Bursting bubbles

Crikey, this energy is something else! I’ve never really felt so clearly that the veil is thin and the portal opening. I’ve heard people talk about it, but never really got it, but I’m feeling it!

I’ve heard people say this is quite an intense alignment of the new moon solar eclipse and the summer solstice, to say nothing of the planetary shifts, of which I know little. I just know that something is happening out there that is impacting on what is happening in me, which means it’s happening in each of us collectively, so perhaps there will be a shift. It feels big.

I certainly feel that life has changed this year beyond recognition of what it was, and that 2019 was indeed the year that prepared us for the changes that have been ushered in. I don’t know how long it will continue, but it has been so lovely to live to my own agenda this week, with the boys, flowing with our own timings, meeting friends, being on the beach, just having a rather lovely time of it, no timetable as such, beyond when I teach and give Reiki.

But it’s not the outer changes so much, they merely reflect the inner changes that have taken place, and a long time in coming in many respects. I have known for a while that there is another way, but it has taken time and work to let go of the conditioning that prevented the flow and the re-alignment to take place. There have been leaps of faith too, and a stronger sense of living with uncertainty and the unknown, which is OK, truly.

I have been watching others talk about how we might find a new way, how we might save the environment and create better societies. I think it’s noble. But I also think it is very simple. That really, it is us who need to change, to deepen connection to self, so that all the other crap drops away. It’s all very well talking about how we might engage the community to deduce the changes that they would like to see, and how we might change business so that it better serves the economy and society, but until we re-define success, and shift the paradigm from one of material gain to one of wellbeing, then nothing will change.

Under the current system, business will always be about the bottom line and people will always want to be recognised for their successes, based on their ability to earn and maximise wealth. This is how so many see success. This is what underlies the choices and decisions that so many make. This is the generation of billionaires and fame for the sake of fame’s sake with social media highlighting this - a generation of people who want to be seen for the sake of being seen, and so many with something to sell (it’s the era of “I run my own business, but I need social media to do it’).

All of this just further buys into the illusion and takes us further away from our truth. If we want to save the planet, if we truly want to look after the environment, then we don’t need to wait for a questionnaire, or a discussion, or for government to decide what the new world might look like, we just need to start living more of our own truth, and the more we are in our truth, in our nature, our self, then the more we will in harmony with nature. You simply cannot separate the two.

There is a very noticeable connection between how we live in relationship to our self and how we live in relationship to the earth. I really do believe that the more we can live in harmony with self, the more we automatically live in harmony with the planet, just as the ancients did. Yet these days we live in a way that is harmful to self, and as a consequence the planet is harmed too.

There are very few people who do not harm themselves, either through the inner critic or through the choices they make in how they live their lives. The only thing that will truly save us is consciousness, and the only way we will become more conscious, is by doing work on ourselves. There is just no way to avoid it, despite the best efforts of many to side-track it, jump over it, somehow find a technique that they hope will make them conscious without them having to go through it.

It is my understanding that you have to go through it, have the break downs to make the break throughs, to delve deep into the shadows. Sure, life provides the opportunities, illness, accidents, traumas large and small, sometimes the perceived smallest traumas are indeed the biggest portals, the most direct route to the soul. And this is where it is at, where it has only ever been at. The heart and soul. We do need to get to the heart, and we need to allow the soul expression, this is how we grow and this is how we will change the world that we live in, by living in the self - having a clear sense of self.

We are each here for a reason, and I don’t altogether know that that is as grandiose as taking on a title or a label, “I am in this world to be a yoga teacher”, for example. I feel it’s more about being in this world to allow all that we are; consciousness. We are here to become conscious and live conscious lives, which, by their very nature, are in harmony with the planet that we live on, which is also conscious, far more conscious than us human beings - see how tolerant, patient, compassionate and forgiving it is to us; that is consciousness!

I feel the energy, these eclipses, are encouraging us to wake up. Not necessarily to wake up to the what we are doing to the planet, but to wake up to what we are doing to ourselves. To question the way that we have chosen to live, to open ourselves up to the possibility that we might choose a new way, that we might step outside the norm, as we step closer into the soul, and that because more of us will be doing this - becoming conscious and kinder to self - then the more we will shift the way we are living collectively.

This is a time for being deep honest with ourselves. For seeing beyond the limitations we have created for ourselves, based on our conditionings (societal, parental, educational etc) and to truly feel into what we might do if we could live the life of our dreams, a life that is harmonious. There will always be a compromise of course, but perhaps we will come to realise that we don’t have to compromise our self, that we do matter, and that in acknowledging this, in becoming more deserving, the light of the universe will flood through us and throughout the planet.

This is how the paradigm will shift, how we will come to reframe success beyond material gain and media (social and otherwise) fame, and how we will come to recognise that wealth is not something that can be measured by money in a bank account or by the size of house, or number of possessions, but how it is about our inner sense of worth and how we can be in relation to self and to others, about love and compassion, tolerance and forgiveness. How we live in harmony with all life. Let’s see; I have a feeling that the bubble must burst first.