{"id":3324,"date":"2026-10-14T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anandamayibaker.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:44:47","slug":"locked-out-and-close-to-a-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anandamayibaker.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/locked-out-and-close-to-a-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked Out and Close to a Meltdown!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings to you all and thank you for joining our little Bee-Coming Strong<\/em><\/strong> hive. We hope you are doing well and finding times of delight with nature, as well as your family, friends, and even strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to just jump right in with a confession to make here. I totally forgot to do what Jazi has talked about to calm myself down. Let me explain\u2026The other day I inadvertently got locked out of our website, as well as this very newsletter! For those of you who don\u2019t know me, I am technologically challenged at times, and this was one of those times. In the extreme. I had a near meltdown and couldn\u2019t figure out what to do. A good friend who could have helped me was out of town and I was stuck. \ud83d\ude2c\ud83e\udd2f\ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did I once remember to do any belly breathing<\/em> to calm myself down? No. Did I remember to hum like a bee<\/em>? Nope. Jazianzza was flying around me, but I dismissed her because she wouldn\u2019t have known how to get my accounts unlocked. \u201cPlease go away, Jazi. Sorry, but I\u2019ve got a real problem here and I can\u2019t take the time to listen to you right now.” Yep. That\u2019s what I told her. I didn\u2019t even remember to practice the very thing I talked about in the last newsletter\u2026touching that wonderful Sea of Tranquility<\/em> on my chest. Oh, my goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the next day I realized that I could reach out to the amazingly talented and kind man who originally helped me build the website and set up the newsletter. Swapnil is a good friend of a dear friend of mine. We\u2019ve never met because he lives in India and I live in Southern California, but I\u2019ve felt from the beginning that he was a man I could trust and depend on. Long distance, only through the written word, I can easily say he\u2019s become my friend, and in this instance, my hero! I reached out to Swapnil, told him the problem, told him I\u2019d like to pay him a million bucks if he could help me get everything back on track, though I don\u2019t have that kind of money, so just please bill me accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That very night he told me he\u2019d fix it, and he did! I asked him what he had done and he said he \u201cjust moved his fingers a little.\u201d<\/em> I told him I did the same, and that\u2019s how I got myself into the mess I was in! \ud83d\ude02 Because he \u201cjust moved his fingers a little\u201d he wouldn\u2019t accept any payment from me. What an incredibly kind thing this humble man did for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, so back to our very own Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee\u2026When I finally got everything on track again, thanks to Superhero Swapnil,<\/em> I apologized to Jazi and said I was too distracted to be able to pay attention to her. It was then that she reminded me\u2026oh, right\u2026. belly breathing. Oh, right, humming like a bee. Those two simple yet incredibly powerful practices could have brought me back to the present and calmed my racing mind and soothed the anxiety I was feeling. That would have led me to \u201cBee here now,\u201d<\/em> as Ram Dass said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jazi thought it was pretty funny that after all these newsletters, all this time of practicing being calm, kind, and present, I forgot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ok,\u201d Jazi said. \u201cAfter all, you\u2019re only human.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>\ud83d\udc1d\ud83d\udc1d\ud83d\udc1d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, that stung a bit (yes, pun intended!). But really, it was a wonderful reminder for me, and I hope it might be helpful for you the next time you feel anxious about something. \u201cBee here now.\u201d Breathe consciously. Bee present.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And on a lighter note \u2014 with Halloween just around the corner, Jazi wanted me to share something fun! We searched through countless YouTube videos to find you a good bee costume tutorial. So many were either too complicated or too long, but if you\u2019re adventurous and like to sew, here\u2019s one we think is pretty sweet. It\u2019s 6\u00bd minutes to watch, though obviously much longer to make!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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