Find Your Eden

Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all doing well. I am doing great. I was so inspired by this post on Robin Easton's Naked in Eden. I have always ran to the ocean front for my Eden. I hope you all have your Eden as well. Feel free to leave me a comment to share it with my readers and I. I am so happy that for the rest of the week I have day hours so I can go walk the waterfront that brings me so much serenity. As it say's in the song fix you by coldplay, light will guide you home. As I drove home from work tonight I was guided by a full moon or soon to be. I also find my Eden sitting on my porch on a summer's night as I stare up at the star's and moon. As I gaze upon them I am guided with my writing and inspiration comes to me so freely. So if you don't have and Eden, get one. You will be happy you did. Thank you Robin and Evita for letting me share this with all my followers, Love ya Robin hope to meet up with you in New York. I am so glad to meet you Evita, I look forward to following your Journey. As my dear friend Kimmy always ends her posts,
Love and Light
Janet :)

26April2010
A Return to Eden

Posted by Robin Easton under: Hobnobbin' with Robin.

My dear friend Evita Ochel of Evolving Beings has a deep love of Nature, which you can see in her photography here and on her site Evolving Scenes. Over the last couple of years I’ve taken great joy in getting to know Evita. She is compassionate, wise and extremely passionate about everything she does. Whenever she shares with me, I always feel like mountain air has just whooshed in and filled my heart with fresh innocence. Today she talks about a beautiful dream that she’s now turning into reality; she is returning to Eden. Her dream is one that I too have lived, much of my life. And like Evita, I will again return to Eden because Eden is who I am.

















A Return to Eden

My name is Evita. Throughout my life, I have also gone by Eva and Eve, which are all variations of the same name, depending on different times in my life. Bottom line, the name on my birth certificate translates to the name “Eve” as in the Biblical character who so called “messed things up” in Eden.

Personally I don’t think the Bible story went quite like the way so many of us were taught at one time or another in our lives, but I won’t get into a religious debate here (or anywhere else for that matter). That is not what this article or I am all about.

What I want to share with you, and specifically here – on my beloved friend Robin’s site and perfectly so named “Naked in Eden” – is a piece of a very special journey I am taking. I am going back to Eden.

Where is Eden?

To me “Eden” is anywhere where the natural and spiritual world merge to uncover our highest potential. It is a place that is not governed by physical obsessions or material possessions. It is a heavenly place, a blissful place – a place where we can actually feel our soul and hear our heart.

Each one of us has our own “Eden” – and just as each and every garden grows, matures, changes and evolves – our “Eden” can change throughout our existence as well.

My Journey to Eden

A few months ago, I started to entertain the idea of selling off most of our stu
My Journey to Eden

A few months ago, I started to entertain the idea of selling off most of our stuff and leaving the quaint and comfortable life of the suburbs for a more natural lifestyle. I was getting a call from Mother Nature, and I couldn’t refuse her call.

As time progressed, that call got stronger and stronger. This is not to say that I did not throughout this time entertain my share of doubts and questions. The “Ego” after all is not a fan of radical change, especially change that will alter, completely at times, what it knows about itself.

When I surrendered my heart and soul, and kept the noisy world and all of its fears and doubts out, I was sure of what I needed and wanted to do.

In a span of not even one month, my husband and I have sold our house, one of our two cars, most of our furniture and some of our clothes. We were minimalists to begin with, so this sort of purging felt almost eerie, and yet so deliciously good and freeing.

I have embarked on a journey that has already begun to completely change me and my life and will only continue to do so even more.

My Eden

So where is “my Eden”? I have to tell you, I am completely humbled and inspired by Robin for her life in the Rainforests and have seriously considered such an experience myself. My “Eden” currently however, will be in a semi-remote place in a beautiful forest, off of a lake in Ontario.

There is something within my inner being that is calling me to experience the stillness, beauty and awe of life in nature. For the past few years, my utmost love for nature, our environment and this Earth has been growing, and today I am reaping those changes in a profound way. And don’t get me wrong, I will still have a house, but it will be a very different house, in a very different place. I will still visit cities, but this is where my roots will be – at least for now.

I want to drink fresh, mountain spring water and grow my own vegetables. I want to wake up to the birds and nothing but the birds each morning. I want to melt with the water, and dance under the open sky. I want to talk to the trees and play with the chipmunks. I want to experience walking barefoot, if only on the grassy part around my home, to feel Gaia’s touch beneath me. I want to be mesmerized by the night sky, full of more stars than perhaps grains of sand in this world. I want to feel the elements of air, fire, water and Earth on a regular basis.

This is my Eden, and it feels good to be back.

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I am so grateful to Robin for being such a tremendous inspiration in my life up to this point, and for this chance to share a bit of my journey here in her space.

How about you: Where is your “Eden”? What life altering changes have you perhaps considered or made, and who or what inspired you to do so?

About the author: Evita Ochel, B.Sc., B.Ed., CHN – is the main author of Evolving Beings where she writes about spiritual and personal evolution, and Evolving Wellness where she writes about optimal nutrition and holistic health. She inspires people to live consciously in every area of their lives and awaken to their highest potential, for best health and happiness. She is also the photographer and author of Evolving Scenes – a site dedicated to capturing the natural beauty of our planet.

Janet Gardner Says:
Hi Robin and Evita, My Edan is and always has been the waterfront. I have been going there since I was a young teenager to talk to my higher power and listen for answers questions in my life. I walk the Plymouth ma waterfront every night at sunset and all I can do is smile. Everyone should have an Eden. I would love to share this on my blog if it is ok with you. You have inspired me today to tears. I would like to share that with my followers. I wish you much happiness on your journey, please continue to share.
Love
Janet :)

Evita Replies:
Hello Janet
It is so wonderful to meet you here on Robin’s welcoming site! As one of my favorite elements, I can completely understand your love for water. And absolutely you have my permission to share this, and I assume it will be okay with Robin too. Many blessings to you and thank you for sharing in this first step of mine!

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