Timing Yourself to Change Vibration Practice
“I usually time myself and share this in my sessions. We absolutely must snap out of our victim mentality, so timing yourself is a good practice. What does that mean? We must feel whatever we’re feeling, stay with it, and allow it to move through our bodies. Really paying attention. It’s no longer the time to push it down, avoid it, put the guest-face back on, and move on to the next thing. We must see it.
In the past ten years, I learned the immense value of seeing through superficial resistance. I sit quietly for a while. I just let my body do what it needs to. Sometimes I will be guided to move; others, I will just sit and pick up a stone, a book, or oracle cards. I ask my quiet, still heart to show me where this feeling is in my body and help me understand the authentic message. I may not receive clarity right away, but the insight definitely shows up; it’s a practice of paying attention. Sometimes, I see myself as a hurt being that needs attention. I sit quietly even when I think and feel that I really screwed up and am mean to myself. After a while of being present with myself as if I was sitting with the dearest friend I love so much, things tend to soften, loosen up, and become spacious. There is something beyond the initial resistance, whether that is physical pain, a triggered emotion, or loop-like thinking.
I am fascinated by the symbols, and looking through the shapes, the colors, and what they represent is exactly like language to me. Everything surrounding us is a symbol, a message for us to receive. When these symbols catch our attention, it is an indication from our inner teacher-healer that we are connected to something much larger than what we perceive. We contract as we feel resistance and have difficulty seeing the bigger picture. Unlike when I handled inner conflict with band-aids years ago, I now stop everything, sit quietly, and try my best to listen. I time myself if I want to wine for a bit while I sit, then I inevitably have to do something to shake things up, to move my energy, to create circulation, whether I think it’s stupid at the moment or thoughts such as, I don’t want to, this doesn’t help, or whatever the self-pity party has me momentarily believe. This is a continuous practice. I am quite disciplined, and I feel we need to have this approach to our well-being. Disciplined in taking care of your own mind.
If sitting quietly is nerve-wracking, then using the body to move energy is a beautiful practice. We use the body to calm the heart-mind, the nervous system, and vice versa. There are myriad practices, and it doesn’t matter what one does; just the intention is enough. But this intention of offering time for yourself and no one else is imperative. We must become used to honoring ourselves completely no matter what we see, feel, or think. That is the discipline.
How can we show our Soul-Spirit complex that we are paying attention? Maybe that’s not your goal, and that’s perfectly fine, then this reading is not for you. Perhaps I want more, and I just don’t know what it is, but I generally feel unsettled and restless. Then, this reading may be for you.
It’s not complicated; it’s actually quite simple. Connecting with our higher self is so natural. We, as human beings in this era possessed by the illusion that accumulation of knowledge equals intelligence, tend to make things very confusing, complicated, and distorted by our thinking alone. Thought processes and the function of the head brain are not the guiding principles of Soul inspiration.
So, sometimes we feel sorry for ourselves, we feel like we’ve made mistakes, we say things like, I can’t believe this person did this to me, I was passed on this promotion, my mother-in-law hates me, my sibling is jealous and thinks I’m an idiot, my parents abandoned me. Nobody cares about me; why should I?
Yea, so what? We may think.
Well, timing myself – as a process of feeling and paying attention, then changing energy – is what works for me, and it’s a continuous practice of refining my own thoughts and emotions to see beyond them and interpret what is really going on. The more I honor this side of life, the more refinement occurs, the clearer the filters, the brighter the road.”
