Sustainable Wellness 101 – Emptying Your Cup
Sustainable Wellness 101 – Emptying Your Cup
By Cristina Smith
“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint. And that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” ~Oprah Winfrey
(for the full article and multimedia experience, click here: OM-Times July 2010 Edition)
I prefer to drink from a goblet. It doesn’t even matter the beverage- water, iced tea, juice or wine, I just like the way it looks and feels. My current one has a quite feminine shape, curvy waist and all. Sometimes I look at the structure of my life as a cup and this goblet symbolizes that for me. My body is my vessel and the form that accepts and contains the force/flow of my current life experience as well as cumulative soul experience.
One of the best ways I know to live an extraordinary life is by offering freely the contents of my cup when I feel full to overflowing with discoveries that could be of benefit to others.
At lunch with a friend the other day, he began talking about the book he is writing. As he started speaking about the project, he began listing all of the experts that came before for him and all of the other business self help books available now. He had come to the point where he wasn’t even sure he wanted to pursue his vision of writing this book because there was so much good information already out there.
I totally related to what he said and have felt the exact same way. I have walked into a bookstore on an inspired research mission, excited to check out what is out there in my field, looked at titles, seen some great books, wondered why in the world anyone would ever care about another book on this topic and felt totally deflated upon walking out of the store. I felt that sense of futility once the ‘getting realistic about manifesting my dreams’ portion of the process came along.
What broke the pattern was the day I went shopping with another friend. I told her the story of my bookstore dilemma and she said that she experienced exactly the same thing. What she did then was go home and look in her bookshelf and realize that she bought a number of books on exactly the same topic on the quest for the aha moment. However, she went ahead and wrote anyway. When she told me her story, it helped me realize that emptying my cup was my most important mission at this time.
