What was the moment for YOU đ§đźââď¸ (Let's remember together)
Every week on our âMonday Meditationsâ(or as I like to call them: âMagical Monday Meditationsâ), we end off the session by sharing our *feeling* âword of the weekâ.
Itâs like by naming this word, we create the intention for a) how we want to FEEL or b) our anchor point, our focus or something guiding us through the week ahead.
I like to guide people in this...guiding how to listen to their soul, their own inner knowing or their heart -- and not âTHINK of the wordâ but rather FEEL into the word and let it come to them.
As I was guiding the meditation and this âending partâ, I allowed myself to feel for my own word of the week. This one surprised me and to be honest, I didnât exactly know what it meant at first.
The word I received for this week was: REMEMBER. đ¤
What did that mean!?

There are so many things we remember. Was it about remembering certain times in my life? Or was it about feeling FREE of what is no longer ME? Or was it about remembering how things used to be so I can see how far I have come?
Remembering can be so many things!
I like how people talk about the idea that we come in as this âblank slateâ and then we build beliefs that eventually become our habits and what we choose our actions from. Like an itty bitty baby that has no prior beliefs ingrained in them and lives joyfully and free! But then eventually there is a moment... a moment that something changes.
For instance, being a kid who got bullied might form the belief: âI am not like-able and other people are better than me.â Which might translate into a learned âcoping mechanismâ to deal with this belief.
Coping mechanism: âIf Iâm nice to everyone then nobody can bully me or be mean to meâ or âIf they are mean to me, I am going to be mean right backâ or âIt is safer to be alone because nobody can hurt me.â
But how might that child have been before these learned beliefs and âcoping mechanismsâ came into place?
𤯠Maybe thatâs REMEMBERING.
Remembering the âtruthâ before the beliefs came in. PS these âbeliefsâ are simply that, but they are not true... even if they feel so freaking true.
So what was that MOMENT for you?
I often find that children are such great reminders of what is true. There is this way...before a certain time... when we suddenly learn âif you donât have anything nice to say, donât say anything at allâ, we are fountains of TRUTH. Before that âbeliefâ or âmessageâ was taken in, we speak our truth (without always thinking of how it may be received).
There is something truly refreshing about being around kids because you know that they are going to tell you the truth, what they think, how they feel and they donât really care how it comes out.
Do you remember that? Do you remember how it felt to be that kid? To not think so much, to not WORRY so much and to decide that saying what is true matters more than âsaying the kind, the polite, the right (or the people-pleasing) thingâ?
Or was there a moment that you learned that âsome feelings are good and some feelings are badâ, or âgirls are not supposed to show angerâ or âboys donât cryâ. These are the âbeliefsâ that can get programmed into us when we didnât know any better to question it. When someone we look up to or love showed us âtheir truthâ and we wholeheartedly let it become our own. When we believed somebody elseâs belief and let it become ours.
So maybe thatâs what REMEMBERING is.
Remembering the moments that you started believing in something, without really questioning what is true for you? The moments that set your life in a certain direction, the moments that told you how to act and who to be. If you can remember those pivotal moments, maybe REMEMBERING can lead to âunrememberingâ or better yet, CHOOSING. Choosing from here on out:
âĄď¸How do I want to live?
âĄď¸How do I CHOOSE to show up?
âĄď¸What feels truest and most authentic to ME?
SEE! Now that feels so much truer and more loving than listening to the beliefs of others and letting them dictate our lives!
So what was that moment for you and what is that ârememberingâ teaching you?
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