Comments for Frances Lewis - Creating Sacred Space

Comment on Celebration of 10 years by frances

frances — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:57:58 +0000

Thank you Adele – yes lots to celebrate this year,
many thanks and lots of love Frances xxx

Comment on Celebration of 10 years by Adele Bruce

Adele Bruce — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:48:08 +0000

Oh Frances, what a year for you of stupendous acheivements and celebrations!!!
Lots of love xxx

Comment on Menopause blog by frances

frances — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:45:45 +0000

Dear Marian
Yes Yes….Let us celebrate rest and less striving…
Thank you also for recommending another book.
many thanks Frances
Namaste

Comment on Menopause blog by Marian

Marian — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:34:45 +0000

Dear Frances thank you for your wise words, I now know what I am looking for, a rest and to stop striving and being confused for a bit.
Thank you for your wise words.
Reading “Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way” by Susun S Weed and growing and trying herbal teas and infusions.
Many blessings.
Love
Marian

Comment on Menopause blog by frances

frances — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:03:11 +0000

Dear Sandra
Thank you for your appriciation and recognition, I am touched by your words.
namaste Frances

Comment on Menopause blog by Sandra v W

Sandra v W — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:03:53 +0000

Dear Frances:
Thank you ever so much for sharing with us all your experiences.
Its good to hear from someone that has been through all the changes and has come out the other side with so much Love, Grace and Passion for Life.
With Love
Sandra

Comment on Ponderings on enough by frances

frances — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:22:11 +0000

Dear Liz

thank you for your wise and generous ramblings….
Yes and thank you for that beautiful poem – that so fully describes coming home – wow how powerful words can be.

with love and thanks Frances
Namaste

Comment on Ponderings on enough by Liz

Liz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:38:33 +0000

Dear Frances,
The practice of resting back, noticing what is and then allowing it, welcoming it, I believe is profound, healing work, especially when practiced with self compassion (I heard it said recently that compassion is presence, an expression of love). So there I am with my confusion, fear, loss, anxiety, profound yearning, and the witnessing all of this, being present with all my “stuff”, and then resting there. This place of rest, taking a moment to be in the stillness and grace of “just being”, offers me a pause, a space – which I can choose to use as an opportunity to let it go, then what?? Well, that’s where I find something other, and here words fail me…. I don’t find this in any way easy, but I believe it’s a healing process. In letting go, surrendering to the moment, and then inviting myself to soften into the experience even more fully – diving in deeply – trusting, and, then turning up for life – taking the benefits of this practice back out into my life, family, friends, work etc. Isn’t Yoga wonderful?

The mindfulness teacher, Jon Kabat Zinn has written a short poem about this:

“Have you ever had the experience of stopping so completely, of being in your body so completely, of being in your life so completely, that what you know, and what you didn’t know, that what had been, and what was yet to come, and the way things are, right now. no longer held the slightest hint of anxiety or discord. A moment of complete presence. Beyond striving, beyond mere acceptance, beyond the desire to escape or fix anything, or plunge ahead. A moment of pure being, no longer in time, a moment of pure seeing, pure feeling, a moment in which life simply is. And that “is-ness” grabs you by all your senses, all your memories, by your very genes, by your love and welcomes you home. That is a taste of mindfulness.”

Thanks for the opportunity to reflect on your wise words, and for reading my ramblings!
love
Liz x
Namaste

Comment on Tsunami energy by frances

frances — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:06:48 +0000

Dear Sam

Yes – I love it – it is as simple as that ….
Listening to the garden calling and the need to have a little break at lunch time – Yes Yes Yes….

with love and thanks Frances

Comment on Tsunami energy by sam

sam — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:02:57 +0000

I’ve been sitting here working all morning, and just read this while I was having my lunch. I keep worrying about all the butterfly eggs on my brassicas, and wondering when I’ll find the time to do all the gardening I know needs doing. Reading this somehow reminded me that instead of going straight back to work again with no break, I could go out into the garden for a short time and make a start on removing some of those eggs before they hatch..

Turns out I got most of them (using just squirty environmentally friendly soap and fingers), and although I was only out there for 20 minutes, I’m now much calmer and more focused, and ready to get back to work.

Thanks for reminding me to pay attention :o)
-sam