5-26-21 The journey of uncertainty continues for the many people who believe that getting vaccinated is not right for them. Will we ever be able to travel again or be allowed into public places without having to wear masks or be asked to show papers that we don’t have? Interestingly enough, it seems as if life also continues to feel uncertain for many folks who have vaccinated. While it is true that, for some, having the vaccination is cause for celebration and a signal that they can return to “normal” life, there are many other vaccinated people bringing the fear of life that this past year has brought for them and what life can “do to us” forward. Sigh. All of that combines into one of the saddest stories of human experience I have ever heard.
Because I am a warrior, I go along doing what I do to keep myself positive and help inspire others. Still, it’s always very appropriate for a warrior to acknowledge those heavier feelings when they build up too much. So, that is what I did when I realized I was feeling sadness and not moving on from it. I went to the beach and added my tears to the peaceful waters of Lake Tahoe (which, unfortunately, could use the extra water right now). I voiced my sorrows – the Lake is a good listener (so hint, hint: we don’t always need an actual physical person with whom to share our feelings and woes. I think the most important part is to voice them to ourselves, rather than ignore them). And I felt better. I didn’t have to fix the world’s problems, change anyone’s opinion about things, make my own feelings and thoughts go away, or worse label them, and therefore, myself, as wrong for having them. I simply had to articulate them. What’s always cool is that once I acknowledge my feelings more, pay more attention to them and feel them more deeply within me, I seem to be able to express them more (shed the tears I was trying to keep a lid on) but then I move through it quicker without it taking me down the road into hopelessness and despair where I can’t move forward and be effective as a warrior. In giving myself full permission to feel, cry, vent, I am also giving myself compassion and connecting with my heart’s wisdom and resilience.
Then I lay against the sand for a while allowing myself to do nothing but breathe, relax, soak in the energy of earth below me and sun above me. I arose, ready to take on the mantle of being a strong, inspiring warrior again. Nothing changed on the outside, but inside I was recharged, aligned to all my warrior powers because I had honored my everyday wholeness once again. How do you honor your everyday wholeness and recharge into resilience? Today is a good day...and I make it so!