I woke up with my mind stayed on $ problems

📓 Meditation Journal: Waking up with worry and what I did about it.

I promised I’d get back to you if something interesting popped up in my meditation time. Boy, did it!

Ok. Ok. I wasn’t exactly meditating. I woke up early — my mind whirring on creative problems. At first it was a gentle fireworks of ideas: fun ways to lead a client’s team retreat, an idea for a bundle I could offer recently unemployed people. Good stuff. I opened up my phone to write down the ideas in my notes.

‼️ There was a negative balance alert on my phone. 😰

The fun, creative wanderings of my mind stopped. (More on how fear squelches creativity for a post another day.) I went in to high-alert, problem-solving mode. I’m so grateful for my practice in this moment. I told myself that before I started doing anything, I needed to be in my body.

I put on a chanting/musical meditation that I sometimes use and let my body move how it wanted to move, releasing a lot of the white-hot anxiety.