Written by Carolyn Roberts, Allowing the Light, December 5, 2014 – http://allowingthelight.com

To start something new feels like “pulling teeth” I know, but you must understand that to live in this NEW NORMAL you have to take your first step and the energy, Universe will support you after that. You are releasing the old to move into the new, the Real, so you are in a place of LOTS of endings, goodbyes, disconnects, releasing, and forgiving especially self…how far back does this go…your Totality.

That’s a lot, but that’s what’s happening. It’s why you are having all those dreams. Maybe of people that you remember this lifetime – soul family – that are no longer in your life…but something there is still some connection. Clearing up of old lifetimes, old choices, old You’s. This energy is SO heavy lately. My goodness…feels almost comatose in the intensity of it.

Some days it feels just as easy to look outside, see and feel the energy and go back to sleep, but you know you are here on purpose AND there are others behind you. You have responsibilities and they ALL begin with first to honor self, nurture self, be kind to yourself, but in surrendering to this place, in relenting or allowing depending on your energy each day, you teach (remind) those behind you…maybe even beside you, of this KEY step.

You find out that self nurturing is a very profound and subjective act. What really is nurturing to you? Yes, there are the easy given ways to nurture self, get enough sleep, eat chocolate (ok that’s mine 😉 ), hug someone, do yoga, sing, laugh, be outside and breathe in the fresh air, pet and play with your four legged friends, but there are even deeper layers of self nurturing that become apparent to you when you REALLY start to dig into the nurturing of self.

How do YOU tailor your love of self especially for you? And what if in the process of doing some of these super loving things for yourself you find you get irritated? Or that you block yourself from nurturing with To Do’s and move away from your heart?

Self Nurturing is done in layers. Yes, sit drink coffee that you love, listen to relaxing music…or even meditate, but what about if you can’t meditate? That’s where surrender comes in. Just allowing yourself to smile in your heart and moving into that energy. So what if you don’t want to meditate one way…there are others.

Have a tool box of meditation methods that work for YOU.  Just relax and flow with the energy. Don’t even try to fight it because these days it’s just SO intense how can you…feels like swimming up a VERY steep hill  It isn’t all joy sometimes there is anger or sadness…just let it move through you. Surrender and Release.

Then when you have “fed yourself” enough turn around and give to your soul sister/brother/neighbor or the guy giving you a ride on the dealership shuttle.

It’s beautiful for YOU when you are at the place where you can take a breath and smile, but you know in being able to give with no strings attached purely from your heart, you have sufficiently nurtured yourself and it’s a pattern you can and will repeat again and again. A skill you can get better and better at .

You will become an expert at nurturing of yourself: A place of comfort in this now CONSTANTLY changing energy. To have THIS CENTER that YOU CREATE and Renew Again and Again in all this Change, now that is VERY comforting indeed 😀