Magic of the Universe: Day 1 of 31
- Fear, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life, Love, Magic, Recovery, Self Love, Spiritual Development, Vulnerability
- 5 min read
alisha herrick | coach + guide
Last night my friend and I pulled an all niter talking about the magic of the Universe, being in the flow, she calls it “doing life” together. And I really love that.
Then today, I was feeling kind of out of it and came across something that triggered a lot of negative emotions of insecurity, fear, shame, ugh! It was nasty.
I’ve had moments like this before.
I followed the trail of feelings to what was causing them.
Fear.
In this case, my fear that I am not worthy of love, or that I won’t be loved.
Damn that is a shitty feeling.
My honey and I are were talking over Google chat about my funk. Then he said,
him: I’m loving you so much right now. Can you feel it? 🙂
me: I can’t feel it 
him: You have to open yourself up to it, because the love is flowing
I knew he was right, but I still couldn’t get out of the funk.
I turned on Dr. Who (S06E13 – so disappointing), and made some lunch to distract myself from spiraling.
Then I remembered a magic trick shared with me that is famous for dispelling fear.
Gratitude.
I know, I know it sounds silly. But this is exactly what happened.
I started with being grateful for the food I made for myself. I focused on the details of the food – the onions I grilled – how thankful I was that we grilled them and put the leftovers in the fridge on Saturday. It was so easy to pop them into the skillet with the eggs!
I was grateful that I could smell the different foods on the plate. Well it was kind of hard at first, I don’t have a very good sense of smell, but I just kept saying “thank you” anyway. And sure enough a little while later I started being able to smell the different scents pretty well! I immediately felt more grateful.
This kept going like a flow from one thing to the next. Then I was grateful for my body; grateful that I was giving such good and loving food to my body. I was proud of myself for taking good care of myself. Then I realized, I’m taking good care of myself because I love myself! OMG I love me so much! I really do care about my well-being, and I want myself to be happy and healthy. Which is why I made this delicious lunch for myself! Then, when I felt the love coming from me, I started feeling love from everyone around me. I could feel love from my family, I could feel love from my friends. And then I started feeling love towards them! I started feeling sincere love for everyone around me. Everyone I’ve ever come into contact with.
I was feeling overwhelmed with love and happiness.
A complete 180 from how I was feeling a little over an hour before. With gratitude my fears melted away almost instantly. It happened so quickly, it had to be magic.
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