New Earth Wisdom

The “dark night of the soul” is often thought of as a time of challenging, grueling spiritual work.

However, imagine that you are within a space of darkness with others who are walking around lost. You, feeling different, notice the light in the dark. Instead of succumbing to the collective “dark night of the soul”, you become the lighthouse.

To be called to this kind of service is a challenge in itself. Not many people can hold coherence while the world shakes. But I believe you can. I think you might be called to collective service in whatever unique way you choose to express. I think you may even be a tuning fork, stabilizing others who feel calm in your presence.

In the right state, we can all become a candle in a storm. Once we stabilize and give ourselves love and grace in every moment, we become transmitters of peace.

Breathing keeps our channel clear. It allows the body to settle. See if, as you read this, you can lengthen your spine on your inhalation and let go of tension on the exhalation. Feel your central axis: your spine, as the world tree.

Ancient cultures knew that where we place our attention, our energy follows. The most intelligent and remarkable methods employ this idea to literally shift the way our brain operates to create more optimal functioning. We start to become less reactive, and we start to feel so aligned with our responses that we are speaking automatically from our heart.

Like with anything else, nothing needs to be forced. See if you can place your attention on yourself in any way and then reduce the intensity, several times. Continue to reduce until you feel relaxed. Now, refine your awareness within the reduced intensity to find the quality you want. Find the quality you want for how you sit, how you breathe, how you read, and everything. That soft quality like velvet meeting rose petals. Like Butterly wings brushing against your cheek. Can you be this soft with yourself?

Feel a soft warmth and hum at the base of your spine. Sink further into your chair. Live in the place where programming happens: this is where the mind may chatter but you allow it as you sink deeper into the place where true change emerges.

Now imagine your feet rooted deep into the Earth. Not just touching- growing downward like ancient roots. As though you are reaching toward the core of the planet. You are the spine of the Earth. Feel your axis, and move forward with quality in your every breath, move and action.

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