Mmmm, yes – I needed that serenity sitting with me yesterday.
I was teaching suicide prevention to frontline staff of a homelessness and prison resettlement service… My word, the beautiful, powerful, compassionate work those strong souls do. And the troubled, passionate, life-challenged souls that they serve… Talk about the frontline – the frontline of human development through fast-track learning, evolving, burning through the old contracts…
Then I led a network meeting for 35 new Mental Health First Aiders at a university.
It’s all online of course, which is a complete blessing – but it’s also so, so intense. I’m on my knees with tiredness, over-stimulation and… a full stress container. I know it’s full because I’ve been on the verge of snapping, only with my darling G of course, quite a bit. I had to take myself off to bed for a break while he was cooking as I couldn’t handle making weekend plans. The new easing of lockdown is adding so many other factors and complexities and dilemmas of handling, for example, energy levels, infection risk, rule-bending, rule-of-6 considerations, inside/outside meeting (in the cold)…………… :/ And it’s all affecting my sleep too.
So, yes, SERENITY was a welcome companion when she was available yesterday. In my training I was talking endlessly about self-soothing and self-care. Need to apply to self, right?
And you are applying those principles to self, sweet soul, you are – right here and right now.
What is the will of your Inner Being right now?
Ha! Good question. I barely dare ask it in case it says, ‘Screw it all, let’s take the day off!’. So, IB, what is your will right now?
#InnerBeingSays: Screw it all, let’s take the day off!
Very funny. 🙂
#InnerBeingSays: En serio. Let’s admit how well we’ve done in the last few days, weekends, weeks, months… And take the foot off the gas for the day. You gave yourself a huge cold sore this week; you’re now on the verge of a sore throat from stress.
Hear the message from your body: “Foot off the gas!”
What does that even mean?
Let’s go in…
***18min Med via Insight Timer***
https://insighttimer.com/insightearth_/guided-meditations/quietness-with-russell-brand
A meditation on this poem by Rumi:
Russell Brand writes: In this short beautiful poem, Rumi was able to put into words the experience of annihilating and transcending beyond the individualized sense of the self. There is a quietness behind the frantic running, and freedom is whole and complete.
There was a moment in the guided meditation where Russell Brand asked us to approach ourselves with an attitude of ‘kindness and reverence’. It made me cry. Yes. This. Reverence. I miss that part of life… I disown this modern day reverence towards the noise, the ‘frantic running from silence’!
“Your way begins on this other side. Become the sky.”
“Inside this new love, die.” Die to self, ego, worldly warriorship…
I long for our modern mysticism. This is what fills me. The Abraham-Hicks, the Carolyn Myss, the Pema Chodron, the Matt Kahn, the Russell Brand, the Anita Moorjani… The true modern mystics. Let THIS be my world. Amen.
And it is.
I’m exhausted by living in a world that assumes this sensory plane is all that there is. Exhausted. As RB said in the meditation, when we sit within that ‘wave of consciousness’ for a while, we are gently being healed of trauma, stress, pain. Yes! That plane of abundance, of qi, of pranic substance – it’s there for us. Let’s ALL live in it. Let’s all cease and desist running around worshipping the cult of stress and exhaustion…. SHOW ME HOW to convert my life thus, for good, dear Inner Being of my Soul and Heart. Show me how to live the life of the modern mystic. Amen. Amen. Amen.
First: give up ‘doing’. In other words, rebalance – more being; less doing.
Ok. And what constitutes ‘being’? Does it include… eg. relaxing watching TV?
Nope.
Social media?
Nope.
Reading a book..?
Yep – to a degree and depending on the book. Reading a book is an ACTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS EVENT emerging from your will and intention. Absorbing TV and social media are passive consumption, or active unconsciousness.
Sitting and visually stimming?
100%
Lying on the grass with my eyes closed?
100%
So ‘being’ is not completely ‘non-doing’… but it is…
Being in vibrational alignment with the Inner Being. It generally involves some form of surrender to listening, basking, receiving, witnessing, being tickled by…
So, is it passive or active?
It’s receptive. It is being receptive. That is your antidote to having your foot on the gas.
So ‘taking my foot off the gas’ is a good first step to ‘being receptive’.
It’s a great starting point and practice. Know that whatever you do in the spirit of the modern mystic bears good unto your being.
This ‘modern mystic’ phrase…
Think more of ‘modern mysticism‘ if you like… It’s broader, and less like naming of individual gurus! It means: leaning into consciousness in a wildly consciousness-frazzled world. Now that’s wild card, rebel behaviour. And it’s exactly what your Inner Being is after. Lovely stuff.
Ok. So I’m going to practise taking my foot off the gas today, and see what happens. Right?
Right! Lovely. Enjoy it. Feel it in your body. This is serenity on steroids if you’ll forgive the obvious tautology of that statement. We’re just here to make you smile. Smiling is a great way to take your foot off the gas, sweet soul. <3
🙂 Yes. Ty. xxx
I am taking my foot off the gas {smiling}
#FOGS