Let’s center together, inhale as you uplift your posture, exhale softening your chest and think of something that makes you smile – extend the feeling of warmth out to fill the room and beyond.
Years ago summer was a time for vacations, for taking time with the family, traveling, camping and just plain hanging out. Now it seems that there are fewer vacations, and time off is practically non-existent. We are constantly ‘on’; we have meetings while driving and ‘working lunches’ and we are wedded to our devices. So how do we keep from being depleted, exhausted and overwhelmed? The word that I hear being used the most is resilience. Resilience implies bouncing back from a draining or negative experience, generally it implies being upbeat and cheerful in the face of challenges. So how do we do that?
I think there are two major components to resilience – the first is tapping into our Centered self. This is the part of us that allows the activity to
come through us.
Instead of making something happen from within us, we open to wisdom, compassion and courage to energize and inform our endeavors. It is the practice of accessing the zone or flow-state. We need to break the habit of doing everything ourselves. I find it helps to imagine that the flow is like a breeze at our back helping us move through the day with ease.
The second component is connected to the first – it is
not being attached to the results
. There is nothing more exhausting than feeling like something has to be right, and that we have to do it by ourselves. When we relate to the part of ourselves that lies outside our skin, when we let life force to flow through us, we feel that we are part of something bigger than our small separate selves and experience a boost of energy.
When we remember we are interconnected and that we have access to the flow state, we don’t feel so alone and isolated; we can tolerate things not going well and relax. It is not easy, we have been educated to believe that we have to do everything our selves. Practicing inviting support takes discipline. The good news is that it can be done in twenty seconds, five seconds or one second. Imagine you are porous – actually our atoms are mostly space – imagine a breeze at your back and think of those people or things that represent wisdom, compassion and courage, invite that inspiration to come through you. You don’t have to do your work all alone. Remember you are Noble, Awesome and Shiny.
Tiphani and I are so grateful to our LE community. We are looking forward to increasing connections and to more online community meetings. Thanks to technology we can see each other in countries all over the globe. We continue to grow and are grateful for the Noble, Awesome and Shiny spirits that are on the path with us.
Many blessings, Wendy and Tiphani
