Finding Safety

Where can we find safety when the world feels unstable?

Dear clients,

I did a lot of driving this weekend and the political yard signs were out in force.  Ann and I drove from Charlottesville to Philadelphia and back and we must have passed thousands of yard signs.  Lots of Trump signs.  Lots of Harris signs.  And I was struck again by the inevitable disappointment of this election: no matter who wins the presidency, a huge number of people in our country will feel dissatisfied, unrepresented, and - likely - betrayed.  Maybe this is true in any presidential election, but this year, with the heated rhetoric and the divisiveness becoming ever more clear, I feel within myself a growing anxiety.  

As I was sitting with this anxiety -- literally sitting in the car coming home -- I asked myself, what is in this for me?  What is here to be learned?  And I remembered one of Barbara Brennan's teachings that the circumstances in our world -- no matter how unsettling they may be -- these circumstances were exactly what we signed up for when we chose to come into physical form on this planet.  We were literally born for this.  And if that's the case, then where can I find safety when the system that has been my safety most of my life feels like it is teetering?  

So I turned inside, looking within myself, below my feelings of anxiety and my thoughts about politics.  And I felt something that is difficult to put into words, but feels like a knowing that's been here with me and in me all my life and will be here after this election, and after the next drama, and the next, and the next.   And today, as I'm writing this I feel like I am surrendering.  I'm surrendering to the fact that life is not safe.  That I will eventually die, that everyone I know will die, and that every system I know eventually will cease to be.  Yet this Knowing, this sense of something timeless within, something that is me and also not me, will remain.  And as I sit with this revelation I can feel the opportunity in this moment to do what matters most: to love those around me; to hold compassion and empathy for everyone who, like myself, is caught up in the anxiety of the times; to let my light shine in my own unique way.

This will be my practice over the next week.  And whatever your practice may be, I pray you will make contact with a deep Knowing within you and create beauty in your life from that place.  If energy work would help to raise your consciousness, clear your emotions, clarify your purpose, or reconnect you to your Knowing, I would be glad to support you.  Sending blessings on your journey.

Anand