Before I started working with the tools I now teach, I was a total stress case. I hated feeling anxious so I tried to control as much of my life as possible—hoping to avoid anything that might put a pit in my stomach, constrict my chest, race my heart.  
 
My mantra: “Failure to prepare is preparation for failure.”
 
Everything stressed me out:
 
getting great grades
landing a good job
how hard I worked
what I said or didn’t say
how I dressed (zero fashion sense)
if I used my time efficiently
On and on and on…
 
While all smiles on the outside, I held the stress deep within my body. Worries were my crack, although I was as unconscious of them as a fish is to water. This meant I had no idea of their impact on my wellbeing. Until...I developed cancer at 29 years old—a story for another time.
 
My point of today’s post is to share how effective energy tools can be as we integrate them into our full lives. It’s not like you work with energy on a yoga or meditation mat and then go about doing “real life.” Both And.
 
For example, yesterday morning, as I sat down to go “live” for my online Grounding & Energy Management class, I was surrounded by the loud noise of large tractors outside my window. They were supposed to have worked last week which is why I scheduled the class this week.
 
The commotion and noise disoriented me at the beginning of the class, and I stumbled over my words. I simply wasn’t in my body. I was out on in the yard reminding the workers they’d promised to do quiet work in the backyard for these 75 minutes. I had to double down on my grounding, release my worries about the noise, and get present with the other people on the call. After a few minutes of doing “the work”, I settled in and proceeded.
 
Just as I was hitting my groove again, a fire engine roared by. Our dog, standing right behind me, began howling to the siren.
 
Before I had this practice, I would have freaked out on the inside, turned bright red in the face, broken out in a sweat, and fumbled over my presentation for the rest of the session.
 
After the call I would have ranted and raved about how unjust it was for this to happen, how horrible, unfair, unprofessional! How could I have not foreseen and prepared for this scenario!?!? What did the students think?!?! I’m such an amateur! And on and on and on…
 
Using my tools, I was able to ground back into my body, get present, and teach the rest of the class with confidence and avoid the negative complaining session afterward. It was still super stressful, but I did not succumb to the stress nor spend the rest of the day regurgitating the experience wishing it to have gone differently.
 
I simply cannot express the depth of my gratitude for these techniques. I use them in real-time, in real life, and get real results. This is more than mindfulness. This is active energy management. This is Ascended Presence.
 
Does this mean I am in constant equilibrium? Absolutely not. I remember after our house was hit by a mudslide, I felt overwhelmed for months! The stress was so extreme, all I could do was ground to get through hour by hour. These tools are not a panacea, but rather a way to support and accelerate our processing of life.
 
PS I watched the replay to see just how bad the situation was and to my surprise, my noise-canceling microphone actually silenced the background shenanigans, making me even more grateful to have released my stress in real-time so I could enjoy the rest of the class.