And then the clock struck 7 am and it was a work day.

Rude awakening.

I am already starting to notice that after all the joy of the Holidays and the optimism of the New Year energy that there is a collective realization that even though we can feel the newness, the change, and goodness on its way - it has not fully manifested in our physical realities.

Usually the high of the New Year and the illusion that we can fix anything and everything with a resolution lasts at least a few weeks.

How could I feel this heaviness, spun out and emotionally tender after such a celebration of stepping into a new decade and a new me! *We did some quantum time jumping exercise... :)

I just posted some pictures on social media, check them out here, about the New Years' day ceremony* with my LightSong community. It was powerful, loving, and sacredly touching. It is a community where I can fully express myself and be the weirdo that I am without hardly a notice and in some cases a hug or big smile for being so.

New Year's day I was so full of light, radiance, energy, joy, gratitude, love and open-heartedness.

I prayed,

I journeyed,

I prepared,

I showed up and I claimed my future.

How could my mental and emotional state go downhill so quickly? Ug! Is there such a thing as enlightenment hangover? Haha!

No matter how it happened it reminded me that this is when we need our tools the most!

It helps to have a practice that you show up to that brings you back to center in a moment or two. Because at your center is divine peace. We all have it within.

The tools and practices combined with essential oils is such a simple way to amplify their power and embody loving energies. (Below you'll find my New Year's Hangover Protocol.)

In a cloud of feeling, not enough. Feeling that I was not keeping up with it all. I realized it might not be all mine. It felt like the stress of the collective and the clarity, the 2020 vision, that people were waking up to after the New Year: The hangover and realization that things are super rad right now. After I did the "have to's" BUT before I went to move on to the "need to's" or even the "want to's"... I stopped.

I gave myself 30 mins - Really, I TOOK IT!

Because I know that I just needed to come back to MYself and that inner peace. I had lost the connection.

New Year's Hangover Protocol:

Used my essential oils letting their aromatic compounds start to change my biochemistry.
I toned (sang) along with Tom Kenyon's song "Gratitude for the Earth".
I closed my eyes and practiced my mudras.
I breathed.
I grasped for gratitude and when I couldn't feel it, I concentrated on the healing sounds of the song.
I found peace - again maybe not JOY, but calm.
I made some tea and returned to work.

The specific oils I have been using this New Years is the Grounding/Centering blend Balance (by doTERRA) and White Fir - You can’t easily get White Fir so you can substitute with Douglas Fir. (You can purchase the oils by clicking the links!)

I don't have to feel like a million bucks, but I must find that inner peace if I am going to start to feel comfortable again.

Once comfortable and quieter in the mind, I know that I can start to make it back into the states of gratitude and even joy.

I know you can too.

So if you are feeling it like me, use the protocol above, or make up your own! And remember when the stress has you spinning - it's worth taking the time to care for yourself.

It truly is your #1 job.

This is your life.

How do you want to feel day today?

Your actions or responses create your reality.

It is time to clear out the old paradigm of "push on through".

It's time to claim your self-states of being.

Happy New Year to you!

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