The dark night of the soul

I believe, in order to create a healthy body you must embrace the changes that are going on around you.

I myself have had a hard time embracing this change that we are currently seeing in the world. I realized it’s been about 2 months now that we have been living in a fear based world. It has been hard to leave the house for many people. I have had to really look at my own struggles that I have been facing when I leave the house and go into public places.

In the beginning of all if this I noticed people were happy that they were off work and had a chance to be free of the constraints of the hustle and bustle of life.

I went to the park with my kids and we rode our bikes and so many people smiled at us and said hi as we rode by. I noticed a shift as time went on though. People started to be suspicious, looking at me and my family that don’t ware a mask. I felt judged and questioned just by the way they looked at me. As I noticed the shift changing from happy, to lack of trust, and questioning me in their minds, I found myself not wanting to leave my own house. I found sanction in my house and a freedom here that I did not get out in public places. I’ve struggled with that for a while now and I realized that this virus scare has been going on now for 2 months. That’s a long time for people to be afraid. That’s a long time for me to feel frustrated with life as it is.

This constant low level stress decreases the immune system and causes cortisol in the body to rise which can make it really hard for people to get good quality sleep. Even though I have a meditation practice, breathing practices, eat well and drink only 1 caffeine tea in the morning I still have a hard time relaxing enough at night to go to sleep at times.

I’ve realized that I am having my own experience of the dark night of the soul. I realized unless I can get it out of my physiology I will continue to have issues with it and not be able to come to terms with it.

What have I done to help myself get through this hard time…

• Breath work – It’s important to get enough oxygen in the body so we can function properly throughout the day. Just doing a 3 part breath is simple and is a great way to start off the day. The 3 part breath is breathing in with a natural pause at the top and breathing out with a natural pause at the end. Make sure your sitting up straight and comfortable when you do breath work.
• Meditation – It helps so much on a subtle level, to quiet the mind of all that chatter that goes on in the head. It helps move the clouds away so your thoughts can come through clearly. It’s a great way to start the day because how we start the day sets the stage for how the rest of the day will go.
• Journaling – After I clear my mind through breath work and meditation I like to journal because I’m so much clearer with my thought process. I can articulate better, think things through better, a come to conclusions as to why I’m thinking these things. I just feel clearer in being able to work through my issues better after meditation.
• Gratitude – you must have gratitude to have a great day. We can find gratefulness in everything. If your having a hard time being grateful just start small… you can say things like – I’m grateful for being alive (because the alternative is dead). I’m grateful for my bed, I’m grateful for the blooming trees, ect. As you write your gratefulls you will see it puts you in a better mood and like I said before how we start our day sets the stage for how the rest of the day will go.
• Exercise is so important to getting stress out of the body. just going for a 20 min walk, doing some yoga, any type of movement that will get the heart pumping and blood circulating around helps move the bad feeling out of the body.

Throughout the day continue to question your thoughts that come up. This will help you continue to work on things. Ask yourself why am I thinking this. Why do I believe this. Why am I judging. Why am I upset about this situation.

If we take the time to look at our thoughts as they come through we can continue to work on ourselves and get ourselves to a better state of mind.

I believe even though there is so much going on in the world that we see as bad… there is so much going on in the world that I see as good.

• We are able to relax more and take much needed time for ourselves
• We are able learn new things
• We are doing nice things for each other like making masks, going to the store for each other, ect
• We are able to declutter our house, do some spring cleaning, ect
• We are able to go out and be in nature.
• People are more concerned with their health now than ever before.
• People are eating at home more and making good wholesome meals for themselves and their families.
• People are buying more organic food
• Food companies that don’t treat their animals well are having to close down for a while.

I believe we have the opportunity to think that positive will come from this or negative will come from this.

I choose to bring myself back to the positive aspects of all of this. This is what will make me ultimately feel better. I also know what you place your attention on you place your energy on

Where you place your attention is where you place your energy. ~ Dr. Joe Dispenza

If we all choose to place our attention on the good that will come of this we will continue to see more good and this is where We will be as a society.

We will get through this and we will be stronger for it.

I will be striving to continue to spend my time on the positive aspects of this. I’ll see you all there.

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Mandy McKitrick

Mystical Healing Arts 

Life and Health Coach

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