11/25/2020
We as individuals and as a country have undergone a period of chaos, uncertainty, loss and enormous stress, resulting in a a type of collective PTSD.
Rather than a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, we have been suffering a Present Traumatic Stress Disorder, with many, if not all of us feeling some version of disequilibrium, fatigue, anxiety, increased joint and muscle pain, sleep disturbances, brain fog, etc.
As things begin to shift in our world, we begin emerging and have opportunities to experience and see through new perspectives. Post Traumatic Growth phenomenon will begin occurring. There will be a new stirring of creativity, perhaps dormant during these last months, an increase in insight and an increased level awareness will begin arising. There is little or no real growth when honeymooning in life, all going easily and smoothly in our worlds, order, as the focus is in the outer world.
We have been shaken up to our very cores, and everything that identified us, the who we thought we were, is no longer and we live in the uncertainty of who we will be and what the future will look like.
We have been shaken up to be wakened up. These challenging times and the deep quiet and solitude of this Covid year has brought us face to face to the depths of our inner worlds. May we see these times as an enormous gift and as the grit with which the pearl is polished. Growth occurs out of chaos, and growth and awakening are never more possible for us than times such as these.
Observe your heightened awareness newly every day, listen to the inner stirrings of creativity bubbling up, eager for expression, and also notice your heart opening and the hearts around you that are expressing kindness.
Be in gratitude, even if for a moment, for the gift of these times that has gently and sometimes not so gently pushed you towards your greater Self. Be in gratitude to those who have ridden in this boat with you this year and weathered the storms with you. Just breathe in that new aliveness you feel when you are in that space of gratitude and breathe it out, sharing it generously.
It is time for us all to shine our lights ever more brightly, and as we emerge from this collective dark night, we illuminate not only ourselves and our families and beloveds, but we also illuminate and revitalize our collective nervous systems and mother earth's. Our planetary consciousness will be growing by leaps and bounds, and the possibility for a New Earth arises as we emerge from this (perhaps at times very restrictive and uncomfortable) birth canal.
