How do we meet our daily lives with the stress of challenging relationships, emotions and experiences that we do not want. How do we work with things that unfold, like the unresponsive person, a health circumstance, or our life not being what we want it be? This is key to our inner health. In challenging do we freeze? Do we blame? Do we avoid? Do we react? Do we try to make sense of it by getting on the hamster wheel of our spinning thoughts?

I keep getting the message of “keep your feet on the ground and relax into it.” I see this image of watching myself encountering situations with a looseness that if I need to move left, I move left, if I need to stand still, I stand ready to shift when necessary. It comes from a sense of really trusting the moment and being connected to my body, my breath and my feet and being completely awake and relaxed.

But what happens when I can’t find that relaxed and grounded stance? I am on the hamster wheel of my mind and adrenaline is pulsing through my system. I find ways to come back to practices I know like praying for assistance and opening my hands and surrendering what ever I am stuck on. And if that doesn’t work I find distraction: go for a walk, watch a dumb movie. Anything to help get me out of my agitated state. And then with a little time and distance, I find myself back in a softer and my intuition feels loud and clear and action or non-action is easy.