In a strange way, for me this Theme is like a continuation of the Theme of the recent ISM Retreat: Living Impeccably. During the Retreat I often had the sense that the needed bits were put in place at the right time. As a result I could not tell what I organised and what not, but what does it matter?! :) I don't mean to say that I have not been focused and applying effort - and myself. Just the amount of effort and friction was less than in other times. Have I been trusting the process of life?! I don't know...

How to bring this forward in my daily life? For the next couple of months I have set myself with several tasks which go under the label "looking for audience" lol. This involves ringing many bells without knowing what will come from behind the doors. So, I will strive to proceed with as little expectations as possible, saving myself the stress and disappointment! :)

Please enjoy Lady Elizabeth's uplifting sharing!

With all my love,
(BH)
Milen

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My dear friends,

Happy Month! Happy November!

I have just arrived in Slovakia via Vienna and Varna after an event filled month of October. The drive from Vienna yesterday afternoon was very beauty-full with all the autumn colours abounding. But oh my, this getting dark at 5 o’clock-ish IS something! I am looking forward to getting back to the Southern Hemisphere and summer next week!

All this moving around the planet this past month brings me hard up against our theme for November!

Moving effortlessly by trusting the process, a gap in my knowledge I pursue relentlessly!

In my day job profession I am a Deadline Kid. And like the waves them deadlines keep rolling in, no matter what I do to stall them, to postpone them, to plan for them!

Which is why I love this guidance!:-

“Question: Could you please share with us about anxiety? I often feel anxious when I have work to do. However, what I have noticed is that if I finish the work the anxiety is less, but I still feel tense for some reason. If I don't finish the work, but at least do some of it, the anxiety is also less, but there is also still a tension with this. So I am always just tense and anxious.

Answer: Being GOAL orientated always brings about TENSION, and this tension manifests as ANXIETY! Relax INTO the process of life and the SAME tension becomes UPLIFTING and LIFE-SUPPORTIVE, as in the tensions inherent WITHIN the web of life, manifesting as EXHILARATION! Furthermore, COMPLETION brings about VITALITY, but this can only take place when you see completion for what it truly is! For example, is a housewife's work EVER done? No! For no sooner have you washed, dried and packed away the dishes, when it is time to take them out and dirty them once more! The same with laundry, etc. And so with completion! Completion is forever folding back upon itself within the PROCESS of EVOLUTION! The trick lies in learning to work WITH the process, rather than AGAINST it.”

These past weeks I have completed a very complex audit, prepared for our annual residential retreat, facilitated the retreat, co-facilitated our business conference and then headed off with my friends on a week-long tour of Egypt, returned to Varna , packed up the apartment after a 4 and a half month stay - and here I am in another world – meeting another deadline! Lol!

The consequence of all this activity is that I missed our September accounting deadline and now it’s already the end of the next month, plus I missed a vital tax return deadline, and so on!

The amazing “thing” is that I am weirdly totally at peace.

I made a decision as we left for Egypt that as no-one I know has yet to die from missing an accounting or tax deadline LOL! I was going to put friendship first before figures!

And guess what? I didn’t die missing those deadlines and even now, faced with a mountainous backlog I am still experiencing vitality - which surely must be coming from paying homage to my family of close friends. 😊

I trust you too have fun with our theme this month, my friends! If learning is not fun, don’t do it! 😊

With all my love and warm hugs,
Elizabeth