Gathering at the table with your children, family, or friends is essential for well-being. It almost seems ridiculous to mention yet family time has broken when the household fixates on new technology stealing from their quality connection.
Underestimated is the foundation of happiness that belongs to connection while breaking bread, with gratitude's consistency as a planned activity. The joining together united gathered at a table to nourish, flourish and thrive the essence of being alive. A shared meal together creates an atmosphere to invite appreciation.
My intention today is poured out for the family with children and how to resolve the disconnect. Yet really it most likely extends beyond, no matter the gathering of intention.
There is something so easily forgotten when gathering, and that is respect. The respect for spaces, and places, connection, and mindful interaction. The crucial life lessons of stability, protection, a sacred place of learning interdependence.
It is no new revelation to express yet an opportunity to prompt as a vital input for optimal conclusions.
As an adult daily bombarded, prioritize family first (as important when young people are developing). That which you deem unnecessary in actuality will resolve a tremendous load as the effect will dominoes. Our unique individuality of how we all do family meal time varies. However, the one thing that is the same, is we have to eat. Is it a place that feels relaxed, where open, honest interactions join together to belong? Consistency brings stability, invites clarity and awareness - an act of love to the soul.
It's a hard-luck life many impose, although in a moment of evaluation, Every Thought My Choice expands your thinking to seek first to understand. Gather together, mindful, more thoughtfully as intended, will bring blessing.
It has always been, for me, the most valuable of places gathered at the family table. I have always believed this simple tradition of priority as an incredible investment. Since way before I was even married with a family of my own, my greatest enjoyment to nourish body, mind, and soul gathering at the table, breaking bread with family, strangers, or friends to learn and grow. With gratitude openly expressed invites a meaningful time.
Just because technology has advanced at the incredible projection does not dissolve the need for intimacy. Even if everyone else is doing it as accepted does not out rule your right to decide, to think of long term repercussions of neglect, when too much screen time interferes.
The daily decisions you make before you walk out the door or at the end of the day will fuel your power or drain you within the hour.
Choose to leave behind devices and vices when you gather as mindfully intended, giving thanks for gifts, not taking anything for granted. Be present, make eye contact, meaningful connection, fill the mind, the heart, the soul, always gives back way more than imagined, resulting from honouring your position.
I hope today you will choose and no more be manipulated by the accepted normality of external noise of excess. For some, it's far removed for others closer to the home where the heart decides to do the right thing at the right time.
Enjoy the simplicity means wherever I lay a tablecloth invites serenity, and we nourish the whole, and for everyone, it's a win/win.
There is a time for loud and a time for quiet, laughing and reflecting, sharing and caring, feasting and tasting, a moment consistently impressed upon for ultimate enjoyment. Don't wait for a one-off occasion to introduce as regular as waking and sleeping for in-between vitalities to impress. Breakfast, lunch or dinner, choose to be a winner.
Thank you for gathering united at the table.
Remember, Relax, Dream Big!
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