Vacation with your – Self

July is vacation time. Even if it’s been a long time since you’ve been in school, or since you’ve had kids in school, there’s something about July that begs us to take a break. Maybe it’s the heat. Who can work very hard on a hot-hot day? Maybe it’s just that we all need a change from the hum-drum every once in a while to know we’re alive.

Think back to when you were a kid. Summer was always a time to reconnect with your- self. Maybe you didn’t think about it that way back then, but don’t you remember staring out the window in science class on a nice spring day dreaming of the pleasures of a hot sunny July with nothing to do? When summer came, it always took a few weeks to get your brain downloaded, but by July you were totally connected again to your joy, your happy place, your freedom.

It almost seems cruel for adults who have to sit in offices or work in cubicles during this freedom time – this time to reconnect with our basic selves. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Even if you don’t get to take a vacation from work this month you can take advantage of summer.

Make this July a time to do something for you. After all, the most important relationship you have is the relationship you have with your – Self. That’s what we’re focusing on this month.

Do Tell: The Relationship Game creator Kathy Jacobson says it’s important to slow down and just feel into who you are. It’s the best way to jump start your relationship with your Self. “One of the things I like to do is to have people think about something good about themselves, because we aren’t used to thinking about the good stuff,” says Jacobson. “I have people come back home to who they are, their desires and their truth, instead of what somebody else says or requests or demands or thinks is right.”

Come back to who you are. When you were a kid, summer was all about self - staying up late to catch lightening bugs, splashing in the pool or laying at the beach. It was easy to find stuff to love about yourself back then. Do it again. Remember summer and you might remember a few of those things that make you – you.

The sun doesn’t go down until after 9:00 tonight, and the pool is probably open late. So, no matter what you’re doing make a little summer vacation and find yourself again.