Stillness 11-5: We are responsible for each other. We care. We care about each other, ourselves, our dreams, our thoughts, our plans, hopes, families, homes, and hearts. It’s a good day to feel your higher self watching over all that, rather than always thinking that your ego-self has to take on all responsibility.
How can you do it? Practice trusting yourself and your life and the people in your life. Imagine you’re a beautiful cactus in the desert and several of your pups have sprung up in the arid soil around you, then say out loud: I trust.
Say it again: I trust.
I trust my baby cactuses will be okay. I trust in my own heart’s courage, in my longings to inspire me, in my home to sustain me, in my family and friends to be there for me. I trust in peoples’ fundamental goodness. In kindness being stronger than prejudice. In education overcoming ignorance. That sometimes opening a wound allows for a different kind of healing: that light and air can do more good than the heavy bandages of the past. I trust that I always do the best I can in each moment. I forgive myself.
I trust.
Repeat it as often as you would like — say it gently in tandem with your easy, calm, and constant breathing.