Well it doesn't happen often but a few weeks ago I was down.Down & out with a very bad cold. It was actually less of a 'cold' and more of a ' I can't breathe' pneumonia situation. I couldn't work and I couldn't do a whole lot other than sleep. I would get winded just from doing stairs. It came out of nowhere and hit me pretty hard and was very humbling.I was using all of my healing tools, reiki-ing myself etc. trying to get back on track in a timely manner but soon realized I needed help. I sent out a reiki sos to my colleagues and friends. Following that session it was on the advice of a dear friend that I go to a doctor. I dragged myself there, was told my lungs were a mess, and I needed antibiotics.In my stubbornness if my friend had not threatened to drag me there I probably would have continued to do what I was doing to heal, and it would have probably worked.... Eventually.After one day of medicine I felt amazingly better. I felt like me again. I went back to doing things that needed to be done. Needless to say I overdid it, and was back in bed for two more days.For those who know me, know I don't stay in one spot very long unless I'm meditating. So to be down for 2 weeks was very frustrating. Once I surrendered to the fact I was going nowhere and reconciled that the clients I had to cancel would hopefully forgive me for cancelling, I got down to the business of getting better.Just so you know, Reiki practitioners Do get sick sometimes. We are not superhuman. ( I wish we were!) This situation I was in was a direct result of my previous month of 5am bootcamps, full days and late nights. I knew I was doing too much and pushing my luck and I 'should' really know better. But until I find a way to clone myself sometimes I have to do a lot of things for a lot of people and I never like to let anyone down.So I was not happy about being unwell-that is the sour 'Lemon' part of this post.However once I shifted my 'attitude' from 'victim of circumstance' and adopted an attitude of 'openness' to my situation an AMAZING thing happened.I got creative.Not a little creative.Super creative.
And as the energy of creativity flowed through by body, I began to feel much better and began to heal faster.I started by making chain mail bracelets while in bed. No joke. In bed with metal rings and pliers. Honestly (my husband was not impressed).Once I felt my true brain had returned I began organizing computer files, creating newsletters. And then the dangerous part for a 'creative and utterly bored mind', I went online and went shopping. I had been dreaming of soap creations all week so ordered the supplies to make these 'imagined' creations knowing full well the supplies would most certainly arrive when I would be too busy to make anything.That didn't stop me though. I was Inspired! : )I embraced my lemons and in honour of them I turned them into Lemon cake!Literally. Lemon Cupcake Bath Bombs to be exact-as pictured below. And they smell like lemon cake as well.
FYI If you think these are as amazing as I do, please know that I will be bringing all of the New Soap Planet Products to the Aura Photo Days at the centre next Friday & Saturday.So ultimately did I learn my lesson? The hard way. I rested a bit. I did, truly. But I can't stop being who I am either. And I believe when someone is going through an illness either short term or long term it can be just as mentally draining as well as physically challenging. What better frequency to get the mind active again than to be in that frequency of joy, creativity, and excitement. Shifting the body out of it's pain & suffering into a new frequency of health and wellness.So next time life is handing you lemons, or you feel stuck, try getting a little or a lot creative.It also helps if you can begin to see the gift in every experience, doing so makes it worthwhile in some way. : )So have fun re-creating and transforming your 'lemons'.