Dr. Dolores Fazzino, DNP, RN
How are you riding the storms of your life?
Do you feel as if you are getting sucked in the drama in your life and really not knowing how to get out of it?
The problem today is that people are not leading fulfilling lives and are caught up in the life’s drama and storms. There is much happening on planet earth these days. And today we are being constantly bombarded with drama that is brought to us quicker due to the advances in technology, social media, and the news. The unfortunate part is that much of the drama that is around us is not positive, but negative and elicits much fear and worry.
People are more stressed out than ever before. This stress contributes negatively to our health, as well as our emotional, mental, and spiritual wellness. And this stress seems to be escalating in rapid sequence. Our society is constantly bombarded with all kinds of news, mostly negative, including wars, tragedies, politics, and societal dilemmas. “Please make it stop, I want to get off the ride”, you might say.
Also, since 2008, when the economic bubble burst in the world, nothing in life has been stable. Up until 2008, you could bet your paycheck that things were status quo and everything in the world or external around us was predictable and stable.
I believe that there are no accidents in the life and that everything happens for a reason. I believe the Universe wanted to get humanity’s attention to assist them to take on a different path than it was heading on. And how does one do that? but to hit them in the pocketbook. The events of 2008 have been a spiritual “wake up call” for many.
People have relied on the external to get our trust, happiness, and fulfillment, for prior to 2008 the external was constant. People were placing their trust in the external, “buying happiness” in material goods and products getting that temporary fix for happiness, and over extending themselves financially, and not going within and creating the stability that is humanity’s true essence. And then in 2008 the sands shifted and the external was no longer constant, and now it was payback time.
Many people lost jobs, lost their homes, their money and became spiritually bankrupt. The external world came to a screeching halt. Much chaos, drama, fear, and worry overshadowed the world. The external was no longer a constant, but was volatile and changing from day to day. Since 2008, nothing in the external has been constant. This has been my world, how has it been in yours?
I believe the message from the universe here was to get humanity to wake up to realize that the safety, security, and calmness that we so desire and crave are not in the external world or outside of ourselves, but in the internal, within us.
For me anything in my life that was no built on a solid foundation, crumbled. What I realized was that the only place I could find stability, happiness, and fulfillment was to go within myself. And as I did, my world shifted and changed. I became happier, stable, and fulfilled. I felt as if I found the eye of the storm. I knew that no matter what was occurring around me, that I felt secure and safe within myself.
This shift for me was like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, and allowed me to build a more stable foundation for myself and my life.
Imagine what your life would look like if you were living in the eye of your storm. Yes, just like the eye of a hurricane. Have you ever had that experience or wondered what that would be like? At the eye of the storm, there is this surreal calmness, quiet, and blue sky, while in the distance surrounding you is dark grey storm clouds, where all the drama is happening, yet you are perfectly safe and secure.
I would like to share 3 easy tools to use when you are in the storms or drama in your life to allow you to get to eye of your storm.
- Give yourself permission to surrender. When we get caught up in the external chaos and drama that surrounds you, just repeat “I am Surrender” as mantra. When you say “I am” you are claiming it for yourself.
- Create Boundaries. Surround yourself white and pink light. Image that you are in a cocoon with white and pink light surrounding yourself. The white light is protection and the pink light is love. This will assist you to differentiate between what it your stuff and someone else’s. Usually much of the chaos that surrounds us is other people’s beliefs, ideas, which all are in the form of energy. For those who are empathic, or extra sensitive to others feeling and emotions, sometimes it is a challenge to differentiate when their energy field ends and another person’s energy field begins. This causes a meshing of the energy and can cause the sensitive person to take on other’s emotions and beliefs on an unconscious level.
- Keep your heart space open and focus on the word “LOVE”. One of the quickest ways to change and release you from fear worry and anxiety is to focus on the word LOVE. Since everything is made of energy, even words carry an energetic charge as well. Focus on the word FEAR. How does it make you feel? Kind of heavy, sad, low vibrating, not very well at all, do you agree? Now focus on the word LOVE. Notice the energetic feeling, lighter, brighter, alive, and happy, would you agree?
When you feel anxious, sad, or worried, you too can change those feeling in an instant. Remember half the battle is to recognize that you are in your drama, and then you can choose to do something different about it. I invite you to focus on LOVE. Do not try to analyze or think the word, just the vibration of that word will raise you out of the lower vibrations of anxiety, sadness, fear, and worry. It really is that simple.
These three simple steps will start you on your path to becoming the eye of your storm.
Dr. Dolores Fazzino, DNP, is a Nurse Practitioner and assistant surgeon practicing in 7 hospitals in San Diego County as well as an international featured media speaker and author. She practices and trains in two worlds: the physical and spiritual. With over 30 years experience Dolores is a leading authority on combining traditional medicine, energy healing, and spirituality to assist clients move through life challenges with grace and ease. Her first book “Spiritual Wellness for Life” will be published this May.
Visit her Website: www.DoloresFazzino.com
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