How songs can effortlessly shift your emotions for the better

I want to share a song with you.

It’s one of best examples of an alchemical song that can shift things for the better for you (and with zero effort).

It has seeped into my soul and brought me a new level of permanent peace.

I will always be grateful to the members of the beautiful circle who gave their loving wisdom and energy to the song. I really feel like we figured some things out!

There are so many rules to life, so many answers in this song. The unfortunate thing is, whenever you desperately want an answer is usually exactly when you’re incapable of perceiving it.

It’s causation too, not just correlation. The thing about the energy of resignation or desperation is that they are underlined by negative assumptions.

ASSUMPTIONS. Sheesh! Poor universe trying to show us the light when we are so focused on where the light isn’t. 

“It isn’t here!”

Go somewhere else… 

“It isn’t here!”

I’ll save you some time, future me, it isn’t anywhere you’re looking for it!

The answers aren’t outside of you.

The thing you want, that feeling that you “don’t” have is actually inside of you. You better look for it in there. You have to find it in there first before you have any hope in seeing it reflected outside of you in the big, wide, world. 

Those of us who have done enough self-help work, whether it's journaling, reading, self-reflecting or whatever, have discovered that allowing is the only answer.

Life is so much more pleasant and seemingly luck-filled when we believe that our experience is worth having. When we’re not mad about it. 

That this exact moment totally unchanged, is absolutely something we are signed up for. We are here to LIVE. That is all.

To experience.

To exist.

We ARE grateful to be here. It’s whenever our minds trick us into thinking we’re not that we feel sad. 

Deep down, WE KNOW that everything is beautiful, including us. That’s why it hurts to think otherwise. Because it’s not true. 

Turn on your tap baby and let those miraculous moments - that you created by intending to see them - FLOW!!

Join myself and a special guest for a deep dive discussion into all of this and more, in this week’s new podcast episode.

The Signs Are Everywhere

Verse 1

The signs are everywhere 

Maybe I put them there 

So I’m always aware

So I’m always aware

Verse 2

I got enough figured out 

To allow to allow

I used to have my doubts 

They dissolved somehow

Bridge

There is only now

Chorus

Tap is open, overflowing

Always in the present moment 

Never thinking, only knowing, 

Feeling how the wind is blowing

Verse 3

There is nothing to do

But to enjoy the view

With my soul in full bloom 

With my soul in full bloom 

What disappointment ACTUALLY is (and how you can bloom through it)

Blooming through disappointment

Last week, a circle of women came together to hash out the topic of disappointment…and now I have a lot of things to say!

Not only did I learn so much from the shared wisdom of the women in the circle, but they also inspired me to new levels of my own understanding as well.

I hope you find the magic in them, because this is a tough topic. 

The thing is, disappointment is really a form of grief.

It’s an under-appreciated form of trauma that I think we all have to a certain degree. 

Often, our first disappointments were quite heavy and they involved our parents. It left us feeling unsafe, confused, and completely powerless. 

Disappointment feels like a betrayal of the universe which results in feeling lost with a lot of self-doubt. It becomes more difficult to trust the unknown. Our higher self knows that it is in fact an invitation to lean into change. 

So, what keeps us stuck in disappointment? 

Hope. That silly bitch, hope. 

Ok, ok, that was harsh. It’s not hope directly causing us pain and keeping us stuck - it’s our ATTACHMENT to the hope. It’s the fact that we don’t want to let go of it even though the story already ended and we are DISAPPOINTED. 

When the cookie has crumbled, then you can’t … hope that it could be uncrumbled. (That’s not even a word, first of all.)

But there is no going back in time. If you feel like you need a time machine to feel peace, then you’re on the wrong path. A time machine is not the answer. 

As always, the answer is within you, and denial is getting in the way. 

Denial often can be a signal that lets us know that there is a grief that is not being honored. Being in denial means not accepting the current circumstances. That ain’t good. That DOES leave us powerless. 

What’s the answer? Honor the grief. Let go of the attachment to hope. 

Oprah Winfrey said, “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”

When we finally are able to forgive, we give ourselves PEACE. 

It’s only for us, but it benefits literally everyone. 

In this week’s Podcast episode, I’m going deeper into…

• What disappointment ACTUALLY is.

• What the experience of disappointment can mean to us

• The reasons we get stuck in disappointment

• The answer! How to release yourself from the disappointing experiences you’ve had in the past.
  
  

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Ready to explore the disappointment that’s residing within you?

Listen to my Disappointment Playlist on Spotify and grab your journal…

Prompts:

• How has a disappointing experience changed you for the better?

• What hope do you need to let go of? What beautiful thing can you fill with that space?