10/10/2023
Feelings Response to October 2023 Violence in Gaza, Israel and Palestine
I am taking time to feel this, I am sitting with the discomfort.
I am grieving and feeling my heart crying for all the victims, Palestinian and Israeli, American and other immigrants from around the world that live in Israel/Palestine. I am grieving and feeling, opening my heart to the sadness, the woe, the intense hurt of all this.
I am here, this moment in Corrales, NM, surrounded by beauty, trees, shrubs, nature, a blue sky (with hot air balloons flying around as it’s balloon fiesta) feeling grateful for what my eyes take in. I am breathing in fresh morning air and grateful for each life giving breath I take in, recharging all my cells, brain and body. I am feeling love and gratitude to the earth and her elements and universe for allowing me to be here. I am keeping my light lit and transmitting love from my eyes to all I meet today; human, tree, plant, waters, minerals.
I am grieving the warped beliefs of Netanyahu and Hamas militants and all those who take action with violence and oppression. It feels so lonely, disconnected, and nauseous and my body contracts. Is it not clear that violence begets violence and oppression breeds hate, fear and separation?
I am feeling love and connection at this moment knowing there are many like me, taking peaceful action, meditating, visualizing and feeling what a coherent, loving cooperative world looks and feels like. The knowledge and wisdom of understanding that we are all guests on the Earth for a short time and we co create evolution, a new Earth of vibrancy, consciousness, health, wholeness entirely. This feels open and light in my body and mind. This is what hope, unity and love feel like.
I am grieving for all the destruction and damage being done to the waters, soil and air from the toxic bombs and weapons. I feel this deeply in my heart and sob, a heaving feeling, like throwing up.
I am witnessing in wonder the resiliency of planet Earth, the trees and their harvest, the shrubs and plants flowering, the flowing waters, the air clearing, when given the chance and cleaned up, they all regenerate! All of nature giving of herself so generously without ask.
I am grieving for the militants and soldiers increasing trauma and all the post traumatic stress
that will come in themselves and everyone.
I am seeing and hearing of some soldiers refusing to participate in this violence and choosing to heal trauma and woe, rebuilding and creating new ways of thinking.
I am feeling all of this as I continue to breathe and continue to say and set intentions each morning and throughout my day, I live with love and kindness. I am love itself. I contemplate and feel what it feels like to be love itself, internally for at least one minute, focusing on just this feeling of love. Then I open my eyes to the external world as it continues to go by.
If you are having trouble focusing and managing emotions, please check out my Notable Healing podcast Episode 4, "Got Stress? Hold Your Finger" You can skip to 13:16 if you don’t have time for the full ½ hour session. https://www.notablehealing.com/podcast
With love, melody, harmony, beauty, light and hope,
Sheila
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