Go With The Flow – “Move Like a Jellyfish”

* Go With The Flow – “Move Like a Jellyfish” ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED DECEMBER 4, 2020 *

Sometimes we need to just stop overthinking, planning, and worrying. Just go with the flow. In yesterday’s blog post, I made a list of daily tasks to help my mind and body “reset.” I thought it was a pretty solid list. I was able to check off a couple more things today than yesterday, which is a good start. However, my biggest success arrived last night when I was trying out a different meditation video. 

This meditation/hypnosis video was much better than the one I had on the night before. A man with a calming voice talks you through the meditation and hypnosis to help with jaw tension, clenching, and grinding. As I was relaxing and focusing on his words, there was a moment when I couldn’t believe my ears. 

“…your self hypnosis will help you to safely relearn, retrain, and powerfully reset your body and your mind’s habits with a much deeper sense of relief…”

RESET

It still amazes me how the universe knows exactly what we need.  By me blogging about how I wanted to “reset” my mind and body each day, I ended up putting it out into the universe. Then during the video I hear him saying that listening to this will help me “reset.” I actually laughed out-loud. The universe brought it to me. All of that planning I did by creating that list…for nothing?!

No, not for nothing.

One video on YouTube is not the end all, be all. I still have to pay attention to what I’m doing during the day and break the bad habits and routines that I got myself wrapped up in. Don’t get me wrong, the video was VERY helpful! I fell sound asleep before it even ended. The only negative thing I have to say about the video is that when it ended, a YouTube add came on immediately afterwards, which startled me out of my sleep since I had the volume up quite a bit to hear the calming background sounds during the meditation. So, that advertisement messed things up a bit, since I was using it to relax and get a good night’s sleep! However, I did fall back to sleep shortly after and slept the whole night! It didn’t “cure” my jaw pain. I still must have been clenching and grinding my teeth at some point during the night. But there definitely was a different in the quality of sleep that I got and the pain level in my jaw in the morning. 

Go With The Flow

So maybe I just need to go with the flow. I need to stop overthinking, over-planning, and worrying about things. Maybe I just need to give things some thought, then go with the flow to see what happens. It’s always good to have a plan for anything in life. But, it’s ok if we deviate from that plan a little. 

Tonight I’m listening to Jack Johnson. It’s perfectly fitting because even though I have never met the guy, he seems like the most chill and laidback person ever. Listening to his music always puts me in a very calm, serene, and light mood. So, I’ll follow his advise this evening and throughout the weekend:

“Move like a jellyfish,
Rhythm is nothing
You go with the flow
You don’t stop”

Jack Johnson – “Bubble Toes”
Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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Hmm…now that I think about it, reflecting on the day while listening to my music, I realize that I must have subconsciously known this morning what I was going to listen to tonight. I read to my class “Octopus’s Garden” by Ringo Star and Illustrated by Ben Cort. Definitely a water theme going on today. I added this book to my Music Themed Children’s Books list. 

So tonight, I’ll be a jellyfish, just going with the flow, “in an Octopus’s Garden in the shade.” I’ll try to just live life, enjoy every moment, and see where the current takes me, without over-thinking.

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