Ripples: Having enough energy every day

I have kind of had a life shift these last 2 weeks. I have filled my calendar full of work and social opportunities. I want to share with you how that's going. If I have learned anything. Or if I have had any regrets. Also, how has my body responded to it all?

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Hey guys, it's YAK presenting Ripples. So today I just kind of wanted to share with you. First of all, I did want to let you know that I did start my gratitude, my seven days of gratitude on my YouTube channel. Again, I have things I have pretty much the same content on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. All under the YK555 username. I almost said conglomerate. But I did start my seven days of gratitude segment. Excuse me, I got a bird. And uh I really think I find that I've I've heard this from many, many, many, many, many of people that once you start doing things of gratitude, you start to see things that you never saw before, or good things start to come to you that you never expected. Just things of that nature, you know? And um I have some videos on there that especially day four, when you get to day four, that has been that just really showed itself about how things can happen like that, where it's just you do something nice for someone, they do something nice for you, and it just kind of it's a beautiful ball that keeps rolling. Um, so I just want to let you know that that was up because I know I was gonna I had talked about that in the previous ripples about how I was gonna start that, and it took me a little bit, but now it's up and running. Um but today what I wanted to talk about is lately I've been, let's see, I would like to say I've been utilizing my time the way I feel like I've been called to. And and what I mean by that is my I know that some of that, hmm, how do I say this properly? My life's purpose is to be me. That has always been my life purpose. I didn't always know that was my life's purpose. It took me a while to figure that out. But this week, and probably last two weeks, I feel like I've really been in sync with that. And this is how I mean. So I've been May is just busy for me in general. We lost some co-workers because they got, you know, let go, and then we had, you know, people have extenuating circumstances, unfortunate family deaths, and things like that. So I've had to I've decided to work extra shifts. Well, so that means that in May I have five days off together, all together is five days total, not together in a row, but like to five five days off in May. And normally my mental self would go, Oh my god, what am I gonna do? How am I gonna make it through this? And like just you know, you you psych yourself out. Well, the last two weeks or so, let's see what day is it today. Today's the 19th. So the last two weeks, I've kind of just been running by kind of what comes to me, right? Because that's always that has always worked for me in the past. Of where do the breadcrumbs lead? I always like to call it that. Following your breadcrumbs or following your intuition or where the you know you think the universe is leading you, right? So I've been I feel like I've been led to see people and go out more often than I usually do. And it is partly because I think when I was puppy mom and babysitting my puppy friend, I didn't really have that opportunity very often. And there was a big deficit there. And that deficit, it's almost like not like I had to make up for it, but that I was ready to hit the ground running. You know, and so like let's for an example, um, I I would have to look at my calendar to think of the exact like the exact things that I did. But it was like, you know, go to work, have a friend activity after work, go to work the next morning, have a friend activity after work, you know, in the morning, sell like I don't know, I've had some I'm having somebody pick up like a thing off Amazon Marketplace or whatever. And then I have like an errand, I have some doctor's appointments or whatever, and then I go to work, and then I open the next day, and then I have a family activity. Like I've I've been very dense with my activities where it was like, you know, I still get home in a decent hour, you know, be home by 11-ish, try to be in bed by two. Like, that's just kind of I'm used to my old self would be up till two or five in the morning. I'll be honest, I'm a night owl, right? My earliest morning shift in any of my jobs is 10:30. That's the earliest I have to start anytime. Most of the time it's 11:30 or 4 or 5:45. Like it's it's a big variety, but it's never early morning, like you know, the nine to fibers, right? It's a different um setup for me for my time clock. So I would go to bed between two and five in the morning normally. And I mean that as in like I watched a bunch of YouTube. It wasn't like, oh yeah, I cleaned my whole house and I was productive and I did lottery. No, no, no, no, no. It was like, hey, I watched YouTube till like two or five in the morning. But what's been working out is that I believe this is the this is the message of today. I'm gonna get down to the nitty-gritty and get back to the point. The nitty-gritty is that I feel like if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, like what the universe wants you to do, it will give you the energy to do those things. So for instance, I've been kind of go, go, go, go, go, go, go. But then two o'clock runs around and I'm ready for bed. And I don't mean I'm exhausted and I'm ready for bed. I just mean I'm ready to go to bed now. And then I go to bed between 2 and 2.30 instead of between 2 and 5 when the sun comes up. Like, and then I get like six to seven hours, you know, six to eight hours of sleep, right? And so that has been working okay. Like that, I feel like if you it's my friend, again, my life coach goes with the ask, trust, and allow, right? And so every morning I've tried to ask for the energy for the day. And not just for the energy for the day, but like I usually ask for the I ask for the energy for the day. I ask for the energy to smile and bring joy to others, and I ask for, I usually also ask for safe travel. Like, may me, my vehicle get to our destinations today safe and without incident. Like I always, those are kind of like the big three. Um, just because like the roads are dangerous out there. So I'm not ashamed to ask for safety in driving, especially with driving. Because let's face it, you're not always the one to make the mistake, right? So those are the things I've been asking for, I feel like almost consistently every morning. And I know my life coach has always suggested, has also suggested this, that at the end of the night, you give the energy you have left back to the universe, like verbally, like symbolically, like thank you for today, thank you for the things you have. Your gratitude, and then you're like, thank you for the energy to get through today, and the energy to shine today. May you take this energy I have left and give it to the next person so they can use it as they see fit or whatever. So that's like a thing you can try doing. I've never I haven't really done I did do the like thanking at the end of the night more often in the past than I've currently been doing. But more of the often than not, I would do the thank you at the end, not do the beginning. So now I'm like kind of on the opposite side where I'm starting with the day of asking for things. Because it's one again, one of those things. If you don't ask the universe, they're not gonna help. Like they don't know you need help, they don't think you want it. Um but that being said, I think this is also a fun example. So um, I was talking to my friend, and I I think I talked about this on my YouTube, so pardon me for repeating myself, but this story just makes me crack up a little bit. So when I ask the universe for things, sometimes it's good to be not specific per se, but sometimes the order needs to be a little more concise. So this was my story from I think it was a couple days before Mother's Day, and I was talking to my new guy friend on the phone, and I was talking about how I was thinking about buying myself flowers. Like, for some reason, I just have like this itch to like buy myself a bouquet of flowers and put it on the table, right? And then so I had reflected that to him either that day or the day before. I couldn't remember which one, but either way, so I had them on the phone still, so it must have been that day, and I was about to walk out my door to go to work, and I literally opened the door, and there's a bouquet of flowers sitting there on my patio. And I was like, I snapped on the phone with them, and I was like, I was like, Jay, I swear, there's there's flowers on my front stoop. And he's like, Well, I didn't send them. I'm like, no, I know, you don't know where to live. He's like, Yeah, no, don't know where you live. And I said, No, it would be creepy if you did, but I mean, don't get me wrong, people have ways, but like, there are flowers here. So I was on the way out the door, so I was in a hurry. So I like picked them up and I brought them inside because it was cold that day. It was it was like 38 or something crazy or 42. It was really chilly. So if I had left those flowers outside, nothing good would have happened to them. So I brought them inside, and I was like, well, I'll I'll look at these later and figure it out. So I looked, I looked at them later, and I opened like the plastic because they're wrapped in plastic, and I opened them, and there was this little high V card, you know, like the one you would write on, you know, the two whoever from whatever, love and kisses, all that kind of stuff. So I opened it up and it was to mom from blah blah blah blah blah. Happy Mother's Day from your son Josh or whatever the name was. And it was for like a lady named Mary. And I was like, oh no, they're not for me, which I didn't think they were. But every once in a while, you've you someone gives you something. Like every once in a while, my sister will send me a gift out of nowhere, and I was like, Well, maybe they're from her, like happy mother's day from the cat. Like, she's done that before. My dad used to do that every once in a while. Here's Happy Mother's Day from the pet. And um, so I was like, Oh crud. So that was kind of the joke was hey, the universe heard you wanted flowers, so it gave you flowers, but it didn't tell you that you're gonna have to return them. So that was like my joke to myself. So I brought them back to High V because there's only one High V around here, so I knew where to bring them. And I brought them in. I was like, these flowers aren't mine, but I bet you the person would like them if uh yeah, so here you go. So I returned my own flowers that weren't mine, but so like that's kind of the explanation or example I have of like sometimes you have to put in the order a little more specifically. Um because things that you think you want, you might not word them right and you'll get something that isn't. It's kind of like the three wishes on a genie, right? Where they're like, I wish for this, and then it like blows up in their face. Like, I think that's a possibility where it's just like if you're just not quite can, you know, if you haven't put your thoughts together properly, it can kind of like not bite you in the butt, but not be exactly what you were thinking. So that's my little story of um maybe just be more concise about your orders with the universe, maybe. Um, but yeah, here I gotta take a drink. I'm so my foulth is so dry. Mm-hmm. Oh yeah. But anyway. So that's kind of like my thought is that if you are doing the things you're supposed to be doing, I feel like the universe gives you the right amount of energy to get through it. And I've noticed that a quite a bit. Especially with like um, there's this weird like physicality that's happened for me too, that I want to like kind of knock around for an idea. Um I guess we have yeah, we have enough time. Um, so there's I'm gonna describe to you some medical issues I've had that are kind of if you don't want to hear about medical stuff, feel free to like just skip the rest of this video. Because I just or this um podcast, because I the reason why I'm bringing this up is I find that there's some people that believe that your body can hold on to like it holds on to stress, right? That's kind of been doctorally proven that your body holds on to your own stress, which is why it's so important to like manage your stress or do the things to like let yourself relax. Well, there's um there's a physicality um thing that I had where I had a thing called um it's uterine fibroids, so it's basically on your uterus there's um this muscle tissue that can develop where it kind of thickens up and causes you, it's not like an ulcer, but that's what I picture. Um, so it's like this thick kind of you know muscle tissue that develops, and mine developed so much that I had I like to call them lesions because again I don't know what other word to use, but I had three fibroids that were on my uterus, and they were like th four, one was three inches, one was three or four inches long, and then the other two were like four or five, so I they were big, and they were caught, they caused me cramps, like menstrual cramps all the time. They can also like cause like pain during the S word, you know, the adult wrestling can cause pain during that. It can cause you to like kind of like peer yourself a little bit, like you, you know, you can leak a little bit. Um, what else was there? There was a couple other things, um, really bad periods, or you know, your periods can be weird and all this other stuff, right? So I was having the cramping part was pretty much a big piece of my symptoms where it was just it was every day. And some days were better than others, um, but it was constant. And so I had um uh uterine fibroid embolization during like 2022, I think it was, where basically there's like four main arteries that go to your uterus, and they basically pinch two of those off because your uterus can still run on the half amount of blood or whatever without it being without it killing it. So you could still have kids. Um, so I did that. I had that surgery, and that you go under on an actual surgical table, and uh I did that and it fixed my pain, like they did another MRI or whatever afterwards, and my fibroids like went to half their size, so it worked, and my pain had gone away, all my other symptoms I had had gone away, but it lasted only about six months, and then the cramping came back, and I've been suffering from the cramping ever since. And I've just went to the doctor this last this May of 2026 to see. Um, I wanted to get another scan because I was worried about maybe the fibroids, maybe I'm not worried about the fibroids coming back because once you have menopause or premenopause, once that kicks in, your hormones kind of turn off some of those things in the uterus. Your uterus basically dies, I think. And so the fibroids would naturally go away because there's no blood supply, your body just shuts it down like a computer, right? Done. So you just have to wait till that kicks in. Well, I'm like, I don't want to wait. That could that could take till I'm 50. Like, I'm 46 now, but that could take till I'm 50. I don't want to sit in pain that long. So, anyway, so I asked signed up for a scan in the next couple weeks or whatever to check that out because I want to make sure it's nothing new. But anyway, the reason why I'm sharing this long story of explanation of why and where and when this happened was some people again believe that your body reflects things. Um and again, I you can take this with a grain of salt. I'm just throwing the theory out there just as an idea. So some people think that people get cancer because they're like withholding things. Some people think it's like childhood trauma, some people think it's a bad memory, some people think a many of things. It could be many of things, but it's kind of like almost like your mental state causes your body physical results, if that makes sense. So it's almost like you're mentally causing your body issues. Now, again, you can just take that with a grain of salt. I don't know if you believe that, I don't know if you think that's a feasible, possible idea that, you know, because the mind is a very powerful thing. But my theory for me is the irony of this simple fact of I can't disprove this, but this is an idea that someone has given me that I going off that idea that your brain causes your body pain. So let's go back to the fibroids, right? My fibroid pain is in my menstrual area. So that's like right below your belly button, kind of in your pelvis, right? I find by ironic timing that if I follow my life purpose, like if I make these videos for you, if I make these podcasts for you, if I go to the places that I think I'm called to go, my menstrual pain is either non-existent or so minimal I can ignore it. Now, again, you could take that as you're distracted, you're not focusing on the pain, maybe the physical activity is thinning your blood just enough that the cramping's gonna be naturally less. Take that with what you will, right? But I also want to point out the random fact, not fact, but the random idea there's um so if you go into like Rikey healing, the idea of like Rikey and like where um certain like there's like chakras and things of that nature, right? Well, where that menstrual pain comes from, I can't remember if it's my solar plexus chakra, but it's one of my chakras, and that's where imagination and like um it's almost like uh it's so like if you were to say, like, let's pretend that your your heart is no here. I'm trying to think of a better explanation. Okay, I took a second to look it up. It's called the sacral chakra, and it manages, it tends to manage like your emotions, your creativity, your um sexuality, and then also your passion for life. And so I find that if I'm not living my life's passion or my life's purpose, that tends to hurt more and take more it almost like it holds more distress. And the more I do creative things and do these videos and say hi to you and follow my intuition, the better my the less my pain is. And I can't again, I can't explain that, but it's just the idea of like oh think of where your pain comes from, and like maybe it's coming from something else, anyway. Just a theory. So I just want to share what how I my body's doing and how I'm reacting to it because I really notice a difference when I'm doing these things for you guys, and so um I just wanted to share the two ideas that of those today is just that one, the energy you need to do your life's purpose, the universe will give you to you just have to ask, trust, and allow, right? Do the ask, you trust that it's gonna come and allow it to come to you. And then the whole like help maybe how brain and body are connected. Where if you think good things, if you do the good work, if you follow your intuition, if you do the things, your body's gonna respond positively. So that's the other idea of just you know, try something new, see how it runs. It doesn't, I don't mean this as the end all that answers all, especially when it comes to physical body pain, but maybe just take a peeky poo and maybe take a little dive and figure out if there's a chakra maybe out of line. You know, I find it's just sometimes it's just my muscles are tense, like my leg, my knee will hurt because my muscles and my leg are tense. So sometimes just it comes from things that you don't realize is one, you know, this is attached to the other, and this is why this hurts, and that's how you can fix it. But anyway, rant, rant, rant, rant, rant, rant, circle. But anyway, so that's my ripples for today of just trying something new. Again, check out my YouTube channel and check out the um the days of gratitude. And uh, I will see you on the next one, and I hope you have a magical moment day. Thanks for joining me. See you later soon. See you later, talk to you soon. Blah.