It feels so good to be writing to you again – straight from my heart. I hope this letter finds you well, and that these thoughts are helpful to you.
The lessons I have been learning lately have brought me great peace. And what can be better during these crazy times than maintaining a sense of peace within?
It is easy to get caught up in the daily news and to become emotionally swept away in what feels like a flood of epic proportions. What happens in a flood? Water churns and everything tumbles, out of control, moving fast and powerfully. Just thinking about being in such deep, dark waters brings a feeling of helplessness, doesn’t it?
“The Book of Awakening”
This morning, I read these two quotes from Mark Nepo’s “The Book of Awakening”:
“During my struggle with cancer, the endless medical gauntlet of going through procedures and tests and then waiting for the results gave me a lot of practice in dealing with worry. I quickly realized that fear gained its power whenever I would leave the moment at hand to imagine bad things descending in the future, like pain and loss and grief.”
“More than anything, fear blinds, and only by stepping without hesitation into the next inch of the unknown can we build confidence in the life we are about to live.”
“She Lives to Worry”
Years ago, when I was with my ex-husband, I remember an incident in which something happened, and I didn’t want to tell my mother about it because I didn’t want to worry her. “But your mother lives to worry!” my husband said.
That gave me pause, and made me wonder – Am I like my mom? Are you like my mom? How many of us live to worry? Do we soak in the worry, absorbing it into the very fiber of our being? And how does that feel? It is torture.
Chronic Anxiety
There have been many times in my life when chronic anxiety was my constant companion. All my Christian faith at the time could not quell the trauma-based anxiety that lived within me. I used a lot of mechanisms to deal with that anxiety. I never tried taking any sort of medication for it, because I couldn’t stand not feeling like myself. So I journaled, I prayed, I meditated, I exercised, and I stayed busy. Chronic anxiety robbed me of joy and sleep and definitely had a negative effect on my parenting.
Now, I am living in a time of history that is portending all the things I feared for so many years, yet I have greater peace than I have ever had. I no longer worry constantly. What made the difference?
Two Tools to Help You Achieve Inner Peace – No Matter What is Happening
When life feels out of control, the only solution is to surrender and accept what is—to stop and realize that in this moment, you are not being swept away. You are safe. You are sitting in your chair, reading this.
By staying in this moment and focusing on what is – rather than ‘what might be coming to get me’ – I feel calmness and peace enter in. Try breathing in deeply and exhaling slowly while thinking to yourself or even saying out loud, “In this moment, I am safe and everything is ok.” It sounds so simple, but it has helped me immensely during tough times.
This is getting long, so I’ll sign off here and write more later. I love you. Write and let me know if using the two tools helped.
Much love,
Lori
Thank you for your time dear Lori, writing and offering solution to world crisis.
I noted you mention to surrender and accept and stay in the moment and focus on what is… that is wonderful!
I listened to videos recently where we are explained that we are powerful human beings and the enemy in the shadow is trying to divide us for control and religion is not really telling us we are such beautiful “powerful beings”…
In meditation and dreams we can see we are more than this physical form and there is CRV to confirm.
So, instead of the news out there, I do meditation and visualize another reality for this Earth.
My son in NC has decided to completely ignore the news and lives in a house in the woods with his family and he is experiencing “miracles” he texted me recently and the latest miracle was that he needed badly his car to be fixed and finally brought the car to be fixed for $1000 and when he went to get the car and pay, the mechanic said it was already paid by someone, and he has no idea who that can be!
There is much love in this world and we have to uncover it more,
Best wishes and regards,
Corinne Kulak
Dear Corinne, that happened to me too!!! I had to borrow money to get my car fixed only I was short on rent as well but we live rurally so the car repair was vital and while I was waiting at the mechanic for the repair job which was $400, a man in a fancy car drove up and asked if the mechanic had time to look at his car and the mechanic explained he didn’t have enough time before closing because he was fixing my car and told the man I had needed to save up for a month to get it done which was not accurate because I had failed to save that money and ended up having to borrow it, from my ex which was personally embarrassing for me so I hadn’t told the mechanic that. The man said, well! I’ll pay for her repairs. But I didn’t know any of this until the mechanic was finished and I went to pay and he was beaming and said “oh it’s no charge, it’s been paid” and explained to me what had happened. I feel sad I didn’t get to thank that man. Another time I went to the local store and got to the checkout and realised I had left my wallet in the car so went outside to get it and when I came back another man at the counter was buying his supplies and I was bit annoyed because he’d taken my spot but the lady at the counter said to me, oh he’s paid for your food. Which was over $60! So I thanked him but it was during lockdown and he was wearing a mask so I don’t know if I have ever seen him again since. But life can be very miraculous and I’m so grateful for these angels who have helped me over the years because the first man who paid for my car repairs, he will never know that I was able to pay my rent with the money I didn’t spend on the car so he doubly saved me so much stress and angst, I was so worried about how to pay the rent. We’re an animal sanctuary so money is always tight but from these experiences I’ve learned to trust god and keep walking my path with faith and gratitude