We began by considering how we portray ourselves publicly versus privately and the expectations of others as to how we come across. We tuned in to these Soul Card images in terms of the energies of others crowding us, what we send out to others and how we might feel when we are centred.
We explored the idea of coming back to ourselves and what that meant. Responses were varied but shared common themes of finding the true self, valuing time, our connections and being kind to ourselves.
We created a word cloud around the theme and it was interesting to see where the words fell and in particular the colour which could be liked to a warning colour or one of joy that appears in flowers. Yellow is also thought to be the colour of friendship.
We practised a visualisation that restored our own energy and we anchored that to recall when needed. The poem enabled further exploration of the theme. whether in terms of self protection or going beyond boundaries. To round off, I will share my own writing from the final segment:
