We are being faced with some tough stuff!…beyond the obvious physical illness that some are experiencing, we are worried about a bunch of stuff… if we’re gonna have enough food to eat… if we’re going to be able to pay the bills… If we’re still going to have a job or business…major life events being canceled or put on indefinite hold… blah blah blah… It’s exhausting!
And it has many people in sheer survival mode! I get it… that’s completely understandable… The thing is that unless we get out of survival mode, we won’t be able to help ourselves because when we are in survival mode, all of our energy goes to trying to have basic needs met… a safe place to live, food to eat, money to live, physical and emotional safety. While those are very important things to have, we must be able to move beyond survival if we hope to heal and thrive.
So, I’d like to share some basic practices to help bring safety and grounding, so that we can begin to move past survival, which is a very low vibration and shift into a higher vibration:
1. STILLNESS… sit still in a chair without talking for five minutes a day. This is an extremely important practice because what we’re working with is an overstimulated nervous system. Stillness calms us, so we’re not running around like chickens with their heads cut off. And over time, we settle and begin to see more clearly.
2. GROUNDING by walking, running or dancing… or any combination of the three… or anything where our feet are touching the ground. These grounding practices give us the support of the earth, so we can feel safe and supported.
3. WRITING our thoughts and feelings…completely unfiltered and raw. Write for just 5 minutes/day. Then read what you wrote, so you begin to notice your feelings…Your feelings are coming up because they’re ready to be healed…Begin to notice your feelings without judgment of them being wrong. They’re not wrong at all. All of your feelings are entirely beautiful.
SPEAK out loud throughout the day…saying this sort of thing to yourself…I AM SAFE. I AM SUPPORTED. I AM HELD. I AM LOVED. (You can even give yourself a hug. Hugs are known to stimulate the parasympathetic response of feeling loved and safe.)
4. CREATE… anything! Art, music, cook, doodle, poetry, woodworking, knitting, paper airplanes… it doesn’t matter what… Creating comes from our sacral chakra, which is the energy center above our root chakra, which deals with our basic needs. Creating stimulates our sexual center and moves us vibrationally up out of survival. Creating is very healing.
5. BREATHE… consciously… think about your breath throughout the day…Take a deep breath right now… from the bottom of your belly all the way up to the top of your lungs… Your breath is your life force essence. It is a sure way to calm you. When we’re in survival mode, or really mostly we as adults, we breathe very shallowly and don’t take in enough oxygen. We need oxygen to live and heal and thrive. Something as simple as thinking about your breath and breathing deeply throughout the day can revolutionize your health.
Everything I’ve shared here is very simple. There’s a part of us that will want to complain and say, “This is so hard!”…That’s actually not true!… While you might not be used to doing these things… It’s not hard to sit still for five minutes… It’s not hard to push a pen across a piece of paper for five minutes… It’s not hard to take a walk… it’s not hard to say some encouraging words to yourself…It’s not hard to breathe…
What you’re doing in survival mode is hard!… and it HURTS to be that anxious and fearful… it’s depressing!
These simple practices can move you out of survival so you can begin healing yourself and thriving… Right now is the time to start loving yourself enough to bring yourself out of that fearful panicked state and into SAFETY and PEACE. You totally got this!
