Good Morning Magical Beings, 

Yes you are magical.  You have the ability to feel (for better or worse!), to create and to be alive. Am I wrong?

Today’s post feels important and I’ll start with a question: How did you learn what was ok to feel and what wasn’t?

Let that sit with you and you might see how ludicrous the question itself is. 

You see, you have a life force running through you that animates your aliveness since you arrived here. This is the energy that fuels your life. 

And sometimes it feels sad, sometimes joy, it laughs and it cries, it feels shame and anger at times and it also has access to high levels of enthusiasm and peace. And sometimes it’s just quiet. Where is your life force energy pooling right now?

It’s not personal. It’s not about who you are or what kind of a human you are. 

It is simply a response to inner or outer circumstance, usually. And sometimes we just feel what we feel for no reason and spend too much time trying to figure it out, judging it, getting rid of it or shifting our perspective. 

Nothing wrong with that, but it can lead you up the path of self-judgement, comparison and what is wrong with me?? 

That is a dead end street.

I am not saying that a clinical depression does not need attention. It does. Anxiety disorders need support. Imbalances in the nervous system can benefit greatly from getting help. I see it every day. 

I am talking about the obsession with feeling good and nervous system regulation. 

But Madeleine, you teach nervous system regulation! 

Yes, yes I do and I feel it is powerful information. I’ll be honest here, I don’t like the word regulation because it implies control and us humans love control don’t we?

I like to speak about alignment.  

Because there IS a place for all of your emotions… AND  you don’t want to become stuck in them. 

Your life force energy wants to flow. It wants to be felt, to be seen and heard so that it can pass through. 

There is wisdom in your anger. 

There is meaning in your grief. 

There is joy in your happiness. 

There is creativity coming out of your sadness. 

There is healing in seeing your shame and stopping all the ways you compensate for it. 

This is what I mean by alignment. I was so angry the other day when I read something in the news, which I don’t often do. This is an appropriate response to the insanity in the world. 

It was soon followed by grief and a deep sadness for all who are suffering. This is an absolutely true,  human response to tragedy and helplessness.

This is empathy. If we block ourselves from empathy, then what are we actually doing? 

We are creating walls and divisions inside ourselves and in the world. 

This is where we can also put in boundaries and choose where we spend our empathy dollars (which are unlimited but our capacity is limited). 

It is also important to have a practice to be able to not get stuck in the story of who did what, who said what and what did or didn’t happen. 

This is mine:

Feel what you feel. Name it. Honour it. Write it out. Rant at the trees. Express it in it’s pure form. 

Move into the body. Where do you feel this? Put hand on where your life force energy has pooled.

Allow the tears to flow. They will end. 

Notice you are taking care of yourself first. This is important. 

See if there is any action to take. Often there isn’t but we tend to jump there first and miss these steps. 

Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. 

Let your life force energy flow again.  Do some gentle self care or vagus nerve stimulation exercises. Get back into balance and flow. 

This is alignment. 

You are not here to suffer. You are here to experience, to feel and expand. This is true healing and moving beyond survival to thriving. 

So now shift focus and expand today into what you want to experience beyond what you have so far. 

What do you want to see?

What do you want to taste? 

What music do you choose to hear? 

What will you create? 

You get to answer these questions for yourself and move beyond feeling like you can’t or you don’t deserve to feel good, or you are not worthy of it. 

This is the magic at your own fingertips. To care and empathize with yourself and move through it to bring in the good. There’s plenty of it in you and out there. 

You just won’t find it in the news. 

May you find your magic today, 

Madeleine

ps. this is where I find my magic