Where is Your Sanctuary?

Life is tough. Especially now when finances are strained for many and job security is non-existent. The pressures of securing a steady stream of income, holding onto a home, fulfilling family responsibilities, taking care of commitments and just dealing with the pressures of daily living are oftentimes overwhelming.

 

Each of us can feel alone, harried, and frazzled. We feel resentful, angry, bitter, exhausted, moody, irritated, and lost. Our soul cries out for relief, for Sanctuary!  Where is your Sanctuary?  

 

Most of us cannot take the time or may not have the resource to run off to an ashram in India for two months like Elizabeth Gilbert did in Eat, Pray, Love. We have to find our own Sanctuary closer to home.

 

So where do run to rest, recover and connect to God and your higher self…the place where you can just breath and feel safe?

 

Where is Your Sanctuary?

 

· A quiet place in your home where no one will bother you, where you can meditate and just become peaceful?

 

· A yoga, qigong, tai-chi class?

 

· Outside in nature–a special little area where you can sit, or a place you can walk?

 

· A house of worship or spiritual center?

 

· By the ocean listening to the soothing waves. In the mountains surrounded by the all pines. In a meadow blooming with flowers?

 

· In a place that offers quiet meditative music?

 

· A spiritual retreat guided by a spiritual leader, yogi or other wise person?

 

· With animals that lighten and delight your heart?

 

· In the garden?

 

· On the table at your masseuse’s?

 

· At a Day Spa?

 

· In the bathtub, surrounded by candles and quiet music?

 

· Inside You…wherever you are!  

 

Create time for and a regular place of Sanctuary where you can go when life just gets overwhelming, or to simply distress before it gets that way. You can do this alone or with a friend who shares your need for quiet relaxed communion with yourself, your higher self and the Universe. Perhaps you can mark certain days on the calendar just for self-Sanctuary, perhaps every other Sunday!

 

But make sure you commit to do this self-Sanctuary before stress effects your mental and physical health. 

 

May you find peace, joy and deliverance from anguish and stress in your place of self-Sanctuary!