10/19/2026
My dog 🐕 taught me a lesson in my meditation this morning!
This is going to be long-winded, but if you take the time to read it, I think the lesson I learned will also help to you in someway.
I have been working on a daily meditation practice for at least 10 minutes every morning. And so here I am sitting in my chair in the living room, starting my meditation.
I can hear Mac, my dog, chewing on a bone in the background. I decide, that it’s OK, I can tune him out. So I clear my energy, I open up my chakras and allow the light to flow through me. And I go to that empty space between thoughts.
I noticed some kind of energy came up between two people in my mind, I don’t know who they were but they were not getting along. So I acknowledge this energy and I transmuted it with love. I seen the two people shake hands, the issue was resolved. And then I brought my awareness back to the empty space between thoughts.
Another energy came forward, and I don’t even remember what it was. I just know I was aware of it and then I transmuted it with love and I went back to the empty space between thoughts.
Here’s where it got interesting…
I am in this quiet space in my mind and then I hear a noise. I feel a jolt of energy go through my body because of the noise. And I think OK that was just a little bit of adrenaline from my body reacting to the sound. The energy quickly passed, and I brought my awareness back to the emptiness between thoughts.
Then it happens again, I hear loud banging outside, it sends a jolt of energy through my body, no big deal, I breathe, and I come back to the emptiness between thoughts.
Then, Mac jumps up on my chair. I get this jolt of energy of frustration, I take my foot and I push him off the chair. I close my eyes and I can feel how much more of an energy surge is going through my body compared to just hearing a sound. I realize that it took a lot more energy and a lot more adrenaline when I got frustrated and when I pushed him off the chair. Then I recognized, I had an emotion of guilt because I know he just wants to snuggle next to me and doesn’t understand why I pushed him off the chair.
So now it takes me even longer to calm all the energy back down to get back to my center and to get back to the emptiness between thought. But I do.
So here I am back in the emptiness, and I can hear, and feel Mac slowly approaching my chair again. I feel the adrenaline of energy rise within me, I opened my eyes, and I firmly say, “ Go Lay Down.” he walks away to the pile of blankets on my floor. So I close my eyes again, and I’m thinking maybe I should just forget about it. I could feel the energy surging through my body once again and I almost gave up and thought, “no don’t give up”, so I calmed my body, and I went back to that place of emptiness between thoughts.
Then here comes Mac, quietly and ever so slowly he is approaching my chair. And this time, I don’t let any adrenaline rush in, I just allow his energy to be there. I stay calm and I just allow. Then I noticed that he is beginning to slowly climb up into my chair, he lays down next to me and put his head on my lap. I’m no longer irritated, I’m no longer frustrated, I have no adrenaline surging through me, I’m just allowing him to be with me, in my energy, while I try to meditate. Lol.
This was the moment that I realized how much energy it takes for us to try and control or avoid the situation. For me, I deal with evening anxiety, and when I start to feel it, I immediately want to kick it off the chair lol I wanna push it away. Because I don’t wanna feel it and I don’t want it to irritate me and I don’t want it to bother me. But all my research says the way to heal anxiety is to just be with it. And I never really understood that until this moment with Mac. Because if you try to control or avoid, you’re spending a lot more energy than you would, if you just allowed it to be with you.
I opened my eyes with a little bit of tears of gratitude, smiled at Mac gave him some love. And I told him thank you for your gentle persistence and helping me grow this morning!
I felt like I should share this and hoping that it may help others understand what it means when someone says, “just let the energy be there, just let it pass through you without giving it your attention.”
Maybe today, take notice and awareness of what you give a lot of energy to. Especially if it’s something you cannot control. Work on being with it and allowing it to pass through you, and then see how you feel.
Love and Light,
💗Leslie & Mac
