Have you ever felt like meditation just isn't cutting it anymore? In this episode of One Degree to Victory, I share the deeply personal journey of grappling with overwhelm and the limitations of meditation in my life. Despite years of finding solace in meditation, a significant life crisis two years ago shattered my peace and left me paralyzed with uncertainty. I'll open up about my struggle with asking for help, fueled by my fiercely independent nature, and explore alternative strategies to navigate these moments, emphasizing the crucial role of adaptability and seeking support.
I pray that the roots of setbacks, storms, satanic attacks, and even self-sabotage erode, crumble, and wither away, to be replaced by the incorruptible strength, peace, and joy that only heaven can give that will neither change nor fade.
Have you ever felt like meditation just isn't cutting it anymore? In this episode of One Degree to Victory, I share the deeply personal journey of grappling with overwhelm and the limitations of meditation in my life. Despite years of finding solace in meditation, a significant life crisis two years ago shattered my peace and left me paralyzed with uncertainty. I'll open up about my struggle with asking for help, fueled by my fiercely independent nature, and explore alternative strategies to navigate these moments, emphasizing the crucial role of adaptability and seeking support.
I pray that the roots of setbacks, storms, satanic attacks, and even self-sabotage erode, crumble, and wither away, to be replaced by the incorruptible strength, peace, and joy that only heaven can give that will neither change nor fade.
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Overwhelmed, to drown beneath a huge mass, to defeat completely Nothing I planned to share about this topic happened. God is like that sometimes we plan our way, but he orders our footsteps. This week I had planned on sharing my experience with meditation to combat overwhelm, to give practical tools and strategies that would hopefully enrich your meditative practices and experiences. But last week meditative practices and experiences, but last week, after a few successful rounds of meditation previously in my life using it as a tool to combat overwhelm last week meditation did not pull me out from under my belt with overwhelm. In fact, it hurt to try and meditate and there's a whole lot of studies and well, I don't even know if it's studies, but it's a fact really that meditation doesn't work for everyone and it triggers. So everyone is hollering meditation, meditation I'm not saying cast it aside or anything, but I'm saying that it's a tool and there are moments when that particular tool is not needed, is ineffective For the job that you are attempting to complete. So I was attempting to do overwhelm uh, complete. Uh, I was attempting to combat my bout with overwhelm using a meditation technique and it didn't work. Okay.
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So here's what you need to know about me in this whole situation. I'm deeply tenacious, fiercely confident and blatantly rebellious. Yes, so what that looks like for me in my life, how that manifests, is that I do not ask for help. Transparent moment, constant listeners that is not a good thing. Okay, here is why I struggle with asking or receiving receiving help. I don't think that I've ever been overwhelmed by my circumstances this much, to where I'm paralyzed, until my life quake happened two years ago. I hate the weight of not knowing, the weight of not knowing how to move, how to navigate, what tools do I use, what resources do I leverage to get myself out of, to create a more novel or favorable circumstances as it relates to my life? I do not like that, and as I begin to reflect on this idea of overwhelm and why meditation wasn't working, I realized that I've never encountered or ever experienced a circumstance where I did not figure out a way to gain control and to leverage it to turn it into an opportunity to move me toward my desired goal. To move me toward my desired goal. So that's an issue for me. I do not like the wait. I did not know what to do when my lifequake happened two years ago. I did not know from moment to moment how I was going to take care of my kids. So that is my overwhelm trigger, the not knowing what to do. And I was in that space last week. I'm going to share with you how I got from under the weight of my overwhelm.
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This is Ways to Win Wednesday on One Degree to Victory. It's June 26, 2024. You are listening to your hostess with the mostest, nelida Hollis. It's time to lock in, load up and lean in. That means reduce your distractions, gather your mental and emotional energy and direct that to today's distractions. Gather your mental and emotional energy and direct that to today's topic. Grappling with Overwhelm Might not be the title, but it's the topic. It is the fourth and final strategy on this last Wednesday of June.
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Before we get into this conversation about overwhelm, let's talk about, uh, what's going on? At one degree to victory. This is, I think, going to be a new segment. So, okay, this is an accountability moment. Had a transparency moment. This is an accountability moment.
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I've been working on discovering what works best for me when it comes to sharing on social media, from audio clips to memes, to interesting stuff. Now, I'm not going to set up cameras around my house to capture candid moments about my life. So I'm going to tell you right now constant listeners do not look for that on my social media content. That's not who I am in my personality. That's not who I am. I've got better things to do really with my time, and that is to provide you valuable, quality interactions with the One Degree to Victory platform. I can't even say my own platform name. So, whether it's social media, whether it's listening to the podcast, whether it's interacting online on the website, I want to make sure that the time that you interact with One Degree to Victory platform in any one of those aspects adds value. You receive an answer, you receive an insight to help you navigate your life circumstances and, on that note, I have launched my first webinar.
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I'm so excited. So it's under the resource tab on the website menu, and the website is the same one to be the victorycom. And if I and don't forget, in the description of this podcast, there will be a link, a direct link, to access the webinar page. If I do forget, you can still click the One Degree to Victory link, access it there. It'll just take a few more clicks. One Degree to Victory link, I think it says resources on the menu tab. Under resources. It'll be two things, and then it will be the the.
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Where's my stuff? Webinar stuff is an acronym for strength, transformation, understanding, faith and freedom. It's really short it's less than 30 minutes, but more than 20. And it comes with a free PDF downloadable workbook. And the webinar is completely free. I'm so excited about this. Um, it will give you kind of an idea. Um, well, no, yeah, kind of an idea on how the courses are are structured. Yeah, it does. It gives you an idea of how the I'll see the course modules are are constructed. So that way kind of a sneak peek, should you decide to go ahead and take a course. That way kind of a sneak peek should you decide to go ahead and take a course. And, on that note, I've hired someone to help me optimize my website New Territory, and so I've encountered this young lady along this journey. She's awesome. My courses now actually are going to be more accessible, so my goal there is to feature one course per month, so have a featured course in the menu under the resources tab. All courses on One Degree to Victory platform are only $27, y'all. So I'm so excited about this new development. Any ideas or concepts you want to know more about, let me know. And if I don't know, if I don't have the answer, I promise you I will not put a course out, I will direct you to someone that has that information. But if I do know, I definitely will create, I definitely will package that information for you to be able to access on the website. I do, like I said, have a few courses on the website now, but I've had a hard time making them accessible to you. So, listen, I want you to continue to support the show so I can pay for this service, so you all can navigate your life with confidence. Much gratitude to the show's current supporters and advance thank you and air claps to the new supporters out there.
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Now let's get into this discussion about overwhelm. So let's get into this discussion about overwhelm. So several years ago, before my husband passed, we would come through Shawnee, oklahoma, of course, driving the truck on the way to Florida, north Carolina, alabama, ohio, wherever it was. We happened to be going on that trip and we'd stop to visit with my mom. Well, 95% of the time that we came in, we parked the truck on the side of the Walmart here next to a later model, clean, chromed out, capacito colored Volvo, semi right, fast forward, a couple of years later, my husband is gone and I'm rolling by myself and I'm still coming to Shawnee, I'm still parking at the Walmart, but there's a different color Volvo. I believe it's gray at this point, yeah, kind of a little teal, and it's a newer model.
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And I'm noticing now, right after this pattern, that we seem to be on similar home time schedules and that's your time you go on the road, you do your trips, and then you come home your tours, and then you come home and that's called our home time. And my home time was not really home time, but it was a home time and it was a sense that I could spend at least a day or so in shiny. So here I am by myself now, still coming to Walmart, still parking at Walmart, still encountering this truck, and I'm beginning to get curious like hey, who is this guy Like? Okay, he's got his own Volvo and now I'm noticing he is, he's prospering, right, because now the later model Volvo, it's a newer, modern model Volvo and fast forward, so fast forward another year and it's his third truck, right, and this model is even newer and it's blue. It's a gorgeous, deep blue, and now we're parking in the parking lot and I'm dropping my kids off for the summer, and I didn't know it at this time.
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But Shawnee would soon, but reluctantly, become our new home, and this is at this time. I was reluctant, so I think he was completing a pre-trip and I forgot all about my circumstances. I forgot for just a moment that I didn't have a place to call home because, after years of our trucks being parked side by side, I was finally going to meet Mr Larry Johnson. I didn't know his name at the time, but I would soon define him as my mentor and advisor. I hesitate, before we move on, to advise you to find a mentor, because I think that mentors, or at least the phenomenon of the mentor-mentee relationship, comes to you when you need it most. Listen to me even as I say that one of my favorite stories comes to mind is Elijah finding Elisha and Eli and Samuel Solomon and David. These relationships came into being at the crux of major shifts not yet transformations in the lives of these men, but just the way in which they move about life right, their circumstances and their environment just shifted. I did not seek a mentor, I was not seeking a mentor. Mr Johnson entered my life to help me navigate this shift.
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I don't even really remember this particular conversation of many started, but I remember how it ended. You need to do what you're supposed to be doing, and that was months ago. And so I started doing what I knew I was supposed to be doing. So the other day, when the shadow of overwhelm covered me, I reached out. I reached out to Ms Delary and I don't again remember how the conversation started and I'm not going to go back through my texts for that, for that conversation. But I remember, as I'm recording it sitting sitting here recording it now. I remember how it ended. We do all we can do and let God do the rest. I'd come to the end of myself that day, that week and, quite frankly, this month. It had been a struggle, struggle. I am not where I used to be and I liked where I was, but I'm also not where I want to be at all and I confess I am not content and the spirit of overwhelm just came and settled on me. Just came and settled on me.
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How many of you feel that way from time to time that there has to be more that I can do to climb out of this hole to fix the situation. You become disillusioned with yourself because you realize there isn't more that you can do to change your situation. You have come to the end of yourself, and that is the trap. We invite the spirit of overwhelm in when we fail to live from a place of gratitude. I invited the spirit of overwhelm because for a moment I forgot who God was and is and how he moves in my life. This is why having the right people around you is so important.
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They help you to recognize what limiting belief you're holding on to and help you release it. What's my limiting belief? That I can always get myself out of a situation? That's a limiting belief Because sometimes you can't, sometimes you have to lean on others, sometimes you have to give it to God. They speak to the secret desires of your heart. These are universal desires. These are universal desires. These are those questions. These are the oh Lord. Why questions the Lord, if you hear me please, statements the buzz phrase is to find your tribe. But allow me to share a different perspective, and I'm not knocking that whole idea because people need people.
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But what if, as you travel along whatever leg of this journey you're on, whatever chapter of your life you find yourself in. What if you encounter the one person who holds before you windows and mirrors, who can guide your spiritual lens toward a new perspective and who guides the conversation beyond reflection to introspection? I encourage you, constant listeners and beautiful souls, to wait and be patient for that encounter. That's how I got out from under overwhelm. That's how I got out from under overwhelmed. I have a supportive person who entered my life, who divinely entered my life, who helps me to shift my perspective and holds before me the mirror of introspection. Before me, the mirror of introspection. Listen, don't forget to go to our Facebook and Instagram pages, like and follow, share it, because I like that and remember beautiful souls, to love yourself a little more than you did yesterday. I love y'all. I gotta go.
