UPDATED MARCH 2024

I love making time to appreciate coping skills I’ve learned. This one puts me in a great mood. Sometimes when I get stuck in the daily grind, I forget to see how far I’ve come with the skills I’ve learned along the way. Life is full of challenges, but with those challenges I’ve learned amazing skills to cope with life’s twists and turns, and the skills I’ve learned get passed down to my children and whoever else chooses to learn from my experiences. Knowing this helps me appreciate what I’ve been through, and the skills I’ve gained BECAUSE of my experiences. It just might mean someone else may suffer less, because I shared them.

Appreciate the time you’ve committed to learning coping skills that have helped you and in turn, others.

There will be times when we experience blocks where our energy fights us to stay in fear, lack, and separation. Many times these are old beliefs that we either are so unconscious of or we know we have them and we are holding onto them out of fear of what it would mean to let them go. These blocks may have began after a trauma as a way of protecting ourselves.

Unfortunately, many of us are taught to numb, ignore, and avoid our feelings. The feelings that created the beliefs or enforced the beliefs are being projected from us whether we are aware of them or not. There is even research saying that trauma can be passed down in our DNA! Old recognized feelings and unhealthy beliefs will come off in how we interpret situations, in our body language, in our immune systems, and they will EXPLODE in our intimate and close relationships.

Anything we try to keep down, will re-surface in one way, shape, or form. It is SO IMPORTANT to learn techniques to properly feel through feelings that are creating blocks to aligning with the energy of love, abundance, and peace. What you may discover is you are holding on to beliefs that were passed down from previous generations that no longer serve you, and you just have never know life NOT embracing those toxic beliefs.

Feelings in themselves aren’t bad, they are necessary for us to see where we are, they are here to tell us something important. They are screaming to us to pay attention. Avoiding them, numbing them, and suppressing them does a disservice. We actually will hurt more people including ourselves when we don’t face what is going on inside of us.

Today’s exercise isn’t a one time thing, it’s important to check in with yourself on a regular basis. It is interesting how our alignment with fear, lack, and separation manifests. I actually just found a buried block of my own recently. I live a very abundant life in many areas, but I seemed to have a financial block. I knew it was there, I knew it was something inside of me creating it, but I had NO clue what it was. It took a few days of praying, meditations, and actually paying attention where the Universe guided my attention for me to hear the message. I was led to a friend of mine who had been doing an abundance course. She listened to me, and started talking about feeling the “weight of debt” and how if we put our energy there, we create more of it. Have you ever heard of Oprah’s Aha-moment? Well this was definitely one of mine.

If you are thinking, how do I know if I have a block? If you feel pulled into fear on a daily basis, there is a block. If you feel like your needs aren’t being met (lack), there is a block. If you feel trapped in chaos or you can’t separate yourself from other’s chaos by taking their chaos personally, there is a block.

We can get very comfortable in the energy of fear, lack, and separation. The first step is becoming aware of when your energy goes there. Pay attention to where you feel this in your body. Try to remember the first time you felt the feeling. You can do things like pray, meditate, talk to trusted friends, read, seek professional help, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) a.k.a. Tapping, etc.

What I’m ALWAYS amazed by is when I put my energy into releasing a block, the tools will start showing up. While writing this post originally in 2020, I was led to read two books that have great tools for me, and I was also guided to Tapping.com to work through the emotional blocks with EFT, which is AMAZING by the way. Learning EFT in 2020 led me to take certification courses. Now, it’s 2024 and I’m master level certified in EFT and TFT, which was the original version of the tapping technique. We just never know where the Universe will lead us when we put our energy into releasing blocks. Trust the process. This is one skill I’m VERY grateful I learned to cope with those days I’m lost in the energy of fear, lack, and separation.

Just stay open to where your guidance leads you and COMMIT to the journey. When you set the intention to heal something inside of you without blaming someone else for the problem, YOU will be amazed how much faster you get re-aligned with love, abundance, and peace. My book Letters from a Better Me helps guide women through some of the most common blocks. I also have the FREE 90-Day A Better Me Series right here on this blog for any gender. If either is what is meant to help you, you will have a feeling about it. The wonderful thing about this journey is when we become more aligned, the messages become clearer and clearer on what to do to help ourselves align even more (I hope you can sense my excitement here).

If you missed the first day explaining this daily aligning practice, you can find it here.

Today’s Aligning

Love

Today, I set an intention to help me find out what’s blocking me from the energy of love, abundance, and peace. I will make time to sit with this intention and be open to what is revealed. I ask the Universe to show me a clear sign, and to show me how to release it.

Abundance

Today, I’m grateful I learned these three coping skills…

Peace

What coping skills have I learned that help me connect with others?

With Love, Gratitude, and Peace,

©Rachael Wolff 2020, 2024