Take social media off of your phone for a weekend and just connect. The best way to reset is to completely detach from the digital world. It also doesn’t hurt to unplug once in a while. Make it a sacred space by adding fresh flowers, diffuse essential oils and place crystals throughout your home.

Find the practice that works for you and do that.Īnother great way to reset and renew spiritually is by honoring your space at home. If you aren’t comfortable with a group class, there are thousands of tutorials online. Practicing stillness, balance and flexibility with yoga gives you the tools you need to navigate this world “off the mat”. Yoga is a great way to get to spiritual and physical balance. If you ever need to check in with how your soul is doing, find your nearest yoga class and get to the mat. It then populates a list of recommended guided meditations that honor how you feel, heal and reset. Stop, Breathe & Think is a great app that lets you check in with how you’re feeling mentally and physically, and also take inventory of your feelings in the moment. It’s really easy to get lost in the noise. It’s simply a practice that forces you to clear the clutter from your mind, be present, feel all the feels and detach. We have to be conscious of our inputs and just give our spirits a damn break sometimes. We are inundated with relentless posts and tweets with upsetting information and traumatic content. So in the spirit of Auntie Deb & Auntie Whit, here are a few ways to relax, relate and release your way through these tumultuous times: Whitley is all bundled up with stress and anxiety and Allen gives her the mantra that I live by to this day: “You’ve got to relax, relate and release into reality!” There’s an episode of A Different World in which Whitley Gilbert sees a therapist, played by Debbie Allen. It is critical we channel our anger into productive and healing channels if we have any intention, any hope of surviving.

It was in that moment that I was reminded how important it is to have outlets at a time like this. “ Girl if I didn’t have somewhere to channel this…#helltopay” – Lindsey Day We were relating with and consoling one another, and discussing how our creativity and communities get us through some of our toughest days. I will re-allocate their allotted compassion to Kanye.ĭuring one of my semi-regular text message kiki sessions with the boss, Lindsey Day, we commiserated over feeling broken by the Philando Castille verdict. The GOP goons and Bernie Bros can have ALL the seats available, though. Specifically, we have the utmost responsibility to be compassionate with ourselves. But while your anger is a gift, we also have the responsibility to balance that anger with compassion. Rage Against The Machine’s frontman, Zach de la Rocha, said it best: “Your anger is a gift.” We need your anger because it has the potential to create significant change. We have every right to feel jaded, hurt and tired. It’s pretty safe to assume that at some point in recent days, we've each had a, “Let me burn this bitch to the ground,” moment.Įvery documented murder by the hands of law enforcement, every senile presidential tweet, every single instance of cultural appropriation and every eye roll toward White Feminism chips away at our well-being.

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