Switch Off Sunday: Soul-Care and Self-Care

A few weeks ago, I decided to join in Goddess Leonie’s Switch Off Sunday.   The basic premise:  to spend all or part of the day away from the computer and internet, with or without a list of Glorious Possibilities.

This week, I’ll be taking the time between the moment I click on the “Publish” button for this post and sometime later this evening off the laptop. 

My list of Glorious Possibilities:

• Take my daily photo for Picture Spring.
• Dive into Karen Maezen Miller ‘s Hand Wash Cold:  Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, which I ordered and which arrived in the mail yesterday, preferably sitting out on the porch in one of the gliders with the sun and some fresh air.  I’ve recently needed some help remembering the sacred in the mundane, and my gut-level pull to this book says it will help.
• Continue reading through the Gospel of Mark in the Bible, and maybe a bit of Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity, both of which I’ve been reading as part of my continuing efforts to make peace with Christianity and my upbringing therein.
• Meditate.  (This is not an option for me anymore.  I need this to function properly.)
• Write in my paper journal.
• Fill in some more of my copy of 2010: Creating My Goddess Year.  No, I still don’t have it all filled in, but I’ve come to accept that, as my plans change somewhat as this year unfolds.  Such is the evolving nature of my life at this point.
• Nap.
• Pray.
• Listen to uplifting music.
• Put in some therapeutic time on the yoga mat.
• Perhaps do a mani-pedi in a bright, Spring color.  (I’m thinking bright pink!)

I may do all of those things.  I may only do a few.  My main focus this week is soul-care and self-care.

Have a restful, restorative Sunday, everyone!

Switch Off Sunday: Rest, Enjoyment, Soul Food

 Last week I decided to join in Goddess Leonie‘s Switch Off Sunday.   The basic premise:  to spend all or part of the day away from the computer and internet, with or without a list of Glorious Possibilities.

My Glorious Possibilities for this week:

• Rest and watch Twilight and The Twilight Saga:  New Moon.
• Finish the spring craft project I started yesterday.
• Sit on the front porch or in the swing in the yard and enjoy the sunshine and warm weather we’re supposed to have, perhaps with a book or music.
• Go to the grocery store and pick up some healthy food.
• Make tabbouleh.
• Meditate.
• Try lectio divina.
• Write in my paper journal.
• Play in my art journal.

For me, this week it’s all about rest, enjoyment, and soul food.

Have a restful, sacred Sunday everyone!

Switch Off Sunday #1: Starting A New Ritual

Back in October, a lovely lady I greatly admire, Goddess Leonie of GoddessGuidebook.com began what she called Switch Off Sunday.   Starting today, I am climbing aboard that bandwagon.  Leonie describes it like this:

“Hurrah! It’s that beautiful day of the week again… that ritual of making all or part of my Sunday switched off… logging off my ‘puter and doing some of those things I really wanna do… and just adoring my beautiful goddess life.

“Why do I make it a ritual? Because… all of us know it would be better to take time off from being online… but as the days roll by, we forget to do it. By making it a weekly ritual, it becomes part of our gorgeous routine… and becomes integrated into our luscious life.

“You can join me by taking off the whole day, the morning, the afternoon or just a couple of hours off from being online.”

When she first started Switch Off Sunday, I wanted to do it, but I felt it would interfere with my participation in Sacred Life Sunday, which I started early on in my WordPress blogging adventure.   Of course, I haven’t really been keeping up with Sacred Life Sunday lately, either.   I’ve not had much to say because I haven’t been taking sacred time on Sunday, largely due to my being glued to my laptop, and, yes, I feel it the rest of the week.

For purposes of my own accountability, here is how things are going to go from here on out…Saturday evening I will make my list of “Glorious Possibilities” as Leonie Calls them, and set that as a scheduled Switch Off Sunday post.  (Thank you, WordPress, for the awesomeness of scheduled posting!)  I’ll be checking in at Flock for the Sunday post, and, after that, I will be switched off for the rest of each Sunday.  On Monday, I will recount any experienced sacredness and pictures, if any, thereof, in a Sacred Life Sunday post.

As for today, here are my Glorious Possibilities:

• Relax and watch Up In the Air, which I rented and have heard is really good.
• Read in any or all of the spiritual books I’ve been meaning to read.
• Meditate in some sort of fashion.
• Write a petition to the Universe regarding the removal of the things making me feel stuck a la Elizabeth Gilber in Chapter 9 of Eat, Pray, Love, possibly to be posted within the coming week.
• Lie in bed and listen to whatever music my heart calls for.
• Write in my paper journal or play in my art journal.

That being said, I am now switching off for the rest of the day.  Enjoy your Sunday, everyone!