The moment I wake up

I have a variety of daily practises to keep me from losing my mind. I get up when my India wakes up around 5h45am. I brush my teeth ( I used to do oil pulling but all that mouth swirling with oil and trying to communicate with a 2 and a half year old just does'nt work). I drink 1 and half litres of water (water therapy). I light a candle to acknowlegde the day and invite spirit in. I light incense to clear the space. I make a cup of tea or coffee and if my India is busy I sit down to write. If she is'nt I sit with her and play or read books or draw. I have a revolving list of affirmations, some made up and some from various sources. This week it is one from Louise Hay which my homeopath ordered me to sing 10 times a day and it goes like this, in case anyone else needs it, "I release all that is unlike love. There is time and space for everything I want to do" When I am up early in the morning I wonder about the routines of others. I am grateful for mine and that it does'nt entail sitting in traffic. I love my early mornings, I grew up with a household of early risers and it is a habit I have been unable to shake. I woke up ridiculously early before I had a child. My husband is the opposite, he loathes early mornings. I am an early bird and he is a night owl. I love the portentiousness of the start of the day. Mornings inspire me, we get start again.

combining things

I am looking at combining all parts of myself, creating a new recipe and seeing how it turns out. I am a mother primarily at the moment but I am also a teacher (of small children) a energy healer and massage therapist, a creator of beautiful things and it is all these branches of me I wish to combine to make something new. Lately when I close my eyes I see a tree with roots growing deeply into the ground and as I gaze up at the tree more and more branches emerge but only when the roots are firmly anchored. It is this symbol that I carry with me, nourish your roots and the branches of you will emerge and show you the next step. So that is what I am doing, tending to my roots, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. I love Leunigs prayer for balance and exchange, it inspires me. Over the years I have worked at ironing out the extremes of me and attempted to bring myself into a state of presence. I used to either live primarily in the past or primarily in the future and now I like to think that I am more conscious of now and that is the place that I occupy. So in my quest to make a healthy, joyful arbor how do I connect all the branches and what will my new botanical name be?