I am just back from a night away – we usually always book a hotel chain when away from home - you know what you are getting, the standard is consistent, they are convenient, accessible and I realise now after last nights experience anonymous….
And that anonymity was thrown into sharp relief by staying somewhere different and realising what we miss when we don’t interact and sink into faceless blandness. I was in a very comfortable and beautiful Bed and Breakfast. It had been chosen as it was close to where we were picking up our new puppy in the middle of nowhere in rural England!
Rather than the usual routine of arriving and sinking behind closed doors to throw off shoes, relax, and emerge next day for breakfast in a restaurant, we this time were in someone’s home – an elderly couple who had travelled the world and had many tales to tell.
And they told many tales… at first, if I’m honest, I just wished they would let me be – I wanted silence - but the more I analysed that silence it actually felt I was just wanting to be anti-social. The truth was I didn’t want to interact with this fascinating couple (I later discovered them to be) – I just wanted to check my phone, check my emails – engage online – anything other than have a real conversation with a real person!
I may be exaggerating slightly but I am sure you sense what I mean.
They insisted on us not making our own tea in our room so we could watch TV in private but sit with them in their sitting room. They poured tea out in fine china cups, and handed us biscuits and I softened – I realised they were there to teach me something. Their kind old faces were genuinely interested in who we were, why we were here and they were enjoying just being with us in that present moment.
So I started to listen – I started to share my stories – and before I knew it I was enjoying myself…
The same happened at breakfast – no single table away from others to skulk behind a newspaper or worse again get out the phone…
No this time we were seated at a huge oak round table – one other family who had booked were also sitting around it. My teenage daughter hissed to me – ‘Can I sit by you, not them’! – but again my morning dullness was brightened by others chat. I joined in – I realised that this is what we so often miss.
We can be on a train, a bus, in a shop, or sitting with loved ones and we are so often failing to really engage with others. Go on holiday and you will see families not talking to each other but seated around tables staring at their individual phones and technology.
Technology was supposed to give us more time – but it seems to be robbing us of precious time SPENT WELL that we cannot get back.
Technology is making us lose our ability to converse - and to enjoy human interaction – I am sure it has to be a factor in holding back our spiritual evolution too. How can our hearts open unless fully engaged in a world that is full of beauty.
I’m not against technology – it has many plus sides, it brings people together too – but balance as in all things is needed.
I feel in terms of energy the Metatron spray that helps us with all of this is the new Air Elemental – it is about Space and being able to breathe – slowing down, and BEING.
Within the Elemental workshops – we talk about Air as an energy helping us to appreciate every minute and really feel, sense and experience all that life has to offer. I sense it counters all the oppressing energies that can crowd us in, demand our time and end up suffocating us.
Metatrons words to the Air Elemental spray ring true….
“The gift of air - to soar and reach heightened states, to be able to see, hear, feel and sense all of life from a Birds Eye view, letting go of our human smallness in terms of perspective and accessing a clear perspective on life in the freedom that comes from being in air.
Helping also to aspire and dream big – to think in new ways and instigate new activities and behaviours that were before closed off to us – all with the motivation and direction of air behind us encouraging and steering us forward.
To live life fully and to breathe deeply this is the gift of air – to help us not become so entangled by what lies here on earth in day to day life – but to understand everything as part of a greater whole, including phases of life and different ages of being.
Helping with transitions – and cycles of life – just as the birds migrate when they know winter is coming to warmer lands – so to this Air essence helps us travail through each part of life – giving us just the right vibrational energy we need at any one time.
When air around us feels stale and enclosed this energy comes in to purify our space – both in our surroundings, our auric field and within ourselves.
For air sits within us – we breathe it in and exhale it in equal measure. Think of your lungs and the air within them – when was the last time you properly exhaled DEEPLY – allowing all old energy to leave, and likewise when did you last breathe in DEEPLY – taking in as much fresh air as you can?
This spray reminds you of the gift of the breath – the majesty of each one. It encourages us to look up, to see the beauty above us – to look for the sunlight and starlight rather than the ground underneath our feet.
To stand straight to look ahead knowing that all is safe before you.
Let’s all take deep breaths of air this July – and engage fully in all that is presented to us.
Much love,
Amanda