Finding Peace In Today's World

I share my experiences about the influence of stress and anxiety in my life. There is always going to be something that happens in our personal lives and in the world that can be unsettling. I am learning more about how it is important to make time and space for what I love or enjoy, no matter what is happening.

I felt like I had been in a serious state of mind for a long time, and it can be easy to get lost in that place. I am learning how to shift my focus to what I can love/enjoy in my life to bring more life into my life.

Transcript

Hey everyone,

This is Alyssa.

And what I would like to talk about today is finding peace in today's world.

So the reason that I would like to talk about this is because I feel like there's always a lot of things changing in our environment and in the collective and in the world.

And sometimes it seems like there's so much going on or a new thing happening that it can be hard to find our peace.

And different experiences that I have had with this is I feel like I can be too caught up on achieving something or thinking that I need to be doing this or doing that and being too hard on myself about certain things and having a pretty serious outlook towards life considering things in my personal life and things that are happening out in our world.

And lately I have been thinking more about how to come back to the present and appreciate what I have now and appreciate the simple things in life because I feel like life can be complicated and there's always something else that's going to be happening whether it's in our personal life or out in the world today.

And it's important for us to focus on what we do love,

What we do enjoy,

What we do care about because it's easy to get swept up in outside influences and things that cause anxiety and stress.

And I say that because I feel like that's happened to me before where I feel like I got swept up in all the different things going on and I felt like I was in this flood of anxiety and stress and it didn't seem like there was any way out.

And I feel like I had been overcome by,

I guess you could say,

My emotions and different things that were happening.

And now I'm realizing that's been happening and I'm thinking about,

Okay,

What can I enjoy?

What do I want to love?

What do I care about?

And focusing more on what I do have control over and honoring what I've been through and honoring the strength that it took to get here today and make the time and space for what I do love and do enjoy that actually fills my heart up and nurtures my heart.

And I'm really breaking the surface on this right now,

Really breaking the ice on what that means.

What does that look like?

What is that?

So this is something that I'm exploring more right now is not getting too caught up on each serious thing that happens and just sinking into that space where I'm thinking so seriously about maybe something that happened in my personal life,

Something that happened in the past or something that's happening out in the world.

And it really is easy to get lost in that.

It really is easy to get caught up in that.

And so that's why I'm thinking more now,

What can I do in my day,

Even if it's a small part of my day,

That is something that I enjoy,

Something that I truly enjoy,

That brings life to my life.

And I feel like I've been missing life in my life.

I feel like that's a big part of what I've been missing.

And I know that we are life.

I know that what,

You know,

Like the core of who we are is life and is love.

And what can I do to find that and bring that more into my life?

What brings me joy,

Life,

Love and things like that?

So I wanted to talk about this today because I feel like it's easy to lose ourselves in life when one more thing keeps happening and the anxiety and stress can be so overcoming.

And at this point in my life now,

That's why I'm thinking more about consciously making the time and space to do things that bring me joy and bring me love,

Whether I'm not feeling like I'm in the mood or if even if I don't feel like I'm worthy or deserving or whatever has been holding me back just to purposely do it,

Even if it's just a small step.

And that's what I'm learning right now is because I read something recently that was saying do things that make your heart and soul come alive,

Even if you don't feel like it,

Because maybe the act of doing it is what's going to bring you to life.

And I thought that really spoke to me.

So that's what I've been thinking about more when I read that.

And I think it's really important to make the time and space for the things that we love and enjoy and care about because life is temporary.

And I would know I would like to know that I did things that I enjoyed and cared about and loved no matter what the circumstances are,

No matter what's happening in my personal life,

No matter what's happening out in the world,

That I know that there is the energies of light and dark.

And I want to know more about what the lighter energies are and what brings life.

And it isn't silly considering things that are going on to do things that make you happy and to do things that bring in love,

Because the more that we can focus on those loving energies and light energies,

The more that expands into our life and the more that we can be expanding in that direction and exploring more of that to where that becomes more present.

And things that bring us down can start to fade into the background and we can transition into a lighter life and a lighter age that I feel that we're coming into like a new day of light.

And I know that that's hard to think about because when I think about the life I've lived up until now,

I feel like maybe all I've really known is the darkness.

So it is strange to think about,

You know,

Entering a new day of light and entering into more loving energies.

And I am learning more now that that does exist.

And we can take small steps,

Even if it seems foreign,

Even if it seems like it's not real or how can that exist?

And I remember what that felt like a long time ago when I was a kid,

You know,

Playing with the neighbor kids in the neighborhood,

That childlike energy and,

You know,

Doing goofy things that you just wanted to do.

And you did it.

You didn't think twice about doing it.

You just went and did it because you were a kid before,

You know,

Adult life started happening or before,

You know,

A lot of things started happening that were heavy or hard to deal with.

And after going through a dark period of time,

You know,

For so many years,

Now I'm at this point where I'm like,

I would like to learn and explore what makes me happy again,

No matter how I feel.

And I think that's really important for me to hear is doing it no matter how you feel.

And I think that this is a really big thing for me.

And I didn't know if anyone else needed to hear this today.

And that's why I wanted to share about finding the things that you love and enjoy and making time and space for that and letting yourself walk into a new life that's more nurturing and loving and caring and kind and the ways that we treat ourselves that's more nurturing and caring and kind and no matter what's happening to make the time and space to explore your interest,

Even if you don't know what those interests are,

Just doing anything different,

Doing anything different than maybe the way that you've lived the last 10 years.

And that's what I'm saying to myself is because I know the way that I've lived the last 10 years or even longer,

And I believe that served me for a time and has kept me safe and what I truly wanted.

And now I'm realizing I don't know if the way that I'm living right now is serving me as much anymore as what it did and what's new for me,

What can be there for me in my future that may be different from this,

That could be more aligned and more soul fulfilling,

More nurturing,

More caring and kind and,

And like I said,

That's the ways that I treat myself and what I want to invest myself in,

In my life and my personal life and in the world.

What's,

What do I love?

What do I care about?

What matters to me?

What has value to me?

And exploring more of what that is to give my heart the nurturement,

Nourishment,

Soul fulfillment,

The love that I've been looking for.

And I think that instead of maybe sitting here and,

You know,

Being upset about maybe what I didn't receive,

I think it's time that I start thinking about how I give the love to myself now and understanding that I am the one that's here to save me.

I am the one that I have been waiting for.

I am the one that is going to make my life better.

It is up to me.

I can't look to any person,

Place or situation and expect them to fill my cup and say,

Okay,

Well,

I'm waiting on someone else to do it.

Maybe that's how I felt when I was a kid because,

You know,

We kind of did,

We did have to expect elders and things to take care of us because,

You know,

We were children.

But now that I am an adult,

I think that I have to start shifting the way that I'm thinking into what can I do for myself?

How am I going to fill my own cup?

What am I going to do for my self-fulfillment instead of looking to other people to do that for me?

I have to be the one meeting my own needs and not looking to others to meet my needs for me and thinking about what I want to enjoy and love and care about in my life in the ways that I am going to bring that into my life,

Whether it's,

You know,

Exploring art or exploring different groups and communities out there or spending more time in nature.

All these different needs that we have,

You know,

Social needs and material needs,

Financial needs,

All these different things that it's up to me to be able to meet my own needs in my life and figure out what's really going to make me happy and not be looking to a person,

Place,

Or situation to just make my life for me because that's not really realistic.

And I think that I may have been looking to a person,

Place,

Or situation to,

Let's say,

Complete my life for me or just give me what I need,

But I think that I didn't know that I was really doing that.

So now I'm looking to myself more to realize what do I need and I'm the only one who's going to know that for myself as an individual and I want to expand on my interest and things that I love and care about in my life because I feel like that's really the change that I'm looking for and it's up to me to save myself,

To be there for myself,

To give myself what I've always needed,

That it's up to me to do that and I don't regret any of the time or years that I've spent in sadness.

I needed that time for whatever that is to grieve or to experience whatever I needed to experience there and I feel like now at this time in my life I'm ready for a change and I'm ready to learn about the loving energies and what I can do on the love spectrum even if I don't feel up to it,

Even if I don't,

You know,

Even if it seems foreign to me or it's been a very long time since I've discovered that or been playful or vibrant or anything like that,

That I need to start taking the steps to see what there is for me,

Otherwise I'm never going to know if I don't take those steps into the unknown and see what there is to love.

So,

Thank you all so much for being here today and this is just something that I had on my mind that I wanted to share and I hope everybody has such a great day.

Thank you so much.