Blog - Caitlin Haffert

Water Wisdom: Sink Deeper Into You

Monday, December 6, 2021

Hold on! The winds of change and transition are blowing. It’s going to feel uncomfortable at first – cold and like you might blow away. But you run much deeper than you know. There is a deep well of resilience within you. Sink deeper into this well and you sink deeper into you. Your capacity to weather the storm far outweighs your fears, anxieties, and worries. Sink deeper into yourself and find your peace in the storm.

Practice: How do you find presence during tumultuous times? How do you cultivate and access peace during the storms? How do you come back to yourself when anxious and stressed? Find small ways to access your groundedness, even just for a breath or one minute at a time. Every small step leads you in the right direction.

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Water Wisdom: Faith In Yourself

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Total and complete faith in yourself. Faith is a doozy. We have so many blocks to it. But having faith in yourself is just a deep knowing that you have your own back. No matter what may come. Can you give yourself that gift?

Practice: What is faith to you? Anchor into that feeling of total and complete faith in yourself, in who you are, in what you stand for, in how you show up in the world. Feel it, explore it, maintain it. How can you bring more of this feeling into other parts of your life? Is there anything that is standing in your way from experiencing this feeling?

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Water Wisdom: Joy

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Joy. You need it to survive and thrive. Cultivate many avenues to joy. Don’t allow your joy to be dependent on other people or outside situations or experiences. You must create your own reservoir of joy, your own paths to joy. Let them be plentiful and full. Bask in them. Exalt.

Practice: How do you tap into joy? Into goodness? What feels good to you? How long can you sit in that goodness before something less pleasant appears? Does it take over or can you go back to the goodness, the joy? How many paths to joy do you have? Can you cultivate more? What’s standing in your way? Think of something that brings you joy, no matter how small. Focus on it and see how long you can stay fully focused on it. If your attention drifts, bring yourself back to the joy source. Do this every day.

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Water Wisdom: Be Yourself

Friday, December 3, 2021

Be yourself. Authentic you is who the world is waiting for. It’s who the world needs. There will always be things that try to block your true self but you get the final say. You must choose the true you over and over and over again. You must choose yourself.

Practice: We often confuse our subconscious programming self with our true self, but they are different. Our subconscious programming self is the self we created to keep us safe in the world, in our family, our society, and cultures. Our true self is our soul, the highest version of ourself. These two selves are often in conflict with each other. Start noticing who is showing up in a variety of different situations with different people. If your subconscious programming self is showing up, feel into why. Notice what is blocking your authentic self in certain situations. Play with it. Find your freedom.

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Water Wisdom: Anticipation and Anxiety

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Prolonged excitable anticipation is the flip side of anxiety. One is more acceptable and expressible than the other, but both are often suppressed and hidden in one way or another. Both need to be accepted and expressed for us to be balanced and in alignment. We must allow all of our feelings.

Practice: Have you noticed that the feelings of anticipation for something you’re excited about are a more joyful version of anxiety? Two halves of the same coin – one we deem “good” and one we deem “bad.” Think about something coming up that you’re excitedly anticipating. Take note of the bodily sensations and emotional feelings you experience. Think about something that brings you anxiety. Take note of the bodily sensations and emotional feelings you experience. Can you see the similarities and the differences? What comes when you explore them further? Your body is trying to talk to you – can you listen?

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Water Wisdom: Allowing

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Pull back on the reins. Ease up. Not everything needs to be pushed. Some things best develop in calm, in stillness, in patience, in the space of allowing. Allow them to unfold. You are not alone in these endeavors. You’ve done your part, now allow the next part to come to you.

Practice: Many things that we’re trying to create in our lives require equal parts action and receiving. Identify something you are trying to create in your life that you feel stuck or stymied on. Acknowledge all of the ways you have helped it along and honor the important actions and steps you’ve taken in that endeavor so far. See if you can make some space for the next right action to come to you. Make the intention that you are open to and ready for the next right action. Then let it go for a couple of days and see what happens.

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Water Wisdom: Bring It To The Surface

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Bring it to the surface. Bring it to the light. Everything you’re hiding away. Your shadow, your darkness, your pain, your struggle, your shame. Allow it to be seen, processed, and embraced.

Practice: Bring one thing to mind that you have been feeling shame about. Acknowledge these feelings and allow them to be there. Choose one person that you trust to practice shame resiliency with. Then share this shame with them. When we speak shame in safe spaces, it loses its power over us and we become stronger. If you want to go even deeper with this, please check out @brenebrown ‘s work – it’s absolutely life changing.

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Water Wisdom: Your Destiny

Monday, November 29, 2021

You are the only one that can take control of your destiny. Not them. Just you. You need to choose you. Be on your own side. Be fearless in your pursuit of your most authentic life. That’s the gift you give to yourself.

Practice: Dream big. Brainstorm and write down what you want for your life. Choose one thing that you want to start working towards now. Not the thing you “should” choose, but the one that is calling to you. Write down some of the pieces you need to make that happen. Commit to taking one small step this week towards that goal.

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Water Wisdom: Intense Feelings

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Intense feelings. We’re designed to experience intense feelings. It’s part of our earthly experience. Anger, pain, heartbreak, despair, rage, shame, guilt, etc. They’re all valid and reasonable. When we resist, however, they persist and that’s where the true damage is done. You need to let them flow and go.

Practice: How do you experience intense feelings? Do you resist, ignore, dismiss, invalidate, or avoid them? Do you allow yourself to feel them fully and let them go? Something in between? Next time you’re experiencing an intense feeling, find a private space. While standing, allow your body to express the feelings in whatever way it wants. Move with the feelings, make noises. Our intense feelings often get trapped in our bodies so moving our body with the feeling allows it to be seen, felt, expressed, and moved out.

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Water Wisdom: Listen

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Listen. Everything around you is trying to speak with you. We get so distracted by internal chatter that we don’t hear the messages we’re being offered. We miss the signs. We ignore the guideposts. We miss the directions. And the support. You are not alone. You must only tune in.

Practice: Go outside. Get quiet and still. Feel your feet on the ground. The air on your skin. The sun on your face. Smell the fresh air. Feel the temperature of the air in your nostrils. Follow the breath in and out. Set your intention to be open to divine guidance. Hold spacious open awareness. See what wisdom makes itself known.

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