The choice for love

It’s an interesting old energy today, on the eve of the new moon. I’ve not yet read anything about this moon but I can feel that it is bringing up some fear and agitation. People are simply not settled, there’s a restlessness, a feeling of discombobulation, things are up in the air as if the potential for change can be literally felt and yet there’s no certainty to how it might land.

The song, The Drug’s Don’t Work, by The Verve springs to mind. It’s not to say that the vaccine isn’t having some positive impact, but that alone it isn’t solving things. I thought it ironic earlier that on the BBC website there was an article on the CO26 that was not focused on climatic change but on the fact Boris wasn’t wearing a mask in one of the photos taken when he was sitting by Sir David Attenborough (yet there were two other photos, once where they were both wearing a mask and one where David wasn't and Boris was). David was asked for a comment and understandably didn't make one. After all, they were there for climate change not to judge or create further division in society over face masks.

i’m easy going, if people feel safer and happier wearing face masks then so be it. But like everything with covid and decision making, I really wish we could stop judging. Live and let live. No one actually knows how we’re going to manage this Covid situation as we head into winter. SAGE are calling on the government to reveal their Plan B. Do w even have an effective Plan A?

I did find it interesting the very week that while CO26 is taking place, we’re spending money and wasting resources heating our local schools, while keeping the windows and doors open. Maybe it’s just me but I’m struggling to understand the sense of it, at least climactically, let alone from health perspective, children wearing coats in class, rugs next perhaps, gloves too maybe?

My children are all finding it a bit much, all the changes and the increased anxiety in the air. I do wonder what kind of generation we are raising, what all these decisions are doing to them mentally and emotionally, let alone physically. I do know that both my boys have been sick this last term and this despite all the endless hand washing and anti-bacterial stuff, let alone the attempts at isolating them within the wider school when there has been a Covid outbreak. I honestly feel they might just be weary.

I do wonder the effect on people’s immune systems of all this fear. I know from my own experience what fear does to us, how it messes with our digestion and our mental and emotional health. It’s a restless energy that doesn't allow us to find our centre and rest into that. We come out of the heart and lose a sense of the bigger picture. We overlook the soul.

I have always found it really helpful to come back to the heart, get as deep into it as possible, to elevate the awareness and shift the perspective. There’s a wonderful poem about this, that I’m sure I’ve shared here before, but I shall share again as it seems helpful and necessary at the moment:

The Choice For Love – From Emmanuel’s Book II, compiled by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton

What does the voice of fear
whisper to you?

Fear speaks to you
in logic and reason.
It assumes the language
of love itself.

Fear tells you
“I want to make you safe.”
Love says,
“You are safe.”

Fear says,
“Give me symbols.
Give me frozen images.
Give me something
I can rely on.”

Loving truth says,
“Only give me
this moment.”

Fear would walk you
On a narrow path
promising to take you
where you want to go.

Love says,
“Open your arms
and fly with me.”

Every moment of your life
you are offered the opportunity
to choose –
love or fear,
to tread the earth
or to soar the heavens.

Let’s choose to soar the heavens. Let’s choose love over fear.

i’ve been trying to settle into the heart as the energy ramps up in this lead up to the new moon. I believe others are doing the same, we’re being called into it, to ease the pervading fear, and help us to care a new future both individually and collectively. The heart will help us find our way, but we need to settle into it as much as we can first…and we will drop in and out as the energy won’t let us settle easily, it’s trying to wake us up . I’ll try and record a yoga video to help…

Enjoy the new moon - hopefully some of you are enjoying this as part of my Moon & Menstruation offering and finding it helpful thus far.

Love Emma x