Accepting messages from nature: My Social Media Sabbatical

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Hello, gorgeous. And a warm welcome to Accepting. I'm Aline, your host.

I'm a coach, a channel, and a mentor and I love to see highly sensitive people and empaths of all walks of life flourish.

In this episode, I'm going to be sharing with you my decision to have a social media sabbatical and how messages from nature have been really inspiring me and I hope they will inspire you too. So grab yourself a cup of tea, get yourself cozy and let's dive in.

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So for those of you who are watching this, you may notice we're not inside, we're outside. We're under the tree of love. We're in the, with the elements. It's absolutely gorgeous.

And those of you who are listening, I really hope you feel the energy as well because it's so, so, so, so beautiful. And I made the decision, I shared on social media that I was going to do this.

I made the decision to have one month sabbatical of off social media to really allow to feel what works for me. And I talk about this so much in my podcast. It's so important that we find out what works for us and not everybody else for us.

So I'm walking my talk, I'm listening to the messages that are for me as well, and I'm really diving into feeling what feels right for me in this energy. With the eclipse, we've got the full moon coming up.

As highly intuitive empaths, as empaths, as highly sensitive people, our senses are absolutely heightened. We're already very, very sensitive.

With the, the solar eclipse energy that we had recently and then the full moon coming up and all the changes going on in the world, it is very, very easy to get caught up in almost like a fear mongery panic cycle. So it's so important to ground ourselves, it's so important to feel into what works for us.

Hence me being outside with the tree of love in the garden, bare feet, on the floor, on the ground. Now I haven't been outside all day. I have actually been inside and I've been really feeling all the energies of what's going on.

Like many of you, I've been having some very, very bizarre sleep patterns and my message that I received for that was just go with the flow, just allow it to happen.

So if you're, if you're in the middle of the day and you feel like you need to, to just have a moment, take yourself away and just have five or ten minutes just to, just to really, really connect again. And if you can, if you're at work and you can go and you can have your, your break outside, find a tree somewhere.

If you're at work and you can't necessarily find a tree or leave the building, hopefully there's a plant somewhere where you work, where you can just go and sit with that plant, close your eyes and be connected there. Or if you're finding that's a little tricky and there aren't any plants in your office, I would really invite you to.

If you can just take a crystal with you and then walk away with the crystal in your hand and connect with that crystal because that is connecting as well. It's disconnecting to reconnect. And I know we're doing it to the nth degree with a one month social media sabbatical.

It's because I want to show up in my flow. I want to show up and share the messages that are not just for me, they are for everybody.

All highly intuitive empaths, all sense highly sensitive people. We are receiving more and more messages as we connect further and further and deeper and deeper with the elements.

And I've been lucky enough for the past 15 years or so to be studying with my incredible mentors, the Golden Hummingbird and Universal Mastermind.

And even with that training, even with those studies, we still have to really check in on ourselves because it can be so easy to just be doing, doing, doing, busy, busy, busy, busy. And this is what had happened to me. It was like, I have to do this, I have to do this, I have to do that. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

And there is an episode where I talk about not having to do, choosing to do. So I am choosing to have one month away from social media and feel into the messages of nature.

So what happened, the beautiful messages that, that happened in the last few days are to do with bunny rabbits. It's quite, I kind of thought yesterday, yesterday, the day before yesterday. Will the Easter bunnies come early then?

So what has happened was, first of all, I'm very connected with my cats. Very connected with my cats.

For those of you who do follow me on social media or who've watched any of the, of the, the videos, you'll often see that my cats are with me. In fact, earlier I was lying with my legs up outside and one of my cats was lying basically from my sacral chakra all the way up to my heart chakra.

And another cat, one of my Cats was lying underneath me, so she was covering my root chakra. So I needed grounding and I needed my chakras balancing. Basically, that's what my cats were saying to me.

And I needed to be out in nature with my legs up because I'll be doing a lot of feet down. And it's really important personally for me because of the various things that.

That are important for me to manage that I do have my legs up for 10 or 15 minutes. And it's really. It's so good for the hips, it's so good for the hips, it's so good for the back. So that's what I was doing. And I've been re.

Really reminded to go back to what feels right for me, you know, so it's not waking up and oh, I have to do this, I have to do this. It's. What am I choosing to do? So T. Gray my. One of my gorgeous fur babies the other day, we'd had a lot, a lot of rain.

And I saw him and he has this way of sitting as this. You know, it's like that old kind of comical expression when somebody whistles, looks the other way. It's like, I'm not guilty.

I haven't done anything. And he has. His way of doing this is that I've done nothing, Mum. So I popped outside to see what he was hiding. And I saw as I approached, some.

Some little black feathers. And I thought, okay.

And generally what happens is when they don't do it so much anymore because we've had a conversation, if there are ever any gifts of birds or other animals, I take them and I say thank you very much for your life. And I give them. Give them back to nature. And so I was preparing myself with this little bundle of feathers that I saw.

And as I approached, ready to scoop the little one up and to do, you know, my thank you and to take. Take them back to the earth. They were moving and so I scooped them up. They were absolutely soaked. And it's not great for birds to be.

To be wet at all. It's really not good for them. So I took. And it was a baby bird. So I took the baby bird inside and just very, very gently.

I didn't look anything up on. On any search engines. It's like, okay, you just have to feel into this and just get on with it.

So I got a little bit of my toweling robe and just very, very gently started patting down to get rid of that dampness. And. And then I checked the claws and one of the claws was a little bit twisted back. So I put on some beautiful music, which is healing.

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So I put the healing music on and then I had the little bird in my hand and I moved the claw very gently, very, very gently back. And I had. Had a log. I have a, I have a log. It's like a little yule log that I have inside.

So I put the yule log out and I put the, the baby bird on the log so I could see how we were doing. And the, the baby bird was a little bit skew whiff. So we, we went back on my hand and, and I was really feeling okay.

So I'm just gonna stay with you if it's your time to pass or I'm gonna stay with you and if you need to stay with me for a few days. And then I remembered, oh, no, I'm supposed to be at my friend's house for her birthday in two.

Two hours, I think it was, or actually might have even been an hour. And so I was feeling into this and I thought, okay, well, maybe I can take the bird in a box. That's okay. And I have the bird with me.

And because I didn't want to leave the bird behind because we know whenever there's a, an animal, a poor little soul from nature, it's really important if they're babies, to try and be with them as much as possible because there's going to be needs there. And it already started opening his little beak. So, so that was the, that was, that, that was the situation.

And then I realized, well, actually, my friend has two dogs. I'm not entirely sure how that's gonna go showing up with, with, with, with the baby bird in a box. I thought, right, I'm just gonna.

And I was feeling interest, like, how, how do I explain this? It's her birthday. How do I explain this? You know, I've, I've. Of course I want to be there. I also want to help this bird.

So anyway, in that moment, there was a message on my phone from my friend saying, actually, I'm running a bit late. Can you come half an hour later? Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And, and then I started feeling into. And I, and I put the.

Had the baby bird back on my hand and started really communicating with images. And I saw this image of this little black baby bird flying from my hands. My My palms like this, flying from my hands and basically flying away.

And about two minutes after I sent this image, the little one started flapping his wings, his or her wings, their wings, and started flying around the bathroom. Really small little flights.

So I was thinking, right, okay, you may need even more help, because the way you're flying isn't going to get you up into that tree. So anyway, I kept the faith. I trusted. And then the. The. The. The bird started kind of going out the bathroom into another room, and then start.

Started going out into the main area of the house where there were one of the cats called Mr. Wapo. Mr. G. He found us. He's a story for another time. He found us when he wasn't very well and he's firmly got his paws under the table.

Yeah, he found us. They do. Cats find us. And so I was very aware that he was very interested in what was going on. And the poor bird kept flying at the window.

So there was me trying to catch the bird before Mr. G got to the bird, trying to communicate to the bird that you really need to be in my hands.

And I'm gonna put my hand over there really gently, because if you fly away, you might be flying away into the jaws of one of my fur babies. So all this going on, and then I just relaxed. And as I visit, as I felt, I. I visibly relaxed. The bird just jumped into my hand.

The little baby bird jumped into my hand. I placed my hand over because I asked for help. I actually said, please, just help me to get this baby bird back to nature. And that's what happened.

I was given help. So the little baby bird jumped back into my hand, put my hand over, and we went outside. And I thought, okay, well, let's go to this hedge.

Let's see how he does she or she. They get on with the hedge. And actually what happened was I outstretched my.

My hands, and it was the image that I had seen of the baby bird flying really, really, really far, much farther than it being these little jump spurts and just going up as high as possible up into one of the olive trees in the garden. It was gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. And for me, that message was, you know, we hear about. It's like the caged bird. We hear about if. If you've got.

If you've got a bird in your hand and you're holding it like this, it's going to want to release and struggle and go away. And for me, it was about. It was about letting things go, and it was about trust as well. It's about moving on. And, and birds are ancestors.

So oftentimes our ancestors are coming to give us messages as well. This happens to me rather a lot. So with the baby bird story, the baby bird, my takeaways for that were can you hear the birds now?

My takeaways for that were go with the flow, trust and connect with nature, Connect with your heart.

Because when I was holding this little baby bird originally, I just felt all the love in my heart with the healing music on, going towards, towards the baby bird. And, and that for me was, and it was the trust element. It was, okay, I'm supposed to be leaving soon to go to my friend's house.

Then I get a message, can you come half an hour later, I send an image and I visualize and I, it was, it wasn't that I was sitting there and putting an intention of a visualization out there. I saw the image, I was given that image to give to the baby bird of the encouragement of flying high. And that is exactly what happened.

So that was the, the first incident with the baby bird. The following day, slightly sadder story. A tigre had a rabbit and rabbits are creativity.

So I was reminded in that moment of time to be a bit more creative mum. So I did the, the thank yous with this practically perfect little bunny who had, who had just passed.

And what had happened is before then I was on my computer doing something and a beautiful butterfly had come up at the window and I didn't go outside.

I carried on with what I was doing and I don't know, had I have come out as soon as that butterfly was at the window, perhaps that I could have saved the, the baby bunny. The important element of this is not shoulda, woulda, coulda, it's feeling into the messages.

So I was reminded it's, it's really important to connect with nature and it's really important to connect with my creativity. So that was the following day. Now then yesterday I was in my, my morning, my, my morning practice, my morning routine, I guess.

And it was really beautiful because social media sabbatical, I wasn't feeling, oh, I have to put this video there, I have to put this video here. I have to do this. I didn't have a big tick list going on in my head and so I just went outside. I was told just to go outside.

What I've been trying to do is to go for a sunrise walk and we didn't quite make it yesterday or today actually. And so, oh well, I haven't made it and Then the lovely lady who, who helps with the house is coming.

So I need to do this, this, this, this and this before she comes and prepares and said, no, Eileen, just go outside. So I did and my beautiful Cleo followed me. She's my gorgeous fur baby girl.

She's 16 years young and she's been with me in England, in Barcelona, in Andalucia and in Andalucia again. She's a, she's a. She's my traveling pal, bless her, and I love her very, very dearly. So she was out with me and it was beautiful.

We just had this really beautiful moment of calm and stillness because we didn't have our phone with us, we weren't recording at. To show what was happening, you know, with the sunset or. That'll be a nice photograph for people to see. Oh yes, I think people would like that.

We were just in that moment.

And again, taking my own advice from the messages, it's really important to go outside without our phones and instead of like, oh, somebody like that picture, somebody like that picture. Have the picture for you, have the memory for you. And then if you want to take a photograph, maybe take a photograph.

At first though, I would really recommend just going outside without your phone because it's so tempting to just start looking through messages because you know that that's how they've been designed for, you know, to notify us so we're back into that world instead of this beautiful, natural, gorgeous world around us.

So Cleo, Cleo and myself, we were outside and I then noticed two of my other fur babies again, Tigre and Senor Wapo were in one of the patios and I walked over to them to see what was going on. They were both very, very interested in something. And very sadly there had already been, I can only describe it really as the Osiris effect.

There had already been another rabbit that possibly another cat or maybe them had had caught. Cuz cats are predators, they hunt. And so for me, when again the, the creativity, oh no, I'm just not doing enough on the creative side.

And again, my intention is to take the b. The, the, the rabbit as much as I can and say thank you very much and back to the earth.

And then I realized that there was this little, little fluffy bunny, teeny, tiny fluffy bunny in the patio and the cats, and it wasn't moving. So the cats weren't necessarily interested, they were just watching.

So at this point I had my dressing gown, white dressing gown on and a big kind of furry throw that I just chuck over myself when I'm going outside.

And so I went down the steps to the patio, and I'm pretty sure the baby bunny thought, oh, my God, what's this massive great big cat coming towards me? And cats as well. I. I read this article which was really, really interesting that cats see us as a bigger cat.

And so they were probably waiting for me to finish the. Finish the hunt, if you like.

And when we go for our walks, it's, you know, and then they're fed afterwards, like, oh, yes, Mummy has got the hunts, not, you know, that she's gone to the supermarket and got the packet. She's gone for the hunt and got our food. So I'm vegan, by the way. So when we, when we.

Because Cleo followed me as well when we started walking towards the patio, my instant was like, oh, no, I really have to get this rabbit quick. And so I walked down the stairs, got to the bunny, the baby bunny, teeny, teeny, tiny.

First of all, I thought it might have been like a dormouse with massive ears. It's just a really tiny bunny. And the. The patio is in a. In a crescent shape. And it started running around. Oh, no.

And this piqued the interest of the other cats.

So this poor little baby bunny is running around the patio where a previous relative probably has passed, and he's got these two great big cats going after him. Then there's me, the giant cat, arriving. And so I managed to get the cats out the way.

And I was there for about 20 minutes, to be fair, and I was trying to go really, really gently, and then also to keep the cats out the way, because I knew if I went to try and take one of the cats and put them inside and then the other one, then that was just leaving the space open for one of the cats to get the baby bunny. So what I did was I kept them out the way as much as I could.

And then I also, I started trying to move the furniture so the baby bunny didn't have a space to hide, really. And poor little thing was in. In the corner trying to dig. Dig their way out. And anyway, this went on for about 10, 15 minutes.

And I thought, okay, this is ridiculous. I'm gonna have to take. I'm gonna have to throw something on the bunny to catch the bunny so I can keep the cats away.

And then at least I've got the baby bunny contained. I'm saying baby a lot in this episode. And then I can take the. The bunny back to the burrow.

She was family so in this moment, I write, okay, so take off my first, my big furry throw thing. And then I just have my white bathrobe on.

And then I remembered something that one of my incredible fosters, one of my incredible mentors, Shaman Foster Perry, has said is that animals like either like you in a similar color as they are, or naked. So by me taking off this fur throw, okay, I wasn't naked. I was white. It was a, it was a much purer energy of the white energy.

And then the, the bunny was kind of running and I managed to just put my hand on because I, I was told if you can just get your hand on the bunny, it can feel your energy, it will know you' so we did that. And I said, how am I going to pick it up then? So I had the throw in my hand, ready to throw. And then the bunny just stopped and had a little wash.

And I thought, ah, that's a good sign. Very relaxed, trusting. We like that. That's very nice. So then I carried on. I thought, right, okay, tried to approach again.

No, too, too slow or didn't get there in time. And the baby bunny was running around. So this went on for a while. And then I just stopped.

And the baby bunny stopped and actually came and just sat by my shoe that I was wearing. She sat by my foot. And then there was just this again, just this immense calm.

And I gently bent down to try again with my hand and this wasn't happening. And then what happened was the baby bunny jumped towards the steps and then started jumping up the steps out of the patio.

And so what I then did was I guided the baby bunny up the steps, out of the garden into another garden. The cats didn't have a clue what was going on. So I was out. And the baby bunny was saved. And it was really, really beautiful.

And what was hilarious for me was the cats were still looking for Bunny in the patio because it wouldn't have probably possibly occurred to them that I had, you know, kind of. That the bunny had said, right, you're going to help me get me up these steps and out the way. That's what you're here to do.

You don't need to pick me up, just guide me. And that for me, was really gorgeous. And then my insights, feeling into that again was creativity. And the fact that the baby bunny was small.

So it's like when we're going into those first feelings of a, of a creative project is not trying to grasp it, is not trying to push it into a corner, is not trying to throw something on it to, you know, to make it kind of catch it. It's guided, it's allow it.

Put ourselves in a beautiful relaxed space and guide that creativity and be guided as well and listen to the messages around us of being guided and being abused for relaxed flow and listen when we're in our creative process. So they are my insights for my first week of social media sabbatical. I hope you enjoyed the stories and I hope you were inspired.

If you would like to hear more then tune in for the next episode next week and also let me know if there's anything that you would like me to cover as well.

In the next few weeks I'm feeling very much it's going to be outside and I'll be sharing messages with of nature with you because there's, there's a lot more that's been happening.

So I hope you enjoyed this and if you would like to get in touch with joining please do this and by email of accepting love align with alene.com please. Even though we're not on social media, we are still here.

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