Morning Note with Christina
Sound Mystic & Womb Healer, NC
“It was ease. That was the big shift for me. That's been such a miracle, a blessing.”
Hi, my name is Christina. [I’m] a mentee, singer, musician, now multi-instrumentalist, business owner of a sound sanctuary online space, and daughter and Auntie.
The very first time I came across morning notes…
I signed up for them, and would read them each morning. I think then Diamond had them Tuesdays and Saturdays, and I would read them. And then, particularly, I feel like it was this year that I was like, Wow, that's so poetic and beautiful. My Soul was really connecting to the words and the images. Those are some of my favorite things, because they bring my mind somewhere—a feeling of freeness or home. And that's how I came across the morning notes.
My favorite is the stories that Diamond shares about her own childhood or her family, or [the] channeled poetic messages from her Soul. [I] really enjoyed Lilith, the plants and flowers, and the call to action at the end. And then, of course, always keeping me up to date with any new sessions that she was doing.
One of them was really in depth, which I really enjoyed. And then [one] month [was] the everyday mystic in you. Those little prompts, like how is this showing up for you this morning, or in your life? always seem to bring me back. In the morning, it gets a little hectic when I'm heading out for work or starting my day. But usually once I need to calm and center myself, I always have that morning note to go do.
It's something to look forward to each morning that always brings me back to Spirit, back to center. It's a rekindling of home. It always grounds me.
Before morning notes…
Before morning notes, [and] before the new job that I have where I can actually sit down, it was very quick. It was like, grab a bite to eat or throw something in my mouth and head out the door. I was still trying to regulate my nervous system, so that has been a big thing for me this year. I was either in probably freeze, fawn or flight mode most days. And then my body felt like it would crash towards the end of the day. It wasn't natural for my body. It was kind of like playing catch up with my own body, with myself.
It's not so much like that when I have the morning notes to get me started. It's like a pick me up, like my coffee as well. I didn't have anything to set, kind of the tone of my day [before]. I set the tone of my day, but sometimes, it's nice to have that there, even though I have my personal practices that I've started doing—embodiment and stuff. Like last year or even a few months back, I really didn't have that.
Now I can actually breathe.
Kind of like, oh okay. I'm gonna have a slower morning [to] start my day off—What do I want the day to look like? What do I feel like doing? Do I feel like work today? I feel like it gives me the opportunity to slow down and take a moment to breathe, to pause, to think. So now I just feel so much calmer. You know? This is a brand new day.
My Soul's feeling a deep sigh of relief. It's just this settling in feeling. It's hard to describe. It's more of a feeling within my body, within my Soul, my heart. The shift for me is that relief. That knowing that I don't always have to be somewhere or do something. It was finally like flowing with my Soul and being more into a divine feminine flow.
It was ease. That was the big shift for me.
Ease. And I feel like that was something I was always trying to find for most of my life, the ease, because I was always in this rushing and going constantly. The fact that all this came from morning notes. But it was the precursor, the start. Part of my Soul, saying, yes, you know, now is the moment where we just get to relax. And that's a good feeling. Because before, even all my days off, I didn't take the time to just be still and to stop.
And now even when I'm moving or going or I have to get things done, I have those moments of reflection and pause. It's like I know I'm moving fast, but not to a pace where I'm exhausted. It's like a pace where I just know I need to get this done and it'll get done and I'm still well, and things are still going good, even, on rough days. Yeah. It just starts me off well. Ease.
That's been such a miracle, a blessing.
I rarely overthink, I go at my own pace and I enjoy my own company, I have a lot more trust in the flow of life and myself, I let things go with ease. And that's the other thing about morning notes. I stumbled on a previous morning note that reminded me so much of here in Maui, and it was so helpful, because I was going through a moment where I was like, do I want to be here forever? I needed to connect back to the land. And it was like a reminder to connect back to the land, but it was really a connecting back to myself and home within myself. And I had that to go back to, to reflect back on. It was like going back to a chapter, and I could just pull, you know, move back the pages, and it was like, oh, okay, there it is what I'm looking for.
So I just love those little things where I can bookmark and save, and then my Soul reminds me. I'm like, Oh yeah, I can go back to that and read it. I need that reminder today, because I'm having a hard time getting up in the morning, or it's been pretty busy at work. It's just those little things that make the difference and are so helpful. They always remind me to slow down and it’s very grounding, gets me back in tune with my natural rhythm.
—Christina G, Sound Mystic & Womb Healer
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