Lotus Flower
I work with bringing disappointment to rest a lot. A few years ago, I noticed a looooong string of disappointments from as far back as I can remember hanging out under my radar.
All the good things that have happened in my 62 years of life outweigh the disappointments. The difference is that good things come and go, they flow like energy should, but, disappointments can get stuck, not move, and build up to become tangled messes of energy tucked away in the cracks and crevices of my system.
Think of a sailboat trying its best to fill its sails with wind and fly, but the anchor is still in the water and it shouldn’t be. That’s a big drag, to say the least. Slows the freedom of the sail down a lot.
Same thing in our system. Old, untended energy is like moving through life with the drag of an anchor.
I like the word ‘tend’ because we all know how to take care of a pet, child, garden, houseplant, friendship etc. There are things we do regularly to make sure it flourishes.
It’s the same thing in managing our energy system which is the sum total of our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual bodies. Each needs a little different fertilizer. We feet a cat, cat food not bird food. We nurture our friendships differently than our rose bushes. The intention is the same, but the nourishment is different.
The first step to change anything, energy included, is to become aware of it. Then to accept it. Forgiveness is most likely involved. Self-compassion is definitely involved. I always do a creative process in service of it. I find it’s opposite, in the case of disappointment, the opposite energy that feels right to me is satisfaction.
Then I connect to my Higher Self (she already lives in a state of satisfaction and is happy to teach me how) and ask how to turn over past disappointment fully and live from a foundation of satisfaction. This is kind of a big deal, because it’s ongoing, seems relentless, yet pays the greatest returns.
This is why I love the Lotus flower as a constant reminder that out of the mud, beauty grows. Disappointment is my mud, ever-growing, and more constant satisfaction is the beauty. I wouldn’t have known how to reach for satisfaction and the happiness that accompanies it, without the nudge from disappointment.
Ok, it was more than a nudge, more like a cattle prod!
What’s an emotional energy that might be ready to become your beautiful Lotus?
In Creative Love and Wholeness,
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