Day 58 - A Year to Clear - Noticing Knots

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Lesson 58: Noticing Knots

Today is about being aware of the sensations as you complete the following statement:

• Something that worries me about my______[fill in the blank: health, finances, career, family, relationship with X]

Did you notice a rise in heart rate, did you start to sweat in your hands, did you get flustered or feel a knot forming in your tummy? Whatever you may have felt, Stephanie mentions are stress hormones and it’s a good thing to catch before they are triggered.

I think I completed that sentence with the word “life” which is a bit ambiguous but I wasn’t really concentrating and letting whatever flowed to my head come about. I didn’t feel any sensations arise but I did think what kind of silly thought is this. I think I just need to trust more that it will work out.

The thing about this lesson was that Stephanie did not mention how to catch these before being triggered. I wonder if that’s in lessons to come, but I feel like today’s lesson may be just to be aware of what’s going on in the body before actually going onto dealing with the emotion. I guess we’ll find out.

Day 58 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Emotions are Like Sails

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Lesson 58: Emotions are like sails...

“Lesson 58: Emotions are like waves, but they are also like sails; they must be adjusted as each breath of wind arrives. Tighten them too far, and the boat capsizes. Let them out too fast, the result is the same. Learning to sail with your emotions is one of your lessons in this lifetime.”

— Sara Wiseman

So this lesson very much advises how we can be in control of our emotions, letting go when we needed though not too fast and knowing when it’s a time for release. It’s about creating the right balance within ourselves in order to steer ourselves in the right direction.

The exercise today is to think of something that makes you cry and then think of something that makes you extremely happen. Rinse and repeat this 6 times, 12 times, 50 times etc throughout the day. The point is to use this tool to find your ability to shift with “conscious intention”.

I personally don’t have anything that makes me cry at present.  I did however looked at something that made me angry and then filtered to something that makes me happy. My angry emotion usually comes up in relation to my work situation. Something that makes me extremely happy is going to see live music. At first when I was practising this exercise all I could feel was residual anger flow into my happy memory. That was uncomfortable. When I closed my eyes and tried again, there wasn’t as much anger flowing into my happy memory. It really takes some practise to switch off from one emotion to the next one. Clearly this will take time but it’s something that I have never tried, so I’m open to the possibilities. See how you go with it. It’s very challenging – not going to lie.