Spring Lessons

Five Things Friday—

1. My primary intention for Five Things Friday is to show up as honestly and authentically as I can—even if I don’t love how that looks or feels in the moment. Right now, it looks like anxiety that doesn’t belong to anything. I don’t know what has triggered it, where it came from, or how to alleviate it.

2. I could blame it on a million things, but I’m choosing to let it be; to witness it as a sensation without story; to be curious without needing answers, and to trust that it has value, even if it feels uncomfortable.

3. Often, when I witness well, I find that uncomfortable feelings can be shifted with time, breath, patience, and a willingness to allow the energy of it to move and transform. In my case, almost any uncomfortable feeling eventually turns into tears, so it can leave my body with greater ease.

4. Yet, uncomfortable energy not only releases, it becomes fuel for creativity, healing, wholeness, greater understanding, and awareness. It is never useless. It either cleanses, heals, clears, or creates. And maybe that’s all the same thing.

5. In any case, I’m working with this energy instead of against it, and today’s Spring Equinox is supporting me with subtle reminders as the earth shows us her brand new buds shooting up through winter’s decay. It reminds me of a favorite quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”

May it be of benefit.

xo,

e.

Art: Stephen Doherty