Bluebelle,
You have reminded me to get back to yoga. I always feel complete peace in body and mind after yoga. Thank you.
Love this! I was wondering where to post my thoughts about the negativity all around and what effects that has. What we give off most or hold in our hearts and minds is what we manifest and attract. There has been way too much negative in the world. I only venture into some of the threads here for that very reason. I try to limit the negativity I expose myself to. There is so much on both sides right now. It's not that we don't need to be taking what action we can in these times, but to hold on to the anger, disappointment or other negative emotions right now will only bring about more of the same. We have the right to be suspect, or have negative views of what is going on around us right now. However, the more we envision the positive, the more we find gratitude, or fill ourselves with love and joy, the more that type of energy will be attracted to us, and therefore those around us.
Hello, Jeanne and all of you kindred spirits,
I was led to this site in late November 2016. Until now I’ve hesitated posting in the forums, but I think that these times call upon me to do what I can to change our world for the better.
Jeanne, thank you for this particular topic on getting through these times. This past week I spent a couple of fitful nights experiencing anxiety/panic attacks. I wasn’t sure whether the attacks were caused by the attempted bombings and the horrible events in Pittsburgh, a culmination of the past two years, or maybe even a premonition I was getting about things yet to come. Last Wednesday morning as I was running some errands, obsessing about everything and feeling totally fried, I stopped for a red light. As the SUV in the lane next to me slowly moved up to the light, I turned my head and came face to face with a German shepherd in the SUV’s back seat, its beautiful, big head poking through the window, moving back and forth. Interestingly, he never made eye contact with me. I smiled and thought to myself, “Looks like he’s enjoying the cool breezes.” It hadn’t yet occurred to me that I myself wasn’t appreciating the clear blue skies and clean, fall air! At one point the shepherd suddenly stopped and raised his head, as his large, soulful eyes slowly looking up to the heavens. I decided to follow his eyes upward, only to discover a large flock of birds flying overhead. I silently watched the birds with my canine friend. My eyes eventually moved from the birds back to the shepherd. The shepherd’s head never moved, only his eyes – with an almost contemplative gaze, as if in awe of what he was witnessing. It was a gaze of faith. I was present in that moment, and even though the street was busy, the world around me was quiet. I laughed and said to myself, “oh – okay. Just stop and look up!” At that moment I understood that the universe frequently gives us messages or signs – whether for comfort, hope, inspiration, or direction. We just need to be open to seeing and hearing them. My acknowledgment was confirmed by feeling ‘chills’ (which often occurs for me with such confirmations).
As someone who is personally familiar with dissociation, I’ve come to understand the importance of being present to life. I was born a sensitive, which I believe is a gift, but it can also feel like a burden. My physical health has often been affected by it. So I’ve had to learn how to become present and detached, while remaining compassionate. I can’t be of service to others if I become a sponge to the emotions and situations that are swirling around me. It’s been very hard for me, as it has been for most of you, to witness what’s been happening in our country and not react. It would be easy for me to dissociate – and admittedly, sometimes I still do it to cope with some of the horror we are witnessing. But I don’t like being in that outer space. It helps when I remind myself that life itself is constantly moving and changing. Although our external world appears to be in a bad place right now, our internal world doesn’t need to be. And our inner world is much more expansive than anything we see in the physical world! More importantly, our inner world can outwardly manifest something magnificent – we truly have the power to be a force for healing, peace and positive change.
So … being mindful and present in the moment is the most important starting place to help me cope with the craziness.
Right now I’m going to write down 5 things I’m grateful for – one of which is my profound gratitude to all of you for generously sharing your insights, wisdom, and spirit.
Although our external world appears to be in a bad place right now, our internal world doesn’t need to be. And our inner world is much more expansive than anything we see in the physical world! More importantly, our inner world can outwardly manifest something magnificent – we truly have the power to be a force for healing, peace and positive change.
Wow deetoo, I could not stop smiling as I read through your post. That German Shepard is going to live in my imagination for a long time. Thank you dear soul and welcome to our community. ?
Thank you, Jeanne. I feel blessed to have found this community.
Thank you, Jeanne, and everyone who contributed here. It is really a balm for the ravaged spirit... for those of us who are very sensitive and tend to 'internalize' the constant bombardment of all the deeply disturbing events that we are witnessing every day, it is important to cleanse and stay centered.
I am a Dianic soul and thrive in the solitude of wild places, so taking walks in the forest and deep breathing with the trees really helps me to calm and connect with beauty. My heart chakra feels much more at peace and attuned... I am reminded that Nature is very forgiving, and I am so grateful for this.
Hey, it ain't easy being human... lol.
4. FINDING YOUR CHOIR: Here is another practice to help people thrive during these times (or during any time). You might say that reaching out to this community is part of this practice.
To thrive, it is important to surround yourself with people who get you and support you. It is often hard for lightworkers to find their choir because lightworkers are often more intuitive, spiritual, and empathic. than the average. They may grow up in families where they are the most supportive member. While they are good at helping everyone else, they don't always get the support they need or know how to find it.
At some point, however, if you are to thrive, if you are to to follow your true path, then you need to have people in your life with whom you can share your hopes and dreams, those out-of-the-box plans that most people won't understand. You need to be able to take risks to find the life that fits who you truly are, and it is essential to have people who will cheer you on in this effort rather than people who think you are nuts to depart from the status quo.
Finding your choir is not something that comes easy. It's a practice, like meditation or practicing gratitude. It takes time to cultivate the habit.
You may look around you and not have a choir right now.
Here are some tips to getting there:
1. Follow your most fervent interests, no matter how zany, and find at least one person you can be open with about yourself.
2. Stop sharing your hopes and dreams with people whose beliefs do not align with yours. Protect your SELF from people, who, even though they might be family or long time friends, and even though they may love you, they don't really get you.
You can still connect with them, but put boundaries around your deepest self when near them. You don't have to walk this path alone, but you may not be able to walk it with them. If you can, then rejoice! But if you cannot, no worries. There are others who can support you on your journey.
3. Make a list of the people you can tell your dreams and plans. It is okay if one of those is some new person in your life who you met at a workshop. It's okay if it is a mentor rather than a peer, or even someone you haven't met personally but whose work inspires you. It's even okay if you include a dog or a cat or horse in your choir. Animals make wonderful support systems. My dog has accompanied me along my most important spiritual quests.
Take a workshop with someone you admire. I met a whole group of people I felt were kindred spirits at a Joanna Macy workshop. We reconnected many times after that. Joanna also felt like a kindred spirit. It was a life-changing experience to spend time with them.
I have found kindred spirits in this community. You have all helped me through.
I've tacked on to this post a poem I found that may help you feel the importance of finding your choir. Do you know Rumi? He was writing 900 years ago.
Some people punch a hole in your being whenever
They are around, and then you leak out energy and
other kinds of vitals you could have used.
Then, there are people who can connect you to a
depth in their heart and for a moment, maybe an
hour, maybe a day, you will share their radiance.
The china doll in us, at some point, will no longer
break. It is then you will find you have the ability
to heal others, in a way few in this world can.
----Rumi (b.1207)
Rumi the poet of love. Thanks for sharing this poem - it was the right poem at the right time.
I'd like to share what happened to me on Election Day, while holding signs. First I want to share something VestraLux wrote in the thread about Armistice Day that is coming up on 11/11.
...But we're being called to hold the light. To cohere the field. To stand in league with beings of mercy and love and true power, beings who've been present in this sphere for thousands of years and have no intention of abandoning us anytime soon. Our work is to raise our frequency, stabilize it, and hold a vision of peace—together.
...11/11/11 is a mystical, powerfully co-creating frequency of high vibration and intense possibility. It's already been raining down a new form of light and expanding the atmosphere all around us. Jupiter moved into Sagittarius today, and that's brought a lot of release and positive movement. We get to stand in all of this new energy and hold the line. We are midwifing an era of peace. There will be intense labor pains, but we are here to do this, and we know exactly how it's done.
This year on 11/6 Election Day I held signs during evening rush hour in the pouring rain. The sun had set and I wanted the cars drove by to see me. So I invited light to come into me from above and illuminate me.
Unexpectedly I felt an angel flow into me. She stood there with me looking out at people driving by.
Instead of wanting the people to see me, I saw them.
I saw them with her compassionate eyes. I saw their hopes and dreams, and their fears.
Mostly they felt caught up in themselves and they felt young as a species and unfocused in the greater picture we face as caretakers of each other and our earth.
I also felt at peace. I had a knowing that we have lessons to learn, but we will learn and we will evolve. We are just so very young.
At the moment when darkness seems to be rising up, even as lightworkers have made so many gains and will continue to fight for what is right, I see that the people just need to evolve to turn it around.
The change will come from within each person until a critical mass has occurred and then the rest will follow. Donald Trump invited us to bring our darkest, most selfish selves to the surface and to act from those dark places. If we do that, then there will be a civil war and a lot will be lost, and little gained.
Instead we each need to evolve. When I tune into the angel's consciousness, I hear just this - that the people will learn from adversity and grow peaceful over time.
Such wise words and a lovely opening to the evolutionary awareness and change that deep inside brings forth our true nature beyond and beneath the endless repeating cycles we sense and are seemingly trapped in now.
"At the moment when darkness seems to be rising up, even as lightworkers have made so many gains and will continue to fight for what is right, I see that the people just need to evolve to turn it around.
The change will come from within each person until a critical mass has occurred and then the rest will follow. Donald Trump invited us to bring our darkest, most selfish selves to the surface and to act from those dark places. If we do that, then there will be a civil war and a lot will be lost, and little gained. Instead we each need to evolve. When I tune into the angel's consciousness, I hear just this - that the people will learn from adversity and grow peaceful over time."
--Jeanne
Rising up through the many layers of evolutionary conscious awareness, all of the amazing synchronicity and sense of connection we have with one another, being drawn to different sites of power and feeling the helpers always surrounding us, is such a wonderfully powerful part of that evolutionary process.
Simply by being here, we are joining and connecting with so many beings of knowledge and many gifts and openings are happening among us on a daily basis,
The energies are dramatically shifting and the vibrational energies rising almost instantaneously now.
I am filled with delight and joy as I see so many changes and openings and sharing of inner awareness and personal truths on this site.
Donald Trump invited us to bring our darkest, most selfish selves to the surface and to act from those dark places. If we do that, then there will be a civil war and a lot will be lost, and little gained
.--Jeanne
As we sense and grow in the Light, we grow in our understanding of our part in the dark co-creation of this time and our place on our beloved planet.
Our eyes of darkness and judgment will also open to the light of concious co-creation and the creation of the beautiful world that Jeanne's work with Joanna Macy opened to all of us and by creating, through Jeanne, this wonderful site, the evolutionary process will further speed up and come to fruition.
And what a glorious world we shall have!
Bless you always for calling us, Jeanne. We heard you and we came.
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