East Switzerland - Nature
The true natural remedy.
I hope everybody had the Easter mini-break they wished for. I said goodbye to my skis and hello the spring.
This is what I woke up to this morning.
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope”. Bernard Williams
Amazing isn’t it?
Each morning I have the same routine; I fix my coffee and take a stroll through my living room. (Grammar Note: We Southerners fix, are fixin to, or not fixin to do things – we do not make them.)
I look out my windows over the Rhine onto the Liechtenstein Alps and am reminded of how lucky I am to live in this gorgeous Swiss valley. Each day I have a free ticket to view Mother Nature’s ever changing performance, from one curtain call to the next.
I ask the VIP’s I interview, “What do you like most about your new home?” The top three answers always includes;”the beauty of our valley – nature”.
Mary Shelly author of Frankenstein described the Alps in her 1826 novel The Last Man as “placed in scaleless altitude in the stainless sky, heaven kissing… the glorious Alps, clothed in dazzling robes of light.”
Switzerland inspired Mendelsohn to compose symphonies at age 14 and literary giants Emily Dickinson, Thomas Mann, Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Herman Hesse, and James Joyce to write masterpieces. None are more descriptive of our tiny part of Switzerland than Joanna Spyri’s, Heidi.
What will your Swiss home inspire you to do?
Perhaps you don’t feel grateful. Perhaps you suffer from homesickness, maybe even feel as though you will never fit in here. Or could it be that you believe you will be grateful one day,when your circumstances change?
What would you say if I told you I had an immediate, all natural cure? And it's free, you don’t have to tune in to the teleshopping channel.
Simply change two words in your sentence and akrabdabra, the sun begins to shines through your soul.
Replace "I'll be grateful when... happens", with "I am grateful while....
I am grateful I live in a peaceful valley while I am going through this transition. Of course, you can be grateful with fewer words. I am grateful that I'm breathing clean mountain air every day works too.
Make a list of things you appreciate that you could only experience or enjoy by living here. Start small with the little things that we normally take for granted and work your way up. It won’t take long until the medicine takes effects and you reap the rewards and feel the smile spreading through your body.
I would love to hear from you. You can share your tips and encourage those new to our valley.
© Copyright Vicki Gabathuler, 2016