Hello Friends,
In honor of the coming new year, I'm issuing a challange. I want everyone to send me an email and describe your Hidden Place. These are the rules:
1-Not x rated
2-Must be calming.
3-Not deframing or downgrading.
You must describe this place so that if I close my eyes, I can visualize it. I'm not talking about spas, or gyms or mountain hiking. But an old fashioned Hidden Place, a secret fort or spot where only you went. Are you up to it?
Not long ago, I stumbled on a place like that. It was located on a busy street. Tucked away between this and that. You drive too fast and you will miss it. And it's the kind of place where you don't think too much about until you really need to go there.
From the moment you open the door, you know you are in a safe place. The feeling of calmness envelopes you. A place where time stands still as you look around. There are books everywhere. All kinds of sizes in every type of book you can imagine. You can get lost in that small store, but you can also find yourself there. That's one of the funny things about this bookstore. There's even a relaxing chair with a foot rest in one corner. Just by looking at it, you know it is comfortable. I could feel a nap coming on just by standing there. I instantly claim this to be my 2010 Hidden Place! This place will be my secret. No negative vibes allowed!
No glitz and glamour either. Just good old fashioned smelling-like-lemons and oil soap place!
This is my healing place. My santuary.
No glitz and glamour either. Just good old fashioned smelling-like-lemons and oil soap place!
This is my healing place. My santuary.
Survivors need their own hidden place. You can't just come there. Memberships do apply. It's someplace we can escape to, snuggle down in, and cast our cares away just for a moment in time. Someone told me once that a hidden place is where ever your mind takes you. I agree in a way, but some of us like brick and morter to our hidden places.
When we are young, we often find secret hiding places. There we keep our toys, our snacks and anything else we decide to claim. From buttons to cookies, our secret place holds it all!
As we get older, we close our secret places, they become forever locked in our memories.
But when we are diagnosed, they are the first place we find ourselves drawn to.
Strange as it seems, these hidden places hold some of the foundations of survival.
Hidden Places are where we are ourselves without partners, kids or doctors.
In our hidden place we call the shots! We get to decide how things go down. And it is where we gather our reinforcements. First place we learned how to organize, plan and dream. Think about it.
Where was your hidden place? A tree, an old car, under your bed or a secret place outside?
Go ahead, take the challange, dig into your mind and remember your hidden place. If you never had one, this is the perfect time to create one.
You may just find what you need to survive and thrive. Just don't forget to come back!
Hit me up......
http://www.bkends.com
