Namaste, Salaam, Buenas Dias, Bonjour, and Merhaba to everyone! Welcome to a new week. I hope you are all in a state of positivity and good feelings. Good energy. Good intentions. It is good to feel good, aint it?
We are very blessed to live in a safe, vibrant city. Vancouver is very grown-up, right now. In her Sunday Best, ready to greet all the strangers who will be coming to experience The Olympics. It is increasingly interesting to me, on a sociopolitical level. A real polarization in energy, from the locals. Tres etrange. Very weird.
My lefty pals are all feeling stressed. This is due to the simmering undercurrent of unrest among their peeps. My other pals, many of whom are in retail or in arts or food-industries are hoping the millions of eyeballs will gaze upon their creations, and hoping to gain exposure. Neither side is wrong. Really.
Anticipation+anxiety is imminent.
People are unusually aware of their surroundings.
It is a bit weird….people are stressed.
This is unnecessary, in my humble+possibly naieve opinion. Stress is bad for us. As individuals, and as a community.
We have ENOUGH stress in our lives. Health+family+jobs+housing+finances+on and on.
How do we avoid adding stress? We can’t. Life is just like that. Shit will come up. Obstacles will appear. We are constantly forced to navigate our own lives all the time. Its just “life”.
So, how do we stay “calm” or “centered” or “indifferent” about stresss? What are some tools?
TOOOL!!! Yes. Listen to TOOL. LOL!
Or whatever band. Yes, Lovies, MUSIC transports us. I listen to A LOT of Bhangra, as you know. It makes me veryvery happy. And that usually gives way to being SO happy to hear the music I’m listening to, that it will occur to me that I am lucky to be able to HEAR it at all!!! Lucky and blessed. Om Hare Om.
So, GRATITUDE for my hearing. That sharpens my focus, taking the focus OFF whatever stressor I thought about five minutes before.
Same goes for drinking a cool glass of water (an ancient trick to combat “anger” or “stress”) I drink a glass of cool water an think: “holyfuck! I’m lucky to have clean water!” And GRADITUDE once again wins over stress. Eat a banana? My belly gets happy.
GRATITUDE for available food.
Go for a walk in the safe city. Yup! You guessed it: GRATITUDE for our safety.
You get the picture.
It is my own personal way of life, and that is my journey. Not anyone else’s. So it is with respect that I offer these extremely simple suggestions. :)
Everyone has their own way to de-stress and calm their minds. And, whatever works for you, is what is gonna work for you. So live your Truth.
Feel good. Calm down however you can. It will enhance your experience of the moment, and hopefully, your stress will fade- even if for a little while. And when it comes up again, repeat your de-stressing behaviour, and it will again fade.
Again, and again, and again.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Or, you can cover your eyes (see above photo) in the whole “See No Evil” shtick. But that is a temporary solution.
And, no, I will NOT be aquiring a doggie-”calming-cap” for my Nicklas!!!!!!! LOL! His de-stressing techniques are the best of all: go for a walk, have a good poop, drinking fresh water, eat healthy food (that I make for him, remember: I NEVER fed him “dog food” a.k.a. “Horses+pigs hooves” yuk! LOL!) And feeling loved and secure as he lay his head down to sleep. Om Nama Shivaya.
I wish that same feeling for EVERYONE!!!! If ONLY we were DOGS!!!!!!
It makes me feel calmer just to think about having a “dog’s life” because it makes me laugh.
And laughing will definately keep you calm. :)
Which is exactly why I took the photo of the dog calming cap in that NorthVan petstore, in the first place: it made me laugh OUT LOUD!
I hope everyone of you finds laughs and calm energy this week. Well, all the time, actually. Find your center and return to it often. Less stress more laughs. You will make it through anything.
And, of course, listening to Bhangra.
Or Tool.
Most importantly, listen to your HEART. The gratitude is inside it. Listen to what it says.
It will keep you calm.
Blessings and bliss without blinders on,
Love,
Biffy
Xo

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