This poem is by Anthea Courtenay, who did the Chakra Psychology In Depth course in 2009.  Anthea is a writer, an artist and a poet, and she sent me this poem after reading the last post on Beauty & the Chakras and ageing.  I hope you enjoy it:

TRAVELLING 

Old age is another country.
You don’t think you’ll ever go there,
You certainly don’t plan to.
I don’t remember buying a ticket!
But you don’t need a ticket,
You just keep on travelling,
and suddenly you’re there.

Old age is a country whose inhabitants
discuss blood pressure and aching joints,
and repeat themselves,
and imperceptibly shrink.
A country where the names of things
slip down the back of  your brain
(Who was that actor?  His name began with a B.)
perhaps to emerge later
when you’re thinking of something else.
 
It’s a country where you need to come to terms
with those things you have done
that you wish you had not done,
and above all, those things
you have not yet done or said.
 
You don’t need a passport, just keep on travelling -
and be grateful you didn’t have to get off earlier.

Anthea   16 7 13
  

This next post is a message from your Heart Chakra in respect of Beauty.  It seems whatever we say to ourselves (especially as we age) we are Beauty anyway!

I am your Heart Chakra speaking of Beauty. 

Your Beauty lies within me.  I am your heart, the place where you hold all that is dear to you.  As you consider me you can allow the free flow of all that is beautiful to come to you.  This may be a sunset, a crystal, a landscape, a face, a feeling of love for a person, a place, an animal and so on.  Whatever it is that you focus on, it will radiate from Me.  And in that moment you become Beauty itself.  It can be no other way.  For beauty radiates beauty.  And this is timeless and has nothing to do with age or the state of your physical body.  You are Beauty manifest.  I am here – here in your heart.  Be with it now and know it is yours forever.