I am currently reading Vibrate Higher Daily by Lalah Delia. A couple people that I trust and deeply admire told me it was a game changer on their journey to elevating their consciousness and stepping into their power to control the energy around them and how it impacts them. They said it helped them find and control their peace, even in the midst of life’s most turbulent storms. I truly hope the most trying times of my life are behind me and while I thank God every day that I survived them, I often feel like my sense of calm and peace is so fragile and fleeting. I can literally step off the plane from an incredibly lazy vacation or awaken from a deliciously relaxing nap and, without fail, within 20 minutes of reading emails/texts or checking voicemails (or daring to enter my teenager’s disaster of a room), I will almost certainly feel like I need another break IMMEDIATELY. My life as a single mom with a demanding executive job is constantly throwing new challenges and pressures my way and I never seem to have a shortage of people and things vying for my attention and my energy. I chose this book because I want to learn how to better control what I allow to trigger my anxiety and self-doubt. I am also learning to unapologetically set boundaries and to not hesitate to walk away from anyone or anything that brings negativity, judgment or stress into my consciousness or that simply isn’t serving me or the type of energy I want and need to maintain to be the best version of myself.
Vibrate Higher Daily is a short but powerful read that offers simple, thoughtful and well written guidance on how to reach my goals and yours- whatever they may be. This book is so short in fact that I should be done by now but every few pages one of her lessons impacts me SO deeply that I choose to put the book down and reflect for a day or so. I now know and clearly understand that the feeling I get in my body and my spirit when something just isn’t right about a person, a place, a decision (or anything really), isn’t something to be suppressed or ignored. Some call it intuition but Delia calls it being in tune to the vibrations around you. Everything and everyone has a vibration- some are positive, healing and calming, while others are negative, unproductive or in some cases downright toxic. Delia helped me realize that some of the things (and people) that have been damn near constants in my life actually stress me ALL THE WAY out almost every time I interact with them, which begs the question of WHY they are still a part of my life. Delia is teaching me, page by page, lesson by lesson, how simple it really is to move through the world around me while controlling how I let it affect me. The perpetual serenity that I’ve been searching for has been in my grasp all along. I just have to give myself permission to tap into my power and seize it.