Can you feel it? It’s palatable; the shift in the collective energy, even with the pandemic swirling all around us and much work ahead, something has lifted.
It feels as though a heavy weight of uncertainty and tension has risen off our shoulders. To say this has been a difficult year is beyond an understatement. We have been challenged and tested to sometimes the breaking point. I’m sure we have all had our moments. I myself have had many.
How did your nervous system navigate all of it? How is it currently faring?
We have likely spent months in sympathetic overdrive. Fight, flight, freeze. Some of us fought like hell, with words, in protest, took action. Others tended to flee go places, remove themselves from the day to day, hike, bike, run like the wind. Many many of us simply froze. Inertia ruled, what in Yoga, we would call Tamasic energy. Sluggish and dark filled with doubt and despair. Making it hard to get off the couch or tear oneself away from the chaos of the news and social media.
Sound familiar? If you are human in the year 2020 you can relate. Where are you at right now? What feels different? Use this information to heal yourself and create a plan to move forward. This is very important. As humans we want to grow. Our souls demand it, our society is waking up to this need, our destiny.
You see, all of this was necessary, all part of the plan. In order for us to grow as a culture on a macro and micro level we needed a good swift kick in the pants. Our eyes have been opened wide. 2020 the year of clear vision has revealed a great deal about who we are as a society, what we have become, and where we need to be. It’s like our dirty underwear is exposed and we now have no where to hide.
How we do the wash is now what is important. It needs to be done on the delicate cycle but daily. With intention and strong detergent. No soft soaping this time. We must start to clean out and clear out belief systems, patterns, behaviors that do not serve the collective good.
We must hold each other up and accountable. The current energy demands the old ways of being, the outmoded structures, the selfish and fear based beliefs be abolished. Banished from our hearts and souls.This work starts in the mind.
What belief systems are planted in your head which need to be uprooted? What does not serve our potential growth, healing, and happiness? Everyones…not just ours and our immediate circle of family friends and support systems…but everyone. Every single soul.
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog. A long time since I felt like I wanted to share my voice in this way. I personally have been frozen in a dark and inert place. A place of confusion, chaos and pain. Grieving many losses feeling despair. Much of my purpose is connected to sharing my voice, words and truth. I had been feeling like sharing in this manner was not resonating or being heard. So I stopped and hid in the shadows of my own fears. Then, as often happens, guiding synchronicities intervened. On the very day I was bemoaning this feeling to my daughter an email popped into my inbox from a lovely client. This person asked where the newsletters had gone, where were the calming words of support they had come to appreciate? Ding! That’s all that was needed. Just one soul reaching out and my energy was renewed.
My work has always been about the collective; about Sangha or community. About growing, learning, creating together. Much of the energy which holds community together has been disrupted by a number of powerful forces. Energies which demand our attention and beg for our surrender. The old ways of connecting have been challenged. The structures which allow us to gather together no longer feel safe. Could it mean we are meant to step out of our comfort zones and into new communal structures? Ones which do not necessarily share the same beliefs or even look act or feel like us?
The lines have been drawn. That has been made painfully clear. But in order to grow, these lines must blur and even be erased. Because, one thing is certain, we need each other. We all want to thrive, to be seen, receive love and respect. To be safe.
Perhaps now we can reawaken to this truth, with renewed energy, as we step towards the light of a new day.