Take a moment to imagine everyone in your community enjoying Mini-Retreats. Following is a guided Mini-Retreat to help you envision and explore this possibility. Take notes as you journey in your imagination and share your vision with the community online.
- Have pen and paper close by as you will take notes throughout this journey.
- Close your eyes for a moment, relax and notice your breathing.
- Allow your breathing to slow down and deepen.
- Now, imagine traveling to a place where people relax and recharge regularly.
- As you arrive, what are your first impressions?
- What do you notice as you watch people interacting with each other?
- Take a look into the workplaces, what atmosphere do you encounter there?
- What are the major achievements and innovations in this community?
- What is celebrated and valued most here?
- What else do you notice?
Return to your current time and place refreshed, knowing that you can revisit this place at any time in the future. In fact, this mental sanctuary may become a regular Mini-Retreat for you.
Check out other people’s visions and add your own vision in the comment section below.
People are a lot calmer, a lot friendlier. They take the time to look into each others eyes, they also laugh a lot more together. In the workplace, people are working in a concentrated and productive way, lots of collaboration and sharing of ideas is happening. The major achievements in this community are for the greater good: improved health, cleaner energy systems, conservation and sharing of resources. What a great place, I look forward to creating this future in my community.
The people are more present, in touch with the moment. They are wide eyed, energized, and ready to recieve you with open arms. There are no pre-judgements and they recieve you as you are, with compassion and true interest in meeting you. They have body language that shows you will be welcome, as they have the energy to welcome you.
When the people interact they are expressive with lots of creative ideas, listening and honouring each other in an environment of peaceful, but charged with excitement, coexistence.
The conversation flows in a relaxed way, without negative emotion, and time seems to fly.
In the workplace the people excitedly arrive at work and collabarate all day, building deep friendships that span into non-working time. The work day does not drag on, all the work is shared and happily gets done, success is measured by the quality of life at work and by the quality of produced results — equally. A balance is achieved and the healthy pattern can continue happily forever.
People are smiling, creative and energized. I see people moving about their day with a sense of purpose and ease. There is a contentment and a knowing that is present with each other, no competition. Instead a celebration of what each other is contributing. Ideas build wonderful solutions that seem to materialize out of the air. Really they materialize out of stimulating conversation and the exchange of ideas and thoughts. People are healthy and strong and are grounded in the practices and exercises that nurture a continuous state of well being. People are living in connection to their spirit, each other, the community and the environment – the energy is exciting and deeply peaceful at the same time.
Hi Tracy,
Thank you for sharing this beautiful vision with the Mini-Retreat Community! When I read your vision, I can clearly picture it and feel the atmosphere. Thank you for your contribution. Writing it brings us one step closer to creating this reality!
Warmly,
Julia