Timing is always perfect!

Susie Taaffe shares how a traffic jam may have saved her from a crash and how she calmed a stranger at airport security with breathing and humor. Her practice: when stuck or rushed, breathe deeply, repeat "I am exactly where I'm meant to be," and use the moment to daydream or visualize something good.
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Hello, hello, welcome everyone to the Susie Unshape sessions. And if you're watching this today, happy Lionsgate, 8th of the 8th, very special day. I love all of that. So, um, I have been called to help unshape Um, a predisposition we all have, um, to being in a hurry. Um, so I want to propose to you today the premise that we are exactly where we are. Start again. We are exactly where we are meant to be at all times. So I want to give a couple of examples for this. One is the, um, the age-old, um, traffic jam. You are stuck in traffic. You are now late to where you're going, and the frustration of that builds up and up and up. And so this little tip of we are exactly where we're meant to be, I challenge you to bring that into your life. And next time you feel yourself feeling frustrated, especially about something like traffic that's out of your control, To just breathe in, like, I'm exactly where I'm meant to be. And I'd like to give, like, some little reasons behind this. So you might need to be in that traffic jam. Like, we don't know what's in front of us. We don't know the million different pathways that can unfold for us. So I'd like to just propose that By being stuck in that traffic jam, it might mean that you arrive down the road at 5 seconds later than when a big truck crashed through the red lights or something like that. Like, we don't know what we don't know. So trust that the traffic jam is there for a reason, and then try to breathe into that and breathe into the patience of trusting And not needing to know why. So you will never know what the millions of occurrences could be if you didn't have that traffic jam. You would never know what timeline or what path that would put you on if you weren't stuck back in that traffic. So I'll always remember I was going through security in Dallas, I think it was, and there was 2 lines and 2 conveyor belts. So I was waiting behind one line, and then I realized, oh, that One's not operating. So I was waiting in the other line. Um, and then I had a girl behind me who had been split. Her past partner had fast track and she wasn't allowed to use fast track. So she was in with gen pop like me. And she was standing there and she was getting really agitated. And, um, and she sort of like— I was waiting because I could, I could see what she couldn't see. I was waiting for the line that was actually moving, even though it was longer. And she sort of like hurried me along to move into the other line. And so I moved into the other line, and as we got there and it wasn't moving or something, she, um, she was like, she was getting really agitated. Like, I don't know if they were late for their flight or she just didn't like waiting or because her partner was on the other side, but she was getting really agitated. And then I said, oh yeah, that's why I hadn't moved into that line, because the machine's not moving at all. And she was like, oh, sorry, sorry. So now she'd pushed us into the line that wasn't moving. But she continued to get more and more agitated, and I was just like, because I've been practicing this for a while, of it's out of my control, there's nothing we can do. All we can do is just breathe and know we are in exactly the right place at the right time for the right amount of time, and everything is as it should be. So, um, she was getting agitated, and then, you know, when you're in a rush, everything goes wrong. So This thing was beeping and that was beeping. And then even when we started to get to go through, they were going really slowly. And so I started to just talk her through it. And I was also— I was just sort of not talk her through the, the, the, um, the we're in the right place where we're supposed to be, more the oh, there's nothing we can do, so you can only laugh about it. Like, and then as it actually became comical, because as I was talking to her and laughing her through it, and then they were just getting more and more slow and doing really silly things, and it just kept going and going. And by the end of it, I had her— she was laughing, she was relaxed. I had her in a good mood, and we moved through the thing. I was laughing. I was like, well, what can we do? There's nothing we can do except laugh about it. Like, and then the silly things were happening. I got her laughing. Anyway, we got her through the other side, and she finally met up with her partner, and she was like— I can't remember what his name— Michael or something. Michael, she goes, pay this woman all the money. Well, she's just saved me from a nervous breakdown. down through the, through the security. And I just thought the whole thing was extremely funny. And I think that if we can look at delays or annoyances or things we become impatient with and try and turn it around and see the funny side, like, like these people, like you could not have got a bigger bunch of Muppets trying to process us all through this. And then there are people in front of us that weren't taking off what they were supposed to. It was just, it was actually comical. And I think her hurry made it, it sort of amplified it. And so that's my challenge to you is next time you're feeling frustrated or impatient or any of those feelings with a situation that's not within your control, just A, breathe, always breathing. In fact, if ever you have anything on your mind or you need anything, the first step 3 deep breaths. Like, I know we know that breathing is good, but breathing is actually really good. So breathe, breathe, breathe big, deep down into your belly. And then just say, I am exactly where I'm meant to be. And know that you are exactly where you're meant to be. And you don't know, like, we don't know if the security guard had been— if the security line had been going super fast, we might have come in there and a ball might have run across. We could have tripped over and hurt ourselves or something. Like, we don't know what we're being protected from. We don't know why things are a certain way. So breathe, trust, and know you're exactly where you're meant to be. So I hope that you can, next time something like this happens, just have that little light bulb remembrance of it's okay, everything's as it's meant to be. And then you could even like bring in a practice of when you're in that, in that feeling, maybe you practice breathing or practice. I love to daydream. So daydreaming of what your ideal vision board is or something. Take that time, which if you're in panic, nothing good's going to happen, as showed us in the security line. But if you're in breath and even if you could go to a happy place. A joyous place. Like, go to the place or flick back to a memory where you felt really happy and confident and free and just breathe in that feeling. And I will promise you that you will flip that situation around. And I also sometimes believe when those things happen that time somehow bends and you end up not being late anyway. So I think it's all just the perception we're going to be late. Um, well, it does for me anyway. I don't know if anyone else experiences that. Maybe it's just me. But okay, that's the, that's the prescription for you if you become in a frustrating situation. Breathe. I am exactly where I'm meant to be. And go to your happy place. Put on some fun music. Like, think of a fun event you've got coming up. What you're going to wear, how it's going to feel. Okay, love you lots. Bye. Bye.
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