When traveling, our lives gets flipped upside down. Reaching a new place, surrounded by new people, new cultures, languages, and styles of living is a new experience. Traveling has its glory, the excitement of getting off a plane and traveling by foot through the unknown is thrilling. Traveling (past the thrill) also has its struggles. I landed in Managua, Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
There are no words to describe seeing the lives of others that are less fortune than ourselves. Forgetting the blessed lives we live until we arrive to a place that is so eye-opening that it is tempting to close the eyes instead. Sometimes closing and not seeing is easier than seeing and believing.
All the ideas we’ve had about the world, all the rights we have, and lifestyle we’re use to living suddenly sends us a reality check. We become sensitive to our surroundings, we pick up every piece of energy we can find. Every starving dog, every shoeless child, and hungry man in sight unconsciously gets picked up by our energy. We can lose touch with our purpose and we can lose touch with ourselves. It’s exhausting. The questioning mind, the wondering eyes, the tight breathe, all working together to form a very unbalanced off centered person.
We must always remember to make time for ourselves during our trips to find grounding. Grounding is feeling rooted into the ground, feeling secure, comforted, and owning your self and your right to be there. Grounding is taking responsibility for your self, your experiences, and your thoughts. It is not allowing for the shaken ground to knock you off-center. When we root into our experience, we control our experience. You have the power to take control over your life and only you.
Take 5 mins a day, go to a quiet areas, and sit in stillness. Begin noticing the breathe. Feel the slight pause between your in breathe and your out breathe. Be aware of this stillness that is inside of you, this is inside all of us. Visualize yourself becoming rooted to the ground, become apart of the earth. Earth is our home no matter where we arrive. Continue taking deep breaths until you are calm, relaxed, and centered. Bring your hands at your heart, lift the corners of your mouth up, and don’t forget to say the most powerful mantra of all, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Peace and light,
Brittany
Soul Teacher 