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Slow and Steady Wins the Race

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Today’s meditation was ten minutes six seconds, and it focused on patience.

It also provided a much needed reminder that I need to be gentle with myself when I catch my mind straying during meditation. A reminder that I need to bring myself gently back to focus and not judge myself too harshly. That is the lesson… not how to focus, but rather how to be kind to yourself.

Today’s card is the Seven of Cups. Cups represents emotions, creativity, and relationships. The number seven is an indication of a leap ahead, progress, or the unknown.

The theme of today’s meditation combined with the card that’s been drawn are telling me that, as the title of this blog post indicates, slow and steady wins the race.

I’m working on coming back to myself after residing in a deep hole of depression for over a month and a half. This takes time, and sometimes I get impatient with myself. It’s good to remember that it isn’t a race, and that I don’t have to be impatient with myself, or irritated with myself, when Instant gratification is not forthcoming.

To me, today’s card and meditation’s theme combine to remind me that these things take time, but that I am moving forward. I am making progress, one small step at a time.

The card is also a reminder, though, to keep moving forward. The climb out of that dark hole of depression might at times be frightening, or feel overwhelmingly vulnerable, but keep moving… and I’ll get there.

Opening Up

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Today’s meditation was 10 minutes and 23 seconds and very fittingly focused on doing nothing.

Today’s card is the Queen of Cups. As yesterday indicated, the Queens represent a feminine alpha energy, personality, or person, whereas the Cups as a suit of emotions, relationships, and creativity.

I feel this card making an appearance today represents the rush and bustle that I have been going through recently. Or rather, the fact that I have been pushing away my emotions and my creativity in order to trudge on and get ahead.

She’s telling me it’s time to pause and take a breath. She is telling me to give myself space to let my emotions speak and let my creativity flow, rather than stifling everything just to keep moving forward.

Fostering Focus

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Today’s meditation was 10 minutes and 26 seconds, and focused on… well, fostering focus. That’s not really what they called it, but essentially that’s what it was and it fits in perfectly with today’s card.

Today’s card is the Queen of Swords. The suit of swords represents a theme of logic, thought, communication, or challenges. Queens represent a feminine alpha energy, personality, or person.

I feel that the appearance of this card today is telling me that I need to check in on myself and my thoughts throughout the day and make sure that I am staying focused. She is saying that I need to cut down on those meandering stray thoughts that distract me away from my goals and the things that I need to attend to.

She also indicates that when I catch myself wandering off focus to be gentle with myself. Don’t be harsh and judging in my self talk, but instead be kind but firm in bringing myself back on task.

Trying a Different Tact

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OK, so first I’m going to explain what I want to change or… rather, try. And then I’ll do today’s post at the end.

I wasn’t really connecting very well with the affirmations that I was getting from the app that I was using. So I decided to try using my tarot cards instead.

All cards in a deck have general meanings, but can be interpreted in many different ways. So what I want to do is is use the cards to find the positive meaning to my day. One card, one positive interpretation.

Since each card in a deck can have multiple interpretations, even if I get the same card more than once, the interpretation may be different for each time.

I think if I do this I may connect more to the meditation and the affirmations, and then on the days when I just don’t feel up to it and want to “cheat” and do the short path (or want to save time), I can use the app generated affirmations as fill-ins for those days.

Today’s card is the Four of Cups. Cups is the suit of emotions and creativity, and the four represents a theme of ease, shelter, and stability.

When I look at this card I see the water and her floating within it, and today it puts me at ease like when I drown for you and I’m floating in that space.

I think this card is reminding me today that I need to relax, and not try so hard in my meditation. Just let it come. Just relax into it and stop judging myself so hard for every little stray thought that wanders in during the meditation.

I have been dealing with a bit of anxiety so far in my morning. Because of this, I also feel that the card’s appearance is telling me that during my day today I should take a moment now and then just to relax and take a breath and put myself at ease.

Today’s meditation was 10 minutes and 28 seconds, and seem to go a bit easier than the last couple of days.