Anam Nostos House Blog

Protecting your energy…

Do you practice protecting your energy?

I have been practicing this for most of my life, but these passing days I have been reminded more and more of its importance.

As a single mom, it is something I must do to parent a situation as I know best. It is taking a deep breath knowing that overly engaging won’t help the situation. Trusting your instincts and inner knowledge creates balance. They must discover truths in their own time. I can’t rush it, and it could be endless.
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Protect your energy.

As a human in the world we live in today, it is a necessity. No amount of debate, information or reasoning is going to calm or change the mind of those firmly set in their beliefs. Life will unfold to be the ultimate teacher.

Protect your energy.

Protecting your energy is sacred. It is honoring the space around you. It is valuing your body, mind and spirit to a level knowing that at times you must put yourself first.

We aren’t always taught that from the beginning. We can come to the story by putting our kids first, putting our partners needs before ours and essentially rescuing the world around us before rescuing ourselves.

I am reminding myself today that it is ok to protect my energy. It is ok to put myself before others. It is ok to value self-care.

How can you practice protecting your energy today?

Human Compassion: Unconditional compassion is a deep awareness of another persons' suffering, along with a desire to help relieve it.

The world is walking through many complex traumas. People are emotionally and physically wounded around the world.

Are you defensive to others’ trauma and pain?
Are you able to access compassion for their suffering?

I am watching a disturbing trend unfold. We have lost our compassion for human suffering and resulted into comparing and shaming rather than supporting and lifting up. It is a dangerous fine line. 

If we stay in our defensive emotions we are closing ourself off to unconditional human compassion. When we do that everyone suffers.

If there is one thing that I have learned without a doubt and with defining clarity, it is that no one can possibly know an entire situation or a person's entire story by what they see on the outside. 

Life is complex. Don't be quick to ignore the beautiful compassion within you. When we walk together to solve problems, peace happens.The world needs it most today.

How will you be unconditional compassion today?

3 Minute Retreat - All Souls

November is known to be a month of remembrance. There are many traditions around grief and memorialization; a rich beauty in the tradition.

We all walk through our grief in different ways. There are no time lines; there are no rights or wrongs.

This special month of remembrance I invite you to create an altar as I have and simply sit with the stories, the love, the journey and remember those who have left your physical life.

Know that wherever you are they are with you in spirit and the journey you have walked.

What does the Fall Equinox mean to you?

It truly is something different for each person. I am a lover of all the seasons. They each represent something different in one's life.

How do you pause to consider the changing seasons?

Fall is a time of walking into the darkness. I feel like there is a negative impression on the darkness; some associate it with depression and many truly struggle this time of year we are entering.

Can you reframe the darkness as a time of rest, calm and taking the quiet moments to go inward? Imagine the gift of awareness.

Can you rest in unknowing? Imagine the gift of stillness.

Can you trust that rest will bring you down a path that is calling you towards? Imagine new beginnings.