The Power of Daily Practice: Finding Your Way Back to Yourself | 007

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Welcome, welcome, beautiful sisters to Sacred She Reset,

awakening your radiant wisdom. And I'm your host Sharia Shana.

It is an honor and a privilege to be with you again today. I'm

in Panama, as you know. It is a magical day. We've had a week's

worth of rain and storms and all sorts of things happening, and

I'm riding the flow this morning. So I'm kind of

recording off the cuff. I just had an energy current come

through me, a download, if you'd like to call it, and I was like,

I have to press record, and for you guys to feel the energy of

what's flowing through me right now, and whatever this message

is that's coming through, because I know for me, it's

created a big ripple and a big shift. And speaking of great

ripples and great shifts, a week ago today, as of recording here,

it's we're recording in October, middle of October, 2026. One

week ago at 1 p.m. today, we had an earthquake here in Panama.

So I don't know if you've ever been in an earthquake. I know

it's I've we've had earth tremors and different things in

Australia, but a proper earthquake rating 7.7 scared the

bejesus out of me. It literally has rocked my world, and yes,

we're safe. No, no need to worry. We're safe. We were out

of our home for a couple of days and making sure the building was

okay. But I was on the 12th floor at the time, online, busy

working. Right in, I was right in the flow. You know, when

you're in that zone and you're like, ah, clearly getting

feeling really productive today, and it hit at 1:06 p.m. I will

never forget the time. I will never forget the moment, and it

literally felt like the walls were fluid. Um, on the 12th

floor, the building was doing these ones and swaying, and

pretty much since a week ago, we have continued to have

aftershock after aftershock after aftershock rippling

through. So it has felt like a week of movement. It has felt

like a week of great shifting, both internally and externally.

And there's nothing like a natural disaster to kind of when

you're over here on one track and whoop, the universe has got

a completely different plan for you.

So today, with all that said, yes, I've been feeling like my

week has been a bit of a roller coaster, very unsettled. I've

been feeling quite unsettled internally, and then big things

happening this week, like the launch of this podcast happened

this week, and so there's been big things, big things moving,

lots of things coming up, and so the ground literally beneath my

feet was shaking, and so that seems to have created a ripple

effect throughout my life this week for deep reflection, and so

today I'm coming to you with what's really been landing. It

feels like it's almost a an energy reading of of what I feel

is happening and what's going on, whether locally or globally,

and if this speaks to you, great. I'd love you to share

some comments, write to me, connect with me. I love this

stuff, but I feel for me personally, there's been this

big shift of. So I've been creating all these amazing

things, these wonderful things. They've got great launches

coming up, and all these like I'm really in the groove. Like

it's been a year of big movement, and and releasing, and

stepping up, and really stepping into full visibility. But with

that, on the other side of that, there has been these deep, deep

reflective moments of the shadow rising and rising very quickly

and very abruptly. You know, it's like, oh, all this over

here, and then boom, and then boom. Oh, you're going to have

to deal with some more shadow and some more things that are

coming up, and that's been really confronting this week.

But what I've been reminded of this morning is a few things,

and I'm fortunate enough. I'm really, really blessed to have

the most beautiful partner companion in my life. He's the

most spectacular person.

He's my person, the one for me. All the things, and if you know

me, you know who I'm talking. About to be able to sit in

communication and have conversations, deep connected

conversations with someone you love and who's close to you, who

gets you and sees you, is being so important, especially when

you're going through something and something's rattled you or a

big shift. But also for me, returning back to my daily

practice, and the last week because it's been a bit topsy

turvy. There's been a lot going on. There's been a lot of

different distractions. I've been reminded this morning of

how important that daily practice is to me, and I'm going

somewhere with this. So stay with me. And everybody's

practice is different. Mine in particular is some movement,

some some breath work. I use sound, as you know. I work with

the voice and the sound and moving whatever's stuck in the

body through the voice, which is super super helpful. I will go

into that in another episode.

But the one thing that has been so cathartic for me, right from

a child, I started this at 14 years old, has been writing in

my journal, and it's not just gratitudes. I mean, I use my

journal to to purge, to dive deep into shadow, to really get

up what's underneath what I'm feeling, and so this morning I

found myself explaining to. I read something out from my

journal. I'm actually going to share it with you in this

episode today. I read something out to my beautiful partner, and

I was explaining to him how I receive this information, and

because I'm big on writing, I feel like I can express so

beautifully through putting pen to paper. It's a very cathartic,

deep, intimate time for me when I put pen to paper, and it is

proven that putting pen to paper really does help to move any

energy that's stuck, anything that's underneath. It can be

really healing. It has been so healing for me in my life, and

so I wanted to share this with you in real time because I

yesterday I was really tired. I'd come off the back of an

amazing day, Potter Palooza. I'd done a lot of interviews, great

online for a lot of the day, big chunk of the day, and I came off

yesterday feeling really, you know, a little bit up and down,

and just energy was down and flat, and then I was okay. And

anyway, last night I was just feeling absolutely pooped. I

felt completely stuffed. I got in the chair and I wasn't

scrolling on social media, but I had a little spark of

inspiration come through to start looking through some of my

resources and doing something a little bit productive. And I was

just sitting there relaxing.

Anyway, I had this energy continually coming over me of

feeling kind of flat and then okay, and it's like I'm just

going to take myself to bed, and for me, a good night's sleep. If

I'm tired, if I get a good night's sleep, I'm great. If I

have shitty night sleep all in a row and I haven't slept in a

long time, I'm not great. Like I'm really not great for showing

up. I want to hide. I want to become a hermit, and so this

this thing of sleep is really important for me. Go to bed,

have a great sleep, hit the pillow, out, bang, wake up. I

think I must have had seven and a half hours of solid sleep.

Woke up before dawn, before the light was hitting. It was

beautiful. Watch sunrise, and all of a sudden, I could feel

what was stuck, or had been stuck, or was trying to shift

for the last week. It needed some room, and so down goes the

mat. Out comes the journal. The movement's happening. All the

thing, and I can feel this shift happening. I can feel the

excitement of this, this, this movement, oh, there's an insight

coming, but without attaching to it. And so I just, it was so

beautiful. I have so much gratitude for giving myself the

time to take the time out to sit on the mat, and even if that's

five minutes or it's 40 minutes, I don't know.

I've had some mornings when I've got the luxury of time where it

can be two hours, I'm sitting out there and then I make a cup

of tea and I sit and I watch the birds. Anyway, my point is just

making that space, and when you're feeling things moving,

make the space, create the space. It is important, and I'm

talking like this because I'm trying to make a point. Make the

space for yourself to to feel what's rising, and when I say

feel what's rising, for me this morning I could feel the energy

of this, the brightness and the lightness moving. But at the

same time, I was still trudging. I was in the trenches with some

shadow stuff there that I've been moving through, and so I'm

really looking forward to sharing this piece from my

journal because it will give you an idea of what's going on

inside me and what's happening in this process. And so to just

loop back to what I was saying about sharing with how I receive

this information, and like I said, I've been doing this

process since I was 14 years old. I am 51 now, and so not

every day I would be lying if I said I've been doing it every

day. Not every day, but I have been sitting with pen and paper

from a young girl, and it has brought about some of my

deepest, most profound healing in my life.

Really, really deep healing, and most of which I have not shared

with anybody. The writing that you see that I put on Substack

is different to what I write in my journal, so I wear different

hats with my writing, I'm able to shape shift, and yeah, it's

one of my superpowers, and I'm really proud to say that because

we all need to have something that is in most alignment with

us for our healing, so we can self soothe, and we can actually

create the space for ourselves to do the healing that's needed,

so that we can have this growth, and so that we can move through

everything that's happening around us: earthquakes, other

natural disasters, chaos, children screaming, whatever it

is. You should. We need these processes more and more and more

these days. And so my process is what happens is like I need to

be hitting pen to paper most days, and I always I've got

really pretty pens in a pens beautiful pencil case. If you're

only listening to this, I'm holding up my beautiful colored

pencil case. I have at this time around I have a really beautiful

hardback journal. I like, you know, I like journals that are

quite thick. My journals before were like really chunky, almost

like little Bibles with gold around, gold trim around the

pages.

To me, that's important. And so when I hit that cushion and I'm

sitting on the mat and I'm putting pen to paper. I feel I

feel like I I am in direct communion with God. And when I

say God, I'm I'm spiritual. I'm not religious, but I have a

deeply intimate relationship with the Creator. I have a

deeply intimate relationship with this around us, this thing

that is just so much bigger than us, and a trust and a faith in

it that is unwavering. And so it's like when I open the book

and put the pen to paper, something happens, and I've got

chills running through me now. It's something starts to

channel, starts to open up. It's like I say yes, and it's it

happens. It just happens. It's a practiced happening. It's

something I've been dedicated to, and so what I start to see

is I'm outside of myself, and I'm journeying, and I see it's

like a movie, like a dream, and I'm writing, and it's like

sometimes I don't even know what's coming through. There's

no thought. There's no trying to figure it out getting in the

way. It's it like that's why I say it's this direct source with

with God, And that knowing I have that relationship, and

knowing I have that energy frequency flowing through me,

and that I can tap into that at any time, completely fills me

up. Like I'm lighting up today.

It fills me with complete joy that there's something far

greater than me taking care of us, and so I would love to just

read a little part of what I wrote in my journal today. It

seems that last week's earthquake has shaken up more

than I bargained for. It feels like at the moment there is a

constant movement beneath my feet of everything in my life,

and I can see the finish line so close. And it's not a finish and

done, like oh, it's over, but rather ah, I can breathe. This

stage is done. It's been a big time, large in nature. I can see

how pebbles become so round and smooth over time. That is me.

Rolling in and out with the tide. At least clarity has been

bestowed upon me this morning. With rested, fresh eyes, I am

anew.

Yesterday's discomfort, it's gone, and I'm gifted with a

sense of knowing what to present next in my life. What is asking

for more flexibility, and the attachments that have kept me

anchored to an old way of knowing, with freshness of

breath all around me, and eyes with which I can see even more

deeply into my internal realms, I have bobbed to the surface of

this rising tide with mouth open wide, like a baby bird waiting

for its next feed from the Creator itself, feeling alive

and held once again by that almighty guiding force that is

always there to support us, no matter how rough it gets or

appears to feel, and that's just a small portion of my my journal

this morning. I find that I go through stages of there's

different. It's almost like different parts of me wants to

come through to speak to to be heard, and there's I laugh

because there's this this poetic part of me that almost speaks in

sort of Yale English sort of flowing. There's these funny

terms that come out sometimes, and over time, I'm going to

share with you more and more of my journal. But I remember, I

remember writing in my journal and having this purge about

something I was moving through with regards to my father and my

parents, and and the the way you know how we we choose this and

we come in, and it was all this like purging and wah and these

big words and and it was there's that this that part of me I

welcome in because I love what she brings I love the words that

come through her and she's not always here and when she does I

was there's something really healing about that particular

way of how that information is channeled through me and hits

the page, and so I won't keep this episode too long.

I really just wanted to come in and share with you the

importance of a daily practice, no matter what that is. And for

me, it's on my mat with my writing, you know, it might be a

walk on the beach where you're having a chat to yourself. I

know I do that too. You may want to talk into a tape recorder.

That that is like a wonderful thing to do and hear yourself

back. It's actually really, really healing, and you can hear

some other layers. Often we can, you know, with my writing, I can

read between the lines. I can, I can get a sense of what's not

being spoken or what needs to come to the light. And so, I

want to leave you with just a a reflection, really, in your own

life of where where there's a gap or where there's some energy

that needs to shift, and are you possibly missing? Are you

probably is there a missing piece of not giving yourself

something like this that is truly truly yours? And you could

be hearing me going, "Oh my God, she's been doing it for decades.

Oh my God, I can't keep up with that. You don't have to keep up

with me. You don't have to keep up with a girlfriend that's

doing something extraordinary well. This is about your

journey. This is about who you are right here, right now, and

it could be quilting, coloring in, whatever it is to just bring

those creative juices through and channel something that is

uniquely yours, just for you. And so, this is getting rid of

the noise.

Not like, oh, you should do this, Mary, or you should.

You're really good at this, because often that's not good

advice. It's something we need to take. We go within, and it's

like I've always I've been really good at this, or I would

love to do this. And take the time, give yourself the time,

take the walk on the beach, take the walk in nature, ride the

bicycle, whatever it is, to just connect with that part of you,

because we can get so cluttered in the everyday that we

literally forget about ourselves. And I tell you what,

one of my missions here is so you do not forget about

yourself. This is a place where you're included, and I'm

encouraging. Growth, and I'm encouraging brightness and light

sparkling off everywhere. This is about awakening your radiant

wisdom, and I'd love for you. It's an invitation.

I encourage you today to take one step towards awakening your

radiant wisdom without trying to figure out what it is like?

Getting the head involved. Drop into that heart. Breathe into

the body, and go. What really us? Like what? What is it for

me? That practice that I've left for a long time and haven't gone

back to that I love, or what's new? What's next? This has been

an honor and a privilege. Like I always say, I love being with

you. I love talking to you and connecting with you, and I look

forward to being with you next week. And in the meantime, don't

forget to subscribe and follow and share all of this, and come

and join the community. And come across onto Facebook. That's

where it is at the moment. And I'm always open to

conversations, connections that are consciously led. See you

soon. Love you. Bye for now.