Coping with the stressor of the day

This week, lots of folks are asking for help to function under the weight of the distress around them. For instance in Texas there was another school shooting and rising tensions around a woman's right to sovereignty over her body. No one escapes what happens in the larger world around us, even from as far away as across the globe.

As energy beings, we share the larger energetic field with the rest of reality. We all swim in the same ocean, so in the highest order of things, we can't escape any of what happens on this great Earth. When any being is under siege, we feel the distress of it in our body and it affects us whether we are aware of it or not. The quote of the day is: "None of us can truly be happy until all of us are happy.”

A quick tip for coping comes down to two words: grounding and practice.

In the simplest sense, grounding means feeling your energy grounded into (or held by) the earth beneath us and/or the sky above us, with ourselves as a hollow bone or conduit through which pure energy flows in and out on every breath.

Practice means we literally do a spiritually-based activity every single day that centers us into our highest self (like yoga, meditation, mindfulness, art, dance, etc.).

We can't serve those around us when we ourselves feel off-balance or are emotionally overwhelmed and energetically exhausted. To truly show up in the world, we must take care of ourselves so we can stand with genuine confidence and powerful presence. As the saying goes, "Put on your oxygen mask first, then help others with theirs.”