Our Big Life

I’m running a 21 Day Challenge right now and we have a big group of big leapers all creating BIG challenges. www.bigleapchallenge.com

Karine has decided that she is going to create a 21 day BIG project on creating more connection in her life and she has promised to blog for us every day on how she gets on:

MY 21 DAY CHALLENGE BY KAREN:

“Be/act/show loving and kind to yourself, others, and the universe. The key words are connection and intuition. I have committed to email Suzy daily with what I think are my leaps of the day, 3 focused on the relationship with myself as if I was my new lover or best friend, 2 focused on showing kindness and love to others or my external world.

We thought this challenge would change a lot of aspects of my life as since I have left London in 2004, friends are a rare commodity and I have kept to myself, picking up some bad and unhealthy habits on my way. I have come to realise that I cannot be fulfilled without opening and exchanging love with this world.”

Day 1:

Not a great start as I woke up at 4am with both my eyes glued and then couldn’t get out of bed, so didn’t exercise as planned – but hey-ho! so I decided to walk  to work instead, music in my hear I practice the Loving Kindness mantra ” may I be well, May I be Happy, may I be loved” over and over again, looking up at trees. It works, i arrive work with a big smile on my face and thinking that I am indeed very lucky to live where I do and be able to walk to work!! Then things go down a bit as I have to take my cat to the vet and he needs an intervention first thing tomorrow morning – the prospect of a huge bill and a skinned month… but I love my cat and I wouldn’t jeopardise his company. So instead of focusing on the negative, I practise a bit more of LK mantras and decide to take my first connection leap: I’ve signed myself up to join a book club, and their first session is in fact a get together at one of the members’ house watching an adaptation of one of the books they’ve read – I am only going to go “uninvited” to a total stranger’s house having nibbles, drinks and tv with 14 other strangers!!hm… Coming back from the vet, I decide to treat myself to another walk, open field, poneys and horses here and there, rabbits running around, deep breath, yes I do feel connected with the world, well the animal and vegetal part of it anyway.

Day 2:

Day 2

Not the best start of the day again, had not much sleep because the cat doesn’t like to be kept in at night, then had to force him into the carrier basket and leave him at the vet of his ops. I felt soft, fragile. But everybody was lovely with me, the nurses at the vet, the girls in the downstairs office, my boss to my new friend Bego. I feel guilty though, I didn’t walk, so didn’t do my LK mantra, will try tonight as a relaxation before bed. I haven’t exercised either! But I feel chattered, probably the end of the week, the emotions and the challenge!! So have I shown love today? Well very certainly to my cat and the kind people, but that’s it I’m afraid… Though through my Big 21 Day Interconnection Challenge assignment, I have really connected with myself, so I am sure this must count for something. AND, I have agreed, or should I say committed again (ahaha scary!), to join my friend Bego and her husband (met once) and some of their friends (who I do not know at all) to the Rhythm Tree festival in July on the Isle of Wight….euh, quite a stretch for me: a) I have never been to a festival before (I am 41), b) I haven’t camped since I was 18, c) this festival is quite spiritual and I will be surrounded by people!!