May This Day Serve Your Soul

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Today, I want to send you a blessing that was sent to me just the other day. And that is: May this day serve your soul.

It’s such a beautiful blessing that I decided to shoot a video about it and expand a bit of why it was so meaningful to me and how it can be really meaningful for you and transform your day by asking yourself this question.

I’m Anna Gatmon, and wherever you’re watching this, this is coming to you from The Expansive with Anna Gatmon YouTube channel.

So I was texting with a friend- we were trying to get together, physical distancing. And at the end of the exchange, she wrote in the text, may this day serve your soul. And it just hit me. I got the wave of the meaning of that, and I thought, ‘Wow, what a beautiful blessing to give anyone.’ Because that day, I walked around, and whatever I did, I thought ‘Does this serve my soul?’

Does this serve my soul? And so it wasn’t just in order to say, ‘Well, I’m not going to do the things that don’t serve my soul.’ It was really in order to deepen my experience of whatever I was doing because even balancing checks serves your soul on some level, right? Because when you can create peacefulness in your finances, it serves your soul so that you can live your purpose more fully and not be all the time stressed around finances. When you exercise or you go for walks or you eat healthily or you sleep well, you’re also serving your soul.

So it doesn’t just have to be the soul activity that’s purpose-filled, but to make the connection between what you’re doing, the mundane things you’re doing and how it serves your soul is really profound. So here are a few things that you can practice.

So choose to ask yourself throughout your day, the question: Does this serve my soul? And so either you’re doing activities that really nourish your soul. You know, you’re aligned to the essence of your calling at that moment, and what you’re doing is serving the highest purpose of your soul. So that’s one kind of activity throughout your day. And so in those moments, you do want to stop and appreciate yourself for a moment and appreciate the moment saying yes, this activity serves my soul.

The other kind of activities are things that you have to do that you don’t normally or regularly associate with something that serves or nourishes your soul. But you want to find the connection. You want to make the connection because when you take something mundane that seemingly doesn’t feel like it’s soul-serving, but you look for how it serves your soul. Suddenly you elevate this experience of it, and suddenly you feel the purposefulness in it. You feel the nourishment in it. You feel the fulfillment, the satisfaction in it. So it’s all about making the connection to how it serves your soul. And you might have to go two or three steps with an activity that you go like, ‘Well, this is definitely not soul serving.’ But don’t, don’t give up. Look for the connection. You know, the degrees of separation, how many degrees of separation is balancing your checkbook from serving your soul? Well, as I said before, it serves you because when you have more financial stability and tranquility, your soul is not constantly in survival mode and your soul can open up, replenish, and say, ‘Oh, I have time to do this. Or to do that.’

Or how many degrees of separation is nourishing yourself with healthy food or doing some form of movement or exercising? How many degrees of separation from serving your soul is living in a home where you are nourished, where you feel peacefulness, or where you feel creative or whatever qualities you want to have in your home environment and you want to surround yourself with.

And then the third and final way in which you can play with this blessing and practice it throughout your day is to think, ‘What serves my soul?’ What could I do today? What activity could I do? What interaction could I have that would serve my soul? And you can ask yourself, you could close your eyes for three minutes and ask yourself the question, ‘What would serve my soul today?’

And you might have an idea of something that you haven’t done for awhile, and then you go do it and you will feel so nourished. And then you continue doing what you’re doing throughout your day. And then if you’re doing an activity that doesn’t feel like it’s directly soul-nourishing, then look for the degrees of separation. What is the relationship? How down the line or at the source, it is nourishing your soul?

So I hope you really go throughout your day in your week, telling yourself, “May this day serve my soul.”

Wherever you’re watching this, leave me a comment.

I send you blessings of, “May this day serve your soul.”