Having a cuppa with my feelings

I don’t feel open today. I don’t feel like I’m open to receiving or connecting with my inner magic. Today I am grumpy. I feel spiritually blocked.

I think a day out of the house is needed. I feel quick to judge, irritable and grouchy. All of the things I don’t want to associate myself with, and all of the things I’m working on my mindset to avoid so I can be the person that I want to be and have the energy to build the life I want.

Perhaps the resistance to those feelings is what is causing me to feel blocked…

So okay then, come on in negative feelings. Let’s sit down and have a cup of tea together. Tell me why you’re here. [This is when I imagine something similar to the characters from Inside Out slowly and sadly joining me on the sofa.]

Grumpy says she’s tired and she doesn’t want to go in to work today. I tell her she will probably enjoy it when she gets there – she’s got meetings with good people and it’s always a good atmosphere on a Friday. She sniffles and wipes her nose with the back of her sleeve like a child, but nods and mumbles ‘Yeah, you’re probably right.’

Next, I turn to Spiritually Blocked and she says she doesn’t feel like what we’re doing today is connected with our purpose. I agree and ask her if there’s anything within today that does help us with our overall goals. She chews her lip and exasperatedly offers up that the money is helping us save. I nod encouragingly and, a bit like a bratty teenager, she rolls her eyes and continues rolling out answers monotonously: the meeting we’ll chair is a great forum to raise things that need attention from Leadership, it'll probably be good practice for leading conversations and learning from others.

Feeling like I’m convincing children to get ready for school, I lovingly bundle them out the door with me, assuring them that you’ll enjoy it once you’re there.