How are you all enjoying this sunshine? It seems sudden and warm and welcomed. As soon as it gets hot I often find my self asking "was there ever a winter?" The seasons move quickly.
I have something to confess. It is my experience that just as the heat comes in, so does my heat. I find my fuse that much shorter, my patience that much less, my cool consumed by heat. Also, just when I want to lose it, is when the thing/person around me (including me) needs the most encouragement, medicine, or remedy.
And isn't that handy for me?
It's like having a very sensitive sensor that tells me when to slow down, cool down, observe and think about what kind of encouragement, medicine or remedy is best in this situation. Loud, shouty, encouragement is seldom what's required. Which is too bad, since that's precisely what I'd like to do. I mean, I excel in loud, shouty encouragement, Its a gift.
I'm truly not kidding when I say my fuse is short, but I'm trying to see it as a gift, this sensor that tells me its time to check in and see what is required of me to encourage, cool, remedy the situation. This has been a life long quest. At first I didn't see it as a gift, but a problem. Why am I yelling? Why am I getting so mad over the smallest thing? Why am I in a fury? Why do all these little things annoy me? So, I took it that something was wrong with me.
Now, I look it as a gift and a fire that I get to control. Like I said, isn't that handy for me? To have a sensor that tells me to find some medicine.
And a side note, as the weather does get hotter, so does my sensitive fuse.
So, here are a few tips that I want to pass on to you to stay cool, in your body, and perhaps tend to you fire before it consumes you.
1. Drink water. Drinking water can sound really hard so here is how I hydrate. I put sea salt in my water and it helps me stay hydrated. Its electrolyte water. I drink a large glass the very first thing in the morning. I prepare my water the night before so all I have to do is down it. The last thing at night is drink a large glass of salt water. I also set an alarm in the day to do the same thing.
2. Incorporate cooling foods. During the day I try to eat something cooling - like cucumber, cilantro, mint (also good in water), yogurt, aloe vera and green veggies.
3. Meditation, Yoga and Breath - Silence and stillness calms the fire and resets that heat gauge - I can tolerate and accept so much more when I have been still and silence at least 30 minutes in the day. I'm centered and my fire under control. Meditation is a survival skill and NO ONE deserves to a hot fire thrown on them. Yoga and Breath - We can move a lot of energy through yoga, be it stagnation or heat. Movement is key. Our breath can heat AND cool us - we have our own air conditioning and heating unit - our breath. With yoga we combine breath to movement and movement to breath. This is how we reset our system, including our gauge of tolerance and how we want to meet the world.
I recently read something that went along the lines of this. Imagine you have your cup of tea/coffee and someone bumps you and it spills all over them. What you poured into your cup will pour all over someone else, they just happened to bump you and they got what you put in your cup, in this case coffee.
But now imagine this, what if you loaded your cup with intolerance, anger, frustration and someone bumped you, that is what would spill all over them. And guess what, when that is spilled on us, we tend to react and spill it straight back on who dumped it on us, or the next victim.
And lastly, imagine that you decided to pour into your cup cooling fresh water, cooling foods, cooling breath, calm silence. Chances are when you're bumped, your love, peace, patience, kindness, compassion will pour into someone else. That person that bumped you will receive your grace.
So for me, in this season of HOT, its important that I pour into my cup some cool. I can personally confess I have spilled hot over way too many people, especially as they accidentally. bumped me. For that, I'm sorry, but Im learning. I've got to use my fuse as a sensor and a gift and taking good care of that sensitive gift.
Village is here for you for you breath and movement and community. Its a tool for your tool box for your best self. Use it. This Saturday MuscleKups has generously given us some protein coffee. We might muscle up so we can hit those chutarungas. Kendra is teaching.
The next Desire Through Silence retreat is May 3. Space is limited and is filling up. This is some of my precious work that I would love to offer you. We use silence as the medium to take us to our desires and bring them to the visible surface. The evening of the retreat you will receive yoga with live piano music, meditation, 90 minute float, vegan meal and guided vision boards. Included in the retreat are 2 additional floats the week of the retreat a 1:1 session with me. I hope to see you there. A wonderful way to stay at your peak, practice silence and remember what you want.
See you tomorrow morning,
Love,
Becky
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