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place where everyone understands what you're going through....a place where
you can be alone or be with others. A place where you don't have to remember
anyone's name or care what time it is when you feel like taking a nap......a
place where the temperature is always "just right"....where every pillow
stays cool all night....in other words, imagine the Minnie Pauz Retreat!
For
now, it's just a vision, but with all of us visualizing the same image,
we can make it happen. You can print out your own copy and display it somewhere
that you will see it every day....and someday you will see it in reality.
| Hi Dee....great photo
of the retreat! Oh....to be there now (in warm temps of course!)....getting
a massage, and sipping on a frozen marguerita! LOL Oh well,
that is my visualization!
Just wanted to let
you know, this thing about visualizations.....when I was diagnosed with
clinical depression in 1995, I was told by my therapist to "go" to my "safe
place" when I was feeling overwhelmed. My "safe place" was a walnut
tree that hung over a pond in our high pasture. There was beautiful
green grass all around, and once when I went up there (for real...not visualizing)
I dozed off under the tree....I awoke to find two does walking over to
drink from the pond.....apparently they did not know I was there, or did
not sense any danger from me. This is what I would visualize when
things got to be too much for me to handle in my life. Now, years
later...I am no longer depressed...no longer on medication for depression
(I still think it was a lack of hormones that caused the depression in
the first place...I think I was going through menopause but since I had
had a ptl. hysterectomy and had no periods for many years, it was hard
to know, and the doctors told me I was too young! I was having all
the symptoms though, and did eventually start HRT.) Sadly, we sold our
property several years ago, but even now, I can close my eyes and see my
beautiful, safe place.
Thank you for all you
do for us gals in the "prime" of life! |
The feedback about the Minnie Pauz Retreat
has been great! It seems that many of you long for the beauty and serenity
of a place like this and now I would like to ask you to share YOUR vision
and imagination. As you can see in the picture above, we are looking
IN to the retreat. We can see what the building looks like, the apparent
space that is surrounded by the walls and the numerous places where one
could stand or sit to gaze outward. Now I would like to see what you imagine
you would see if you were inside looking out the window or if you were
on one of the many decks...........send me your pictures or drawings and
I'll put them here to enrich everyone's experience with visualization.
Send by email only to dee@minniepauz.com
Here's
one that I see.....
-- Here's Carol's Special Place --
Thank you, Dee, for your visualization pictures
… that is one tranquil retreat! You would have hoards of us “pauzers”
visiting! Here is my special place – I have never been able to go
there yet, but my parents did – it is a garden at the Baha’i World Centre
in Haifa, Israel (imagine that kind of tranquility in this chaotic world!)
– it is my safe place.
Thank you for the opportunity to share, and for
your wonderful website, as we
journey forward!.........Carol A.
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