I spent the weekend around the Cervantes area, it was amazing beach weather.
Tag: Peace
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Outdoor shower
Everything is really temporary in life. Everything we own, are connected with or live with, it’s all temporary. The question in life is when does it start to be a part of our life, and when does it end. Some things you own may have a limited life with you, the good ones though are worth the investment.
One of those for me, is the outdoor shower. Maaaate! I’ve wanted one for years and years, so a couple years ago I bought the $30 shower spout that connects to the garden hose. That in itself is so good in summer. But connect it to hot water … I’m outside everyday.
The setup is easy. An instant hot water system connected to bottled gas and the garden hose. As soon as water pressure is activated the burner kicks up and you get hot water.
It’s the best ~~~~ 🥰✨
To make it mobile, grab a 12v water pump & connect to a deep cycle battery, move the setup into your van / car and put the water inlet into a jerry can or water tank. Hot showers on the road. The kids will never have to complain about the cold showers at the beach.
Surround yourself with green, put in a privacy screen. So good. I shower with the birds, fruit trees and flowers around me. Luuuuvvv.
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Keep your life low-key
Keep your life low-key and share only what you want people to have access to, it protects your peace.
People will judge you, make assumptions about your life. Let them. Let them know what you want them to, the rest is just assumptions and guesses.
You hold the power in protecting your peace and nobody really know’s what’s going on in your life unless you choose to share it. It’s a superpower of silence.
Just get on with your life and keep your privacy. Privacy is your power and safe place.
Living a low-key life, protects your peace 💛✨🪽
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FaceTiming in German on the edge of the world
Albany is a beautiful town. I had such a surreal experience recently there, that ended up with me joining a stranger’s FaceTime (in a way).
It was dusk and I had left it too late to go photograph any of golden hour. But I went out anyway to Sharp Point Lookout. It looks out across the vast Indian Ocean that connects Australia and Antarctica. If you look west, you can see the Albany Wind Farm turning away in the strong winds.
It was a beautifully peaceful night. Calm with the rolling swells pushing up against the coastal rocks and the usual amount of wind. But this night it was pretty calm up top of the cliffs.
When I arrived at Sharp Point, I was planning to sit and enjoy the view for half an hour and wind down. But there was another car in the car park (it was already pretty dark) and I wondered if I’d bump into the owners as I got out.
Sure enough, as I rounded the corner to the lookout, they were there seated on the platform railing, looking out over the ocean. I could hear some conversation going on, they were very chatty. It was such a serene location, my first thought was for some reason – they were discussing something serious and I should just leave.
Then while I took a few quick photos from nearby, I realised they were speaking German, the conversation was pretty jovial and there was a third voice. They were FaceTiming someone, I’m guessing back in Germany.
Okay, chill then and I took more photos as we exchanged glances. They laughed away with their mate on the other side of the world.
It’s a very common situation. People often sit on the beach or cliff and call family or mates and share the view with them. But for some reason, this one was quite dreamy, mainly due to the scenery and lighting I think.
What seemed like a couple, we’re calling a friend, tens of thousands of kilometres away through that tiny iPhone and I could hear the conversation going as they showed off the stunning sunset.
It was like they were straining for signal. Which of course they weren’t, we had full bars! And it was also like they were facing their friend, so very far away by sitting as close as they could on the edge of the world. Like they’d found the best location where they had peace and quiet and the best chance of hearing their friend.
Logically, they actually had their backs to them direction-wise, RUDE lol and signal wasn’t a factor.
I don’t understand German, so didn’t get the words but it was such a dreamy thing to hear this voice arriving from Germany to Sharp Point through the massive expanse of sky and ocean that was all around us.
Sitting in such a huge open space, you really feel that distance of the person on the other line. Their voice travelling in real time into space and down across 14,500 kms to that tiny 1m of space so their friends could hear it and send back the view of the expanse of the Indian Ocean.
The swells rolled in, the turbines slowly spun away and the wind blustered through our lookout every now and then. I snapped away, until I captured what I wanted.
And off I went.
Hallo and Verabschiedung friend across the ocean. We shared a serene space for a brief moment in the timeline of the world ✨
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To radiate peace, calm your heart and mind
Have you ever noticed those people who walk into a room and just bring an aura of peace? The energy of the room shifts, they bring a calm that’s hard to put into words. We might call it a calming aura and for me, it’s a state I aspire to.
When these people walk by or enter a room, you can see others visually relax, drop their shoulders and a peace filters in. Around these kind of people, you might feel reassured that everything will be okay and whatever you were worrying about will resolve and turn out for the best. You might even feel that peace when they’re not close by and you think of them.
Your calm creates safety and you will radiate peace.
When you bring calm, you’re not a distraction to others. You create focus, motivation and energy for people around you to push forward. You may even feel more comfortable and more like yourself when they are around. It’s a pleasure to be around them and they will help you to be your best.
Calm in your heart (mind) will send the same energy out across the room and space.
We wouldn’t be human if we were able to be in this state all of the time. Even on the difficult days when your energy is disrupted or things don’t go your way – choose calm over anger.
A few tips to help create your own calm and peace:
- Rethink your work or rest space at home or work. Give yourself a corner for calm
- Moving your body believe it or not, will get rid of that erratic energy and bring calm to your bodily rhythm and mind
- Get creative. Pick up a peaceful hobby like painting or music
- Music. Make yourself a playlist or five that reflect where your mood is at and encourages it to come down down down. I sometimes used the 8hr thunderstorm recording, it’s very peaceful
- Head outside and get some vitamin D in the sunshine
- Get a good nights sleep
- Try one of the many relaxation apps
- Put the devices away, especially before bed. Try reading a book
- Guppadea? Make yourself a nice hot cuppa and chill in your calm space
- Scrapbook. I’ve been looking back through my sketchbook art recently and it’s been very calming. You could make your own book or draw
- Giving of yourself. Working for others is good for the soul. Donate your time to helping a charity, volunteer organisation
- Your daily switch off mechanism. Develop your own for after work. For me it’s swimming. I swim 30 minutes each day after work and I love it. Its calming, tiring, a switch off, a cool down an indicator that it’s my other time now
When you feel calm, you’ll create peace within yourself and your surrounds and it’s a great thing for a healthy mind, body and spirit.