A Small Step that Led to the Biggest Shift

I wanted to write about this one because I feel my reality has reinforced to me over the past 3 days the importance of the one small step I had taken a few weeks ago. I guess you could say that I reneged on my promise to myself, and my reality doubled down and said, “Do you get it, now?”

About 3 weeks ago I stopped using social media. A couple months ago I stopped regularly checking the news. At first it was still a little noisy in my head with all the ideas bouncing around that I had either seen on the news or read on my social media feed. After a few days, though, this noise quieted down. Those thoughts were then slowly replaced by ideas that were completely of my own creation. These very simple conscious firings began to fill my reality with this light bubble of simple joys!

…I stopped using social media…I stopped regularly checking the news…

For example, I began to become very present in my reality. When my mind quieted down I began to notice more sensory details, like the light hum of the refrigerator, or the distant woosh of traffic out on the main street. Even the quietest sheen of my computer speakers was suddenly audible. Then I noticed the feel of the energy in my body and how heavy it felt in certain chakras throughout the day. I started tilting my head to pear outside at the sunshine touching the trees in the yard, taking long slow breaths and feeling the relaxed smile come across my face. I moved slower. Breathed deeper. I even noticed how noisy the birds were in the backyard, one day. It sounded like a symphony! It was so pretty, in fact, that I was inspired to record it and save it for myself to listen to again and again.

As I kept with the break from the news and social media, and my mind began to slow down and clear of unnecessary thoughts, I noticed that it began to fill with much more interesting and fulfilling ideas. That’s when the inspiration hit to begin writing this blog. That’s when I started wondering if Universal Consciousness was really something I could tap into and pull from. That’s when I had My Most Profound Experience. That’s also when the idea hit that perhaps one’s intuition isn’t based on 3D conscious thoughts. Maybe it’s based on something else, and that’s when I started to pay attention to other sensory hits like joy and contentment. What if your intuition communicates with you through your feelings? What if my mind has been so bogged down with other crap that I couldn’t even begin to pay attention to my own intuition knocking at the door? These are the new thoughts and realizations I began to play with.

I began to feel extreme joy. I loved this new reality!

Slowly but surely, my reality shifted and with it my energy shifted too! My body felt more calm and my sensitivity to energy heightened. I became so much more aware of the heart center and the energy that ran down through the root chakra and into the earth. It felt like someone had turned up the dial on my energy system! With these new sensory experiences and new thoughts taking over my consciousness, I began to feel extreme joy. I loved this new reality!

I began to wonder, is the news and social media a way to control people? To keep our minds congested with fear, anger and sadness? I doubted this at first, but now I’m not so sure. You see, over the weekend I stumbled upon an interesting video on YouTube. It wasn’t the news and it wasn’t conspiracy. But it did spark my curiosity over a particular subject. So, I began to watch other videos that I found with similar themes. Then, just as YouTube does, many other videos of similar subjects showed up in my YouTube feed. Ugh! It’s okay. I’m in complete control of what I watch but I began to realize that even if I didn’t watch certain videos, just seeing the clickbait video titles was putting ideas in my head. Well, my curiosity for this particular subject had me checking my local news and then twitter to see what those 2 entities were saying about the subject. And then it hit me;

Over the past 3 days my mind had slowly become clogged with other ideas again. Other fears or anxieties began populating my consciousness and they weren’t leaving so easily. I became entrapped by it again. The news and social media sucked me back in, even over this one small subject of curiosity. I think I was right; the news and social media just might be a way of keeping people in a constant state of fear and anxiety and/or anger.

Social media and the news simply aren’t worth it.

Once I made the realization this morning it took nearly 3 hours of clearing my mind, breathing and relaxing to pull myself back together. You know what? Now that I’m back in this place again, I don’t want to leave. Forget whatever curiosity I had over that particular subject. Now is my time to have a clear mind and to pay attention to myself. Social media and the news simply aren’t worth it.

Time to get back to finding those small things that generate little joys and make my day feel right.

**I am not a professional and what I am sharing should not be taken as medical advice. I am sharing my own personal experiences.