Follow your heart
So many books, podcasts, TV shows, talk about the heart.
Follow your heart,
find your heart,
listen to your heart,
the heart knows.
And yes, now I’m another one of them! Ha.
But here’s a little time line for you to think about. Because I’m sure that your life has them too. Little streams of likeness, happy co-incidents, a series of synchronicities.
It began with the word Tea.
My Yoga teacher many moons ago said she was meeting up with one of her students in France for tea. They and their families just happened to be in the same part of the world for 24 hours and would meet for tea. Tea sounds different to coffee, it has a gentleness about it that I now appreciate.
Anway’s…. at this particular time in my life, I was firmly attached to the boom of my morning coffee, Flat White if you please.
For some reason I always recalled this moment that Kelly told me about her meeting up for Tea.
Life moved on.
Covid came, and went (oh yeah, that’s right its still here!!).
Life rolled on.
An invitation came to a Tea Ceremony.
My beautiful friend Cindy invited me via a little DM in my Instagram. Love that! Her cousin Casi was holding a ceremony in a nearby Art Gallery. Art & Tea, I was IN!
We packed our soft pashminas and cushions and made our way to the local HAKE Art Gallery, it was a cool dusky evening, I often remember sunsets. Joining about 10 others we sat and took part in the most glorious and meditative act of serving Tea. It was heaven. It was Ritual. I felt so soothed just watching her serve tea, it was a deep meditation session just by watching. Afterwards I was so calm, so happy but not a bounce of the walls kind, but a deep grounded kinda happy, contented.
After that, I looked at my sad morning tea bag and thought this needs a bit of love. So I did some research, I remember enjoying Earl Grey in my early 20’s. At my Dad and Stepmothers house in Mosman, we’d wake up to pots of tea often sipping and stealing each others cups.
With this memory in mind, I found a lovely brand of Tea called Mariage Feres, who specialise in the most heavenly teas. If your in Sydney there’s a store on the Ground Level of the Queen Victoria Building that sells it, or you can Press here for this tea!
Now my morning Tea has taken on a ritual of its own. I’m enjoying the sweet gentle taste of tea to start my day. I make a small pot, light a stick of incense and begin my day with a small few minutes reviewing my goals, ideas, values and finish by reading something inspiring.
All these small steps, that have led to my morning tea have built on each other. I followed my heart and it led here.
How do you make your morning beautiful?
