Practice To Remind Myself

Do you have a simple practice that brings you comfort, that brings you back to your home when your world becomes overwhelmed with complications?
What do you do when you wake up at 2am with nonspecific anxiety or sadness? Where do you go inside of yourself to feel into the feels, to untangle, resolve, transform? Where do you cradle your joy, to cherish and feel more fully?

Have you seen those robot vacuums that roam around the house looking for dog hair, food crumbles,piles of shoe dirt, and dust bunnies? They have things to do and patterns to learn and repeat. When they are finished they are programmed to go to their base, to recharge and be on the ready for future forays.
Sometimes I feel a little bit like this, except I am a conscious being. I am also responsible for emptying my own self constantly.

Even though I take time out to specifically recharge, I am also coming to know that I am all that is, I am the source of my creation.

I love poems by living teachers, mystics like Rumi, and scriptural quotes that speak about the way it feels to seek our base, the need. Yes, the need, to be whole, connected, complete within. We use fancy words, like peace and love and devotion, words like compassion, kindness and service.
I love even more, the teachers who walk beside me, reminding me to connect to source within.
I tell myself: call for, recognize and accept the help while remaining in my own sovereign self,retaining my own sense of being.
I practice to remind myself.