What happened to the period?

I’m changing up my morning habit.  After brushing the teeth, assessing the sleep lines on my right cheek and trying to make sense as to what happened to my hair overnight I would come out, turn on GMA then proceed to the kitchen to feed the cats, make my tea and breakfast then sit and watch the show until about 10 am.

I had already eliminated The View since there is a woman on the panel that makes me nuts (and it’s not Whoopy), Kelly and Ryan are becoming a thing of the past and now Good Morning has lent to being a cacophony of too much going on at one time.

Truth be known that watching the news has become a disturbance to my inner psyche and after putting to rest the noise for 8 hours while sleeping (if I’m lucky to get that much) paying attention to how it causes a distress to the rhythm of my body has become key. 

Did you ever or have you paid attention to simply stopping what you are doing (you may be in mid-stride walking somewhere or gardening or at work behind the computer) and focus on how you’re really feeling inside?  Start with paying attention to your breathing.  Stop thinking about anything else.  Just do it!

Deep sweet cleansing breath in and fill your body with this life-line then slowly breathe out.  How does that feel?  Nice, eh? Stress is knocking us off of our feet and into the doctor’s office and if you haven’t already set up a new regime to ward off the excess it’s time.

But I digress…I cheated a bit and did have GMA on for a bit longer than my new-still-needs-practice routine the other day and they were interviewing these 4 young singers in a group from Japan.  As I have been doing a lot of head scratching with new kids on the block…who?  I listened to how they were answering the questions from the interviewer.   This wasn’t a new realization about how the tonnage has changed thanks to Valley Girl ‘upTalk’ starting years ago with every statement ending with a question: 

Interviewer:  How are you liking New York?

Interviewee: “I like New York?”  “It’s been fun coming here?”

Argg… so what happened to the period at the end of the sentence? Or better yet, do they know how a statement is delivered?  Are we supposed to come back with an answer?  Am I being too picky?

I think for me the question becomes did we lose our unique voice or has this voice cadence become a new dialect?

It’s difficult enough for most people to have an actual conversation nowadays or even a thought-provoking one as we are constantly talking over each other to get our important point across before it melds back into our bizzy brain.

I am not particularly pleased with the direction the world is going in right now or the people who have taken it upon themselves to orchestrate our every move and thought with their personal narrative, but I’m thinking that even changing the inflection in our voice and declarative statements to always end in a question is adding even more stress in our lives…more unanswerable thoughts!

In a world where we are always wanting more, complaining more and walking away with nothing solved maybe using the octave high UpTalk is symbolic of us wanting even ‘more of the more’ on a deeper level, one in which we aren’t consciously aware.  Remember what we think or say is an energy that permeates out into the universe so here we are even asking for more when we talk about anything and getting nowhere.  Make sense?

So, the next time you announce while amongst friends that you’re going to the restroom (I don’t know, are you?) try ending without the lilt up. Practice the downward dog of ending a thought an octave lower unless indeed it is a question. Try being more declarative and authoritative in your statements.  Stop sounding like everyone else and start finding the uniqueness of your own voice.  

Recognizing the difference may lend to an internal stirring of becoming a more conscious-Self.  Being comfortable with who we are, what we truly believe and not always be running with the pack by asking more questions that never meant to be answered is a sure-fired way of creating your special personal dialect and possibly segue into a life where you will be seen more, heard more and valued more.   Period.

To your brilliance unfolding,

P.S. Tell me what you think and let me know how I can help you on your journey. As always, thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.