This weekend, 2-year-old Londyn had a nasty fall. We spent much of the weekend at the ER and the doctor’s office. 

(No need to worry. She’s in great shape now, and all is well.)

But on Saturday, during our ER visit, I was all the way on the edge.

• I was worried about the baby
• She was still shaken from the fall
• I’d forgotten to bring water, snacks or a phone charger 
• I was watching my phone light up as conferences and travel plans got cancelled, one after the other
• In the actual ER, people around me were coughing and wearing masks, and 
• The staff wasn’t being as responsive as I wanted them to be.

Fortunately, she got a clean bill of health.

Also fortunately, by Sunday I’d remembered who we are, Londyn and I. 

We are offspring of the Divine, like you.

Wellbeing is who we are.

We don’t participate in fear, scarcity or panic.

We do exercise sovereignty over our own minds and bodies and emotions.

So by the time we went to the doctor on Sunday, we had elevated our own waiting room experience in a big way.

I’d brought provisions. 

I’d brought a phone charger.

Londyn (who I call My Little Chickadee) and I sat in the waiting room watching videos of actual little chickadee birds singing their pretty little songs on YouTube. 

And every other human in the office sat watching Londyn, mesmerized by her magic and enchanted by her adorably unsuccessful efforts to replicate the birds’ calls. 

The nurse came to get us, and I pushed Londyn’s stroller into the doctor’s office. 

The nurse sat wearily and heavily down to gather our information, then she sighed and closed her eyes for a brief moment as she listened to the chickadees.

She opened her eyes, smiled and said: “That is so soothing.”

It was a sacred pause. 

And that is my action item for you during this media cycle of fear, scarcity and panic: Take a sacred pause today. 

Or take a million sacred pauses.

Take as many as you need, anytime you need one. 

Come back into this moment, over and over again. 

Come back into this moment from Googling about past stock market trajectories and how the bird flu spread… and come back into this moment from fixating on what “might” happen, once you’ve done what you can reasonably do. 

Come back into this moment, over and over again. 

Feel your butt in the seat. Feel your feet on the floor. Feel the breath of life in your lungs, right now, in this moment.

Once you’re here in this moment, tune yourself to the channel of soothed. 

Take a walk, get into nature, or just watch the chickadees on YouTube.

Get your cardio in. Stretch your body more than usual. 

Soothe your skin with something that smells wonderful.

Drink more water than normal. 

Treat yourself like you’re in the middle of an endurance race, because you are (spiritually speaking).

Take a bath before you go to bed. Wear something soft and cozy when you go to bed.

Watch things you love that feel good to you. 

Talk with people you love, and have conversations that feel good to you. 
Cook yourself things you love, that feel good to you.

Soothe yourself.

At the same time, place a limit on how much time you’re willing to spend on news or social media.

Reclaim sovereignty over your mind and your emotions. 

Cleanse the timeline of your mind. 

Replace the trances of fear, scarcity and panic with beautiful topics and observations and conversations.

Then, as you start to feel solid in your soothed state, radiate the golden, glowing light of your inner calm out to at least one other person.

Or maybe to 5 or 10.

If you need some declarations for emotional soothing and physical wellbeing, here are a few my students and I are using this month:

Wellbeing is the natural state of my body.

I live and thrive in perfect health. 

Divine Wellbeing now streams through my immune system, my digestive system, my muscles and bones, my heart and my veins, my brain and every cell of my body, dissolving everything that is not of itself. 

I give thanks for my radiant health.

All is well in my world.

Head up + heart out,

TNN

P.S.: Fear is a culturally programmed trance that almost everyone you know is living under the influence of, without even knowing it. 

But you can wake up from it.  

Scarcity is also a pervasive, cultural trance, that looks like this: “Better buy that toilet paper fast!” 

And unworthiness is, too. 

Most people don’t even know they’re thinking it, but there’s a common mental narrative in our culture that says you have to take actions, perform well, buy a bunch of stuff, prep for disaster or scrub the skin off your hands in order to “earn” or “deserve” your way out of catastrophe.

I saw someone say you should wash your hands like you just chopped jalapenos and you need to take out your contact.

Now, that’s just a highly effective visual.

But I saw someone else say “YES, we have to get very OCD about washing our hands now!!!!”

That’s the trance of unworthiness.

You don’t have to be stressed, anxious, extreme, overly disciplined or harsh with yourself in order to prove that you’re worthy of exemption from trauma or disease. 

You are worthy of a life that feels and is good to you. Period. Without doing or proving anything. We all are.

By the same token, no one can “earn” their way out of every unwanted circumstance. That’s not how life works. And it is often the unwanted events of your life that set you up for your highest good.

The wonderful news is that you have the power to refuse to participate in any or all of these trances: fear, scarcity and unworthiness. 

They feel real, but they aren’t true.

You can wake up from them. 

And your life will start to feel magically impervious to whatever is in the headlines when you do. 

Consider this your wake-up call.

Tara-Nicholle Nelson, MA, Esq.
Founder + CEO of SoulTour

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