Over the course of my journey into the world of energy medicine, one of the outcomes that I have been the most pleased with is my ability to process the unexpected with grace and relative ease. Does that mean I am always calm? Um... no... I'm human and humans have feelings and emotions and sometimes they get the better of me.
I've always been relatively good at being the calm in the storm when things are stressful, but my inner peace suffered greatly. There were times when I could feel my insides shaking and I felt like I was going to explode into a million pieces.
One of the areas of my life that energy medicine has helped the most is keeping me calm and centered during stressful events and helping me recover faster afterwards. Two great examples of this were road trip related events my family and I have had the last 2 years.
A Loaded Car and Two Flat Tires - Oh, my!
Over Labor Day weekend in 2022, we were coming home from the east side of our state and were in the middle of nowhere. We were pulling over to the side of the road for a moment and ended up driving over a broken metal reflector and it popped BOTH of the tires on the right side of our vehicle. 🤯
It was a hot day and our car was loaded down with 2 adults, 2 kids, 1 dog, 2 bikes, and a LOT of stuff and we were at least an hour (by car) from anywhere that could help us. Working in tandem, my husband and I made phone calls while the parents of my daughter's friend drove 2.5 hours to pick the kids up so they didn't have to sit on the side of the road.
I'm not going to lie - this was a stressful event for the entire family! Not only being stranded on the side of the road for hours on a holiday weekend, but the expense was of course highly unexpected.
However, I was able to remain outwardly calm and mostly inwardly calm. I say mostly because of course there were times my mind was spinning with the possibilities and what to do next when we hit roadblocks - this is what happens when we are in unexpected situations like this.
In those moments, I called upon my breathing techniques, held my Neurovasculars, and utilized the Triple Warmer Smoothie to get me through. All energy medicine techniques that support calming nervous system and allowing me to think more clearly.
In the end, we were able to locate a tire company with an emergency line and the very kind owner had just finished up their family BBQ and was willing to come get us. You can bet that business got a 5-star review from me!
A 3.5-hour trip ended up taking us 9 hours! We all got home safely and that was the most important thing.
Another Flat Tire?!
This Labor Day, my family decided to spend some time out at the coast. A few weeks prior to our trip while out of town visiting my parents, my low tire pressure warning came on. I filled the tire up and checked it for a couple of days in a row and all seemed well and I forgot all about it.
A day into our trip to the coast, the low tire pressure came on again. Unfortunately, we discovered that the rim had failed and instead of 4 new tires like last Labor Day we had to get 4 new rims!
Prior to my work with energy medicine, I would have been so incredibly angry and lamented about our "bad luck" on road trips and said "it's too expensive!" and let it ruin part of our trip.
My honest reaction this time? Curiosity and acceptance. I was curious about how they failed - I researched a bit about rims and learned more about tires and just accepted this as an experience. I was grateful it happened during the week when the tire company was open, that my family and I were in a safe place to get it taken care of quickly, and we just adjusted our plans that week to wait for the rims to come in. My husband and I used this opportunity (as well as the experience from last Labor Day) to walk our teenage daughter through our thought process and different options we had so that if she is ever in a similar experience she knows what to do.
In terms of the energy medicine I used to get through - I felt calm the entire time so I took the opportunity to do some energetic cleaning around the situation using Ho'oponopono.
Despite the hiccup, my family and I had a wonderful and full vacation.
Are You Happy With Your Reactions to Stress?
How do you react to stressful situations? Do you outwardly explode? Inwardly simmer? Are you able to calmly think through the options you have or do you feel your head spinning? Does it take you time to recover emotionally and energetically after the experience?
If you aren't happy with your answers to the above questions, book a session and let's talk about how energy medicine and biofield tuning can support you in living a life full of more ease and grace!
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