from Melody Ross
How To Start A New Week (or day, or life) In Strange Times
2. When you wake up, and continue to keep waking yourself up throughout the day, decide what you will “bluetooth” yourself to your Truthteller — FIRST THING, before it gets done for you. (There are all sorts of things trying without your permission to get your attention and your undivided connection constantly) Connect yourself to the channel you want to listen to this day before it gets done for you. (Because it will) This is what the birds are doing when they wake up and sing every morning . . . they are making a “bluetooth” connection to Creation before the sun even comes up. Be like a bird . . . connect first thing. The Connection you seek is just waiting for you to connect — but you are the one who has to choose it.
3. Tell yourself the truth about the options you have. Truth will be required both in the vast amount of options you have in some areas, and the limited amount of options you have in other areas. It doesn’t really matter what you USED TO HAVE, because these are strange new times. But no matter how different your options are, tell yourself the absolute truth that YOU DO HAVE SO MANY OPTIONS TODAY. Then decide that you are going to take charge of what options you will choose, and neither have options chosen for you, or have the amount of options available dictated to you. YOU HAVE OPTIONS. Most of us, on this exact day can choose from myriad attitudes . . . we can choose fear, joy, gratitude, curiosity, trust, bitterness, forgiveness, anger, childlike wonder, surrender . . . . so many options. When you are in bouts of depression and grief, simply write down how you WANT TO FEEL. It will plant a seed. Be merciful with yourself. These are strange times.
4. Take charge of what goes in your brain first when you wake up - and the rest of the day too. Take charge of what goes in your heart first. Take charge of what goes in your mouth first. Take charge of what goes in your ears first. Take charge of what you give yourself to first. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, take charge of what raises your heart rate first . . . your heart can start beating fast from exercise, from getting excited about what you’re going to do that day, from sharing a fun laugh and surprise with someone . . . OR it can start beating fast from turning on the news, thinking about everything you’re behind on, thinking about the uncertainty of the future. THE THING THAT RAISES YOUR HEART RATE FIRST in the morning is going to be SO MUCH of what determines how the rest of your day goes. (But you can turn this around during any part of the day, too!)
5. You are probably an accidental warrior these days, but this doesn’t negate the fact that you are indeed a warrior. You’ve made it this far, during one of the strangest times in history . . . you are a warrior. Tell yourself the truth about that and drown out the hecklers in your head that tell you otherwise, with all sorts of warrior affirmations. New times call for new words, new affirmations, new ways.
6. When you can’t catch your breath and you can’t control your runaway negative thoughts, sit with something everlasting, a rock, a mountain, a sea, a patch of dirt . . . sit with it without needing any answers, but just reflecting on how there are things that were here long before you were and will be here long after. The thing about sitting with things that are everlasting is that they may not give you the answers you are seeking, but they WILL propose the questions that will change everything. So, sit with something everlasting and wait for the questions to bubble up from those everlasting things. Things that don’t question their future have incredibly life-changing questions for us. Don’t confuse these questions with the tired old questions that your brain is constantly interrogating you with . . . these are questions that bring you back to life. That’s how you know they’re from something that’s everlasting.
7. Then, sit with something that is NOT everlasting, but still real all the same. Sit with a blossom that might only last a few days. Sit with a blade of grass that’s going to get cut down, sit with a cloud that’s going to dissolve or blow away. And do the same thing….don’t ask it for answers, just listen for the questions it will ask you. Again, don’t confuse these questions from something real but temporary with the tired old questions that your brain is constantly interrogating you with . . . these are questions that bring you back to life. That’s how you know they’re from something that’s real. There are things that are real that are not everlasting, too. And they don’t question their future either, they just live out the measure of their creation.
8. Drink water differently than you ever have in your entire life. . . and do it this way many many times a day. Before you ever raise it to your lips, thank it for what it’s about to do for you, and ask it to carry the exact messages to every part of your body that you most need, and the ones you don’t know you need, too. I suggest messages like “thank you” “I love you” “I’m here” “I’m listening” “I trust you.”
9. Understand the actual physics of fear, and the way it also creates chemicals that course through your body much the same way that glass of water can. Decide that you’re not going to willingly pour a giant glass of fear, or allow it to be served or force-fed to you. If it’s already happened today, just drink a big tall glass of something else, something like beautiful possibilities, remembrances of all of the miracles that have brought you to this day, what you are yearning to create that you, alone CAN create. How you can use your gifts to help others through this strange time. How you can allow the gifts of others to help you. Drink a glass of things like that, and then another. It will dilute the poison of the fear you ingested….and before you know it, it will be washed away. But you’ve got to keep hydrating your parched soul with what you actually WANT coursing through your veins.
10. Imagine a force field around you, one that is also a filter. When you imagine it, you are also creating it. It’s made of everything good and only the things you want to be a part of creating are allowed to flow through it. The life experience you want to have is the only thing that is allowed in or out of it. You get to decide what this looks like.
11. Do something kind. Say something kind. It changes everything. Most of all, it will change YOU, it will change your day, your week, your life.
I love you.
Be Free, Be Wise, Be You.
melody freebird
