{"id":30,"date":"2014-07-29T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-08-30T07:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T12:30:31","slug":"summer-a-time-to-relax-into-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/summer-a-time-to-relax-into-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer: A time to relax into ease"},"content":{"rendered":"

Midsummer is such a wonderful time of plenty here in Minnesota, with the sun\u2019s warmth and light giving us awesome sustenance and beauty with luxuriant foliage and delicious, healthy fruits and vegetables. We also are receiving essential vitamins from the sun\u2019s rays that warm and tan and relax us.<\/p>\n

Our lives are meant to have a natural cycle: Work\u2014rest\u2014conceive. It\u2019s circular, with the conception of ideas stimulating us to move forward again into the next work portion of the cycle. We are meant to express and experience these in equal measure: 1\/3, 1\/3, 1\/3. (I know, the Bible says God rested on the seventh day<\/em>, and it and other holy books often advise doing things in 40-day<\/em> periods. Both 7 and 40 are numbers indicating wholeness and perfection; their metaphysical meanings are \u201ccompleteness\u201d and \u201cas long as it takes.\u201d These passages are saying that God rested when creation was complete and that what was undertaken was continued until the desired result was achieved.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

The number three<\/em> represents a wholeness that is comprised of three equal parts. Creative wholeness consists of equal elements of work, rest, and conception or inspiration (inspire: breathing spirit into).<\/p>\n

\"summer_relax\"Summertime is a natural time for us to honor the \u201crest\u201d part of this cycle. It is much more important than our production-oriented culture appreciates, for without relaxation, we aren\u2019t in a mode of openness to conceive new ideas or easier, better ways to accomplish that which we wish to produce. We\u2019ve all heard striking examples of scientists and others who experienced a \u201ceureka!\u201d moment regarding a problem when they took a nap or went for a relaxing walk. We are meant to receive solutions and guidance easily and often, in our everyday lives. We can\u2019t do that if we aren\u2019t giving ourselves appropriate relaxation time; we won\u2019t be \u201cin the zone\u201d!<\/p>\n

Another really important reason to get the right amount of rest is that this relaxed and rested zone\u2014this arena in which creativity comes alive\u2014is where our real selves come out to play. Want to get in touch with your Real, Inner Self? Relax, get in touch with what It wants to do, then play at that. This will be true happiness. So get in the groove. As Simon and Garfunkel sang,
\n\u201cSlow down, you move too fast. <\/em>
\nYou gotta make the (summer) last\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Midsummer is such a wonderful time of plenty here in Minnesota, with the sun\u2019s warmth and light giving us awesome sustenance and beauty with luxuriant foliage and delicious, healthy fruits and vegetables. We also are receiving essential vitamins from the sun\u2019s rays that warm and tan and relax us. Our lives are meant to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nancyherrick.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}