Please continue to shine light on Ukraine. They need as much positive energy as we can muster
When I woke up yesterday morning, I, too, felt a shift in the atmosphere. There was a lightness, a less condensed or oppressive feeling. And that feeling has continued. Then, last night as I sat in meditation, I had a vision of my Grandmother. She died when I was 16, but I’ve felt her presence watching over me all my life. She got on a bicycle (which would never have happened) and I stood watching her trying to gain her balance as she slowly drove the bike toward me. When she reached the spot right in front of me, she turned. And now her back was to me as she continued riding down the path directly in front of me, still trying to catch her balance. She hadn’t gone much further down the path when she suddenly burst into light and shot down the path like a rocket and up into the sky with a brilliance for which I have no words. I watched as she continued to pulse this brilliant light, but I could no longer see her as a person. There was only the brilliant light she had become.
I interpreted this as a message from her that significant changes are coming. And that it’s not too much further along the path that I/we catch our balance, and something happens to trigger the blazing forth of our inner light. It also reminded me of Kamala’s description of becoming stars in a very dark sky. I don’t know what the “something happens” is, but the vision was very vivid
@impassionate Hi, I speak for myself and how the fears that are oft repeated here affect me greatly as a psychic empath. We absorb energies and often will protect ourselves from a barrage of negative energy so we can stay grounded and calm amidst any psychological storms that are occurring. Trust that we feel it all bigly. Ugh.
Of course, this is a safe space to share fear and trepidation, but it’s also a place where we’re encouraged to focus on our abilities to project MORE hope and light, even when we’re struggling greatly. I suppose if someone can be careful not to share the same fears repeatedly, it helps to cut down the ripple effect. Posting every day that one lives in terror only amps up everyone’s terror. A collective consideration to help others deal w rapidly changing norms via encouragement and real life helpful strategies is a more empowering path.
Negative thinking fuels negative energy and while it’s currently a big stretch to think positively, it’s also imperative for psychic empaths to utilize our power to bring in light and calm for the good of all.
Earthangel, thank you for articulating so beautifully what I wish I could have expressed. Your message is appreciated.
I want to remind people that this forum is not about dodging news and facts when those facts are unpleasant. However I asked people to respond to what’s going on with courage, keeping in mind that people are needing courage right now. There are so many examples out there of what it means to respond to adver sity from our best selves.
When I think about what Ruth Bader Ginsburg might say, I remember that she faced, tremendous adversity as a younger woman in the 50s in a man’s world, and she just ignored it and kept on marching forward, defending women, defending democracy.
When I think about what Martin Luther King would say, i hear him talk about his dream and focus on his belief in people to do the right thing
And when I think of what Lewis would say, I hear the term "good trouble" I hear him saying, go forward and do good trouble.
Now, very few of us are as eloquent as those three, but we have our own version of courage. And we have so many mentors to draw Upon. Gandhi. Zelensky. Who else? If we read the Messages to Humanity, we can see what some of us who were mediating and receiving messages got.
MLK's I have a dream speech. 1963
John Lewis speaking about good trouble 2013
I keep seeing RBG when I am leading the Circle of Light. Mostly I see her walking with head tall in a man's world, before there was a women's movement. Some of her more memorable quotes:
- "I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks": A quote from Sara Grimke that Ginsburg used to conclude a powerful argument
- "When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? ' and I say 'When there are nine'"
- "Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time":
- "Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you":
- Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda"
- "My mother told me two things constantly": A quote about Ginsburg's mother
- "You can't have it all, all at once"
- "Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes"
The attached article has given me hope and comfort. I hope it does the same for you.
"Our shared suffering is less than one degree from each other. Our shared liberation must be the same. The way to our liberation is to forge, with our heat, all that is broken in this country into a kind of freedom we never imagined we had the power to shape. "
https://www.lionsroar.com/to-have-and-to-hold-each-other/
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I recall seeing predictions on this site over the past few years that 2030's will be time of reduced role/influence of the federal government in our daily lives, and more done at local levels. (I don't remember the exact predictions, but other may have more details).
@tedP, that was me - that prediction, along with California becoming as close to a separate country as possible without leaving the USA, were predictions I made well over 10 years ago about the very long term - 2030's & beyond. I was responding the feeling that people would give up on the Federal Government taking care of them. I saw Washington over time as a barricaded city surrounded by barbed wire where the federal governent would be so uncaring, just taking taxes and getting fat, that its people would lean into their local governments. I don't try to interpret, except to say that some of what I saw may have been where the GOP was taking the federal government at the time I was meditating, and that it could shift to a new future with dems in charge. We will take some time then read the longterm again.
Someone in this community recently sent this to me, and it spoke to me. Hope it speaks to you:
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.
If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act; and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn
@deetoo, was it you?
Kind of reminds me of this :
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
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PS. The world really does need a Mr Rogers.
I am struggling to be hopeful. I'm being completely honest, but might be coming down with a cold or not getting over one, so that does not help. But yes humans are capable of great work.
Any energy boosting recipes to help shake off a cold? Maybe good nourishment will help.
I already had a golden kiwi. I also had a ginger immune juice. I have collard greens in the fridge, but am in no energy laden state to do the labor to prep collards well. I have canned veggie soup but hmm..
I have chocolate but am breaking out.
There was a sharp temperature drop out west the last couple of days.
I hope we all get through this with dignity and style.