I have been shamelessly falling asleep to Grey’s Anatomy for the past few weeks. It’s streaming on Netflix and I need noise in the background to fully kick into REM Sleep. I don’t have a television in my room so I view on my computer.
As the ongoing reflections of my own life unfold in my mind, I can’t help but think about Meredith Grey. As a fictional character on a soap opera type show, her situations are extreme. While shaping the narrative landscape of the show, the writers will purposely make her circumstances extra intense to keep us as the viewers hooked.
I think an immediate connection for me, is this idea of falling down; hitting rock bottom and finding new ways to pick yourself up; to keep moving when the going gets rough.
Meredith is cool as shit and exudes a ton of confidence. I think confident people are generally strong; they’re willing to roll with the punches and shake things off.
To elaborate on this thought, I think when I have a scarce of confidence or suffer from a lack there of, of self esteem, I wallow in my problems. It takes a lot of energy to even want to move forward. I have to build myself up with positive mantras to take the next step.
Meredith’s life is nuts and her sequence of obstacles becomes totally unrealistic. At one point she’s almost blown up by a bomb, her mother passes away, her best friend moves to Switzerland and oh, the love of her life dies leaving her a single mother of two kids.
When Derek dies, Meredith shuts the world out; she disappears for a while without a trace.
When I get down, I totally isolate. I shut my phone off; I close the world out. In that moment, it’s what I need, however, long term it makes me feel worse.
Can anyone relate?
While writing this post, I can’t help but correlate the idea of self to the root chakra. The root chakra, located at the base of your spin aligns all other chakras and if your root is out of whack the entire energy line is out of sync. Your root chakra is located closest to earth.
When your root chakra is aligned you feel safe and grounded; confident. One whose root chakra is stable allows them to more assured with decision making.
Yoga Pose: Frog Pose {Malasana} – The squat pose positions our bodies close to the earth, and assists in calming us down.