Grounded but Levelled Up

We are levelling up?

We are in challenging times and we are all at what seems like the centre of the black hole - singularity. Rebuilding amidst the pandemic #COVID19, with a war in one part of the world, refuges being the biggest reason for border transformation, and climate change impacting us and taking away loved ones, we find ourselves sucked in this space unwillingly but we’re here and I think I can help propel this stationary, anxious energy with a few easy hacks.

Before I share the hacks it is important we learn why this needs to be practiced at an individual level, alone. Singularly to understand better the power of singularity.?

Singularity is a point in space where the gravitational field of the black hole becomes infinite and space-time is infinitely curved. According to the theory of general relativity, the singularity is a region where the laws of physics as we know them break down. The singularity is surrounded by the event horizon, which is the boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull off the black hole.

Much like the laws of physics, in spiritual contexts the term "singularity" may be used to refer to a state of unity ‘oneness’ with the universe or with a higher power, what connected to the outside from inside of us in our own centre. This idea is often associated with the concept of enlightenment or transcendence, where an individual's consciousness or spirit merges with a larger cosmic or divine consciousness. Transformative. Not necessarily religious ( I don’t intent for this to read that way) but if it rocks your happy bliss state, row away.?

It is a complex and multifaceted concept that can have different meanings and interpretations lends to a few common rituals we could all singularly benefit from:

1. Take care of your body - more than you ever have. Maybe you’re already taking little steps but get on it hard. Learn more about your body - read, not google. Pick up a book (I suggest GUT : The Inside Story Of Our Body's Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders?https://amzn.to/3JLu2TW)?

Clear up your insides to feel more centred to begin with. Basics.?

• Drink more water. Set a goal - achieve it.?
• Quit processed foods for a week - try it. Worst case scenario you drop an inch you can pile it back on if you don’t like it after a week.?
• Eat a mindful meal with loved ones. Share old stories over fresh produce, food cooked with love. Make small healthy changes to work on your body. No keto, no intermittent level dedication. Just eat that banana or berries.
• If you’re rich and feeling genrous feed someone who has no means too - eat together.?

2. Spend time in nature. ?

• Get those shoes off and walk in the grass. Find a lady bug and let it pass by before you jump past it or god forbid stomp on it. Don’t stomp on beetles. Just don’t do it. Non-negotiable. Make that a mission.?
• Next stop and stare at the bloom. Notice how quickly or slowly they grow before they fade. Spend time with what nature has to offer and hear the birds chirp or not, the leaves ruffle and toss.?
• Be aware of what’s in congruent with your intution. Don’t read this as cut off what doesn’t match your vibe - just go inward. Listen. observe. Learn more about you.?
• Focus on you by not harming anything around you. What may be familiar may have been working beautifully but could be limiting your journey to knowing you.?
• Take this time of chaos we’re all finding ourselves in to just be with you.?

3. The more you learn about you in this process by doing the above 2 the more differently you will perhaps begin to act. Don’t get sucked into the new loosely thrown around narrative of messed up ‘mental health’ - you’re OKAY. You’re not crazy. You have not lost your mind. You are growing and growth shakes things up.

Don’t break what is around you. This isn’t physical growth (but it could be a great example to remember, when we were younger we would outgrow our shoes every quarter and sometimes it was disheartening because the night before summer break ended it would dawn on us the shoes need to be polished, and as we polished them squeaky clean and wore them the next morning, they would jab us and we would feel horrible about this tight shoe but then we would go and get ourselves new shoes and a few blessed ones got some ice cream too, to celebrate that with our parents). This growth we experience, as we rebuild is internal and so a) fortunately no one outside needs to be hurt. It won’t take space, because it grows exponentially, within us. Concioiusly don’t break anything outside that already exists. Don’t cut people off, don’t fire staff, don’t quit your job…none of that. Let the outside remain outside, intact. b) Don’t let anything outside touch you inside. That’s the test.

Don’t get sucked into this narrative of ‘self-care’ is isolating and to prove your love to yourself spend money on manicures or luxury goods - no. Don’t do it. When you loose money, as you throw it away and are left with little savings on a day when you’re unwell because you’re changing and don’t feel like work, this money will come in handy. It will enable you to take time off. Keep the money. Invest in reading. Walk in the park. Helping another someone who may need help by just spending time with them - hugs are great. Checking in on your friends or just listening to music, a day at the animal right centre, anything that makes you feel comfortable.

Find your (not happiness, if you do, congratulations) moment of comfort. Not happy not sad - just not anxious. Find what makes you not anxious or frightened.?

4. Be mindful of what you do with your time. How and where is your time going/being spent. Focus on what is taking up most of your energy because the biggest loss of power in human life is losing time. Time is money. Time is wealth. Time is all we have. What is it that sucks us in, what is leeching on us and what is it that keeps us away from our goal. What is our goal (if you want to compete with Elon Musk, good luck, go get him) walking 5KM or just being able to start with a 2KM? Cool. Set one. Do it. Additionally, find a new way of spending your time with something that comes most naturally to you - as Genz, I appreciate we’re all connected to our phones and social media platforms. News is very easily available to us. Anything is called news - anything trends. This time around instead of just passively consuming it scrolling perhaps stop and reply to a negative comment. Tell them to not be negative, politely. Whoever it is, can reframe hate - hate is not nice. Instead of just silently going argh, try using a sunflower and text reading ‘please don’t be so personal, appreciate the effort or intent’ - do something useful with your time.?

Useful is kind. Useful is productive. Useful is valuable. Useful is powerful - your time if used effectively, mindfully could be kind, productive, valuable to become powerful. You will be powerful. ?

Break your time into smaller bonus hours to make time for what you are grateful for, what you already have not focus on what you wanted, for yourself by now but what is your gift today : family (parents, siblings, partners), pets, friends, reading or meditating. All you got.

• Set a time.
• Inform yourself and parties involved.
• Make It a commitment (3PM-4:30PM) or like Noon until 2PM, block time and do something useful with it. You don’t have to sit and journal if you don’t feel like a journal and add to your own pressures but just focus on remaining in non-fearful zones.
• Don’t stay stuck in a place of isolation for too long. Growth can get lonely (not isolating), just like it gets lonely on the top, but hey, every one successful has a team cheerleading for them - spend more time huddled up with your team.
• Don’t stay alone with your thoughts if they scare you - write them down, share them, blog or just ask for help and find your source of comfort and then block time to remain comfortbale (sometimes, just being somebody else’s comfort space is more peaceful than just being busy doing nothing).?

5. Meditate (STOP) before you loose me because you tried and nothing worked - just gimme 4 words : “make time for your soul”. You don’t have to be religious to be meditating. You just need to have spirit (soul) to meditate. You could not have music around or you could, you could do yoga or breathing excercises or you don’t have to but just for 5 minutes (or less to begin with) block who you know you are and try and touch the gap between the unknown tunnel of surprises inside you to find your light - ask your soul inside, your first best friend who just casually walks around where ever you want it to go, supporting you, unconditionally, forever, what it may like.

Who is this spirit you're experiencing every moment of life with trapped inside your body - does it like the body it's trapped inside? Would it like more space or does it have too much room and could do away with some extra space (ref to point 1)?

Does it encourage the life you have or would it like to suggest changes. Try and just talk to your spirit. Together you could perhaps give your subconscious mind time off. Just unconditionally being present with the spirit, not knowing what you now, your own mind switched off like it is with you.

An easy trick in is to inhale and hold your breath. You loose your ability to think at this point. Stay here. Enjoy the brain’s time off. Hear your heart beat. Tap back and give it some love from the outside.

Replenish inwards. Repair. Re-hydrate your insides, and for anything that doesn’t make sense blame Rahu. Blame it all on little Rahu or Ketu or even Pluto, if you like. Pluto last I was told was dropped off as a planet, but look where we are, it found its singularity, worked inwards in isolation only to enter they say Aquarius and make global news all over again. The power of singularity and going 'inwards' to levelling up.