11/9/2023 0 Comments Root chakra binaural beats![]() Our minds can be our shelter even without physically turning off the outer world, and it can be done in just a moment. My last comment about meditation and healing is that although it is often said that a specific amount of time and silence are required to do it, and so we put it off because we don't have the time and the quiet. What I offer is that quietness or binaural beats certainly can help us in our meditative practices, but are not necessary, nor is a lengthy period of time. The candles and pomp and circumstance, crystals and music, and ritual activity, although helpful to prepare your mind to float about, are again never necessary. It is often easiest to go into a gently guided spaced out place in your mind while being still, but not at all necessary. Meaning, meditation can be done: walking, washing dishes, stretching (yes, like yoga), even running or swimming. It can be done doing whatever you want as long as what your body is doing something that is not a new skill that requires consciousness. It, meditation, is not a fancy out of body experience only for the 'spiritually ascended.' Meditation is at it's essence, simply spacing out. Before you tune out because meditation is "too hard" "too far out" "unproductive" etc, I'd like to our some thoughts about it. Meditation can be used for self healing and self soothing. For example "Hey body (I love you!), what are we feeling anxious about?" "Am I anxious about work? money? my home? my relationship? what?" If we can look at our present moment and see that we are clothed, fed, safe, and even in relatively seemingly stable relationships but we still feel unsettled in our present, our root chakra just needs a bit or a lot of TLC and reassurance. And when you find the undercurrent, explore the what. Be gentle with the message and explore: "Hey body, what's up?" "What is my underlying current?" "Am I anxious? Afraid? Sad? Mad? Revved up? Bracing? Retracting?" Keep asking your body what it's feeling. ![]() If we get triggered in the present, and can face and diffuse the trigger, and still find our bodies reacting, then it's an old message that's being sent. This time and slowed down pace allows us all space to notice our body's messages. So why, I asked my hips, are you so worried? Why are you clenching? This time is allowing us space to do our job better. We are using this slowed down time to create much of our own jewelry for sale, we are revamping our website, reorganizing displays and supply storage. At Rubini Jewelers as of June, we are neither overwhelmed with work nor underwhelmed. I could feel it in my pelvis, in the clenching in my hips. The serenity in my body lasted maybe an hour, and then my anxiety crept back. I felt better having responded to the best of my ability at this time in my life going through what we are going through, honoring myself and family and the validity of the points raised by the reviewer. This is not an excuse for any bad behavior but rather a nod of understanding of the human experience. ![]() ![]() I acknowledged my sign could have been misconstrued, and I spoke truthfully about my and Rubini Jewelers feelings and intentions with our business. I realized responding to him was going to be easy. I looked at my defensiveness with understanding: I love my family, I love my business, I love my customers- that's why his words upset me. I posted a sign on our store door for 12 hours, that was meant to show openness and acceptance of all people, but it triggered just the right person who felt just as attacked and threatened by the COVID 19 pandemic as I felt. But, I created exactly what the reviewer offered: attack. My livelihood felt threatened, my family felt attacked, I wanted to defend the issues the review brought up with ferocity. So when we received a poor review, I felt immediately off balance. They are sometimes gentle, sometimes anxious, sometimes loving, sometimes open, enthusiastic, worried, psyched, creative.everything human and endearing. A business that I love to be in both because of the innate creativity involved, and because I love our customers. I was faced with responding to a negative review on Yelp the other day, a negative review of my family's business Rubini Jewelers.
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