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Create 77: I am taking my foot off the gas {smiling}

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

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Create 72: I am curious about the world according to my Inner Being

At the end of yesterday, having played beautifully with feeling chuffed (especially while delivering training and on my walk)…

…and also having put out a range of fires and kept plates spinning (including trauma-triggered MHFA participants x5; lots of admin; charged calls from NST; a late 1.5h sibs call on prepping for the NT summit in 2 days – while also driving ASV into town late; trying to arrange a covid-compliant kids’ get-together today before ASV goes back to uni tomorrow; apparently getting my third  ‘period’ in the last month)…

… I eventually lost my shit.

It was about 11pm, when I should already have been in bed way earlier and was massively over-stimulated. I got angry – really angry and triggered – at G over something he said fleetingly.

I like to think my stress signature style is ‘withdrawal and non-comms’ but actually when the shit hits the fan and my stress container runneth over, I lash out with words, on my nearest and dearest. And I guess I know this. G and I have worked with this, and we worked through it last night, but at the cost of some ‘battery burn’.

I woke at 5am again today with the unfairness and sadness and anticipatory grief of the JF situation. I tried to align with my inner being. Where was the bit of me that is always at peace, and relaxed, and positive, and adoring, and chuffed?

When are you going to put yourself first? That is how you will create a bond with your inner being. 

Like AH talk about teaching selfishness – but not in the way we typically think of selfishness…

Yes. ‘Putting yourself first’ means not hesitating to book that qigong retreat, not hesitating to market yourself confidently… 

I’m getting there. My VA is a good starting point. My routines, and limits on work each week.

This is not what we mean. We mean: when are you going to arrange your days so they are entirely based around being in tune with your inner being? 

Well, I don’t know. What would it take?

Playfulness; going under the radar; an ongoing dialogue throughout the day, in the now now now. This is a friendship which is just beginning and will grow, especially as you become more curious about the ‘permanent state of vibrational alignment’; and as you become more habitual about moulding, moulding, moulding in the image and likeness of the perspective on the world of your inner being. 

When I close my eyes for meditation, there is concern, pain, trauma… So I’m resistant to doing so, though I know I can/do burn through that dissonance to the peace below.

There are many other ways to align with your inner being. Over time you will gain the trust that all you need do is settle into the present moment to catch the scent of your inner being. Easy, easy, easy. And then you won’t let the ‘alternative tug boat’ pull you too far in the opposite direction of your inner being. You’ll know that, the second you get the stress/sadness/upset signal, you can tip yourself back towards vibrational alignment. You will be reminded to take any negative emotion as a signal that you have shifted away from the world your Inner Being inhabits. 

And to get back to that world…?

Settle in. Get curious about the ‘world according to your Inner Being’. 

Ok. Ty. I’ll do that. Amen.

I am curious about the world according to my Inner Being

#InnerBeingSays…

#LookingThroughTheEyesOfSource

#IBCurious

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Day Notes:

  • The IB is always scanning for the next thing to be uplifted or tickled or chuffed by and then rest attention on it, baskingly
  • I loved something AH said – we can see the drama of this world as a sitcom – and honestly, when I look at some of the more out there stuff in my world, at the mo (JF, certain colleagues), calling a sitcom is just right.  I can either see J as a character from a Stephen King story (yikes!) or better, as our own Hyacinth Bucket CBE. Isn’t this a funnier, softer, warmer perspective than the alternative?:

  • Yes, obviously we need to respond according to our own needs and principles, but let’s see those driven by ego as tragi-comic rather than evil or to be feared. Gentle compassion; healthy boundaries.

[Note: isn’t it extraordinary… NT as the great published-to-be… and FT was quietly getting published in the papers on a daily/weekly basis… and SEEING people and reflecting them out to the world via her art. Publish daily is good…. But not on me… on the clients…. and their brilliance… Capture “What my clients have taught me”…]