Kimmi,

Sometimes when we are unable to feel emotions (feel “blah”) and the sparkle seems to have left from the world, it is because we’ve been forgetting to nurture ourselves and others. What do you do for self care?

People-pleasers often fill up their tanks on the newness of a situation, but after awhile the newness wears off and the energy fades. They find that the pleasure from being charming and dancing for others doesn’t really nourish their roots.

Instead, what we can do is work on nurturing ourselves. This is not selfish! One of my teachers said that it is like they tell you on an airplane… in the case of a loss of cabin pressure, put on your own mask first… and then help others. If we go to put on our children’s mask first, for example, we run out of air and both of us are left without breath. When we self nurture, it is just like this.

The energy of overcoming the feeling of blah is generosity. Put a few dollars in your pocket and give it to someone in need. Go somewhere alone and be gentle with yourself, “breathing in I am looking at the beauty of nature, breathing out i wish to be happy and share happiness with others”. Soon, there will be so much inward beauty that the world won’t have to be sparkly anymore, because it will be sparkly inside. Its from that sparkle that lasting love comes forward like an endless river!

With warmth,
Matt