Be a Source of Strength in Difficult Times
My friend Michele Woodward, who lives in Washington DC said, on Twitter, last week that the atmosphere in the city was heavy with dread, the way it had been after 9/11. A series of unexpected blizzards on the East Coast left many people feeling fearful, uncertain of what was coming next. This harsh winter weather, following on the heels of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, brings home the realization that we’re vulnerable to Nature’s awesome power. It reminds us forcibly of our mortality.
There are powerful planetary energies at play right now that exacerbate polarization, division, fear, and friction. At the same time, there are available energies of wholeness, radiance and peace.
Each of us is both an individual being–our singular self–and in relationship with all other forces on this earth. The energies of entropy affect us because they are in the atmosphere around us–we swim in them like fish in the sea. But they also exert pressure through our connection with others in our lives who may be susceptible to them, and through our energetic connection to the earth.
So…here are some ways to stay strong, centered and calm in the midst of fear and chaos:
1. Connect your grounding to the purest, clearest energy source in the earth–the Soul of the Earth. And connect also to the Soul of the Cosmos.
2. Bring yourself back to your own center.
3. Connect with your soul, through the back of your fourth chakra. It’s more important than ever to fill yourself with your soul’s vibration. (You can listen to the audio of a teleclass on how to do this, here.)
4. Clear energies and emotions that are not yours, out of your chakras and energy field. Create a state of harmonic resonance in your own energy field. This is your inner world. Fill it with the qualities you want to experience, and work skillfully with the energies that disrupt it. Practice sovereignty.
5. Stay in touch with your own emotions, letting them flow. Call a conference of your selves, giving each part of you a voice, practicing emotional skillfulness.
6. Stay in present time. When you find yourself caught in catastrophic stories–characterized by phrases like “always” and “never” among others–breathe, ground, bring yourself back to center, and into the present moment.
At times like these, when there’s so much fear on the planet, it’s easy to get swept off into the future, and since your body can’t follow you there, it’ll leave you feeling more and more fearful.
Your senses help you connect with your body, and connect with what’s real right now. Move in ways that bring you joy. Feel the solidity of the earth under your feet.
7. Confusion is almost always a sign that you’re dealing with energies–or emotions, or pictures or beliefs–that aren’t yours. Clear out anything that doesn’t belong to you, and then see how you feel.
8. Remember to ask for help: from your soul, from the people you are close to, from your community, from the Universe, and from allies and helpers in all dimensions.
You are not the small, scared, isolated self you may feel yourself to be. You are a vast, multidimensional being, and you have capacities and resources you can barely begin to imagine. They are real. They are powerful. And they are actively invested in the success of your incarnation–they always respond when you ask.
9. Remember, too, that you are working within cycles of time and space. Give yourself the gift of spaciousness– separate from the high levels of fear that are haunting the world right now.
10. Get out into Nature if you can. Connect with your body, with the earth, with what’s real. Connect with spirit, which moves in dimensions of timelessness. Attune to the essence of the qualities you need to help you–strength; patience; fortitude; safety; humor; stability; wisdom; power; inspiration.
11. Make clear energetic separations from everything and everyone else, and return to the simplicity of your own being, as it is right now. Your senses bring you into the present moment, so tune into your breath, your body, what you taste, smell, touch, hear and see.
12. When fear comes knocking, with its stories about impending doom, ask yourself: right here, right now, am I safe? Am I dying? Or deathly ill? Or about to be eaten by a dinosaur? Is what I’m afraid of actually happening right now?
13. Manage your energy. Bring a pink-gold vibration into your reptilian brain (at your brain stem), a clear gold light into your mid-brain. Close down your first chakra until it’s only as open as you can handle comfortably. Close down your trance-medium channels–the energy channels that are like an upside-down T, at the back of your head and neck, and across your shoulders, and fill them with clear gold light.
These practices will help. Remember, reality is always Whole, and always on your side. Even though fragmentation can be LOUD, its power is limited to volume.
Each time you recognize and name the fear and trauma around you, bring yourself back into resonance with your own soul, and into harmony with Wholeness, you contribute to the healing of the world. You bring calm, strength and peace to your own body, your life, and your community.
Times of uncertainty and change call us to the task of making meaning and wholeness within ourselves. You can choose to be a source of healing and blessing–your Presence is needed in the world, especially in these difficult times.
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Oh Hiro – I love this so much I printed it out so I would be reminded to do these things – with a special highlight on #7 (not that it’s not all good, it’s just thing that’s most useful for me to hear right now). Thank you! You are a blessing. oxo -Cairene
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Thank you, Cairene–I’m glad it was helpful. We need all the reminders we can get, right now!
xo Hiro
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I’m doing this stuff now.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Hooray for doing–it helps when you do it! :-)
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Hiro,
Thank you for this beautiful post. Noticing that confusion is a sign of other energies — very, very helpful.
Cairene is right, you are a blessing.
Love,
Danielle
Thanks, Danielle. The lovely thing is, every one of us is a blessing. You too! :-)
*kisses*
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I continue to be expanded and touched by your beautiful spirit and your wisdom (& I loved your presence & sharing at Jen Louden’s Virtual Retreat)…
I really appreciated this post…
Can you say more about how the different colors of light affect the brain?
I was very intrigued by that part…
Thanks for the useful tips — I’m going to print them out, too.
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Keeping in touch with our wholeness is the most powerful move we can do to counteract the entropy affect which is the guiding of of this physical realm. I believe the we are living in our weakest dimension. And after our bodies return to the earth, we can go back to our higher form. :-)
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Wow, Hiro! Here’s what hit me (almost physically!):
Connect with your soul through the BACK of the fourth chakra. (caps mine obv)
I have always had the sensation of an opening there, sometimes it’s A Hole but never have thought of chakras in terms of front and back except when I think of them as spheres. It’s also the spot where I think of my wings sprouting (someday!). Thanks for that new perspective.
I also loved number 13, about colored light and those energy centers. Do tell more! I’ll be lurking about reading on those in the very near future!
xxoo
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Pink-gold vibration in reptilian brain = so nurturing feeling and beautiful. That’s my new favorite color.
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Thank you so much Hiro,
What a reassuring list of do-able and calming actions. I’m writing all these points down into my journal so I can carry them around with me as a reminder for when I’m feeling overwhelmed.
Thank you so much for this post. It appeared just at the right time, when my confusion was the greatest and my fears the loudest. I have managed to reduce both last night and I am now starting to feel my way back to centre again. I too will carry these gems in my journal, as an antidote for times of stress and distress.
Great post! I think we underestimate the power that our emotional state can have on our loved ones. If we are down we have a ripple effect that pulls those around us down. But if we tend our own little patch of earth and allow it to bloom that has a ripple effect too. Thanks for offering some tools to keep us green and flowering.
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Mahalo e Hiro. Thank you for sharing this.
When I read this post, I felt like you’d written it just for me! And I know that it must speak to so many people. Wise words — and wise PRACTICES — indeed.
4. Clear energies and emotions that are not yours, out of your chakras and energy field.
This is the second time since this weekend that I have heard this advice. How liberating it’s been just to realize that not all the emotions I feel are necessarily mine, and that I can learn to differentiate and clear the ones that don’t belong to me.
7. Confusion is almost always a sign that you’re dealing with energies–or emotions, or pictures or beliefs–that aren’t yours. Clear out anything that doesn’t belong to you, and then see how you feel.
What a simple and useful concept – to use confusion as a sign of being affected by energies and emotions of others.
I too would love to hear more about the energy and vibration of colors in our brains and our chakras. I hope you will share more of these wonderful, practical tools to apply to keep ourselves centered and positve and free from fearful, negative influences.
Wow. This is incredible. I’m printing this out and keeping it where I can see it and read it. This is really what I needed right now Hiro. Thank you.
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