30 days of self-love: say yes

This post is a short one, people, because it’s post-incredible show and your girl needs to go to bed. I almost passed on The Midnight’s show at the Civic tonight here in New Orleans. Now, if I had decided to stay home, that also would’ve been lovely for me. I did decide to say yes tonight though (thank you, Megan), and without even planning it, I answered a question I had asked myself this morning while journaling.

The question was , “I wonder what ventral vagal with sympathetic energy feels like in my body?” Basically, what does it feel like to be anchored in safety and flow, and have that delicious activation energy? (Quick little screenshot of the polyvagal theory I’m referencing below)

And this is why I love Rainer Maria Rilke’s quote so much, and even though I know I recently used it in a blog post, I’m going to use it again, because it bears repeating, and it brings me full circle tonight. “Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

Dancing freely tonight in that crowd, being truly embodied, fully IN MY BODY, answered that question I asked myself this morning. So self-love tonight is say yes, because we never know where living everything, living the questions now, will bring us.