Simply Authentic...Your Soul Voice is Calling. Start a Godwalk Practice

Start a Godwalk Practice

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Once two mothers told me, within the same week, they simply could not find any time to themselves. One said even when she locked herself in the bathroom, someone was pounding on the door calling for her within a matter of minutes.

I was horror-struck. “Get out the straightjacket, haul me away, and lock me in a rubber room right now,” I thought to myself.

Granted, it’s easier to find alone time without children in the house (I was a stepmother for over 12 years.) Yet parents or not, time alone with ourselves is crucial for connecting with our authentic nature.

That’s why the Godwalk (my term; you can choose another if you wish) is likely the single most important and effective strategy I can share with you. I assure you, if you make this practice a priority, three times a week for a half hour, and commit to this schedule for one month, your life will begin to improve. When I worked full time, my lunch break was my Godwalk. I brought leftovers and ate at my desk while I was working and walked for a half hour during my break.

Get a good pair of walking shoes. Go outside. By yourself. Bring an umbrella if you have to. Leave your cell phone and other electronic devices behind. And walk.

If it is woman’s function to give, she must be replenished too. But how?

Solitude, says the moon shell. Every person, especially every woman, should be alone sometime during the year, some part of each week, and each day. How revolutionary that sounds and how impossible of attainment. To many women such a program seems quite out of reach…

Herein lies one key to the problem. If women were convinced that a day off or an hour of solitude was a reasonable ambition, they would find a way of attaining it… The world today does not understand, in either man or woman, the need to be alone. –Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

Walking opens us up. It feeds us. Image by image, it spoons up for us a broth or soup of soul food, which sustains us as we do the work necessary to shape and reshape our lives. In other words, we can walk our way out of “problem” and into “solution.”

If I am snagged on a story line, I walk it out. If I am stymied about what to work on next, I walk until it comes to me. When I am tangled in the plot lines of my work or my life, I take a walk and allow the walk to sort things out.

Creativity is a spiritual process, one in which we speak of “inspiration.” When we talk about inspiration we are talking about drawing breath. Walking makes our breathing rhythmic and repetitive. As our breath steadies and soars, so does our thought. Great spiritual traditions know this. English pilgrims traveled by foot to Canterbury. Muslims braved the trackless Sahara to visit Mecca. Across cultures and continents, walking is an ancient and literal form for pursuing a spiritual path. –Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold

Authentically Yours,

Laura