Apollo Mission - May 23rd 2016 : What does it mean to Thrive?
Welcome Steemit family to another installation of the Apollo Mission Blog from the beginning of my tour earlier this year.
Check out the last blog post here : https://steemit.com/travel/@apollomission/apollo-mission-blog-post-may-22nd-2016-my-first-full-day-at-the-farm
May 23rd 2016
What does it mean to thrive? What criteria must you possess to consider yourself to be thriving? There is this perspective that I have been entertaining today. What if thriving means to be positively stimulated in both mind and body. To be stimulated in such a positive manner that it induces evolution.
In my opinion when evolution takes place, it inherently shows you what is truly important in life. Therefore brings you to the awareness of what real value is.
It is my perspective that after so much space within you and around you has evolved, one begins to understand how profoundly valuable nature is. I personally consider myself to be at this level of evolution.
So what happened today, is I had my mind and body positively stimulated constantly throughout the day. According to my theory I would be thriving.
My thoughts tell me this is what it is like to live and breathe on this planet.
I woke up to a horn call for the 8 am rise and shine. I began to work in the garden for a hour. After that I assisted in helping put up bamboo lafting on a wall of a straw bale building. I got to use a machete to process whole dried bamboo(machete work is one of my favorite things to do).
I also helped apply earth primer to prepare the wall for the plaster. Next I got to sit in a class with Albert (the mastermind behind this center) and have my mind blown yet again on how great of a solution permaculture is.
I had lengthy breaks in between all of these activities. With a wonderful solar shower and a meal made with mine and a friends love to cap things off for the day. I was thriving.
I am thriving.
Now I'm going to give my body a stretch and possibly open up the 5th Anastasia and the Ringing Cedars of Russia series of books. I sit here with a attitude of gratitude breathing out the negative,and breathing in the positive. Today I lived.
Today I thrived.
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It sounds like a wonderfully fulfilling day. My guess is you probably sleep incredibly well these days with all your activity and clean spirit :)
And now I am inspired to look up Solar Showers!
My husband and I dream of having land and being as off-the-grid as we're comfortable with. He loves architectural drawing and we've both inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and how he incorporates the land into building structures. It still a dream, but your missions are definitely inspiring. :)
What awesome feedback!! Gratitude for taking the time to write this. I sure do sleep good these days, especially when I was at the Ecovillage Training Center. Yes! solar showers are super nice. There are many simple ways to make one.
Being self sufficient is such a valuable thing in my eyes, I am glad you feel the same way.
You being inspired makes me even more inspired, thank you for that.