Stepping Off the Hamster Wheel of Life

Does your life feel like you are on a hamster wheel that you continually turn by running harder and harder and harder.

The more you run, the faster that wheel keeps turning!

We are part of a huge master plan that involves 95% of the world working to keep the other 5% toasty and rich.

This whole idea of manifesting and creating change and designing the life you CAN love has it's limitations and we have to be aware of that.

Manifesting coaches make it sound like all of us can have it all.

We CAN make changes but we may not be able to be rich in the financial sense.
There is a deeper richness that IS available to many more of us.

That is the richness of life itself.

The richness that there is in appreciating what we have and knowing when we are feeding the big greedy machine that serves only a few.

We have become consumers.

We use things to fill the holes and the gaps in our life hoping that those things will make us happy.

As secret witches, of course there are things we cannot live without - our crystals and our books!

That is the delight of being a witch - we allow ourselves to be constantly learning and expanding our world.

We are ONE STEP AHEAD of the rest.

Now, we need to also accept that part of our life will always be part of the bigger circle of being in this world at this time - we will always have responsibilities and we will always need goods and services.

But we can also learn to say NO to things that hurt the planet and all of life on it.

We need to reuse when we can and also to know that sometimes we cannot have the very best and the newest.

Because of our mad desire to have the newest iphone, a worker in China has to wipe 700 screens a day with a liquid that is cancerous.

Because of our need to have everything wrapped in the supermarket we are creating so much landfill that the Earth is groaning under out waste.

Because of our need for new clothes every season children work in sweat shops in third world countries.

But.....do we really want that or is it being forced upon us so we think we want it?

We can actively STOP consuming these things at the current rate.

We can say no.

This is a start and in doing so it is another way of conjuring change.

Every little thing - EVERY LITTLE THING - makes a difference.