Consciousness expansion may necessitate intense personal change and inner growth—during times when internal pressures to “keep up” may feel burdensome or overwhelming--or a sense that “the center cannot hold” may predominate.
When under tremendous psychic pressure it is best to conserve energy by focusing on your own inner life of happenings --by connecting with the divine spark in your heart and finding your deepest truth. You may need to “go within” for direction, or retract from the world at times, to honor your body with rest, meditation or sleep.
Other ways to protect a fracturing psyche is limiting outer stimulation from tv news and social media, or even from friends or work associates. For others it may require “breaking out” of a confining routine, habit, destructive mental attitude, relationship, or job. It may mean more physical movement and better nutrition, more quiet moments and personal space for renewal.
The path of peace is to come into alignment with your truth and complete your “unfinished work”- the work of inner consilience. True North is the most direct path to completing the great task that is being accomplished through you, and humanity as a whole.
In joining together in loving support of each other, we can openly share the distributed wisdom and inspiration from personal struggles and deep sufferings. Acting with resilience, zeal, reverence, attention, and increased devotion—we can complete our work as envoys and conduits of the divine—to evolve the universal project of liberty, freedom, love, unity, and equality for all beings--rich and poor, human animal or animal, plant or tree, on one continent or the next.
I really enjoyed this post and especially was touched by the last paragraph that united the bigger purpose behind individual healing. To me, it reinforced the idea, that while our struggles may appear different - they are there to heal us and unite us - so that we can finally discover that life is simply about love and compassion. It makes me think that the more we radiate love from within (no matter the storms on the outside), the more hope we project on the outside where stigmas can then begin to disintegrate and so can their associated feelings of shame, guilt, anger, denial, blame, etc - and instead allow space for understanding. The focus then changes from how are…