Most of the time we just need to remind ourselves to chill the f**k out and trust the process. Like, really Trussssst our path when everyone is crumbling around us. I know, it’s hard to do when gossip, complaining, and judgement feels sometimes like the easier path.

I can’t be the only one who thought that January was a dumpster fire, a roller coaster of horrifying news, heavy waves of emotion that seemed never-ending….like, here in Seattle, January is alreaaaady dark, rainy, gloom but the days have seemed like one continuous depressing day hasn’t it? The stress and anxiety from this continuous nervous system disruption has us all feeling like we could really use a break.

I was thinking recently back to my childhood days where we would just pull out our Walkman with the foamy headphones and zone out or put our feet in the freshly cut grass and lay down looking at the blue sky. I remember when cassette tapes had to be rewound manually and the sound of the locusts and frogs at night as dark arrived. The locusts in west Texas weren’t there every year, but when they were, you sure did know it. Life felt much more simple then.

I’ve been thinking about what it was like to not have a phone glued to our bodies, when we went out into the neighborhood to play all day until sundown, not a care in the world, except who’s tree house we wanted to play in that day.

I remember I’d come home from riding bikes all around the neighborhood, and my mom would say “so and so called,” and landlines were legit, like we’d go back to listen to a voicemail on the answering machine. And nowadays, I hardly even have a voicemail. I rarely ever leave them myself. To think that THOSE were the days where our attention wasn’t hijacked by the next quick fix video or the most recent news scandal.

We were not meant to be inundated and flooded with this much information continuously, where panic and fear generates cortisol throughout our bodies.

It is a beautiful reminder to disconnect and recenter ourselves by any means possible.

Sooooo let’s just take a moment to disconnect from all that noise.

And the break you were looking for? Take just 10 minutes…..Here it is.

Let’s chill the f**k out together and meditate.

You’re welcome.

~Savanna

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