The first thing I checked this morning was my bank account which followed me checking to see if my rent had been updated yet.
Anyway... I find myself emotionally involved in the narrative of TikTok right now. The Elon Musk thing and the Food Processing plants. It's very interesting. Little blurps about Johnny Depp's suit.
I find myself going off the emotional cliff because of the news I am seeing. While I don't watch the news, I do watch TikTok on occasion.
I take a step back. Even before I drew today's oracle card, I was stepping back from the narrative in my head and heart. Because it's fear. The emotion underlining the narrative in my head is fear. Fear that the people I know will watch the news and then get caught up in the narrative like I just was and then start spouting the narrative, because that's all they know. And I understand. I understand, because I used to be there. I used to watch the narrative just as much as people now do, but I am reminded of a quote I saw this week that stated.
Treat your mind like money. Don't waste it. I would say
Treat your mind like time. Don't waste it. You can always make more money, you can't get time back. You can even get your mind back sometimes, but it takes effort. There are people who get their mind back after a stroke, but it takes time and effort. So I guess your mind and money could be a better analogy, because you can get both back, but it takes effort. Time is something that can never really be given back.
Feed your time and mind with things that enrich you, and you can become rich, maybe not in the way you think with money, but if you enrich your mind and time, then the money is just a side dish.
This morning I drew the Eagle.
Eagle: See from a Higher Perspective
( Looking at things Differently ).
I listened to
A course in Miracles Made Easy by Alan Cohen and the thing that I learned mainly from the book was there is fear and love that all things branch from. Anger, fear, frustration, hatred come from fear, just as joy, love, happiness, friendship come from love. It's where do you wish to stand on the spectrum.
When I talk to my clients there are things I say when they say
I am trying. Yoda says
there is no try, there is do and do not. But Fear leads to Anger, and anger leads to hatred and hatred leads to suffering.
People are usually fearful of the things they don't understand, then they become uncomfortable and frustrated about this thing or person or people that they don't understand and they get frustrated and angry. Then they become hateful and more fearful because of this thing or person that they don't understand because they don't know, and that leads to suffering, because then they are bleeding that fear, anger and hatred on all around them.
Then the people they are bleeding that fear, anger, and hatred on may be responding to them with their own fears, angers and hatred, and wow...what are we seeing today?
I don't want to live my life in fear, so I avoid the news because it speaks to the fear that I have and I go down dark roads and feed the frenzy that lives in my mind. But I when I take a step back and really consider what is going on, I understand why people are acting the way they are, because I too experience and have experienced the same result of my behavior. And I'm struck today as I read
Medical Medium by Anthony William that we are only hear the messages that we are ready to hear.
Several years ago I was working with a massage client and she had mentioned something from the book Medical Medium and I wasn't ready for the message, but I remember it. Now I'm ready and listening.
We can't wake those that are currently sleeping, until they themselves are ready to awaken. We can teach, but forcing someone to listen or heal, carries it own trauma.
And Covid and the consequences or the theories that surround it, will hold a different trauma going forward on an individual and societal level for years if not generations to come.
That causes me sadness.