After spending over a year with almost nothing on your social schedule because of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might feel a little bit anxious about re-entering society and focusing on new goals. Maybe you’ve only interacted with your coworkers for months, or maybe you’ve been working from home with all of your conversations mediated by a screen. But you can get back into the swing of things and adjust to socializing again with these tips from Lyn Hicks!

Seek Encouragement and Support
There is an abundance of help available via the web these days, and if you’re struggling with the thought of socializing or going back to the office, you might want to take advantage of the many resources available. From guided meditations to TED talks, tune into some encouraging words when you’re running errands, going for a walk, or just lounging about. You can always slip in some earbuds for privacy’s sake.
Bear in mind that if you feel alone in your quest for confidence, you can always connect with a peer support group. This could come in the form of a friend, mentor, or online community. And of course, there are always therapists that you can turn to for counselling.

Create Routines
If you stayed home throughout the year, you may have abandoned the routines that used to keep you on track during the workweek. But sticking to routines is key for maintaining your health, getting organized, and making time for the things that really matter, like working towards your goals. Aim to develop a new morning and evening routine to start each day on the right foot and fall asleep more easily at night. Zen Business has some additional stress management tips that can help you, too. When your life is in order, you’ll have plenty of time for your old hobbies and reconnecting with friends!

Change Up Your Wardrobe
Sometimes, switching up your style can give you a much-needed boost of self-confidence! If your wardrobe is feeling a little stale after months without shopping, it’s time to treat yourself to a few new items. For instance, you could pick up new, comfortable workout leggings, a couple of nice tops, a new pair of jeans, or trendy shoes.

Start Exercising
There is nothing like exercise to put you in a positive mood and give you a jolt of confidence after the COVID-19 pandemic! Plus, purchasing new workout clothes will definitely motivate you to hit the gym or exercise outdoors. If you put fitness on hold during the lockdowns, don’t push yourself too hard at first. Practice Plus Group recommends giving yourself lots of breaks during workouts, fueling your body with protein-packed meals and snacks, and leaving time to properly warm up and cool down.

Pamper Yourself
Finally, it never hurts to spend some time pampering yourself! By incorporating self-care into your schedule, you’ll look and feel great when it’s time to go back to work or head to a social gathering. On weekends, you might want to have DIY home spa days - you can make face masks from ingredients in your pantry and soak in a bubble bath to relax. You can also create a skin care routine with a few basic products that will give you a healthy glow. As you build up your confidence after the COVID-19 pandemic, self-care is a must.
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The past year may have taken a toll on your overall well being. At times, it can feel tempting to continue eschewing social invitations - but right now, everyone feels a little nervous about returning to their old social scene. With these tips, you can approach interactions with confidence after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lyn Hicks has a passion to awaken others to their true joy through play and relaxation! Mentor, Teacher and Writer on The Feminine Way of living! She’d love to hear from you!

By Guest Blogger,  Shirley Martin at Tidy Life Today.  

It has been an odd time and the world so shifting and turning. I certainly jumped to move at a time where community seems so important. I have much less here and am slowly building live friends. I have however been blessed with community across the world with the internet and my latest business endeavors. 

I inspire you to reach out and find new ways of community of like minded at this time. There is differences glaring everywhere but with community, you can find people who can support you to be yourself. We are shifting our world, values, standards, how we are treated and how we treat. Being in like minded groups gives you support even if no one around can. I have been inspired by many in my communities that would even not appear much like me. But connecting on some common goals, values or ideals you want to bring in the world is deliciously satisfying. 

The latest great group I am part of, The Center for Creators has expanded me in many ways. I participate in their visualizations and group chats.  It is a stretch some topics but I learn things that will be purposeful. I am the Holistic Healing Director for their metaverse and retreat center to be built. I find I learn so much in many areas on how to be part of a great team supporting others to create their dreams and be a clan of high producers. It opens me to topics I would otherwise ignore and now I am  on the cutting edge. I invite you to be part of this high impact group. 

My youthful fun business group, the Evolution Era inspires me as most are much younger than me. The way they share water online, educate, motivate and inspire is phenominal. They can figure systems and ways to spread ideas far faster than my generation. It is fun to see youth, be part of their world and learn from them. It inspires me that there is a generation out there with ideas like me and beyond.  Yippee! For a minimum monthly fee you can learn to make money on line with any product although we use it for our water business. 

Our Healing Guide of our podcast The Magical Holistic Healing Arts,  is another community that I actively participate in. Learning each week from those who promote health and wellbeing and how they can add to our understanding of our sacred body. All kinds of ideas are investigated there for us to learn and share with others. As illness, debates on treatments,  very black and white thinking about issues,  we open and expand our listeners. No one treatment or advice works for everyone in any field. Taking responsibility and learning of your body is the best path to well being in these times of odd illness. 

We all have our every day crowd that we see at the store, in the office, on the way to the car. at the mailbox. It is good to be pleasant and I feel like knowing my neighborhood is smart these days. Being connected to others which is ultimately the best commodity we got going. Other people.

I hope you take the time to consider your groups, the crowds you cultivate around you and feel good about. We are all capable in this time to be our strength. We need wits and connections. We need to have a voice but have it heart inspired and resonating. Everyone is looking for peaceful places for many of the places that were peaceful are not. You  can be a peaceful presence in a community that inspires you. We all can add to the high vibe energy by seeing beauty, being kind and reflecting on how we will participate. That's what I am doing. It is serving me well. However, I get my share of odd anger out of no where. I am working to be peace and not add unto the division. 

Build loving, directed community friends to inspire you as all marches forward. Your invited to look at mine if you have intentions with health and supporting yourself and others in accessing their ideal life.  Do remember your local  community who will support you in the days ahead if needed!

Happy 2022!

As I get ready for the final trimming of the holiday, I realize It is What it is! Getting texts from family wishing we could commune, friends all finding different ways to celebrate and live, new ideas on gathering across the board from none to many, it is a moment to moment experience. As I accept what is right now, it actually becomes a beautiful world! For when I can accept, I can see beauty.

Acceptance the first step to any movement forward with clarity. You realize and accept what is. After you get out of the anger, grief, frustration of it not being the way  you  want it, you can then see clearly to find ways to cooperate with what is happening. All things change when we get through that piece of acceptance. Often this is very hard to do as we have many expectations, emotional ties to outcomes and all want the things we want. To me this is where you can shorten any loop your in.  ACCEPT. It doesn't mean no action or agreement. It just means this is what is really happening, not your desired or pretend version that is going on. Discernment key as well as realizing, as many people on the planet is as many perspectives or point of views their are and they are all happening at once. 

As you accept you can then consider, "ok how do I cooperate with this situation to bring in my desires?" So adaptability, adjustment, flexibility can come in.  When cooperation comes in, as it sounds, it is a moving and collaborative energy, many potentials and possibilities open up. You can search through all the potentials, "lean in" seems the buzz word and you can find one that enthuses you. So you catch energy to move in a direction with perhaps not the whole picture but the feeling toward something with positive excitement,  This is our creative process we do in all things. 

Embracing what is can seem burdensome in many situations. Especially now, with illness and death around, real life issues of value and what matters most is glaring. We get to reset our road rage and small annoyance to realize what really matter at this time. Not yesterday, not what you thought but right now after all the life you have been through.. We are all doing this together. No one is unaffected. All are riding in some sort of a weird reality that they are not so happy about.  We all are swishing around, adapting, innovating and transforming. We are in serious creation mode, so the cards are not certain where they will land.

As we accept this and know others are accepting what is occurring, we can find ways to cooperate. Again, to accept doesn't mean to be in agreement or like, you just understand it is what is. As the emotions fall out, you then go for cooperation. The world becomes different not clouded by your romancing or full perspective, you let it go a bit. Here is where creativity, innovation and possibility are. How can I work with what is going on so I can participate and maybe even enjoy it? 

Enthusiasm, which also has movement, is from an inner place and well of energy that moves itself almost. You are tied to a current rather than just you and your efforts. There is a collective energy bubbling in you. You get to choose from all the ways you thought of to cooperate, one that has this enthusiastic energy that you determine.  What can you get excited about so you begin to move in a direction that delights.?

This creative process we are in has everything in it.  That is the creative process. There is a reflective non moving when the outside is moving so fast and in unpredictable ways. There can be sadness, depression, fear, anxiety. all which come from uncertainty. These are emotions that coordinate with finding acceptance, really detangling what you think.... to what is...... "What" is in the form you need it. That is why I find these three steps are the way, when you are ready, to move onward despite the conditions. 

I am embracing my holiday, the world, my finances, my direction, being in the West, all of it. As I do this each day and in general, I have some good bright energy towards the future. I have also had to go through what isn't, my dissatisfaction with it and let that all go so I could get to acceptance. I don't know whether it will come or how it will play out but I at least have an energy that is moving forward and can feel it. That makes me feel really good to have grand ideas to be part of. Maybe they will never happen or maybe they will happen quickly. Doesn't matter as much as that I have an idea to move to that cooperates with conditions and I find my enthusiasm. I get to chose what brings that in and then the magic begins.

Have a fabulous, loving filled holiday. May you get hugs and blessings, good food and laughter and whatever you may be needing and desiring as we shift into a whole new season undefined. We get to choose our role, our participation. Maybe no participation is a good answer too for some of us. Either way, we all can have a blessed end of the year embracing and  knowing beauty and love are here! Just redirect your eyes!

Remember, ACCEPT, COOPERATE AND FIND ENTHUSIASM!

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Somewhere along the way we have separated ourselves from nature! Even our dictionary defines it as separate from us. However, it is our very home, our world, where we live and have our being. We are made of it as all the animal kingdom. The rules and harmony apply to us. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It is that simple as it is our home. The beautiful thing about nature is that it is always cooperating, changing, rebalancing and rejuvenating. A good place to live.

As a flower farmer, it was very clear to me that I was just a blip in the matrix of nature. I did so well for I understood she was growing things already so I just had to jump in and give minimal support. The horticultural industry has this ideas to control, push, manipulate, etc toward growing. I didn't even try that as it was clear, the easiest way to a great flower harvest was to plant, sometimes water and let things grow. I followed the cycle of weeds and pulled them but never had a "control" attitude. I didn't need too. Other growers were amazed at how well I grew with no overbearing interjection!

As I learned then, farming was a mess. The GMOs were horrific, the growing of monocrops which occurs nowhere in nature was out right stupid, the spraying and treatments all where about death not growth. At that time, I didn't  have the inspiration to try to do anything other than grow in a graceful, organic way and consider that was my small way to support the world.

As I get older, I see the insane amount of chemicals on our food gets worse. It gets in our water and the non diversity in planting makes no sense! It  inspires me to support regenerative farming in a big way. I get my food as close to home as I can.  I support developing local food distribution. 

If we transform our farming, we could erase our carbon footprint. All plants bring carbon into the ground so the more we get that carbon back into the soil, the healthier we are. In fact, we too, are carbon based creatures!! This could solve our carbon issues!! Imagine all the toxic farm  land in the country being planted with diversity for harvest and for life saving measures. Many are converting and others will if we encourage them. They need no government support for farm land growing regeneratively  makes sustainable money! It has been proven and it is a growing  movement. 

Being in the water business, a rabbit hole I never imagined I would be in, I have learned far too much how all the chemicals we use on land, all the antibiotics we give our animals, all that goes into the water table and thus us. Then we add even more chemicals to "make it safe to consume". It became so clear that we are drinking toxic water and it effects us negatively!! Again beauty and health, my favorite things are deeply effected by our water and our food far more than much else. 70% water we are! It all seems so clear and I wonder, am I crazy to see that drinking the best water and getting the best grown food are great supports to health over all else? It is pretty basic logic.  

I intrinsically knew I was part of the earth and can feel this whole place in a very sensual, energetic way. "All I see is part of me" was my mantra. The Himalayan Masters taught me about this nature energy in a way I could understand. I saw flowers grow for brides in a week against all law. I heard what the soil needed and listened to the trees and life around me. The flowers seemed to have different notes and sing as I walked by. I thought it was all in my head and everyone had this connect. I felt like things just talked to me or let me know what it needed or where to put plants. It was a great interaction that just seemed natural.  We all have this ability to just tune in and know. We must get into our body and out of our heads all the time! Everything is connected to us and interacting sending signals. Our environment is as alive as us.

Nature fills us with a receiving action that we can get no where else. We all know it as we step outside, our whole being changes. We fill up with negative ions on the physical level. Our senses are ignited again as we step out of our thinking. Our microbiome gets healing juice from all around us! Emotionally, the beauty so inspires us that a natural love comes forward in our feeling nature. Mentally we can shut off our brain with no effort but just gazing. Spiritually we are renewed as we see the current of life right before our eyes enlivening us! It is easy and magical. 

Embrace that you are nature. You are more of a spirit in a body than anything else. We animate this animal body and can use it for all the delights this animal offers. We get so caught in the mind that we miss the beauty that our body is taking in. We get caught on thoughts and forget all the other abilities and senses we have to experience life. In fact we miss most of it. As we reconnect, grow some plants, eat well grown food, breath in fresh air from the trees, visually get stimulated, be enticed by the sounds and enjoy the  taste, life changes dramatically.

Even this whole illness trend forgets that we swim in viruses outside and in. We are filled with viruses and actually evolve through viruses. Step back into the nature you are that wants to thrive, live healthy and naturally survive. Connect with plants, tinctures, farmers and holistic healing gifts that come from nature. They will heal you faster often, especially on an acute basis, as they are made of your nature, not in a lab. Begin where you can and realize, you are part of this whole world as you see it. It is you, you are part of it. 

This supports me in a more optimistic and happy life. I am a nature junky and get so fed by it. I use her gifts whenever I can before things get too far along. I go outside mentally knowing it heals me with no mind interjection. I know I exhale what the plants needs as they exhale the oxygen I need. It is all one. One big planet of nature and we are just guests here on the journey.

May embracing nature as you become part of your new experience in 2022! Great healing of you and you of it, all together will bring in a new world of connection that already exists!