Day 210 - A Year to Clear - Check In WEEK 30 - Waiting It Out

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Lesson 210: Check In WEEK 30 - Waiting It Out

This week was a reminder for me to take a moment to pause when feelings start to arise and if you “wait it out”, there will be a shift that occurs. What happens is that when we’re in stressful situations, our bodies react with more alertness, chemical reactions and even a fear response.

I think there has been moments recently where I have stopped doing the practise of just breathing. Usually when I’m getting overwhelmed, I stop to do this, and I’m not sure why I’ve just forgotten to do this. It’s all about shifting energy really. Get rid of that which is having some negative impact on ourselves to release it. From there, it opens up space. Not only this, I was reminded that if I let things be, they will pan out with a solution. Sometimes it’s not about how much effort you can into fixing something that will stress you even further. It’s about just taking a step back, letting it be and taking a calmer approach and the solution may just come on it’s own. Whatever you believe in whether it’s God, the Universe, the Divine… if we surrender, then answers and solutions will come. Things may just fix themselves too.

Day 207 - A Year to Clear - Wait It Out

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Lesson 207: Wait It Out

Today we are to take a step back when feelings start to arise that bring us discomfort – the anger, sadness, frustration, overwhelm. Whatever feeling you have, just stop for a moment and breathe. Allow the feelings to come about and wait for them to shift. It’s about watching the change happen.

My Thursday consisted of work, an osteo appointment and a TV night with a friend. Nothing really major happened on my day. There are times when I do get frustrated at work and sometimes like my only mode is anger and frustration there. The shift I made happen was just to accept the situation and change my personal circumstance – so I applied for a new job. I believe I need to look at my options so that I can be happy in the place that I spend the majority of my time in. I believe seeing this internal job advertised was a spark that gave me some hope. I have a particular working skill and it’s not a job that gets advertised often. I feel like taking a stand on my attitude opened up possibilities of options to come my way. If I made the shift in attitude rather than sink into just anger and frustration, that wasn’t helping myself nor was it helping those around me. Morale is low in my department but that doesn’t mean I can’t be a catalyst for change.