Dear Sarah--how I steady myself nowadays has been thanks to my flip phone. I threw away my smartphone. All my friends and family don't get it/are mad/don't understand. But it has changed my life. I actually see, hear, think, and feel what humans are meant to see, hear, think, and feel. Life is not as overwhelming as we think it is. I urge more people join.
We lived on a hillside in KY and my Dad who was a successful business man had a certain melancholy. There was a ledge behind our house and an outcropping of fossils. Mostly acorns and such. He loved his fossils and liked to find new ones. It spoke to him of another time and another place. In those days perhaps we could not see that far down the road. (We only got 3 channels of the TV and the reception was not that good). The stones reminded him of a distant time and a future hope. I have one of the fossils with his initials carved in it. It is my most precious gift. However, I'm not sure I could have gotten my Dad to hug a tree but he did put me in the health food store business when I needed help. I really like your posts. I will continue to follow.
Write, slow down and look at the little things outside - ants , spiders, flowers...anything to stop and gain perspective on what is happening here and now.
Hi Sarah, love the pulse in and out metaphor. I do this by feeding back my actual pulse, a sort of biofeedback to maintain my balance. After a swim today, my day was made by a beautifully joyous 3 year old singing in the supermarket asking me where to find the Vegemite. Too cute 😁
I wish I've found a way to not completely hate humanity. it's hard. what has worked best for now is staying off social media. staying away from the internet. then you only see what's right in front of you and it's just so much more real
I dance. Good music. Or any music. It's about shifting the weight from my thoughts and just moving in a joyful way. I do this at work with my work family as we are all feeling more than we want to and it just helps. Be in a moment. Make everything smaller. And dance. ❤
I was on the viewing bridge at the water preserve a little before sunset on a sunny day. There are trails around the preserve and this black guy comes walking by and yells back at me "more light?" and I thought about it for a minute and said, "yeah!" He said, "You get it?" and I said 'yeah, again" for I surely did get it. I've had other park experiences like the young black girl hugging a tree and I said "that's nice" and she said she felt like the tree needed it. Keep hugging the trees and and broadcasting the light! "Get it?"
I slow down, keep the senses as wide open as I can....and try and remember this is it, this is life passing through me. And everything becomes all the more vivid and alive. X
Right now I’m steadying myself listening to the heavy rain outside my window, so beautiful when I’m lucky to be safe and dry inside. Last night I relished the sight of a pregnant squirrel, courtesy of a FB share, flat on her back in her nest, belly breathing in and out, legs splayed in complete surrender to sleep. And I draw enormous comfort from listening to my favourite podcasts, (you and Fearne Cotton rock 😊), meditation apps and audio books.
I have joined an ice bath community and once a week we all get together and sit in a big tub of ice. It resets my thoughts and feelings in such a profound way. Each week I feel this build up of strong and anxious tension and it is released when I next submerge in the ice. The people are open and welcoming and this has really helped me reconnect. Its like it pulls your brain back from the overwhelm and into your body. Highly recommend.
Ah, I just keep loving my family. So simple, but that is the most impactful thing I think I can do in this situation. Russia in our neighbor country, that's a lot to cope with.
Birds aren't real and a new "vibe shift"
Dear Sarah--how I steady myself nowadays has been thanks to my flip phone. I threw away my smartphone. All my friends and family don't get it/are mad/don't understand. But it has changed my life. I actually see, hear, think, and feel what humans are meant to see, hear, think, and feel. Life is not as overwhelming as we think it is. I urge more people join.
We lived on a hillside in KY and my Dad who was a successful business man had a certain melancholy. There was a ledge behind our house and an outcropping of fossils. Mostly acorns and such. He loved his fossils and liked to find new ones. It spoke to him of another time and another place. In those days perhaps we could not see that far down the road. (We only got 3 channels of the TV and the reception was not that good). The stones reminded him of a distant time and a future hope. I have one of the fossils with his initials carved in it. It is my most precious gift. However, I'm not sure I could have gotten my Dad to hug a tree but he did put me in the health food store business when I needed help. I really like your posts. I will continue to follow.
Write, slow down and look at the little things outside - ants , spiders, flowers...anything to stop and gain perspective on what is happening here and now.
Hi Sarah, love the pulse in and out metaphor. I do this by feeding back my actual pulse, a sort of biofeedback to maintain my balance. After a swim today, my day was made by a beautifully joyous 3 year old singing in the supermarket asking me where to find the Vegemite. Too cute 😁
Thankyou for bringing the climate crisis into the Ukraine conflict. It’s so important we keep this front abs center still.
I wish I've found a way to not completely hate humanity. it's hard. what has worked best for now is staying off social media. staying away from the internet. then you only see what's right in front of you and it's just so much more real
I dance. Good music. Or any music. It's about shifting the weight from my thoughts and just moving in a joyful way. I do this at work with my work family as we are all feeling more than we want to and it just helps. Be in a moment. Make everything smaller. And dance. ❤
I too; fear and resent the metaverse sooo much
Why aren't more beholden to this notion?
Thanks
Amazing brain and heart mind
I look at the stars
Or get in the ocean
Or pray. To what now I don't know.
We seem beyond thoughts and prayers now
Big love.
P.s great hands
I love hands.
My ex had beautiful hands that could play me like a piano. X
I read the Power of Now by Eckart Tolle
I was on the viewing bridge at the water preserve a little before sunset on a sunny day. There are trails around the preserve and this black guy comes walking by and yells back at me "more light?" and I thought about it for a minute and said, "yeah!" He said, "You get it?" and I said 'yeah, again" for I surely did get it. I've had other park experiences like the young black girl hugging a tree and I said "that's nice" and she said she felt like the tree needed it. Keep hugging the trees and and broadcasting the light! "Get it?"
Thanks, Sarah. A beautiful perspective and much needed at this time of way TOO much. 🌸
I watch light. Where light is falling particularly beautifully...
I slow down, keep the senses as wide open as I can....and try and remember this is it, this is life passing through me. And everything becomes all the more vivid and alive. X
Right now I’m steadying myself listening to the heavy rain outside my window, so beautiful when I’m lucky to be safe and dry inside. Last night I relished the sight of a pregnant squirrel, courtesy of a FB share, flat on her back in her nest, belly breathing in and out, legs splayed in complete surrender to sleep. And I draw enormous comfort from listening to my favourite podcasts, (you and Fearne Cotton rock 😊), meditation apps and audio books.
I have joined an ice bath community and once a week we all get together and sit in a big tub of ice. It resets my thoughts and feelings in such a profound way. Each week I feel this build up of strong and anxious tension and it is released when I next submerge in the ice. The people are open and welcoming and this has really helped me reconnect. Its like it pulls your brain back from the overwhelm and into your body. Highly recommend.
Ah, I just keep loving my family. So simple, but that is the most impactful thing I think I can do in this situation. Russia in our neighbor country, that's a lot to cope with.