Switch Off Sunday: Possibilities! Permission!
Posted by Goddess Leonie on February 7th, 2010. Filed under: Switch Off Sunday.
Hola gorgeous Goddess,
Hurrah! It’s that beautiful day of the week again… that ritual of making all or part of our Sunday switched off… logging off our ‘puters and doing some of those things we really wanna do… and just adore up our beautiful goddess lives.
Why do I make it a ritual? Because… all of us know it would be better to take time off from being online… but as the days roll by, we forget to do it. By making it a weekly ritual, it becomes part of our gorgeous routine… and becomes integrated into our luscious life.
You can join me by taking off the whole day, the morning, the afternoon or just a couple of hours off from being online.
Welcome back, sacred Sunday!
My plans for my Switch Off Sunday:
It’s my last week of work this week. Five more days of being a cubicle hottie, before I retire to become a home divaliscious.
And with only seven weeks or so before Little Mermaid arrives, I’m finding my energy which used to be pretty buffalo-ian and expandable and relatively ginormous… well… it’s becoming a little more contracted. Like going-to-sleep-at-8pm kind of contracted.
I need to be much, much more mindful about how I spend my energy, and make sure I spend time filling it back up this weekend.
So here’s my list of lovely Switch Off possibilities…
Baths & yoga. Baths = lavendar + salt with candles. Yoga = my first group pre-natal yoga class! I have first class nerves… but I will go… I can doooo eeeeeeet.
Keep soaking up Jennifer Louden’s lovely bible The Pregnant Woman’s Comfort Book.
Get some more scrummy baby-belly lotion. Something that smells divine and is all creamy-goodness. Apply liberally and lusciously, just like love.
Have as much of this kind of time as I need.
Brunch with my favourite Sone Bear {aka Goddess Sone}. My dearheart is moving in a couple of weeks. I’m going to miss her bundles and oodles and poodles too! I do feel a whole bundle load better knowing that this is just the beginning of something beautiful for Sone & her love… AND that she’s decided to move to a small North Queensland town that isn’t too far from the small North Queensland town that is my homelands, that we own a cottage in, are setting up Crystalbrook Retreat at & will move back to! Soooo… more goddess adventures await us… as we do a goddess invasion of North Queensland. Hurrrrrrah!
In the meantime… it’s just soaking up as much time and goodness with my Taurean dearheart as possible.
Do some writing if I like. Get all the lovely Goddess blog posts written for the week. Finish up some of the little things on my list so I can start my week feeling clear. And use my energy mindfully – there’s only so much to use!
Possibilities for your gorgeous Switched Off Sunday!
You are so welcome to join me in switching off, for the day or the afternoon or two hours… and re-discovering the joys of being switched onto life outside the laptop.
Facebook, Google Reader, Twitter, blogs and your inbox will all be there tomorrow waiting for you. But Sundays are for beautiful recharging 
Here’s some ideas for what to do to make today your own Switch off Sunday:
What do you need to do to zen your life, and make it feel clearer? Do it, darlingheart!
Have you tried the sport of meditationapping yet? It’s my very favourite thing to train for. Maybe this Sunday could be the day you finally try it out. I wouldn’t keep mentioning it if it wasn’t HOLY DELICIOUS.
Do something that makes you need Creative Courage.
Use this permission slip whenever you need…
Have you made a mermaid frame? Pimped a pinboard? Made something fun and divine lately?
What do you need to give yourself? Take a pen & paper out – or write in the Comments Circle. What do you need, and how can you give it to yourself?
Just remember: You probably aren’t going to find what you are looking for by pressing refresh on your Facebook page to see if anyone has written anything new lately. {I know only coz I have already looked 
}. Today is the day you can give yourself what you need. I have faith in you!
Need some accountability?
- Take a pen & paper out and write down how long you will switch off for, and what your glorious possibilities are.
- Write it out in the Comments Circle & check back in later.
- Blog about your Switch Off Sunday using the button above.
This is your loving and sacred butt-kicking:
Log off, and give yourself what you need.
love you big time,
February 7th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Yesterday I bought a few proper canvases to try and paint on, then I came on line to look for tips and got caught up in “holding the brush correctly” and such. Now I shall ignore it all switch off and paint whatever I want. Correct brush de damned!
February 8th, 2010 at 1:43 am
Goddess Leonie, you are so dear! This is a wonderful idea.
Today, I need some walking time. It’s very cold here in New England, so I’ll need my long johns and layers and layers, but I need to fill up my eyes with sunlight.
I also need time away from my laptop to read and mull over the latest draft of my new book of poems.
And finally, I’d like to roast as many vegetables as I can lay hands on.
Thank you, as always, for your divine inspiration!
February 8th, 2010 at 7:08 am
I really need to switch off a lot more than I do. It’s so hard though lol.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Oh, how I wish I could be teaching your prenatal course! (something I did for several years before my daughter arrived – such a privilege to share that amazing space and time with all those little souls dancing around their mamas bellies) Something I learned and taught was vocalization or chanting. I had the women exhale different sounds (ah, ooo, uuu, or om) trying different pitches and looking for the pitch and sound that vibrated deep in their bellies. This is something you can use when birthing – sound/vibration to create opening while you push. But what is beautiful is practicing with your partner and your baby becomes familiar with your voices/vibrations AND she senses your relaxation as you chant. Then, when she is being born, that sound reminds her of that time when you (and papa) were relaxed and she in turn is comforted by that familiar “song.” My girlfriend had a sound she made while her son was being born and months later she made it again, and he looked at her and smiled and fell into her lap. I had a song I chanted when I first held my daughter and months later she was agitated and I was trying to calm her down for bedtime. so I started singing our little chant and she crawled over to me, climbed into my lap and rested her head on my chest, all calm and relaxed. It is one of my favorite mama moments
sigh.
okay, Switch off Sunday – I find myself working in my art journal on Sundays and it is such a wonderful way to end the weekend. Yesterday, I had a group of women over for our first Women’s circle!! Yippee! I played your healing rain meditation to start things off and it was such a magical afternoon. we had pecan chai pie and cookies and herb tea and wonderful conversations/sharing. Our plan right now is to meet at the turn of the seasons which seems doable with everyone’s busy schedules. So, check off one more item from my Dreams of 2010 list! Thank you for the inspiration to make this happen. ♥
love to you – enjoy these nesting days
February 8th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Goddess Lis ~ oh you darling, darling woman. BLESS you for your first women’s circle! That is utterly and completely sacred, and I am so so so happy for you… women’s circles truly do change the world dearest… and you are CREATING them. I so so honour you, lovely woman. And my goddess ~ you would be the most magical prenatal yoga teacher… I’m now thinking on the chant and sounds… I will do it sweetie!!!!! xoxoxo
February 8th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Goddess Jill ~ I know sweetie… me too! Let’s just start with a couple of hours each Sunday… and see how it grows and flows from there
Goddess Kate ~ Your Sunday sounds utterly divine hon… I adore how you are giving yourself what you need! YAY YOU
Goddess Samantha ~ Oh you precious goddess! I hope you had a scrumptious day a-painting your wild heart out… and I dare you to use your fingers to paint!
xoxo
February 8th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Just so you know, during my switch off time today I did do something that required creative courage: I broke out one of the canvases and the acrylic paints and associated paraphernalia and did a painting around my word of the year.
Thank you for inspiring me to do that. It was SO much FUN!
Also, I hope the rest of your pregnancy goes well, and that you get–and gladly take–all the rest and nourishment you need. ((Hugs))
February 8th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Thanks Goddess Leonie, reading that felt like a virtual “hug” a “you can do it!” It was much appreciated.
February 9th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I was switched off this whole weekend, not by choice, but by circumstance. Our phone line was severed by accident/weather. It has been so nice to be unconnected for the last few days, like a mini-vaction/retreat!! I will from this time forward take a day to Switch Off. …and enjoy the time away from the computer!! Thanks Goddess Leonie!!
PS. I also wanted to extend many wishes for this last 7 weeks of pregnacious mama-hood for you. My biggest wish for you is that you get lots of rest and pampering while you can. Please do be good to yourself and accept all the assistance offered to you, when at all possible. You will never regret it.
Many hugs and prayers sent your way!