I want to ask you a question about your connection to your truth/higher-self/the universe/god / source or however you perceive it. When you feel connected to this place you probably experience more personal peace, clarity and understanding than you do when you feel like you are separate. But how much attention to you give to maintaining this connection in your life? Do you leave it to chance, or do you really take care to ensure that you feel you are connected as much as possible?
Now I want to give you a funny analogy about this connection. “What if you gave yourself the same priority as you give your internet?!!!” I know, but think about when your internet goes down – how many stops do you pull out in order to get it up and running again? First of all you might restart your computer, then your modem, then you might phone the company. If they can’t fix it from their end they will send an engineer out. If you have to wait a few days it can be like having a limb cut off. You will probably do anything to get it back online again.
Now ask yourself – do you give yourself the same respect and attention when you feel like you have disconnected from source? (I say ‘feel like’, because we can never really disconnect from source – only feel like we have!). Do you notice the minute your connection ‘goes down’? Do you pull out all the stops to create a shift so that you can feel connected again? Do you try and transform it with your own resources and when you’ve tried everything that you can think of, call on someone else for help? Or do you just ignore the issue, hoping that you will feel reconnected automatically – leaving the feeling of reconnection to chance rather than something that is within your power to change?
I want to share some things in relation to this that have really been working for me, and invite you to try them.
First thing in the morning when you wake up, check – “Am I ‘online’ – am I connected – yes or no?” If your dreams have given you the sense of disconnection, then deal with this first.
Then for the next one to three weeks, as often as feels comfortable for you – every in breath and out breath/ every minute / every 10 minutes or every hour / plus every time you have an interaction with others or a thought that might unground you – ask yourself – “Am I still connected – yes or no?”
Make it the last question you ask yourself before you go to sleep and the question you ask yourself if you wake up in the night.
If the answer is no, at any time, the first thing to do is to accept. And I do not say this lightly! Any resistance, blame, shame, frustration for being in the place you are now – deal with this first and foremost. Then the next thing to do is ask yo
urself dynamically in that moment – “What is it I need to do to get back online?” Ask the question in the same way you would ask if you wanted to get the internet up and running (minus any frustration that the internet going down might cause!!). See if you can detach yourself from the experience (different to blocking it) enough to be able to just ask the question “What is needed right now?”
And from here – dynamically make the change. Know that like the internet it might be just as simple as restarting the computer. Know that just like the internet, it might take a number of different approaches before you find the solution. Know that like the internet, it could be that you need help from someone. Don’t judge the process – you might get yourself reconnected in one round of tapping or you might need to take a walk in nature, watch an inspiring clip on You Tube, sing along to an uplifting record, and so on. Or there might be a deeper learning or shift needed. If you move away from judging yourself you create more space for allowing who you are and this is the surest way to create change.
I invite you to do this practice with commitment for one to three weeks and see how much your life changes as a result. After a while, the process will become more automatic, and you won’t need to focus so much to create the shifts.
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