Living the Elijah Project: An anti-gravity chair for your soul!

This week at the Elijah Project group, we talked about finding a BroomTree.  Part of the conversation that emerged as we looked at our "who am I" picture was a sense that our hearts are often in need of care.

In the last blog, I talked about first aid for the soul.  This week I want to entertain the idea of supporting our hearts when they hurt.  One of our group members described it this way.  She said:  "I feel like my heart needs a sling."  As we were discussing our BroomTree... many in the group mentioned sitting on their porch or outside, listening to the birds, and sipping coffee or ice tea.  There is something about being outside engulfed in fresh air, hearing the stillness of nature that is healing.

Do you know what an anti-gravity chair is? anti-gravity sling for the soul.  What would that look like?  Using the force and inertia in our body and mind to actually hold our hearts up long enough to heal.

Many people are buying them for their decks and enjoying the feeling of hanging in the balance of the airodynamic technology.  As a group we laughed imagining an anti-gravity chair for our soul's.  For the sake of this blog, I will call it an

I believe there are some definitive steps to construct an anti-gravity sling for the soul.
When your hearts feel injured, fragile and precariously balanced... here is my advice:

*Look at who you are spending most of your time with?  
**Are you spending too much time alone?  If so, step in the direction of the safest, most loving and gentle person in your life.
**Are you spending time with people but constantly feel exhuasted?  Stop spending time with people who take and rest in the relationships that are mutual or the friends and family who have something to give you... right now!


*Stop Something?
**Think about soething you did in the last week that sucked the life out of you.  Stop or move away from those things.
***Put a time limit on a difficult client and get off the phone quicker than you have before.
***Leave work 15 minutes earlier than you did this past week. 
***Turn off your phone and car stereo for the ride home from work.


*Look at how your life is balanced?
**Spend at least 5 minutes a day doing something for you... reading, a bath, journal writing, a walk, etc.  Once you start it won't end at 5 minutes.

**Get some sleep.  Cancel a commitment or turn of the t.v..  Go to bed 8 hours before you need to get up.  I guarantee you will feel better after a good nights sleep.

I think you will be amazed how your heart feels when you care for it.  
Find the unique anti-gravity sling like activites for your soul.

This is your BroomTree for this week!