The Art of Being

What the hell is presence anyway?

What if it were ok to just BE?

I missed out on my full moon ritual last night because I chose to take a 40 hour training I’ve been waiting years for. It’s all day for 4 days and has intruded on my routine.

It’s really no big deal since I only had to cancel one class, and school pick up was early all week due to conferences anyway.

But I started to get anxious and worried about all the things I needed to get done. I missed a blog post. I didn’t market an event as much as I should have. I didn’t post (or write) as many articles as I wanted. I didn’t grow my list. I didn’t get any new clients.

I’m actually really mad I missed the eclipse and didn’t do anything much to honor the amazingly incredible energy that has been coming through.

Before I signed on to my training this morning, I was scrolling through social media and came across a post about the eclipse. With some pain in my heart I read it. To my disbelief, it said one of the best ways to use this lunar energy was to JUST BE!

I think my mouth hit the floor. Just BE? WTF? I always have to be doing something during these special times or else I feel I am not honoring my Craft. I meditate and write, create my rituals and whatnot, and I definitely consider my presence of being when doing these things.

However, part of honoring the Craft is honoring yourself. You can’t be of service if you can’t even serve yourself. Why do we keep forgetting this?

I realized I was honoring my Craft by saying yes to something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but was told “it’s not worth wasting your time with”, “people really pay for this?” “how is this going to even help you, you just learned reiki, sound healing, coaching, etc…” “you don’t need this”, “don’t waste your money with this guy”. I won’t even say who said all this.

When you say no to what wants to come through for you, you are denying yourself the opportunity to be you. Yet when you fill your plate with an extra serving of this or that, you have no time to just be you.

This whole idea of having to always be doing something has set our trajectory on a path of burnout. Sitting with yourself…