Sotce, I’d like some advice on how to exist around other people who make you anxious/whose energy is irritable but you have to be around them (i.e. in a family or friend's home setting)?
Be strong in your own vibration!! Imagine you have a certain hummm that you hum at, like the frequency of your body and mind. Everyone in your family/friend circle has their own hum. Focus on ur own hum being the strongest thing in ur mind and breathe into it.
Sotce, I am so ashamed of who i was in the past, and get very big anxiety over it. I’m 19 right now and about to be 20 and I look back at my beliefs from ages 14-17 and feel so embarrassed and anxious that people remember me that way, or people will find out about how I was. Do you have any advice for this?
You were just a little kid. And you are still a kid, you are always a kid, always forming, always changing and moving towards something new. You are learning who you want to be in this strange and painful world and what you are here to do. And you might not have this fully formed for a long time but you are following the breadcrumbs. This too is a breadcrumb– a strong aversion to a version of you that once was. You should try to release your judgment towards yourself because there is a lot more to the story than what others might see. It’s part of you, and it’s made you who you are today, and it wasn’t such a bad thing anyways. You weren’t hurting anybody, you were just trying to figure out who you are.
Sotce, this is super important to me. I really hope you can find the time to answer. I get super, super anxious before my track meets, to the point that I consider dropping out of races. I am a good runner and place in the top 10. I am just worried that I'll run a bad race or be exceptionally slow and embarrass myself. It's even harder to keep running through physical soreness. I guess you could call this stage fright. Anyways, please advise! I have trouble with knowing that I'm small and insignificant.
Here’s what I think / what is coming in for me.
When you are about to race, don’t think about the final results or what will appear on the scoreboard (is this how sports work? Lol.) Focus instead on what you are doing, which is what you love to do, what gives you drive and determination and has taken you to these high standards. What you love to do is run, right? It makes you feel good, it makes you fly. The first time you ever went to track practice you weren’t expecting to be fast or to be the best, you were just trying something new because you liked running so much.
When you are given a gift, you have a few options of what you choose to do with it. In your case the gift is being a good runner, having this talent and capability. When you are given this gift, you can be like omg this is too much, this gift is so precious, what am I going to do, I better not waste it, I have to use it all the time. Or you can be light and joyous with it, you can be like thank you so much! I’m excited to use this.
I hope this helps you a little. Focus on the running more than the result of it, focus on channeling your energy into your passion.
I would also recommend being barefoot on the ground, maybe leaning against a tree or touching a rock with your hand, tuning into something timeless and wise and letting your vibration meet that one.
Love.
Sotce, hello. Do you have any tips on how I can learn to listen better to my intuition? It's very hard for me to discern what is my intuition and what is just a random impulse and also it's hard to know when a feeling is anxiety and when it is just a gut feeling of "this is wrong".
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