I mentioned this a few weeks ago. I had a day when, mysteriously, every vertebra in my back seemed to be popping with every turn. I’d reach for a glass of water and feel my neck shift. I turned at the computer, and my lower back adjusted. I got up and mysteriously had sciatica for a few hours, then moved a certain way, and it disappeared. That was new. I’ve never felt such movement in my life. I had moments of energy rushing through me, then moments of feeling like I was baking in an oven as something burned off. And then the next day, the earthquakes shook South America, among other places, and it all made sense. Our Mother Earth was having her own chiropractic adjustments as well, and they were powerful. For the people on the fault lines, they were devastating.
It does make you wonder at times how we are so blessed to be stable and sleeping with a roof over our heads, while many are not. Over the years, I’ve had to slowly accept the angels’ words that we are all where we need to be for what our soul wants to achieve in a given moment. Sometimes that feels wonderful. Other times, not wonderful at all. But I have experienced and heard enough stories to know that there is a silver lining to every dark cloud, no matter how impossible it might seem at the time.
In every case, I look back at my life and see how I’ve grown through the tough stuff. My worst relationships led to me learning the most about self-love. My scariest physical issues showed me where I was blocked and what was required to change. My financial dips led me to learn manifestation and faith, which now serve me daily. And the times when I’ve lost people I loved have convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt that this work I do for others is very real, and that at the death of the body, the soul emerges into even greater love and has even more to offer us if we’re open.
I’m not comparing myself to someone whose apartment has collapsed and crushed their entire life, someone whose existence was rocked by bombs, or many of you who have gone through unthinkable loss. There are always those going through far better, and always those going through far worse. It doesn’t serve us to compare because we will inevitably find reasons to criticize ourselves. It does serve us to face our own feelings and challenges with love, grace, and faith, and to have compassion for others as they go through their own.
If you’ve felt off, tired, or experienced sudden physical or emotional changes, you truly are not alone. Over the past two weeks, many have come to me with intense situations, sudden revelations, new resolve, and all manner of other unexpected developments in life. And inevitably, these dear souls have found the inner wisdom to recognize what needs to change to create a kinder situation in their lives.
Here are a few tips to weather the intesity of the energy and the changes it can bring, with grace…
1. Don’t make it wrong.
Don’t look for what you did “wrong.” Don’t beat yourself up. Refrain from being hard on yourself. Whatever is going on within you, trust it is simply the effect of strong energy pushing up against blockages or moving them through you. If you feel something coming up that is a “stuck spot,” whether a physical condition, a life situation, a memory, or an emotion, do this simple exercise often.
Sit with your angels, breathe slowly, and attempt to relax. Imagine a very soft, gentle, and kind flow of energy moving through any stuck spots. If there’s a condition in your body, imagine gentle, water-like energy moving through a hardened sponge until it softens. If there is a condition in your life, imagine the energy moving through you, inspiring new thoughts and ideas to deal with it. If there is a thought or a memory that has bothered you, imagine it as dense energy, and imagine a gentle stream carrying it away.
Use whatever visual or feeling metaphor works for you to imagine energy moving through your body, mind, emotions, and life. The actual symbolism matters far less than the intent to get things moving.
Or if you suddenly feel resolved to treat yourself better, do something you’ve wanted to do, or pull away from drama, don’t make yourself wrong. There’s never a need to feel guilty for doing something right for yourself.
2. Try to see everything as energy that is trying to move.
If you have a challenge with a coworker, think of the challenge as energy that wants to move. You may want them to change, but all you can do is change your own energy. Can you let the energy flow around their personality like water flowing around a boulder? Can you let them be the challenging soul that they are and find a way around them? Can you think a bit differently about the situation and make them less important in your own mind? Can you offer compassion? Any of those ways of getting the energy to move are more effective than “chewing on the problem.”
Likewise, if you have a physical problem, see it as energy. Tight spots need more flow. Diseases or cancers need more light and love to dissipate them. Whatever is going on, imagine what it might look like as energy, and imagine a way you can use energy to create more flow in the area. I’ve been doing this with my spine lately. I sit or stand and imagine a nice flow of energy moving up my spine until it looks like a picture of a well-aligned spine that I found on the web. As I’m doing this, I feel things start to move back into place. It works!
3. Ride the waves
In the past four weeks, I’ve published four new coloring books under a pen name that I made up purely as a creative playground. I’ve worked full time, had more than my share of all-nighters, rebuilt 12 TB of data from a failed hard drive, and started planning for a family visit. I don’t know how I get away with as little sleep as I do, but when the creative muse hits, I run with it, and when the desire to sleep hits, I leave everything as is and am out like a light. Riding the waves of inspiration and natural impulses allows us to live in a flow that sometimes seems impossible, but wonderful.
If you’ve suddenly become inspired to do something you’ve put off, hop on the wave and do it. If you’re suddenly done putting up with something you’ve tolerated for years, make the changes. Don’t wait on your impulses or inspirations. There will always be new impulses and new inspirations, but when you have one, that means the universe is telling you the timing is good and circumstances are ripe for change.
Movement can be wonderful or scary, but in the end, it is always good to have more flow in your body, mind, and life. The love that comes from the Source has a “circulatory system” in the 3D world, and we are part of it. When we are kind to ourselves, move as inspired, and listen to our loving impulses, we can find the ease we intended to experience when we first came to Earth.
That doesn’t mean we’ll escape every challenge or dance around every unkind person, but it does mean that challenges will be springboards for greater love, unkind people will teach us to be kinder to ourselves, and eventually, everything will turn to good.
Sending you loads of love and prayers for ease, grace, and flow.
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