Needed Times of Change
We are in this together!
Working with my mesa. Sacred stones from my travels to sacred sights. Qero, ancient Peruvian tradition.
SO…
These last four months have been a push (putting it mildly). Right?!
I feel like I’ve been riding an inner-rollercoaster
waves up and down
sometimes coasting... forgetting what day it is...
all the while trusting I am safely buckled in.
This last part feels so important. Knowing I am safe. Trusting there is wellbeing within all this needed chaos.
This Trust has been the difference between my days of unraveling, versus all of me coming unraveled, completely.
I’m imagining you understand. Imagine we’re all being pushed to our edges: emotionally, physically, spiritually. All being asked to find a new way of knowing Confidence. A new way of managing ourselves in the day-to-day. A new way of finding Center. (The old, compulsive habits of past don’t seem to be cutting it anymore.)
For me, deep Spiritual Practice has been the saving grace. Reading spiritual and inspirational writings. Taking spiritual classes. Learning and doing a daily, spiritual yoga practice. Mindful walks in the woods. Creating from this inspired, intuitive place. Working with clients from this clear, loving place—focused on personal healing, and liberation, and wholeness. All moved by Spirit/Source within me. Within my body and heart.
I have been, and continue to be, so grateful for these inner-tools and abilities.
I have also found myself doing lots of (mostly) healthy and (always) yummy home-cooking. And eating. Awesome Deliciousness. Aside daily learning from Black writers and artists about Black lives in our country. Having rich and uncomfortable, so-needed conversations on race and equity and justice. And regular Covid updates… Is it safe to go camping yet? (Yes, slight whine in that.) And wearing my mask in public (I bought a new one to shake things up! Fashion splurge). And self-checking my ongoing fears, judgements, and assumptions… about myself, and others.
It’s been demanding. Internal Vigilance asked for. Sometimes I comply. Other times I fall on the floor, or in my bed, and simply need a good prolonged scream and cry.
Especially on the days where we’ve needed to put a pet down (we’ve had two of those). And the days family arguments rose to new heights (more than two of those). And the days we’ve gotten other hard news about family illness—the intense kind needing long-term treatment. (I am appreciative there have been no human deaths in our family. I know there have been for too many.) I have had to let myself breakdown fully on these harder days. Trust I would find my way back to Center, to Love, to coping better again.
For me, Practicing Love and Trust, building my muscles of focus here, this has been the thing to get me through. Will continue to get me through.
“If we want to transform our society, we will have to transform ourselves first.”
Through these tumultuous times, these muscles of love and trust have shown up as the:
Caring, nurturing actions I have been able to take to support myself, and others.
Kind and patient self-talk when so needed (when on the floor or glued to the bed).
Not doing it alone—asking for support, surrounding myself with wise, loving people who know a high truth of trust and love alongside me.
Personal and Spiritual Tools, and the willingness to use these tools, to grow myself and get me through.
Add the True Belief that through all this hardship, and conflict, and dis-ease we are headed to something better. Much Better. A way of being with our Self and with Each Other that is filled with compassion, understanding, deep listening, healing, and cooperation.
I do believe that Together we can and will move through this and Create Better.
It is a long-run effort. Patience and Stamina required. I believe we can do it. We can build it, this new way of being. And eventually, we will realize it. For our generation and future generations—Better! Because, we are Truly Better Together.
With so much love.
xo Piper