One of the challenges of being more as much in touch with the spiritual world than you are with the physical realm is the tendency to want to bolt from it.

I’ve come to realize that taking a beat during these periods is crucial to my well-being.

So I get outside with my dog and become grounded by the solidity of the earth beneath my feet and buoyed into the realm of an animal’s higher vibe. Or I escape to the bathtub and soak away any negative energies of the day, watching them disappear down the drain with the water. Or I lose myself in a good book, song, movie, or any other form of artistic expression that others have so generously shared with this world- speaking to what we’re feeling when we ourselves don’t have the language.

Then I go to sleep with the hope and belief that there’ll be new brightness in the morning. After all, the sun rises each morning whether we can see it or not.

Sometimes life here is sad. But it’ll be okay.

It will always be okay.

I know this in my heart even when I can’t feel it in my head because I recognize that we are bigger than the sadness or any pain inflicted upon us.

We are brilliant beings of energy and light. EVERY one of us.

So go get some sleep. Tomorrow is a new day.

And there will be coffee.