv

Rajiv — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:28:58 +0000

Hi Sally,

I can offer my services as a facilitator of Mediation or any workshop / training you may think of arranging in future.
I hope you had a good day on 28th.
Best rgds
Rajiv

Comment on Returning Home – Nurturing Inner and Outer Environments by Sally

Sally — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:49:41 +0000

Hi Claire – isn’t it amazing how so much of what’s ‘outer’ is reflected in the ‘inner’ and vice versa? I like your ‘allowing thoughts to pass without dwelling’. I recognise that as a popular meditation practice and also as an approach to material possessions. Another inner/outer reflection!

Comment on Returning Home – Nurturing Inner and Outer Environments by Claire Harrison

Claire Harrison — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:58:40 +0000

…thanks for the thought-provoking post. Having reflected on another quality I value in my outer home (uncluttered and energetically clean), I was then pleasantly entertained to note that these are also qualities I welcome in my inner home. Doing my best to allow thoughts to pass without dwelling (another inner/outer link!) on them and embracing practices that encourage self-acceptance, forgiveness and equanimity. Interesting.

Comment on Returning Home – Nurturing Inner and Outer Environments by Jane

Jane — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:06:14 +0000

Thank you Sally. May it be so.

Comment on Returning Home – Nurturing Inner and Outer Environments by Sally

Sally — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:04:02 +0000

Jane – I prefer the idea that it was synchronicity! May you indeed follow your heart to the home of your dreams! I wish you and your children well at this juncture in your lives.

Comment on Returning Home – Nurturing Inner and Outer Environments by Sally

Sally — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:56:44 +0000

Aiison – Oh yes, of course, there are those things I wish too from time to time I hadn’t let go of. Have been pondering that one and realise that actually something else usually turns up, if there is a genuine need. Or else what I thought was a ‘need’ turns out to be a ‘want’ and that can easily dissolve. For me, this becomes an exercise in trust – that I can discern my needs in the present moment and that the universe will provide in the future, one way or another, although often not in the way I might imagine!

I also resonate with the challenges of living with others who seem to me to be more prone to hoarding than I think I am. One of the many potential growth areas that reveal themselves when downshifting in relationship with others, I reckon and not to be underestimated. In my personal experience, and that of many of my clients, working through this can yield enormous benefits, though.

Having spent a short time living and working in Scotland many years ago, your ‘dark mountains of Skye’ moment brought back some beautifully peaceful memories for me too. What a lovely peace practice!

Comment on Love is… by Sally

Sally — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:45:35 +0000

Lisa – thanks so much for your thoughtful contribution to this post. I’ve very much enjoyed reading through your answers to these potentially very challenging questions and appreciate your willingness to share.

I was particularly struck by…’When I experience it, I don’t want to let it go so can fall into attachment as it is such a rare experience to have in my life. I have to consciously trust in it and not try and control it.’

Not an easy tightrope to walk in lightly being with that balance when we connect with love so profoundly…

Comment on Returning Home – Nurturing Inner and Outer Environments by Jane

Jane — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:11:08 +0000

Was it serendipity or synchronicity?…… Just found your email on my iPhone as I sat in the local pub with my daughter and I contemplated a move from the home I have shared with my two children for 18 years to a smaller and more self sufficient home in Totnes. They are off to uni and I am searching for a better connection to the earth/land. It is interesting to contemplate the places to which we are drawn and why….. and it is so challenging to follow your heart rather than your head (or other peoples’ advice, however rational)