[Sticky] How we've felt & coped since the Election

@tesseract Thank you for the kind words and encouragement. Your posts are always comforting and reassuring and I look forward to reading them! ❤️

One thought that has helped me through this new election reality is that we came here at this time to work through this darkness.  

We are capable of rising to new heights of internal strength.  We have so many magnificent role models in human history to guide us! It is no accident that our country is honoring the work of Jimmy Carter at this very moment. 

Everyone who comes to this community has great compassion, empathy, intelligence, kindness, and just so much light. Because we are human, we also have within us the darkness-- the anger, fear, and the need for revenge. We are each unique but we are also microcosms of the whole race. We must convert that darkness within ourselves. 

And we must rise.  

When we rise, we bring the rest of the human race with us. 

Back in the mid 1990's I had a vision of the future that the seas were rising. I thought it took place off the shores of New York, but it could have been anywhere, because I began to see that the rising seas were not just about sea levels, but about stress. I saw untold numbers of people flailing in the water, which meant they were unable to handle the stress. 

That is when you, this community, arrived. 

I saw concerned people rushing to the shore and pulling out the ones who were flailing;  flinging them onto solid ground. Spirit whispered to me that these rescuers were "the helpers". 

In Circle of Light, as soon as we settle into our meditation, clearing our heads of the constant noise, I always see angels appearing high above us, like airplanes arriving, but high in the air above. Then as our meditation proceeds, they get closer.  Last Friday, I saw a large wing so large it was life-size, right before me. They are coming closer now. 

I feel them instructing me to tell the participants to prepare for an angel healing.  They want us to become instruments of their love, but first they have to help us rise to their level, if only for the duration of our meditation. 

So we hold hands in our minds, and open ourselves to receive their light. Their light pours into us, top down, and we fill up with angel light. Then we begin sending loving kindness to all of earth's beings. I feel the angels trying to help us rise to a higher level. 

Everything that is happening right now, all that stress we are under, is human caused. Thus humans can turn it around. We can pray for rain for LA, but truly, it is our actions over the past few decades that have caused the weather we are getting. And it will be our actions that will reverse it. It will take a profound shift in the human race to bring our world back to the garden we were given. We will do it.  And this community, and similar communities, are helping. 

I have seen visions of a new more evolved human race over time. Caring about the earth rather than plundering it and dumping our waste upon it. The City of Angels has been one of the most beautiful places on earth because of its light. That light will still be there when they rebuild.  And I pray that a greater reverence for that sacred place will ensue. 

We in this community, along with many other similar communities, have come here to raise the light within our species. It is a great honor. And it begins with witnessing the darkness that has befallen us, and bringing back the light. It is this perspective on our situation that can help us cope with what has happened. 

I have withdrawn into myself and my local situation. I have ignored anything and everything coming out of the right-wing mouthpiece that is the MSM and the administration because I don't have the mental/emotional/psychic/spiritual energy to deal with the firehose of 💩 coming from them. I openly admit to having enjoyed a great deal of schadenfreude at the "misfortune" of the ones on whose faces the leopards are currently feasting. That's how I've coped so far, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Those who can resist, know that I support you, but I simply don't have anything left with which to fight those battles.

For the foreseeable future, I will not be as active here due to the above as well as several personal issues. I am still unemployed with no prospects, my mother has come down with some kind of respiratory thing and may have also had a recurrence of viral meningitis, and there have been some pressing financial setbacks of late.

I wish us all godspeed, patience, and whatever peace we can find for the next little while.

@tgraf66 Good luck to you and your mom. I hope we meet again (virtually) in better times, if not before.

Am using the tools shared on this forum to resist and have been pondering how to manage negative emotions as they arise during this humanity reboot.  Bad can bring about good.  So perhaps gratitude and thanks for the bad would be an effective compliment to love and light in transmuting and releasing anger.  Have started putting some version of this out there daily and using specific names to strengthen it energetically.

Such as, “Gratitude and thanks to all the hidden and public figures who have illuminated and motivated change individually and collectively.  You each have activated the good in humanity.  Your work here is complete.”

@theungamer 

I really appreciate what you wrote.  Transmuting the anger and fear is important and I like how you are approaching it.  That is helpful advice.

I am sensing after reading some Bluesky posts that our federal workers feel people don't care in the U.S. about what is happening compared to people protesting in Europe like Germany against what is happening here.  That saddens me.  

I decided to join the official democratic group in my legislative district today.  I hope to learn more about what I can do to help in my area.  

@shari

Apologies for the delay in responding to your lovely post. It means a great deal to me that what I post, be it from me or from Spirit, is comforting. That is a marvelous compliment. Thank you. ❤️ 

@theungamer

Wow. What a great affirmation. I am incorporating it into my daily meditation as of Now. Thank you.

@lovendures The federal workers are on the front line. It must be an enormous amount of pressure.  Please share what you learn from the group. Am willing to expand the tools in the tool chest.

@tesseract. Awe, thank you.  I've used it during challenging times before this.  It's effective.

The first two weeks of this new regime, I was plugging too much into the news. I felt a lot of anxiety and fear.

This week (especially the last few days), I’ve felt much more energized seeing all the lawsuits that have been filed. My state sided with trans youth, and since we’re purple — I was thrilled.

Other things that have been lighting me up during this time:

- Penzey’s Spices. If you’re not on their list, I highly recommend joining. They are very political, and their last email filled me with such hope, celebration, and joy.

- Iniko. They are a phenomenal singer and songwriter with starseed & New Earth energy and lyrics.

- Robert Reich. His take on the situation is helpful, and he also has weekly cartoons where he selects a crowdsourced caption. 

- Doing healing work. I’m currently in a healing program, and it’s helping me clear out patterns and karmic patterns that no longer serve me. Because I had a huge pattern of persecution, it was contributing by to me feeling anxious and agitated during this time. My coach helped me clear the karmic pattern from my field, and I’ve been much more grounded since disconnecting from that past life pain body.

@kellynoelzeva 

I love Penzey's! They are a great company.

I am appreciating Ben and Jerry's very much right now.  They are really trying to keep to their activist roots even when it displeases their parent Company. 

@lovendures Yes, I love Ben & Jerry’s too! Their parent company, Unilever, has some issues, but Ben & Jerry’s is great, and I appreciate the model they set for the world.

This is a great reminder for me to get some comfort ice cream from them. 🥰

I am doing a community wellness check in.

A lot has happened within the past 5 weeks to our country and it's affecting us all.  Some directly with career or business losses, some with family member and friend job losses. That doesn't even account for other normal life losses and just the feeling of being lost in life right now.  The understandable fear of the unknown as well. 

We are all dealing  grief in one form or another and each day brings more heartache. 

So I thought perhaps some of us might like to check-in with a word, sentence or more on how we're doing or how you have been impacted.  

Do you have "people" which whom you can share your grief and observations ?  Do you have any coping strategies that are working? 

Nobody has to respond, but you are welcome to do so in this thread.

I'll respond in a separate post.

I’m very angry about Ukraine being thrown under the bus

How am I doing?

I am grieving as each day brings renewed sorrow and the wrecking ball continues to swing and crush the foundation of our nation and so many lives. So many people I know are starting to be deeply impacted .

I can feel my anxiety.   I spiral down and slowly climb back up to a somewhat normal place again and then spiral a bit more again.  It depends on what I learn is happening in our country or how people are being affected.

I  live near the west coast, on the other side of the country so direct impacts of job losses in our state have been less than those around the D.C. area, so far.  But that is beginning to change.  Teachers I know are barely making it through the workweek. My sister lives in California, not a MAGA county, and works in a small school district which saw the school board become a majority MAGA board after the election and they just fired their center-left superintendent.  They are now are displaying the word DOGE on school district posters.  She is beside herself.

There are many in my orbit who rely on grants for their business or their career and they have no idea how this will affect them.  Lots of fear from and for friends  in the arts and sciences who are educators at colleges , music institutions and museums which rely heavily upon them.  

I live near an Air Force Base.  Things are NOT good there. I'm hearing some first hand accounts of ... um... stuff.

Through the process of what is evolving into daily (or weekly)  "news" and "well-ness" check-in's"  with family and friends, I'm discovering I have a and a path forward during this horrific time. 

I recently made a point of "checking in " with a young lady I knew whom I feared might  be having a  difficult time with our world upheaval right now.  She is a non- profit human rights lawyer who recently moved here from the east coast to do a lot of good in my state. And she is. I made a point of connecting with her this week and I learned  it was the first time anyone had "checked in " with her. It made a huge difference, for both of us. 

She messaged me the following day that after our conversation, she left feeling the happiness she had felt all weekend. 

I am  glad I listened to that little tap on my shoulder to reach out to her. 

And so I decided to broaden my "check-in" circle.  

I'm checking in with all of you here tonight.  I'm not really "ok" but I guess  all things considered, I'm... ok.  I now fully understand the phrase "one day at a time". In this reality, there is no way to do anything else and stay sane.  There isn't one area of our government being targeted that doesn't make be want to cry, or hurl or a million other things.

But right now, I'm checking in.

May you all sleep well tonight.  May each of you find some rays of light tomorrow and hold them in our heart.

I've got my votive in my hand and I'm placing it inside a lantern in hopes that anyone who is in need, can see it. 

It's for you.  

@tybin 

Me too.  Totally inexcusable and unacceptable.  It is unimaginable. It is worse than just about anything else.  I have learned to LOVE Ukraine with all my heart and soul and my country has betrayed them.  It is the ultimate betrayal. 

@lovendures, you hit on exactly how I've been feeling. I was just thinking the other day that its like we are caught in an endless loop of grief. I feel like I keep going through all the stages of anger, depression, acceptance and so on only to start all over again. Going day by day is about all that seems normal right now. I will take a break from news and feel better and then see a new report and fight spiraling down again. I've been talking with some family and friends and they have talked about worry about getting medicine/prescriptions, or even if they will still be covered by any health insurance in the end of all this. Many in my family depend on various federal programs and income or work for programs/careers that dependent on federal or social funding...so each new tweet, update, and report feels like a blow of instability, uncertainty and anxiety. And the stress...everyone is short tempered, anxious, scared....it almost feels like we are back in the early days of covid.  I try to keep positive, doing something joyful and removed from everything just for my own comfort and sanity but its hard to not let fear drive you. I tend to be the one to keep the positive vibe going and emphasize to hold on to faith and light but even for the peacemakers in my family like me, it is a real struggle.  I try to fit in something happy each day, spend time with my cat (who is precious for the unconditional love and silly smiles she brings), and try to do things for my family that are treats or stuff to lighten the day (doesn't always work though). It feels like that there is so much anger, fear and frustration that is simmering right now....and seeing some very insensitive politicians celebrate, talk down or make fun of people's fear does not help. I am putting a lot of support toward the ones that are fighting to make a difference and show that compassion is still strong and living. I wish for everyone that they find their moment of daily joy and stress relief...those little moments are truly what is getting me through this rollercoaster of emotions.