putting effort into self care can be so damn hard when you have depression and other mental illnesses. you might think it’s easier to give up and go back to the harmful coping mechanisms and to the negative mindset – it’s not, it’s just the little hell that you’re familiar with. it can be comforting, because you know what to expect, but it’s horribly difficult to survive in it and you’ll only notice it after you leave it for a while, then you’ll wonder how the fuck could you live like that for so long
Outcome: To send healing energy to yourself or a loved one
Requirements: Just your lovely self and perhaps some peace and quiet to concentrate
Method: Settle yourself into a comfortable position, whether this is laying down or sitting in your favourite chair. Just somewhere that brings you some peace. Once settled, imagine a light which surrounds your feet. Think of what your feet do for you. They have taken every step with you throughout your time here. They have grown hard from work. They perhaps ache from old pains, hard work, injury or illness. Take a moment to remember what they have done for you and the journey you have been on together, positive or not. Once complete, allow the light to envelop your feet.
Move up to your ankles. Think about how they help you. They give you motion and balance when moving. Maybe they’ve had hurt too. Perhaps you’ve sprained it or twisted them. Hold on to that memory of healing, even if it was not total. Allow the light to now encompass your ankles.
Continue in this way, moving over as many or as few body parts as you wish and take a moment to think of their purpose, how they have served you, how they have healed and how you will continue to use them. The light can travel with your thoughts.
Do not shy away from body parts which have caused you pain. These are the most important – whether it is physical or mental pain, these are body parts which you have had a rocky journey with. But you are healing.
Once this healing light has hugged your entire body, imagine it rising above you and forming into a ball of pure, kind energy.
If the healing spell is for yourself, allow this energy to float gentle as feather back into your being.
If the healing spell is for another, allow this energy to journey to those who need it most.
My neighbor was out taking the insulation cones off of his roses and carefully pruning them today.
I also went out and pruned mine. (I didn’t give them any special winter insulation. They’re on their own.) And by ‘pruned’ I mean ‘whacked back the bramble hedge with a machete where it was threatening to grow out of bounds’.
(Seriously my rose hedge is approaching 4 feet tall and almost as thick)
And he was giving me dirty looks the whole time because it pisses him off so much that I pay no special attention to my roses and yet they always do better than his.
I still haven’t told him that my secret is ‘plant tough-as-nails own root old fashioned rugosa cultivars rather than finicky hybrid teas’ because honestly his quiet frustration is hilarious.
a few centuries ago he probably would have accused u of witchcraft 😉
I mean…to be fair…he would be totally correct in that…
Also my rose hedge is now 6 feet tall and his Mister Lincoln rose, which he carefully mulched and put a insulation cone on, died this year.
Heatherwitch 