For a while now, I think it’s easy to say things have been difficult. Each month, we look to a brighter future, a bit more peace and calm. But the season of storms seems to be here, and the storms are strong and forceful at times. What can you do, what can we do, to manage through this?
Read on for more.
Personally, it has been a hard month with a lot going on with those I love. I suspect that this experience is hardly mine alone – there is a lot of difficult, upsetting energy right now: socially, environmentally, and in many areas around the United States and the world. It all can be very upsetting, and even painful, to hear about, to watch, and to experience.
Why am I sharing this and sounding ‘down’ today? Because it always first helps to acknowledge our experiences. Ignoring what happens will not lessen any hurts, and it will not solve anything. Being aware of your feelings allows you to be whole, and that is an important step in finding a way through the difficulty.
However, there is a huge difference between acknowledging what you see, feel, and experience, and dwelling on it. Sadly, right now, regardless of what we may want, we are all still having to dwell in the energies of what is going on. So, how can you help yourself, how can you manage this?
Your Heart Center
Your heart knows what is happening, always, with you, but from a broader, bigger view; one that is perched at the top of a mountain of love. Because of this, finding your heart center, and taking a moment to experience that love, that broader view, will greatly help you. Your heart center Love cannot be extinguished, and it cannot be harmed, regardless. It aches for us, because we can get lost, we can hurt; but, it aches for us because it knows we are as strong as it is, but we often forget that.
Finding The Center
Right now, as you read this, take a moment (unless you are driving, and then WHY are you reading this??) and feel your heart. Not the physical one, but if that helps, it’s fine. While we all forget it fairly easily in the day to day, what I am speaking of is your center – where you ‘know’ yourself, where your love, your joy, your passion, your energy all flows from.
Take a slow breath, and allow it to flow through you. Then take another slow breath. Now, imagine that breath touching a flower in the center of your chest. As it does, the flower opens and shines with a beautiful, peaceful light. It’s always there – but now you see it. Now you remember it. It’s your energy, it’s your love, it is your soul.
Reconnecting with that center, that love in your heart, is what can help you to manage what is going on.
Going Forward
When we change our focus, when we remember our greater, deeper love and purposes, the things we see and experience around us can change. Our seeing of them changes, a little, but really, they can change, too.
Right now, we are experiencing a rapid, forceful change around us. It is not easy. This exercise can help us find a little bit of the realization that this is growth, this is a release of older energy that no longer is helpful for us. Remembering our center, and our love, will make all this change easier. Anger, frustration, fear; while real and present, it is part of the older energy. Love, and awareness of how we really are connected – to Earth, to our soul, and to each other – that awareness will make the changes easier and less disruptive, for you personally, and for everyone.
Your heart knows this is a season, and not a new reality for all time. It’s a time where we must let go, to give room for what we want, what we know is good, and finding a new way ahead. Spend a minute, each morning, touching your heart-center, and feel the winds become a little softer, and the thunder a bit less frightening.
If you want to look more carefully and find more ways to remember your heart center, please reach out, and I can help.
Love, and until next time
