How was your weekend? Mine sent me the strangest of messages of how I can help others with Healing with Photography, yet it came with a twist. As the realisation dawned that I could help a specific group of people to achieve their ambitions in future years, instead of, as is currently happening, letting their head drops, so dropped the other shoe; it would be helping a sports team who are one of the main rivals of the team that I support.
Though as I saw the men, at the end of the game they’d just lost, looking dejected and in the mental zone of feeling that their season is over when there are still several games to go, my heart went out to them. As I was making dinner late that night, I heard a voice say you could help them and stop them ever getting into that place again of not believing in their abilities. That was when the division inside me started! When I see someone in pain I want to help as I presume we all do, yet helping them could be to the detriment of the team I have followed since I was a teenager.
I even went to bed thinking about what to do about this dilemma. I realised though as I dropped off to sleep that it doesn’t matter what my personal ego problems are, these are people that I know without a doubt that I can help, stopping them feeling worthless, powerless or defeated. And I know those feelings as my sports team have lost many things over the years; I understand that pain of a supporter and see all too palpably the pain of the player.
Just as I am typing this and listening to an interview on Healing with Masters with Dr Wayne Dyer, as a sign of synchronicity he is just talking about “Inspiration is when an idea gets a hold of you and takes you to where you were intended to go in the first place.”
I’m taking it as a sign and am picking up the phone to the club as soon as I finish writing this article. So then, once again as I take a few days off from work and try and switch off, new ideas for the business surface, not just this one, and it takes me all my energy not to rush back and do some work. I’m assuming it’s the same for us all? It was a very wonderful feeling though, as yesterday I was driving to meet a new client, that I was back to work and doing something that I love to do.
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Living in the beautiful rural county of Yorkshire it was perhaps natural for Ruth to have an affinity with the countryside and its wildlife. Creativity is Ruth’s driving force finding an outlet in television & radio she worked for many years as producer for BBC & ITV.
However a love of photography and for being surrounded by nature called her to go back to her photography training and bring pleasure and joy to people through her connection with our planet.
Staying in the moment when taking her images allows her to experience the natural magnificence unfolding before her eyes. It is this moment of mediation, of gratitude, that she evocatively conveys through her images.