The sun is out and the snow is glistening like stars! How beautiful it is to behold another day on this wondrous earth.
It is the first Sunday of the month, so here is this month’s “Ask Sarah.”
Thank you for your questions and your trust.
have a beautiful day!
love,
Sarah
Hi Sarah, I have an amazing job as a kindergarten teacher at a forest school. At work, I am vibrating at a high level in nature with joyful kids. But when I get home, I find that being with my husband and teenage daughter drain that high vibration. How do you handle keeping your precious energy high?
Coming home can be so hard. Our home is where our most intimate and triggering relationships are; whether we are alone or with others, home is the place we meet many feelings and thoughts. Yes-there is much love within the walls, but the complex parts are the heaviest and often at the forefront. I know how deflating the shift can feel. I’m not sure how to maintain a consistently high vibration. I have yet to master that myself. However, I know there is richness and depth hidden within every place. The draining of high energy is your body acclimatizing to the environment and story a home holds. It is a feeling into the love and the complexity of that love. Easy is not a word I would use to describe intimacy, but my goodness, what a teacher it is.
“This is here for me now” is my most used mantra. It serves as a reminder that I don’t need to outrun the nuances of my life but instead accept whatever state is actual for us from moment to moment. Tend to whatever arises. If you feel depressed and resentful when you come home, feel that. These are feelings and thoughts inside you, little voices punctuating your moments. To be respectful of the change is the ultimate goal.
Without comparing the ease of your morning, or the joy of another moment, we accept what is. We lean into the energy of those around us and offer our unclouded presence by being careful not to resent the change in moods and energies. We are staying in our hearts. Our children, our lovers, need our love and support, regardless of the state of energy present, just as we need their love and help too, and the only way to this mutual loving exchange that we are all desperately in need of is to extend that bridge first. Also, feeling drained is ok too. It serves a purpose sometimes. Perhaps it could signal to shift into rest or simplicity and slowness. There may be something for you to embrace in there somewhere.
So when we open the door to our home, and the flood comes, do not harden the heart. See each being carrying their burdens. They have walked another day in the world and have picked up and collected their own joys and hardships. Welcome them into your arms. Offer the light of your presence. It doesn’t matter if it is high or low, as long as it is centered and with the other. We can soften a room with an open heart. We can help ease suffering with gentle thoughts of compassion. This life is an echo chamber. I know love is the highest vibration of energy, so therein lies our work— to introduce that love into the places and times it feels the hardest to give.
How can you love your life when you are not happy with how things are?
Not easily, but not impossible either. For most of us, there is some element of dissatisfaction present. I even see it in my young