Yin Energy & The Little Things

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A beautiful short prayer I’ve been listening to recently:

Recently saw this trailer of Bob Marley’s movie. It looks amazing. Can’t wait to watch it. I love his music:

My New Space

Since moving into my new space I have been busy organising it in a way that feels good to my nervous system.

Calming.

Soothing.

Safe.

Things I did not particularly feel growing up.

I’m appreciating the little things that help to anchor and ground my nervous system to feel recalibrated.

Here’s a few images of my space so far:

Living room with my bookshelf, altar, and desk.

Drinking herbal tea from my wizard mug whilst I journal in the mornings.

A beautiful incense holder from Etsy that is burning my Palo Santo stick.

Candle, rose petals, and peacock feathers because why not?

I have many more books but I downsized to ones that resonate right now. I’m building my collection of crystals, oracle decks, rattles, and other shamanic healing tools.

Some of the crystals on my shelf. Black tourmaline, white quartz, jasper tower, amazonite tower and aventurine palm stone.

White Lily flowers gifted by my girlfriend, a beautiful home perfume by The White Company and some decorative books for the bougie hotel vibes.

A beautiful Calathea plant gifted by my cousin-in-law with some small crystals around it.

Yin & Yang

We have both yin and yang energy inside of us and all around us.

A healthy human will have an equal expression of both. A lot of dysfunction in our lives and in our relationships comes from not having these energies in harmony.

Here’s a few words to describe each of them.

Yin:

• feminine

• effortless

• flowing

• free

• beautiful

• soft

• calming

• compassionate

• intuitive

Yang:

• masculine

• action

• power

• protection

• fierce

• vision

• ambitious

• contemplative

• acquisition

For so long I’ve been in yang energy—trying to force and make things happen. I used my will to get things done and prided myself on how much I worked and how hard I worked.

I felt like I had to fight my way through life to get ahead. Constantly striving to be better and better because I felt like I wasn’t enough. If only I ticked certain boxes I’d finally feel successful, I thought.

Wrong.

There is a BIG difference between being successful and feeling successful.

The things I was striving for may make me look successful on the outside but I would never feel it because those things weren't in alignment with me.

Expressing yang energy isn’t a bad thing, we need it do get stuff done but it can become toxic when it is not checked by yin—which I didn’t really give space to.

These are some of the ways the disharmony showed up for me:

• I pressured myself to have my body look a certain way all the time (I was continually looking at scales, in the mirror, and monitoring my numbers at the gym).

• I worked long hours towards making my online businesses work (which I wasn’t passionate about but I felt more money would be the answer to all my problems so all my time should be spent on attaining financial freedom).

• I read lots of books to acquire more knowledge (I felt the more I learned the more I would earn and I felt others always had answers for my life that I was lacking).

I’m unlearning all that now because it is an exhausting approach.

In recent times I have tried to give expression to more yin energy.

I pulled an oracle card earlier in the week and I’ve really been resonating with it: