This year I wore a clown costume to the farmer’s market on Halloween. It’s an annual good laugh, guaranteed. This year it didn’t work. The atmosphere was/is charged with anxiety and worry about the virus, the election, the future.
This piqued my already present social anxiety to a new level. Freshly reminded of one of the primary reasons of why I drank alcohol (it served as a social lubricant), I got to use my tools of radical self-care to calm myself down, reality check with my husband, and remind myself everything is going to be okay.
How will we survive and even thrive to enjoy a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible?
Be healthy, be kind, and be in the moment.
Get extra sleep, commune with Natural Great Beauty, and smile. From this place of being resourced, you are able to serve others.
Remember: you cannot transmit something you haven’t got, be it virus/judgement/hatred/disregard or kindness/wellbeing/love in your heart.
Here are a few resources for you on election eve.
Holding you high in my heart.
Take good care of yourself and then serve others,
Warmly,
~ Amy Elizabeth
p.s. finally, here’s a post from my good friend Eric Savage
who put his thoughts about the election,
which is so divisive in our “united” states, beautifully,
Do you care about our country?
Then I don’t care how you vote.
Do you take time to serve others?
Then I don’t care how you vote.
Do you demonstrate unconditional love to your family?
Then I don’t care how you vote.
Do you extend kindness to strangers?
Then I don’t care how you vote.
Do you love people who have different beliefs than you?
Then I don’t care how you vote.
Are you trying to become a better version of yourself to better serve the world?
Then I don’t care how you vote.
Are you afraid to share how you voted for fear of losing friends?
You need not fear – I don’t care how you vote.
I learn far more about your character by what you do in your everyday life than I ever will by watching you vote. So make your vote for whatever reasons are important to you, and then go right back to being the good human being you’ve always been. The world has rarely been made better by politicians anyway… but it’s ALWAYS made better by people acting like good humans to one another.
Aloha kekahi i kekahi – love one another.
#MahaloMindset
Well said, Eric.
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