January 29, 2025 - Happy Chinese New Year! Year of the Snake!

Happy Chinese New Year! It is the year of the Snake and that means it is a year for Transformation. Transforming as an individual, but also, as I see it… transforming in the world. A lot of people have been predicting big transformative changes coming up and I really believe we are all sensing that. We can’t control what happens “out there” but we can, and we must, gently and compassionately remind ourselves to be aware of what’s happening “in here”. 

What is happening “in here” then, in me right now? Earlier today I could sense it, low level anxiety. It’s good though that I had this awareness. I called it out even out loud as I stepped into the shower. There it was staring me in the face asking to be acknowledged. Interesting, so why am I feeling anxious? I better do a check-in on my heart. What I hear almost instantly as I do this is “you’re allowing your mind to control you”. That simple eh? Allowing it, making a choice of it. No question about it, that's the truth of the matter. In my head. I still have a belief clearly that “efforting” and working it all out in mind will be my solution. But then I think, “but it’s not like I moved all that fast today”. But in truth there were lots of distractions. LOTS of distractions. Although the level of distraction ebbs and flows, oh it’s there. Started my day with a bit of Youtube videos and then when I came to make my breakfast later than I had intended I felt anxious. The frustration with myself. “I know better than this!!!”. There is a part of me whenever my brain goes haywire and gets mega distracted I think “Stay on target….Stay on target!!!” a line from a video game called Starfox I played many years ago as a child and for some reason it stuck. 

I’m not sure I have immense clarity right now as I write this, in all honesty. I feel unconscious right now as Eckhart Tolle puts it. How to get back to a grounded state? Firstly, I’m going to go to bed right now, best to just get to sleep and start again fresh. Okay, so what is my intention for tomorrow though?? Here it is, it just came to me. Visualize before I sleep myself waking up in the morning and declaring “THANK YOU FOR THIS BEAUUUUTIFUL DAY! Thank you for the sun shining today!! Thank you for the beautiful snow outside! Thank you for this home I live in and this comfy bed I sleep in. I am looking forward to being the best version of myself today!!! As such, I am going to get out of bed RIGHT NOW, going to make my bed, have breakfast and make an inspired plan for the day”. First things first, will charge the phone downstairs, absolutely no need to have it upstairs anyway. With that, I’m signing out. 

Until next time, thanks for reading and sending out love to you!