healing your life

healing your life home  









The Potter's Wheel by Kathy O'Dell

Our modern lives are so full and so busy. It seems we are always trying to do too much. Is there a better way?
I attended a workshop a few years ago. I love workshops. For a couple of hours or a whole day you can immerse yourself in a topic with someone who has contemplated, researched and been inspired by the subject. I usually come away with fresh ideas and a new outlook.

This wonderful two hour workshop was given by Bill and Deb Mann of Nashville. I took lots of notes, but today the one thing I remember most clearly is — the Potter’s Wheel.

At the time I had so many things going on in my life, I couldn’t find time for all of them. During a pause for questions I asked Bill and Deb how they handled so much. Bill answered. He is a musician, and a song writer. He has a business. He does workshops. He is a son and a husband. That is a sampling of all he does and is. He said he spent a lot of time in contemplation on the problem. He came to see that his life was like a potter’s wheel, with all of his interests and duties on the outside, spinning around a central core that brought them all together.

He discovered that all the things he did were part of a bigger thing he did. It was all part of being a creative, spiritual being.

He said a lot more, but the picture of the potter's wheel with the creative spiritual being, Soul, at its center stayed with me.

Sometimes Soul creates so fast in my life I can’t keep up. I realize that some of the things in my life should not be on my wheel. The wheel begins to wobble. I cannot keep my balance. I let something go, and the wheel becomes balanced again.

A couple of years ago I let go of a teaching job. My wheel wobbled for a while and finally came back to balance. It feels good to let some things go, to make room for what Soul really wants to create in my life. As long as I keep the spiritual viewpoint, I will choose wisely, and keep my priorities straight on this spinning wheel.

Have you ever thought of letting one thing go?

What is at the center of your wheel?

New: Focus on Health Online Seminar
October 4—October 25
join at the forum.

Read the first article and assignment: Focus on Health—Week 1 Physical.

New: Focus on Career & Finances Online Seminar
November 15—December 6.

New: Focus on Relationships Online Seminar
January 10—January 31.

The seminars are free, but they ask you to work.

This is how the seminar will work. Each week for three weeks we will begin with an article and an assignment. The article will ask you to consider some deeper issues about, health, or career, or relationships, depending on the focus. The assignment will ask you to connect in a deep level with the subject:

  • Write a letter to yourself about your goals and expectations.
  • Create an affirmation to write fifteen times in your journal each day, either morning or evening.
  • Start and end each day with contemplation and journaling.
  • Watch for messages and inner guidance.
  • At the end of the third week, write another letter to yourself about what you have learned.
  • Put a mark on your calendar one year from this day to revisit your letters and journal.

Each week you will come to a deeper understanding and focus. You will be amazed at the forces that are unleashed in your life. When you connect with Soul in this deep way and focus the powers of Spirit your life is forever changed.

I did this exercise last year with the focus on my career as a Directional Healer. Wow! Directional Healing has been on my Potter's Wheel for fifteen years. In my first class I saw a vision that foretold that my mission was to be a writer as well as a teacher and healer. I have been writing, teaching and healing for a long time, but this focus group helped me to finally become serious about my writing as a career. Who knows what direction your life might take!

I have set up a new forum at Google Groups to use as an online seminar base, as well as a bulletin board.

When you sign up you can choose whether to just check the seminar pages and posted messages online, or to receive email updates when new information is added to the site.

Since this is a new forum, I would love to get some feedback from everyone about how this is working for you. Currently, I am waiting for intested people to sign up. I put a page of Healing Your Life articles on the site for those who came to the forum via Google Groups, and did not know about this site.

Note: The book discussion of An Invitation to Heal by Susan Spalding has been moved to February to leave the online forum open for the Focus groups.

An Invitation to Heal by Susan Spalding

An Invitation to Heal by Susan Spalding
Visit the author's Web site at www.directionalhealing.com

healing your life contains articles, workshops and a forum about healing and spiritual growth and change. This leaves a lot of room for thought and development, as you will see when you peruse the database of articles. If you have a question about living and healing your life, you may find answers here. You may email questions you would like to see discussed, or email comments about any of the topics. Kathy moderates this site and will either get back to you in a personal email or will post your comment or question for others. You will find links to books, workshops, and seminars. Blessings to you in your search.
 

Home | Current Projects | Upcoming Projects
About healing your life | Articles | Forum | Workshops | Contact

Copy right © 2007 healing your life. Please contact permissions for permission to use information from this site.
Contact webmaster for comments or suggestions about the site.

Clipart from Clipartheaven.com.
Graphics from www.grsites.com.