Deva premal

Surviving The Shit Storm

The energy since the first of the year has been intense. No, it is not your imagination. It has been howl at the moon, scare small children, eat an entire pizza by yourself level intense. But as fate, or luck, or all our answered prayers would have it, it is leveling the fuck out.

The good part has been that it cleaned out all the muck. Good way to start the new Year – muck free, don’t you agree?

One friend asked her massage therapist last week to virtually “get in
there with a Q-tip.” I like that. Getting into the corners and crevices and really digging that shit out.

This energy, bless it’s heart, cleaned out our collective closets. It shook all of our Etch-A-Sketchs. It threw all the plates in the air. It emptied the refrigerator, even way back on the bottom shelf.

You get the picture.

But that can make life VERY uncomfortable.
Some people get sick in response, ‘cause if you’re in bed, binging on Netflix, you don’t have to deal with the shitstorm…yet.
Others are just pissed off. Cantankerous bastards who keep yelling “get out of my way!” We can forgive them though, right? Hey, their Etch-A-Sketch is blank – and the glass is cracked.

I took the coward’s way out. Kidding, but only a little.
I meditated, went to the movies, wrote and slept, as I waited for the shitstorm to pass. Oh, and I played this little ditty on an endless loop. You remember this from earlier this summer. Deva Premal, her voice and this chant in particular, lull me into a sort of coping coma.
If this is playing in the background, I can read the snarky email, deliver the bad news, eat the last of the disgusting holiday leftovers, listen to someone’s squed logic, and watch three minutes of CNN (with the sound off, it’s easier to stomach that way and hey, the ticker says it all).

All that to say, here it is again. Let it help the dust to settle. Let the sound and the calming effect arrange the dust in a more pleasing pattern, so that when we all emerge in the next week, from our caves of confusion, things will make sense…or at least look better.

Happy Sunday
xox

YOU CANNOT SEE ME, WHEN YOU’RE LOOKING FOR WHAT’S WRONG [Reprise]

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*This is a little poem that the Universe dropped at my doorstep (it does that occasionally) about a year or so ago. It’s always good to get these little reminders to change our perspective. I’m also attaching another chant by Deva Premal that I’m obsessing about since you all loved the one to Ganesh so much 🙂
Sending Sunday Love,
XoxJ

YOU CANNOT SEE ME, WHEN YOU’RE LOOKING FOR WHAT’S WRONG
I’ll be hidden, out of sight,
In the middle of a fight.

Being snarky?
Passing judgement?
With nothing nice to say?
It will seem that I’m not with you,
As I stay above the fray.

Don’t look for my agreement,
when you justify your meanness.

I cannot see things as broken,
I can only see them whole.
While you see someone in ruin,
I can only see their soul.

We’re on separate paths,
you and me,
When mistakes are all you see.

Fault is always found,
when you’re looking at the ground.
Lift your heads up higher,
if it’s truth that you desire.

That is where you’ll find me,
when you start to see the sun,
In the eyes of those around you,
there is light in everyone.

Consider them as flawless,
like I do with you each day.
Do the best you can,
choose kindness,
If that doesn’t work…
then pray!

Chant for Serenity

http://youtu.be/d63COahIpVM

Hi, I’m Janet

Mentor. Pirate. Dropper of F-bombs.

This is where I write about my version of life. My stories. Told in my own words.

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