Behave like a child

How reconnecting with my younger self has helped me with my anxiety

Morning!!

A bit on #Spirituality! I’ve been seeing SO many rainbows recently, so feeling spiritual AF.

Turns out that doing things that made me happy as a child still make me happy now. Yeh, DUH!? Dancing, singing, reading, drawing, playing, swimming... just "being" in the moment. We are human BEINGS after all.

This morning, I woke up feeling fairly anxious. I've been having incredibly vivid dreams lately (feels like a restless night) and have been waking UP at around 5am every morning. Like, I'm UP UP.

As I sat there, having my coffee and eating my breakfast, I started to ruminate. Side of rumination with your eggs on toast? Nah. But in a much more real sense... yah.

SO, I did something about it. I turned the TV on and played music videos on YouTube, opting for childhood faves - think (in chronological order): Lion King, Tarzan, JoJo, Chris Brown. 'Forever' by Chris Brown got me in all sorts - 'The Office' wedding scene holyyyyy, and my sister and her husband used it as their wedding walk down the aisle song. Also, a V fond memory of my teen years was watching music videos (Rage - IYKYK) with my family on weekend mornings.

Now, I did dance. And cry a bit lot. It may sound a bit unhinged (the dog would be wildly nodding at this), but gosh it felt good. I so needed that release, and as my sister said yesterday "nothing will reach every cell in my body like that music" - she was referring to the Lion King soundtrack. IT LIVES IN US.

Well, you now know what to do next time you’re feeling a bit ergh. I’ll be right there with you!

Simply forever young,

Salty