You know how I’m handling this?
By making everything you hear from me going forward be incredibly positive and proactive.
Yup, this is gonna be the one blog you will be looking forward to getting over the next few weeks or months.
Because, I’m thinking that’s what I need to hear, too, right now from someone, anyone!
What will make me feel calm? In control? Absolutely facing everything head on, and yet also optimistic and sure that I’m on the right track and doing the right things through this?
Is anybody in the news or government going to give me these kinds of feelings? I don’t think so.
They are all busy falling off the end of the earth. So I’m going to make these feelings happen for me, and you too if you want it. Read on, friends.
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Right now my daughter is taking a practice ACT test up in her bedroom on this Sunday afternoon. We don’t even know if she’ll get to take the real test in April, or what this might do to her college applications if tests continue to be cancelled. Everything is in the air. Schools are closed for weeks, possibly months.
In a few minutes, I will be helping my son finally start his YouTube gaming channel (Hey, Sharkomite!). I will help my daughter study some more. I will be making lots of crockpot food (I have a stew going right now) since we committed as a family to self-isolate, not for ourselves, but because it feels like the right social responsibility.
And I will write to you.
Remember, you are incredibly flexible. You’re making all kinds of strange turns and adjustments right now, too. And that’s exactly how it should be.
Your parents or grandparents survived WW II and Vietnam. We all survived the collective panic and trauma of 9/11. And we rode out the stock market crash of ’08. Shit happens. How are you going to be through this round? Wrung out and retracted? Or calm, focused, and ready to step out as soon as the sirens stop? Be that person.
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I’m seeing utter havoc online and in the emails from all the shops and places I normally go to. I’m not even opening them anymore.
I’m deleting every single email that has a subject like like, “We want to you know we’re taking COVID-19 seriously…”
As we’d say in my family, “No shit, Sherlock.” I know you are. To my dentist, grocery store, pharmacy, gym, skincare place, insurer, local theater, restaurant, coach, everyone…. I know you are. Five billion emails saying so aren’t going to change anything.
I’m onto the bigger picture: I am wondering what all this means, how long it will last, what each of us is going to do to weather it, and how this will change things for the next few years. I’m feeling like there has to be a counterweight to the deluge of fear and anxiety strangling us right now.
So that’s what I’m going to give, from here until this is over. One more time:
Every email you get from me will feel positive and uplifting. It will be a counterweight. It will remind you where you are still powerful, healthy, and clear.
So, look for this in the coming weeks.
I’m not being positive just to put on a happy face.
I’m doing this because what we feel is what we create, and big things don’t change this.
You can’t cherry-pick this idea and only apply it to the good times. You have to apply it to ALL times.
If nobody else is going to feel good, then I will. You with me?
There is A LOT we can do. I am constantly reminding myself that it’s never about what’s happening around you. It’s about how YOU are happening to it.
Next post: How I’m shifting to roll with this new reality (and some ideas for you, too!)
Until then, be safe and well my friends.
With lots of love, healing and health.
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I would love to hear your comments and hear your perspective. Please leave one below!
Thank you. You make me feel hope. Like I’m not alone. Connectivity is vital now more than ever and It’s nice to hear hope. Thanks for that. My prayers are with you all. Please pray for me also. <3
Summer, Loving your wonderful words. I trust that you send out positive, practical and powerful things to listen to or read.
Thank you Summer.
Love you Always,
Moana
Hi thanks for your lovely email yes the world is crazy right now with the covid 19 virus all schools are closing I know I have a son too aged 14 but he seems to be happy to be off school I think we just need to stick together as long as we have the resources we can get through this troubling time
You are so right we need someone to keep us positive I am getting so overwhelmed that I just want to disconnect from everything thank you for seeing what we really need and what’s more important love Gai
I think it is incredibly important that we remain peaceful and empowered, not only for our souls, but for benefit to our immune systems. There are a couple of resources I suggest for benefit to the immune system. One is a chi gong program to enhance the immune system that is offered at no cost by the chi center in the Sedona area; the website is chicenter.com and the program is the replay of the 3/15 live broadcast. The other is the book Happy For No Reason by Marci Shimoff. Research confirms happiness benefits the immune system and this book has practices to increase happiness levels separate from the circumstances. Summer, thank you for taking a leadership role in inspiring people to remain positive. I am reminded of a powerful question offered by a friend years ago as she faced her own challenge: Who are you going to be in the face of the circumstances? That is where our choice lies. Blessings, Lorrie
Great job, Summer. You are an inspiration.
With love and gratitude,
Vicky
God Bless You. As a senior with multiple underlying conditions, this IS what I want to hear, not the doom and gloom scenarios. I look forward to opening every one of YOUR emails.
I agree with you. I love your ideas 🥰🥰🥰 The best is to think positive, there’s always something good in this situation.
It’s a great idea!🙂
I just wanted to thank you for the POSITIVE, timely and beautiful post, Summer!
I refuse to live in a state of fear or panic, as some around me are, and what you wrote is an affirmation of what I too have been feeling during this unusual time.
Let us practice self-care, and send out love and kindness to each other and our beautiful planet!
Y E S !!!
Thank you Summer! I found out about you and flow dreaming through the Empath Summit. I am so grateful for your amazing work with flow! Look forward to all your positive uplifting emails!
Yes, finally a positive attitude in a crazy time!! So looking forward to your POSITIVE VIBE!!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you…….😁
Wishing you and yours
Healing and Health
Great idea, thanks! It’s been hard to shake the anxiety from feeling helpless, and waiting for the other shoe to drop. I try to tune out the noise, but with little success so far.
Love this. Thank you for focusing on the positive. I’ve been caught in the rabbit hole of facebook “information” and it absolutely does not serve me. So I’m now limiting my media exposure (as I usually do), practicing radical self care, and doing what I need to do to release the anxiety. So thank you for being a positive voice in all of this.
Amen, Sister! I have been feeling more and more overwhelmed with the hysteria and apocalyptic predictions in the media. Yesterday I decided to do something positive as much as I could, so I decided to start sending out vibes of unconditional love to the world. If nothing else, it has made me feel like I have some control over what happens and I am not a helpless victim. Your email is exactly what I needed to hear. Keep them coming.
Thank you Susan, please do more of this!!!
Love it! Let’s all keep in the positive flow!
You bet!!
Sounds great!
I love this and I’m with you, couldn’t agree more💖
YES. YES. YES.
On this Monday morning, I was sitting in my living room feeling paralyzed by all that is happening in this world, fear creeping up my spine because this all feels…life changing. And then blows in your email, and after reading it, my “fuck the fear, fuck letting the swirling vortex of everyone’s paranoia, fear, uncertainty and panic” suck me up. Thank you Summer- for reminding me that the only control we have right now is how we approach the day- each hour, minute, second. I not only look forward to your email every day, I’m going to pass the positive vibes and positive outlook on to everyone I come in contact with!
Glad I could help change your Monday. Yes, please pass it on.
Thank you! We needed someone to pivot the crazy momentum this worlds got going. Totally appreciate your positivity! 💗
Great idea. I don’t like every other email warning either !
people are going crazy, can’t find toilet paper anywhere
Maybe because it’s all at my house? LOL. Not really, but I’ve been a Costo shopper for years….already had it!
Hi Summer!This is how I feel exactly!
I am doing all I can to think and feel positive too as I feel sure this is exactly what the world needs right now, what it always needs in fact, but now more than ever.
So I do things to feel positive: watch films I like, read books, potter in my garden, change those curtains I had been meaning to change for ages …
And I stay in touch with my friends in France, the country where I live, but also in Italy (Italians have a great way of dealing with this crisis: they sing or play music on their balcony and it fills otherwise empty towns with music and joy!!!), Belgium, Germany, Jersey …
I will not stop being positive as I feel sure we will weather this only this way, and we will come out the stronger for it.
Keep the emails coming.
With much love and positive thoughts from
Cathy
Beautiful perspective. Let’s all be Italian for a few weeks in our hearts. Music, anyone?!
Yes! I am I. malaysia reading this … panic has hit the supermarkets today as people are shopping like there is no tomorrow – rather than let’s all have enough to survive many tomorrows … and I am with you … we all need to hear the positive things that continue to happen.
Malaysia! Good to hear what’s happening there. Stay well!
Yes, yes and yes!! ❤️
We growing like flowers in this together!!
I stat calm, because i can se the results of it, we Will be STRONGER in Flow and in our heart!!
I listen to you every day now in the Flow dreaming app, doing my Qi gong, eating god food, talking calm to my family and friends about this. Keep your immunesystem strong, your energy flowing and make yourself happy in this Times so outhers and the earth can pic up your good energy!! ❤️
Lets do this togheter ❤️❤️❤️
With love to you and all ❤️❤️
Beautiful message, Sylwia.
I appreciate your kind loving words. I personally refuse to live in fear. With you I send love to the world. I will hug my loved ones more as well as myself. Instead of soaking up others fear I will pray for peace to be with them. We can do this!! Thank you for being who you are and loving us all enough to share your beautiful vibes.
Because of you, ME School, and Flowdreaming, and some enlightened and progressive friends, and Abraham and Esther Hicks, I am in the best mental and emotional place ever. This situation can’t take it away. I won’t let it! As I lightworker, I am doing all I can to send love and light to all who can receive it, knowing we will get through this just fine.
Aww, miss you Annette! So glad you are doing great. Stay there!! XOX
Thank you the reminder Summer …. ” You can’t cherry-pick this idea and only apply it to the good times. You have to apply it to ALL time” Love this!! Perfect day to hear this! x