A kid throws a fit coming in and again when leaving.
An adult comes home from work and immediately beelines for a beer.
And the person who is mad at themselves for setting up plans that now they have to follow through on by showing up.
What do these three scenarios all have in common?
The answer: difficulty with transitions.
The child doesn’t know how to deal with the transition from wherever they were to being in this other place – so she throws a fit.
The adult, needing to wind down from work and shifting into home life doesn’t like the feeling of the in-between transition and numbs out with a beer.
And the last person feels mad because now they have to raise their energy to get up and go do the thing they said they would.
Overall, most people aren’t aware of this transition time and don’t know how to deal with it.
Transition times are where many people start numbing out – scrolling, drinking, and/or screen time.
With transitions going from higher energy to a lower energy it can feel yucky because many people associate energy coming down as a bad thing.
It’s like coming from work, you may have been feeling stressed, have a million things to juggle and what have you, to slowing down into being home.
You’ve been looking forward to getting home and relaxing, but actually doing so, shifting gears, that can be tough.
On the other hand, having to pick up the energy, that’s effort.
This is like any time you made plans with friends and then didn’t feel like actually doing it when it was time to leave your house.
You know you’ll have fun when you do go, but getting that energy to shift and pick up… that can feel downright exhausting.
Since these transitions are going to happen, and even a few times per day, what can we do?
Some of it is going to be uncomfortable, because you’re going to have to learn to be ok with your energy shifting up or down.
While there are as many different ways to handle transition times as there are people…
… it’s always going to come down to giving yourself time.
For example, going barefoot on grass, being in the sunshine, taking your dog for a walk, taking a shower, plop onto the couch and just breathe…
… anything that let’s you have time, especially connecting with nature, where you don’t put expectations on yourself is going to work.
It can also be helpful to use EFT, let yourself feel whatever it is while tapping on the points and thinking about having finished one thing and moving into the next.
Notice I didn’t say anything about meditation or qigong or any other practice like that.
Because that’s actually too much at that point – you just give yourself time and space, and the energy will calm down or pick up as needed.
