I decided to send this gift out early based on the recent tragedy in Connecticut.
It's just heartbreaking and I know that people all over the world are experiencing an array of emotions. It's so crucial for us to share with one another and communicate our feelings with all of this going on. Come together and honor one another by sharing your feelings.
I felt that this "gift" was appropriateat this time.
light and love AND NAMASTE ;-)
Lauren
#1
Take Good Care of Your Feelings
Just the other day, I found myself
literally running in a circle. I was driving,
forgot where I was headed, turned
around to go home, remembered where I was going
and then turned around to come home
anyway. You ask, "well, if you remembered where
you were going, why did you turn
around?" Yes, good question. In the split second
of remembering where I was going, I
was immediately in touch with a feeling of anxiety.
I could feel tightness in my chest
and my jaw was clenched. I got home walked inside,
sat down on my couch and closed my
eyes. I took a deep breath and felt like my body
was still in motion.
"What is this feeling?" I
thought to myself. In seconds, tears were streaming down
my face. I felt an immediate feeling
of letting go and release come over my shoulders,
chest and then my whole body. The
tears kept coming, and coming. With each wave
of tears, I continued to breathe and
release them. After sitting with this for a
while along with the inquiry of
"what is this feeling?", I began to get in touch
with something. I had been spending
all of my time going and doing so much lately
and had not spent any time just to be
with myself. I had not taken any time to
just be. With this clarity, I
immediately thought about my family and my close
friends and what really mattered to
me. It wasn't about the next thing I had to
do to market my business or how I was
going to go to the store to buy something,
or what I was worried about. It all
came back to being connected to the people
I love and care about.
We are moving so fast so much of the
time that it's easy to completely neglect feelings
that may be affecting everyday
occurrences. For instance, the same day I was running
in circles, I got a phone call from
my mom and when she asked me "How are you?
I didn't hear from you last
week." I immediately reacted with anger because of
the place I was in. Instead of just
hearing that my mother misses me and wants to
know how I am.
Have you found yourself running in a
circle lately? Have you been impatient with
yourself and or others?
Try this 4
Step Exercise to
Take Care of
Your Feelings Today:
1.
Sit down for 5 minutes and just get still.
Take a long deep inhale and slow
exhale. Again. A few more after that. Just be
with the stillness. Be with whatever
comes.
2.
Now, ask yourself "What's the
feeling?"
Just be with the inquiry. Allow
whatever needs to come forward to come on it's
own. It will come. Allow it to come.
It may show up as an emotion at first, it
may not even be clear to you. That's
okay. Just be with whatever occurs. Notice
what you experience. Does your throat
get tight? Are you wanting to laugh? Cry?
Are you breathing? Do not judge, just
be. What's there? Allow it to be.
3.
See the feelings and hear what comes to you
As I allowed the tears to come, they
also came and went. I was left with a feeling
of relaxation and also a deep
yearning for wanting to relax and just be. No more
doing, just to be. It felt really
good and I was clear I had been neglecting myself
in this way. What are you seeing?
What do you hear?
It's all good, whatever it is.
4.
Create an affirmation and Acknowlege
Yourself
It was as if with my eyes closed, I
saw me standing there in front of me and I just
wanted to tell myself, "You have
nothing to prove, you do enough and now you can
relax". My affirmation for this
situation was, "You are enough, just by being".
My persistence to be a pillar of
inspiration to others is so important. Yet, I
forgot that without filling back up
again, this is not possible. Now that you
see and hear your feelings, what is
it that you need to hear? Do you need to acknowledge
yourself for something (or lots of
things). Do you need to really connect with
loving who you are? Right now, Create
an affirmation around taking care of the
feelings that you are experiencing.
Hold your
feelings in your arms and give them attention. You will see that they will
respond when you
see them,
feel them and then acknowledge them.
This is my
gift to you.
I love you and honor the divine in
you
Feel free to share your experience
with me if you try this exercise.
Forward this to someone you care
about.....
xoxoxox, Lauren
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