Fig 1. A path to higher potential. | Daren Thomas Magee

Live Your Power

Emotional Tools for Restoring Your Strength

How are your heart, mind, emotions, and moods as of lately?
We've been living in a state of the unknown for what seems like countless days now. Our lives have changed on personal levels and on common and collective ones.
Life, on an overall level, continues to look different than what we were used to, and we've been forced to adapt and ride this universal experience out: prepared, skilled, ready or not. BAM!! Welcome to the spiritual storm and terrains.
Through the mindset of exploration and hope, the world has always carried onward.

Words to ground into:

“I think exploration of the unknown, whether it’s the unknown of the universe around us, or just the unknown that’s within each of us, we can work that into the reality of life, and be joyful as a result, of the hope of exploring the unknown.”

— Chris Hadfield

If you’re experiencing any of the following questions, now, or later, this blog is for you:

Is your nervous system feeling overstimulated? Is moodiness creeping in?
Are fears or old triggers testing your mental strength and inner sense of freedom?
Is comfort eating at an undesired all-time high for you?
Are you feeling a sense of ungrounded-ness and unstableness?
Can't seem to find peace amid the storm of uncertainty?

The good news is that feeling any way you have been feeling is okay. We all process life events differently. My intention is to offer you a path out of any emotion that feels: constricting, dominating, intrusive, undesired, and like it doesn't help you thrive and vibrate higher through this time, or any other.

When the turbulent winds, storms, and waves of life and change come, we can still move through our day, and lives, with a sense a purpose. We still matter to The Divine, to this planet, to one another, and we still have a unique higher calling within us. May nothing be able to separate you from yourself, your uniqueness, or your higher calling!!

So be it.

Fig 2. We nourish you and lift you up. | Daren Thomas Magee

Emotional Tools

01. We all have access to a higher power and wisdom than ourselves, The Divine realm

Our inner voice is a powerful way. Take time to listen and hear what it has to teach you. The quieter and stiller you become, the better you can hear, sense, and vibrate into it.

02 .

Answers, or relief, may not always come in the form we expect them to arrive in

Be open to what may be used to communicate and speak to you, and to bring sweet relief.

This looks like keeping an open heart and mind, letting go of strict guidelines, timeframes, and expectations, and expanding your subconscious beliefs, worth, and thoughts, into new and higher possibility and potential.

03. This busy world around us has long been set up to distract us, even in our healing

Take time away, to clear the distractions, and to heal in peace. Become cognizant of what is essential and what isn’t. Healing and renewing of the mind is a critical time to declutter the energy and vibrations coming through to you by limiting their access to you.

04. Connecting to a Higher power and source will sustain you

Anchor into your 'rock’. Seek refuge in your faith and spiritual cover, community, practice, and tools.

05. Allow yourself to be creative

High vibrational creativity, as in creativity with good and pure intentions, is a healing practice and spiritual means of co-creation with The Divine. Creative-expression is soul medicine. Journey in courage with your gifts.

Fig 3. Vibrational harmony. | Daren Thomas Magee

06. Serve others

Helping other people releases dopamine and endorphins our feel-good chemicals/neurotransmitters. Serving with a joyful heart, and not a spiteful or bitter one, is a spiritual principle of many sacred teachings.

Be mindful of your energy when serving, helping, and supporting. Show up with your whole heart and mean it. Bring warmth.

07. Gratitude is how you take your power back

It's been scientifically researched and shown that the mind can't be angry, sad, and grateful at the same time. We chose which vibration we give our power to. Be mindful of this inner-authority.

Gratitude is also proven to increase inner peace and joy. Shift into this mindset, space, and focus to return home to yourself and to your higher potential. Practicing gratitude for even the smallest things relieves and shifts the mind higher.

08. Journey in grace

Life isn't about perfection. Some days we reach our higher potential, and on other days, we miss the mark. Grace reminds us that either way, we are enough, we are still full of higher purpose and divine beauty.

These words of Nelson Mandela come to mind, "I never lose. I either win, or I learn." That's also what grace looks like. Journey in grace–in all areas of your life!!

09. Slow Down

Sometimes, our nervous systems are merely tired and over-processed. At times the frantic pace of the world can keep you from enjoying peace. When this is the case, it's time to slow down, tune everyone you can out, and go within.

Slowing your life, schedule, and day, down to a pace that your soul requires for balance, is medicinal. Slowness also allows us to become more present in the now. Tune out the distractions. Declutter your schedule. Unplug and slow live. Cook and eat a meal in slowness. Create in slowness.

Be with your loved ones in slowness. This is mindfulness in action. Fastness, busyness, and overworking ourselves, to keep up, is not helping us thrive. Enjoy your own healing and thriving pace.

10. Dopamine

Dopamine is an important brain chemical that influences your mood and feelings. Dopamine helps to relieve depression, brain fog, memory loss, and lack of focus, enthusiasm, or motivation in life.

Proper sleep and rest, music, balanced and healthy nutrition, meditation, sunlight, adequate iron levels, multi-vitamins, B6 or B-Complex, probiotics, exercise, warmth, hot Epsom salt baths, and movement, along with mindfulness tools such as kindness and compassion, all help with increasing your body’s natural production of dopamine and helping your brain and emotions function at their best and higher vibration.

Find your soul's medicine

Explore into what brings you to balance, peace, and joy. It can be a simple cup of tea that does it, serving someone, creativity, spiritual practice, resting, vibing out to music, taking herbs and adaptogens, dancing and moving with your body, or meditating. There are many effective ways.

Emotion Supporting Products I love:

Fennel Tea
Rescue Remedy by Bach's Flower Remedy
Good Mood by Herb Pharm
Sun Potion’s Ashwagandha
Charlottes Webb's CBD
Moon Juice's Spirit Dust
The flower essence Clematis, is powerful for feeling a more profound sense of being grounded, safe, and secure within our own bodies, minds, and lives. This flower-remedy is helpful for anyone feeling ungrounded, unstable, afraid, and not secure during this uncertain time.

All of these are useful in quickly calming the nervous system and restoring inner-harmony and balance.

If you're finding it hard to carry the weight of your emotions on your own, seek the support of a trusted loved one, spiritual community, support-hotline, or a qualified practitioner. You don't have to navigate this time or any other, alone.

The Blessed Man, who brought this blog much warmth and music medicine.

Bill Withers,

we will miss you.

Bill Withers is back again from last week’s post, performing his anthemic jam Lean On Me. This song will forever nurture us and carry us through. May it bless your soul, as it always does mine.

We are sending you light for your journey.

We are sending you our peace and our love.

Journey in grace and equanimity.

We trust that The Divine will always lead you;

Safely onto higher-vibrational ground.

– VHD