Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Random Acts of Kindness

I recently spent four days with my sister who lives in Tallahassee, Florida with the dual purpose of seeing the movie "Sex and the City" and attending a workshop entitled "Intuition and Creativity. We missed the movie, but instead had a wonderful time visiting and shopping and getting caught up on family news. We had a wonderful supper on Friday night and I was able to visit with my beloved nephew and chit chat about baseball and other topics he was interested in. My husband and my brother-in-law had played golf all afternoon and were tuckered out to say the least, since the temperatures hovered around the mid-90s and as my nephew says, "It's as humid as a swamp in Tallahassee this time of year!" Early next morning we set out for our workshop which was conducted by two therapists (one of abused children and the other of veterans) and I met the most wonderful women there! We all related our experiences with our intuition and creativity but to my surprise, we were taught that we can actually tap into energy that is around us all the time to improve our intuition and creativity! Wow! What a wonderful piece of information! Next they explained about the 7 chakras that each of us possesses and again, there was the WoW factor!

We were invited to participate in guided meditation to help us tap into this energy through our chakras and as we progressed, the room actually started to feel electrically charged! Believe you me, this girl from South Alabama who never heard about meditation was blown away!

Toward the end of the workshop we mingled and met the other members of the workshop. I was so pleased and honored to know these women and several of them thanked me for coming because my insight helped them in some small way. I felt the same as some of the insight of the other women helped and inspired me to start writing again.

Finally, we were taught the importance of continuing on our journey of enlightenment, education, creativity and love for others and that if we all practice performing random acts of kindness that our world will be a better place, bit by bit.

2 comments:

nancyofarrell said...

Hi, Empathy Chick, it's Nix Chick No. 1. LOVED your post, loved your poem. Let's keep it up!

Unknown said...

Well, hello Empathy Chick. Enjoyed your summary of your workshop, sounded very enlightening, glad you had such a good and informative time with the group. Loved your poem - I have always thought about birds flying and how free that must be.