Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying the weather slowly coming out of your house and meeting people. In the United States, masking is... I mean many stores has lifted, it depends on the different states.
But for many of the states I'm just talking about, masking requirements in many states in stores has lifted and each individual is left to make his own decision to take precautions. Whether it's getting better, it's pretty sunny. I hope and pray that in your part of the world, things are getting better and better. Today, I will read out the testimonials and then move on to the content.
I enjoyed and liked today's episode, Lolita, I found the contents and inner meaning of the podcast very valuable, keep and preaching all. Second listener, I thank you for quoting my testimonials, very useful message in the podcast, and it was exactly a response to how I have been feeling for the past couple of weeks. Thank you very much for taking time to share the affirmations. Another person, I've been unable to keep up with your status updates, but your salads look yummy.
Okay, this is a friend of mine. She follows my status and what's up status and I did have my own 21-day salad challenge. I was posting salads for continuous different ways. Thank you, thank you.
Another person said, your talk was brilliant, Lolita, wonderful speaker with creative ideas, very unique style of expression. Truly enjoyed, stay blessed. Thank you. Another one, good and apt topic for disgust.
Yes, fear comes in various forms. Okay, so as you can see from my podcast website, I did my last episode on June 11. I got busy with important family events and on June 25th. I said to myself, Lolita, you must record one episode today.
As a warmup, I was able to quote your insights and testimonials, that's what I read just now. And I made a note of it in my note pad on June 25th, okay? After that, I got stuck and I let go of the need to press myself and create a full episode. I said, okay, let's stop it there.
So I close my note pad in my cell phone and walked away. Guess what? God or universe or your higher power or infinite intelligence has a reason for that. I was all set to prepare for attending a wedding and by God's grace, I did attend the wedding.
It was a blessing to be a part of a wedding outdoors thoroughly enjoying the flora and fauna, beautiful decorations, food, rituals, singing and dancing. Fantastic, fantastic event. Words cannot describe what I experienced. In this episode, I want to talk about the flow, giving myself permission to be present to my thoughts, my feelings.
And actions while going through a transformational dilemma. It was the first gathering we attended after the advent of COVID-19. The venue administration required the attendees to be vaccinated fully. And those not eligible for vaccine to have COVID just done 48 hours before the event and the results be negative.
Personally, I loved these requirements because it felt like a protection for me and protection for others and felt totally safe. My kids warned me and they said, make sure you're masked, exit while eating and let it be a preventive measure. And I too personally wanted to do that. Yes, what?
A couple of days prior to the event, CDC guidelines relaxed the masking requirements. A part of me wanted to be masked even though I met the CDC guidelines. And a part of me said, I must give myself permission to let go of the need to be masked and follow the CDC guidelines, the new CDC guidelines. You know what I mean?
I became an objective observer of myself. I disassociated from me because when you're associating yourself in when you're thinking and feeling, it's a different way you handle the situation. So now I became an objective observer of myself and I disassociated from me and faced the transformational dilemma. I had to take a leap of faith and move into the new space with complete trust that the divine power which guided me from the time of our break of pandemic is and will guide me now and the future to make responsible decisions.
This brings me to ponder on life situations when an opportunity shows up and how we either miss them or grab them. There were challenges right from 2020 starting with not to touch certain surfaces, sanitize all the time, viruses, airborne, be careful, spread contagious, maintain social distancing and whatnot. So many new terminologies, so many new concepts to be learned and practiced. As it was outdoors and people meeting the requirements were present, and only those people were present.
And I trusted that. I found that no one was masked. But the opportunity to test myself in a bigger gathering came. I was prepared with vaccination and met the CDC guidelines.
But I had to feel the fear of not wearing the mask, which was required before and I got used to. Then I had to move past it with a leap of faith into a new opportunity to enjoy the wedding without a mask. I know for some people it may seem trivial and especially for people who are not very kinesthetic, who are not very emotional, who are not who just, you know, who are more physical in nature and who are more mentally mental. Those two parts of the brain rules them.
I don't think for them it's really trivial but the people who are emotional. I think I come under that category where my emotion first triggers. You know, that comes up first. I need to take care of that.
And then I go into my mental model and then I use some of my mental models to make decisions. And I've learned these models alone still. So, but it may seem, for some it may seem trivial, but for some, especially who are very, very conscious or very sensitive, you know, this can probably they can relate to their inner dialogue that one goes through. I would end this episode with a suggestion for you to take these three steps when you are faced with this transformation dilemma when you face this inner dialogue.
Number one, first, thank yourself and God and your friends and everybody for crossing over such a huge barrier from 2020. And be thankful for your life. Just now, as you're listening to me, as you're breathing this particular breath. Number two, second, forgive yourself for all the feelings that made you feel constrained, that made you feel not good enough, that made you feel afraid, that made you feel small because of this fear.
And forgive yourself for making you feel afraid. First, forgive yourself and forgive others for making you feel afraid or for judging you or commenting about you. Just forgive that. Third, give yourself permission to make a responsible decision to step into the new space.
That could be anything like attending the bigger gathering or start going to school or working or volunteering or meeting your buddies in person. See, working, going to school, these are all indispensable. Because once they tell you from September onwards, you have to come to work, these are indispensable. So, you will do it no matter what you get paid, you have to do it, whatever it is.
But then I'm talking about women who are maybe not stepping out or who stop stepping out because of this, who have stopped socializing because of this. It's more for them and it's more for even some kids who are afraid even to step out. So, give yourself permission. Now, to give you an analogy, say to step up in a stage, to step up in stage, right?
What do you do? You have to let go of one foot, one foot from one step, create space and move into the next step where there is a new space for you. So, what are you doing? You have to let go of the need to be attached to the previous step, okay?
And allow or give yourself permission to step up to the next step up. Who has to do it? You have to do it and you can do it. With that said, until I connect with you in the next episode, you have a fantastic day and enjoy your summer.
Bye-bye.