Medium | Spirituality
How to Follow a Sunbeam
A way to chase away the blues
It’s been weeks now, and the gloom in the air has finally gotten to me. There’s no sun. Only a heavy hanging curtain of clouds pulled across a tired gray sky.
That’s hard for a Caribbean born native like me. My friends on FB post pictures of the beach in Trinidad. It’s still sunny there. Sandy feet and crystal blue water against a brighter — bluer sky make me grieve for warm weather.
And it’s times like these I wonder what convinced me to make my way to these United States.
Yet here I am, a Caribbean soul in winter and I’m not doing well. It’s easy to just stay indoors where it’s warm.
It’s easy to eat bad food because for a moment, it feels good.
It’s easy to put on Netflix and chill because nothing else is going on right? Except that same nothing quietly expands and fills up days with nothingness until I began to question why are we even here?
There’s nothing on T.V. Nothing on YouTube, even less on TikTok. What’s the point in getting out of bed?
That’s when you need a sunbeam. Would you believe I found a few on Medium? (Smiling).
The Lessons
The Law of Correspondence states that our outer world is a reflection of our inner world. Your physical reality is an expression of the thoughts and emotions that you have. If your inner world is full of turmoil then so too will your outer world be.
I stayed with that a while. If our Outer World reflects the inner, what then is going on within me? I’ve been looking at it backwards, letting the outside world affect me internally.
Yet all along I had the ability to work on my own vibe. Change myself from within. All I needed to do was to Hakuna Matata myself.
Anne delivered yet another powerful idea in working with the Universal Law that makes thoughts become things. This law she calls: The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy. The law works by the way we energize the thoughts we think.
The more we think a thought, the stickier it becomes.
In my own grumbling and moaning about the weather, I’ve been unconsciously collecting negative thoughts together. I’m cold. I’m bored. I’m itching.
As Ann explains so well:
All these thoughts (energy) become glued to one another to such an extent, that eventually they transform into other forms of energy: situations, circumstances, bad luck, negative people, failure left, right and center.
And what have I ended up with? Why even bother to get out of bed?
It’s like pulling on a string, one tiny bad thought leads to another and then another and soon tiny bad thoughts become big bad thoughts, until you find yourself questioning existence itself.
It’s probably best not to pull the string in the first place.
Barbara J. Martin talks about the articles that resonate on Medium — for her it’s about following the sunlight, allowing sunbeams to guide her.
I just love that idea. That you don’t have to get caught up in the darkness that may be around you, you can choose to follow the sun.
Between Anne and Barbara I also get the feeling we can even create our own sunlight. Let that brew for a couple moments. As Anne puts it:
What if I use my imagination and my positive thoughts and emotions, to create something wonderful for myself?
My friend and Reiki master pockett dessert and I sometimes talk about energy and vibrations. Recently we chatted about a TikTok we shared. And then she dropped a bombshell:
think of all the times your heart soared when you tried something new:) That alone ups your vibration and if we follow the laws of like attracts like, you get more of that good vibe:)
So many gifted people on Medium are saying the same thing. Isn’t that strange and curious and wonderful? It’s practical guidance for us if we just listen.
Darlene López wants us to Surrender to the guidance of the universe. And trust that it is being done in our best interests.
Elisa Robyn, PhD teaches us how to ‘be the light’. In her article, I discovered her beautiful message: our spiritual purpose is to kindle the light of awareness in those that may be in darkness.
Maleesha Perera invites us to surrender as we step into 2024. She suggests:
The path forward involves choosing what counters resistance — choosing love and softness. In the gentle embrace of surrender, we find the freedom to navigate the currents of 2024 with grace and authenticity.
Cyn BehindMind talks about forgiveness. She says:
When we forgive, is when good and evil cease to exist. We surrender to reality, which is not only filled with shades of gray, but also full of colors and possibilities!
Ccgordon brings it all back home in explaining the law of Expansion:
The law of expansion says that what you focus on grows. We all have things to be thankful for. Focusing on the good and positive things in life will help you see more of them.
The Takeaways
Where to begin, there are so many. What stands out most is that I have to get to the point of trusting the Universe and to believe that it means well for all of us.
To get there, we have to forgive others to allow ourselves to go past the shades of gray in our lives. Holding on to resentments only brings more of them.
We have to deliberately choose the thoughts we want more of, and to understand the more we think them, the more similar thoughts will glue themselves to one another and expand that positive experience.
I learned we have to shift focus away from the external circumstances in our lives and actively seek out the sunbeams that are around us.
Positive messages, events, and activities are always available, it just takes awareness to seek them, and then consciously bring them into our thoughts so we can attract more. That’s the practical reason why we should always count our blessings.
Best of all, I needed to understand that we can deliberately use our imaginations/positive thoughts and emotions to create some sunshine of our own.
And in that bright space of creation, we have a wonderful opportunity to share the light we have with others and together we can push back the darkness.
If you’re still with me dear reader, this is the way out of the Winter Blues. It’s not often simply sitting here writing uplifts my mood, but damn, I feel good having shared these articles with you.
I’d love it of you could make some time to go read these for yourselves, the positivity and light that comes off of them have completely chased away my depression.
Smiling. I genuinely hope they can do the same for you. Open yourself to the possibility, that’s how the light gets in.
Warmest Hugs Walk good, (right Swaffy?) Mitch.
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