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Good Day!
I recently took my annual 5 day break. It's nothing crazy... I go to a hotel room and stay there for 5 days lol.
During this time I journal, read, and practice. I also walk and exercise daily. I use my phone and laptop very sparingly.
This year's focus was on anchoring deeply into fundamental wellbeing. To me this means presence. It means stillness and an underlying constant of joy and lightness. Where creativity and purpose emerge, but fulfilment comes from within and not with what we do.
I was very familiar with this constant for about a decade, but more recent years in my life made this place more difficult to anchor in.
Sure, It can be hard to anchor in this space in 'real life'... when you're not alone for 5 days in a hotel room lol
Much of our daily routines seem bogged down by our situation of life, the internet, world events, past traumas, relationships, work etc. So much so that we miss out on the now. And the joy of presence.
As I've seen in myself and in my client work, sometimes the fastest way back to presence is to simply stop feeding our thoughts/mind.
I'll explain..
When we stop feeding the incessant cycles of analysis, worry, comparison, blame, victimization, and right and wrong that are always going on in the mind, we glimpse peace and aliveness in our being.
The more we practice and "take out the garbage in the mind," the more we build the muscle of being.
We can often blame the government and social media for how we feel in life, when in fact we have much more power over how we feel than we realize.
Sure, we have situations and challenges to acknowledge and take action on, but that's all that needs to be done... acknowledge and take action. The constant thoughts, worry, storytelling and replaying create unnecessary suffering.
Further, we might be trying to hear an intuition within ourselves, or gain a sense of creativity or production toward something we might be trying to solve, yet with all the noise in our mind and emotion feeding more noise, signal is hard to hear.
What thoughts are you incessantly feeding? What lived experience is coming from incessant thought? Does it produce more emotion and in turn emotion more thought? Does it produce tension and less energy? Is there fundamental joy and beingness?
What would it be like to simply come back to your senses for a moment and just feel the energy in your body? The aliveness in your cells? Can you sense it? Feel it? Can you simply be the observing awareness of this?
What would it be like to anchor in this more regularly? To build this muscle instead of the one built around constant thinking, worrying and comparison?
The quickest way to feel lighter is to reduce the incessant cycles of thoughts we have.
When you notice yourself doing this, come back to your breath. Use your senses to notice this moment. Feel the energy in your body and just observe.
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