Vulnerability in Unknowns-Blank Page of Possibility
Overwhelmed and Underdressed
Allow vulnerability and ungirdle control in difficult moments
I’m writing this letter sans editorial make-up. Meaning, I am writing as if it’s my personal writing journal. Unlocked. And, you get to sneak a peak.
Writing without hitting delete button. It feels like words streaking naked across the screen. Bare words. Unedited. Writing for sake of feeling words flow. A slow flow, perfect pace to allow something new to happen.
Free writing they called it in high school and college English classes. And, yes, it actually feels free. Allowing words to appear, trusting the creative flow. Ungirdled and detached from outcomes of readers’ responses. Both the accolades and unsubscribes.
Free writing. Witnessing words flow in real time, undressed from edits. I love this exercise in my journal. It’s easy and fun. Both of which invite divine possibility to appear on the page. The pen, my magic wand creates poems, stories, and idea snippets for Ayurvedic articles and books I pray to publish someday, some way.
Transitioning From Blank Page to Unknowns in Life
Free living. Witnessing life circumstances in real time- the Now, versus ruing the past and fretting the future. Lately I’ve been experiencing overwhelm moments regarding re-creating a new life, in new city, as a single, self-employed, Vata-Pitta predominant person. (Email me if you’re curious about learning your Ayurvedic body-mind type. My Ayurveda psychology courses with Dr. Lad gave me valuable life enrichment tools to support mental and emotional wellbeing.)
Free living. Ungirdled from fear platooning an infantry of oughts and naughts in my mind, life flows with more ease. Work tasks are infused with more fun. My decision making skills and time management productivity improves.
Unlocked and open mind, curiousity helps me sneak a peak into my mental faculties. Allowing mind to witness stressful emotions, then welcoming breath to help me process emotions, I free myself from old stress patterns. Those pesky thoughts trying to flank my creative energy by triggering worries about financial feasibility during pandemic in a small town, and of continuing career path as full-time creative entrepreneur.
Ayurvedic Self-Care Transforms Unknowns Into Possibility
My 15-minute Ayurveda morning practice of yoga, breathing meditation, and prayer supports my mental and emotional wellbeing. It makes my daily routine, personal life, career path, and all relationships, more easy and fun. And helps me better navigate through unknowns.
According to Ayurvedic psychology, emotions relate to pitta dosha. Specifically the subdosha, sadhahka pitta, which is responsible for functions in both the mind and heart. In mind, sadhaka pitta processes sensations entering through the five senses. And, it’s the logic, comparison, and comprehension faculties.
Weaving concept of allowing vulnerability to surface, and living free of old thoughts, here’s three easy and effective tips to help you become ungirdled from control during difficult moments, like career changes, holiday season, or life unknowns. These Ayurvedic self-care treatments support your mental(vata dosha) and emotional(pitta dosha) health.
1. Get curious instead of furious. Curiosity welcomes new thoughts and resources to appear. It helps trip a mental switch of impatience or anger, and reroutes thoughts to a more positive circuit. Studies show curiosity expands empathy towards oneself, and others.
2. Pause and applause. At first warning bell of stress, stop and hold up your arms. Universal sign of surrender. Close eyes. Take 4 deep, slow, smooth breaths. Then, lower arms and clap hands. Universal sign of bravo. You are a divine miracle unfolding in perfect timing and doing great.
3. Get a buzz on. As in Bees Breath pranayama. An Ayurvedic breathing practice that supports nervous system and sinus/respiratory health. It releases serotonin, melatonin, and oxytocin and helps one mellow down easy during stressful moment. This month’s Shape magazine features a Nobel Prize winning study about how humming breath releases nitric oxide into lungs and helps immune system cells destroy foreign invaders like viruses.
BIG hug,
Kellen