How Are You and Yours Today? (I actually really do want to know.)
My family and I are well, thank goodness, and thank you to all who've reached out to stay connected and ask about my perspective.
The Great Awakening
Through dreamtime, I saw that we're amidst the Great Awakening.
We're amidst this time that's been prophesied.
A time when what's been inside-out-upside-down in our collective values would transition into an age of truth. A time where light prevails over darkness. A time of great enlightenment.
We did not necessarily know that it would arrive in the form of a pandemic virus, but we did know that it would be of "pandemos".
We knew that such a time, would begin to awaken "All the People”.
First individually, and then collectively.
What else would have brought us to a halt of this magnitude?
Or as one social meme has put it, "Mother Nature Just Sent us all to our Rooms!"
And, yes, amidst hope and levity, there is also great suffering happening at this time, and our hearts go out to all who are experiencing illness, loss of loved ones, loss of livelihood, loss of physical interactions.
Our hearts go out to those who are struggling to stay inside the stillness or isolation of their own homes or navigate the busy-ness of tending to children while simultaneously working from home.
Our hearts go out to the brave medical professionals on the front lines of loving us.
And, simultaneously, we are awakening to our connection to how precious a red apple is, the sanctuary of a warm roof over our heads, the grace of each breath, and the gift of what we will do with our next breath.
We wake up to all the reasons we'd like to live and bless each day with our offerings.
Use All Your Skills
For me, it's been a gift to show up on daily remote session calls with clients.
A hospital nurse whose job has drastically changed overnight.
Business owners facing steep plummets and innovative opportunities, parents who are now homeschooling children while also working from home, and doctors and therapists who need support learning new skills to serve remotely and keep their practices afloat. Friends worried for their parents.
I've also had the opportunity to support those who appear to have the virus.
I've begun to understand how to help us heal through it, while refraining from magical thinking, and yet creating magic.
Watching how these teachings can begin to make luminous again, the light behind the skin, the cheeks, the eyes. Staying curious. Learning.
I'm working to share those in a wider way.
This is all to say, every single one of our honed skills is needed today. This is a time to be still and to also rise.
85% Loving 15% = One Species in Remembrance
As 85% of the healthiest folks on the planet profoundly show love for 15% of our most vulnerable ones and healthcare professionals perhaps our real questions are,
How are we today? How are we in our breath of life today?
The Q'ero medicine men and women grow up in the Andes mountains, on earthen floors stomped by their own family's feet, greeting one another with this same question, "How are we?"
They live in reciprocity with the Earth as if she is the living breathing entity that she is.
They live with awakeness.
And now, we're all being called into the next levels of this Great Awakening, too.
What if we're being asked to remember that we're actually part of an ecosystem of aliveness?
The Lungs of the Planet
So, here's the deal.
We are part of the respiration, the lungs of our planet, together with our trees.
We breathe out carbon dioxide, they breathe it in. They breathe out oxygen, we breathe it in.
What if we are being called back into reciprocity, deep rapport with the trees and Earth?
Any ways in which our work products or services have been out of rapport, what if we're being asked to courageously bring these into alignment?
Any ways in which our homes have been out of rapport? What if we're being asked to courageously bring these into alignment?
Connect with a Tree
My Offering Today is Simple:
Connect with a tree.
Go outside. Maintain, of course, 6-12' of physical distance with others.
Walk up to a tree.
Hover your hands, palms up towards its tree trunk, about a foot away from the tree's bark.
What do you sense? feel? see with your eyes closed? smell? taste? hear?
Ask the tree to
"Show you, teach you, what you’re to learn today? What would it like you to know?"
Feel the tree's vibration. Yes, its vibration.
Let go of fear of judgment. First off, everyone else is inside. Second, this is actually one of the most sane acts we humans can participate in. Remember, the world’s been inside-out-upside-down; this is an act of righting it. Own it. Embody your wisdom, your truth.
The Science of Forest Bathing
In 2016, scientists researched nature's effects on health. In part, they found that being in nature, significantly reduced pulse rate and significantly increased the score for vigor and decreased the scores for depression, fatigue, anxiety, and confusion." (NIH, 2016)
Doctors in Japan began prescribing Forest Bathing, and teaching people how to do it. (Time, 2018). Science has beautifully confirmed what indigenous peoples have known for centuries.
Trees Attune Us. . . Vibrational Consciousness
Nature remembers us to our Oneness,
if we allow ourselves to grow sensitive enough, in rapport enough, to let her.
So, Walk outside. Meet a tree (or greet a plant in your home).
Introduce yourself. Become friends. Begin to build rapport.
Thank it for its service. Ask how you, too, might be of service to it's aliveness. Learn. Listen. Love.
We are not just these bodies. We are not just these minds.
We are an infinite vibrational consciousness currently embodied.
We are filled with radiant lit-up cells.
We just sometimes need help remembering.
As always, if you or your loved one is in need, please reach out for
guided meditation support, shamanic session work, or a kind word.
I'm here and I care.
Stay so very replenished, nourished, rested, well during this time.
And do let me know, from what you see, How are We Today?
