The mornings spent in group work with around twenty people from around the world and led by two facilitators from the Findhorn community, were sometimes exhilarating and sometimes challenging, as you are brought up (very gently) against your own areas where further growth or development is needed. It helps you to feel better about yourself and your situation and also brings a certain sparkle to those objects with which you are interacting! Resentment at having to do menial jobs can be transformed by starting to care about what you’re doing and seeking to do it as well as you can. This actually works, as it changes your consciousness towards any task, however mundane or tedious. While cleaning bathrooms, I learnt the truth of Peter Caddy’s advice that to make the best of any situation you should love where you are, love who you’re with, and love what you do. At Findhorn, each of the bathrooms has a name and even a kind of personality, which seems to be brought out through the care and attention that it receives and the little touches, such as houseplants or other simple enhancements. Now I hate housework at the best of times (which is perhaps why I had to do it) but strange to relate, I began to find a certain satisfaction in taking care of bathrooms and making them clean and shiny. So I did, and was put to work cleaning bathrooms and windows. But no, try as I might to change it, an inner voice told me that I needed to join the housecare department. I’m a keen gardener and of course had heard about the wonders of the Findhorn garden with its giant vegetables grown in little more than sand and so I had thought that I would ask to go to the garden department. When you arrive, you are asked to attune to which work department is the right one for you. So I enrolled myself in an Experience Week (the orientation programme that all newcomers to Findhorn have to do before they can take part in workshops or courses) and also signed up for the following week, which was Findhorn’s Spring Arts Festival.ĭuring the Experience Week, participants spend the mornings in group work and the afternoons with one of the work departments such as Kitchen, Dining Room, Gardening, Housecare etc. But for whatever reason, I felt a pull towards Findhorn which in retrospect I think was coming from my higher self. I suspect if I had known more about Findhorn at that time I wouldn’t have gone, as I would have dismissed it as a nest of dippy hippies with weird ideas. I went to spend two weeks in the Findhorn Foundation in the north of Scotland. It was at this very low ebb of my life that I took a decision that was to change my future direction. In 1984, when I was in my 33 rd year, I was at a point of crisis in most areas of my life, including work, marriage and other relationships.
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