What if You Could Feed Yourself a Spoonful of Gentleness?

How would your body realign itself with this energy medicine?

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Would you like to practice being gentler with yourself? Do you find it hard to treat yourself with gentleness, even though you want to? I find that sometimes, we can be so accustomed to the harshness and drama in our lives, that it’s not easy to switch over to being gentler with ourselves.

After feeling anxious all-day long for weeks, this idea came to me — what if I feed myself a spoonful of Gentleness medicine? What if Gentleness is a tangible dose of energy I can receive into my energetic being?

Gentleness = Homeostasis

To me, Gentleness is like an all-purpose medicine that’s great for all sorts of misalignment with my optimal energetic state. It’s my favorite word that also means ‘homeostasis’.

So, I imagined feeding myself a dose of Gentleness and observed with childlike curiosity how my body would react to this medicine. Usually, I’d notice:

• My chest started to soften.
• My shoulders felt more relaxed.
• And it felt like there was this tiny rivulet of energy flowing down the center of my chest to my belly. With more awareness, this flow expanded and…