Taking the Temp or Setting the Temp
I give away diamonds every day, sometimes all day long.
This is something I started doing a few years ago when I really became the authority of my emotions, energy, and experience of life. Here's how I do it.
When I wake up, I set my "temperature" for the day (or at least the start of it). I choose the lens I'm seeing the day through. I do a little intention setting and then I fill my energy field up with diamonds. Like a dump truck full of diamonds. I'm refracting light and sending prisms out into the world all day long. I give those I engage with in person or wherever diamonds through my energy, a smile, eye contact, a kind word. I set the temperature of the world I live in, and the tone is diamonds.
The conversations inside my Soul Forward world with clients this week had similar themes. One was about recognizing the personal impact we experience and have on others around our emotional energy. The other was about engaging with the world online or in real life, facing opposing viewpoints, a new political climate, sweeping changes that are seemingly outside of our control, and how to navigate these things without losing our emotional autonomy.
We are energetic beings (forget the body for a hot sec). We are energy, and because we've chosen to have a human experience, we're also energetic beings who have emotional energy flowing around and through us all the time. An enormous part of why we've come here is for the emotions. What a trip.
We are meant to learn (or remember) how to work with our emotional energy while we're here. We're not meant to be broadsided by some external factor and stay in the frequency of feeling pissed off or anxious about what is or might happen. We're meant to become wise about our sovereignty and our ability to affect instead of being affected by what's happening around us.
When you walk into a room, are you setting the temperature of that room energetically? Are you raising the frequency despite who else happens to be in there? Or do you walk out into the world, into a room, or scroll, waiting to be emotionally and energetically influenced by someone else?
I used to check the temperature of everyone in the room to decide how I got to show up. This was in large part birthed from my deepest, core limiting subconscious belief that I was a burden. I always needed to make sure I wasn't asking for too much by showing up how I needed to. I would shapeshift to accommodate others, often aligning my emotions to theirs to be "safe." I don't do this at the expense of my own energetic authenticity anymore. It's too costly.
It's too costly for you, too.
I once heard the writer Liz Gilbert say, "When there's a big thing going on, and it's causing a lot of commotion, someone has to not be on fire; otherwise, it's an inferno, and that doesn't help anyone."
I think about this a lot. When things are a little extra activated (in a marriage, relationship, family, PTA, politics, etc.), how does it serve you to lose yourself and your emotional authority? You are an energetic being, and you manifest more of what you are a match to energetically. So when you get riled up at what someone else is doing or you match someone's fever pitch over something you wouldn't normally get fever-pitchery about, you have lost a bit of yourself in the process.
Can you become an observer? Can you maintain authority over your emotions and energy and choose how you're showing up for yourself and the world? How does it serve you or everyone else to contribute a low frequency to your present moment?
EQ is something I teach inside Soul Forward Method because it's absolutely necessary to understand who you are as energy and an emotional being so that you can be an authentically positive influence on the world. This module is so empowering. My community loves it because in one sitting they understand themselves and their ability to choose how they experience the present moment on a deeper level.
You are innately powerful. But whether you're putting that power behind something positive or negative is the question. If you're reacting instead of responding, you're a temperature taker, not a temperature setter, and you've given away your power.
I want you to be fully empowered. That's why I created a healing modality that helps people tap into what's been dormant within them. We're taking full responsibility and ownership of ourselves, our lives, and what we're contributing to the world. This is deeply authentic living, and we're watching our realities change because of it.
Change every room you walk into for the better (with or without diamonds).