One of the things that has helped us to stay grounded during quarantine is music. We’ve started many mornings over the last few months to our ‘Morning Coffee Playlist’, even if we drink tea or turmeric lattes from time to time ;). If you’ve been struggling during these times, that is completely understandable. We hope this playlist adds feelings of hope, positivity, and peace to your day.
Cheers Legends x
When we were little, we had forts, coloring books, and imaginative ideas that were sacred just for us. Not because we were trying to hide anything, we just didn’t live in a world yet where we openly shared our every move with others. We had sacred ideas, moments, and experiences, allowing us to be an entrusted friend to ourselves and our imaginative ideas.
As an adult, I kept part of that child-like sacredness with me. I would have a lot of experiences and rituals that would build my relationship and feelings of trust towards myself. The more comfortable I became with owning and sharing my truth, the more I realized that I no longer had as many moments that I kept just for me.
As we’ve been in isolation, I’ve begun integrating stronger, sacred space between my experiences and what I share with others. This has been the foundation for building a more nurturing, trusting, and celebratory relationship with myself.
You’re having a moment where you make a warm cup of tea, sit and watch the trees outside your window, thinking of dreams and things you want to do. What if rather than taking a photo of it, or reaching for the phone to tell your friend about the epiphany you had, you kept that moment to yourself; a special experience between you and you. Savoring a moment and holding a sacred space allows you to take that experience deeper and discover more that your heart wants to tell you if you give it time to be.
A way to to do that is by feeling what it feels like to be present in that experience; to be with you. What it feels like to watch nature outside or connect with the ideas that are swirling in your head. Writing ideas down, or closing your eyes and connecting with them as if you’re already living them.
When I travel, I journal a lot. Journaling while I’m traveling is different than when I’m at home surrounded by friends and family, on the same time zone, and just a quick phone call away. I turn to my journal as a confidant and space for my ideas, having a conversation just as I would with a friend.
I distinctly remember a time when I had about a week before my friends arrived in Greece, and I decided to go to an island by myself. I spent the days relaxing, visiting the town, and writing in my journal. These moments felt sacred. I felt like I was truly on an adventure and my relationship with myself was growing stronger every day. I was making memories with myself and felt free to express, do, or simply be.
Looking back, I cherish that time and often find that when I need to connect to myself deeper, I think back to that time in Greece. I only have a few photos from that adventure and never told a soul about the full experience. It’s something that I keep close to my heart as a fond memory with myself. I can sometimes hear my inner voice say, ‘Remember when you did that? When you were on the other side of the world walking through old streets and smelling the sweet fragrance of the blooming flowers?’ There’s a sense of peace that washes over me.
When you savor and keep a moment or experience with yourself, there’s a part in you that goes, ‘Thank you for not sharing our sacred time together, I’m glad that’s staying between us.’ The continued repetition of showing up for yourself in that way helps you to grow trust with yourself; that your dreams, ideas, and experiences are special and kept safe; sometimes our dreams are calling us back to our heart. They aren’t ready for the world to know them yet.
I’ve learned over the years the importance of listening to whether our dreams and ideas are ready to be shared. There’s times when they want you to continue to grow and nurture it, perhaps grow into alignment with it, before sharing it with the world (or even with your closest friends and family). It isn’t about who you’re sharing it with at times, it’s that something sacred to the heart is now out in the world, rather than where it wants to be for the time being. Your dream wants to be seen, have room to grow, and be entrusted just with you.
You can distinguish if you aren’t ready to share your dream because you’re afraid, or if it isn’t ready to be shared yet. The main way to do this is by feeling into your body. One will feel like you are contracting, the other will feel like your dream or an energy separate to you is contracting when you think about sharing it. Our ideas and creations are separate entities to us that have an energy. The more you connect with it as a separate part of you, the more you’ll be able to listen to it.
A practice I use to have better discernment with sharing ideas, experiences, or sacred moments:
With anything you’re first starting to implement, there have been times when my body has gone, ‘I want to keep this between you and I,’ and I have still shared. Especially with the people in your life where you feel open and vulnerable with, this will be a good exercise in honoring the feeling of wanting to keep something sacred.
Other times when I I would feel a ‘no’, I decided to keep that thought or experience sacred and didn’t share. Instead of sharing, I breathed and allowed the thought to pass. Feelings of trust washed over me and I felt closer and connected to myself. I felt like I had my own back.
The reason I’m sharing this isn’t so that you don’t share thoughts, experiences, and ideas with your friends, family, significant other, or social media community. I am a big believer in authentic and open sharing. It’s more for those times when you have an experience that feels special and sacred to you, and your heart would like to keep that between you and you.
It’s also important to note that sometimes you may feel to share later on. Often if I have a unique experience on a retreat or during a meditation, I savor and keep that close to my heart. Then after time passes and I feel like I have integrated it, I share.
There’s no right or wrong way of doing things, it’s about growing a more connected, sacred relationship with yourself and trusting that you have your back (and your dream’s too).
Do you feel like you want to carve out more space for special, sacred experiences for yourself and your dreams? Give this a go, and tell me what you think… unless you don’t want to share. Then keep that for you 😉
Coming up to my 30th birthday, I always imagined I would be with my Person; the love of my life.
Every adventure felt like a game where in the back of my mind I thought, ‘Maybe this is the place I’ll meet him.’ Maybe on the deck of this ferry on my way to a Greek island, in a corner store in Vanuatu, at this retreat, or late night in a bar in Australia when the final song is playing.
My heart felt called to different places, experiences, people, and adventures. It lit up at the sound of them, and I would always have the thought bubble come in and think, I wonder if this is it. If this where we’ll cross paths.
There’s been times in my life where I felt it. It was in the times when I felt completely aligned with my soul. Planning a trip or arriving somewhere I thought, he’s here. My soul felt this excitement that I would only feel when I was about to align up with something that was meant for me.
Every adventure brought me closer to myself and the love within.
The pull of my heart to go to an island in Greece led not to my person, but to people who would quickly change my life.
The tug of an inkling that turned into a full blown leap took me to the experiences that gave me confidence in myself.
The pit in my stomach before I got on the flight to move across the world led to a journey of undiscovered purpose, people, and a place that felt like home.
The building of a festival that required every ounce of love, passion, and attention showed me the devotion I have for things that I love and that I am capable of creating something bigger than myself.
The places and cities that led me to other love and showed me the shadows and wounds that were ready to be healed; allowing me to quietly say thank you that my person hadn’t come quite yet. I had work to do.
Each time I had that pull from my heart to do something, it was meant for me. Each adventure brought me closer to myself and opened the door to something new.
While I haven’t met my person yet, I can only hope that the adventures we have are as incredible as the journey in between. I sometimes like to think that he’s out having his own adventures and life experiences, and I get a smile on my face thinking of him on his own path, wondering when mine will line up with his too.
Music is such a powerful tool for shifting your energy.
We know this can be a hard time for a lot of you and so we wanted to bring you a playlist of some of our favorite good energy songs.
Something that has been helping us a lot lately while at home is to practice being present. In staying present and finding peace in where you are, it helps bring to light new creative ideas and a more positive mindset.
Have tools for being present or a good feels song? Pop them in the comments below.
I randomly came across a post that I wrote back in 2014 today. It was exactly what I needed to hear. I’m sharing it today in case it’s exactly what you need too. Remember you deserve your joy. Remember, you deserve your joy. It’s natural for good things, or things that you’ve wanted for a long time, to also be coupled with feelings of fear. You deserve to experience the joy of your dreams, and whatever the good thing is that comes into your life, deserves you too.
‘Let What Lights You Up Do So’
We’re powerful creators when we’re passionate about what we want, but a big part of creating what you want is allowing yourself to accept it when it comes in.
Believe that what you are working towards will actually happen.
Often we put in the work, gather up the good energy, and when it happens we’re in shock. It’s as if we didn’t believe the power within ourselves, and so we can’t believe that this power created something that we would love to have in our lives. Putting in the work sometimes isn’t actually the hard part, it’s believing that it will happen, especially if it’s something that you’ve never had or done before.
Let what lights you up do so.
We all know what lights us up. Even if we aren’t conscious of what it is exactly, we can feel it. We get fueled and excited. I know that something lights me up when I’m completely present. I usually forget about my phone, I’m not thinking about what I will be doing after, and I’m just there immersed in that experience.
Sometimes when incredible things come in, we get scared. It’s exactly what we want, or better, and we freak out because we haven’t experienced it before or it feels unknown. Even further than that, we get scared that we will lose it.
Kick the fear by allowing what lights you up to do so.
Be stoked.
When it comes in, feel it all. You do this by completely embracing what you’re experiencing. Give yourself permission to be excited, joyful, and free to feel whatever it is that is lighting you up.
Remember that you deserve your joy.
When something that you’ve wanted, or didn’t even know that you’ve wanted, comes in it’s a great way to test your beliefs around that area of your life; it’s a great way to test your beliefs around deserving your joy.
Think of an experience where you have felt completely deserving. Have you worked hard towards something and when you received it there was joy, gratitude and no signs of fear around feeling like you deserved it? Putting energy towards something that you want happens in all areas of life, but how you receive the things that come in can differ based on your beliefs surrounding them.
If you’re going through the fear of receiving something that you would love to do or have, get into that energy of remembering something that you’ve really wanted and how you fearlessly allowed it into your life. That exchange of wanting something and allowing it to come in can spread to all areas of your life once you accept that you deserve your joy, not matter the situation.
