I've tried to understand what is the spiritual meaning behind the virus - why now, why the world. It's started to become clearer and clearer to me that mother earth is going through a cleansing. It's like she's got a cold caused by a bad habit. We are all impacted by this emotional, spiritual cleanse she is in need of because we also make up the world and are part of the bodies of earth that need to be healed. She wants us to grow and be happy but until we grow out of our bad habits, we will suffer amongst ourselves.
She needs a cleansing that will rid her of old outdated energies - particularly around our separateness and neediness. She needs to purge some of this out of her system for a more harmonious and beautiful world to be co-created. That world will not be possible until we can understand our oneness and have compassion for one another.
She needs a cleansing that will rid her of old outdated energies - particularly around our separateness and neediness. She needs to purge some of this out of her system for a more harmonious and beautiful world to be co-created. That world will not be possible until we can understand our oneness and have compassion for one another.
Healing Separateness
This is a healing on a global scale to rid ourselves of the "us" and "them" thinking. That way of thinking is obsolete and it's about "we are all in this together." One country's economy crashes and that impacts the economy of the rest of the world. One country shuts its gates and the other countries feel offended when it's been more or less for safety reasons. Until we realize we are all connected in many intricate ways and all having to go through this together while each country having to do what they need to do, we won't be able to get through this. We really have to stick together in these times, and it's not going to be easy because each of us are also working through our own "stuff.”
On a more personal level, all the systems we had keeping our busy lives in place kept us drilling at work and feeling a sense of accomplishment in our achievements and a lot of it was due to the support we've had. We've been forgetting things, taking things for granted, taking Mother Earth for granted, shoving some things under the carpet that are coming to be dealt with now. You'll have to dig deep to understand what are really the foundations your intentions are built on to make further way. It’s the weak link in these foundations that will start to show.
On a more personal level, all the systems we had keeping our busy lives in place kept us drilling at work and feeling a sense of accomplishment in our achievements and a lot of it was due to the support we've had. We've been forgetting things, taking things for granted, taking Mother Earth for granted, shoving some things under the carpet that are coming to be dealt with now. You'll have to dig deep to understand what are really the foundations your intentions are built on to make further way. It’s the weak link in these foundations that will start to show.
Healing our Neediness call for Compassion
When you focus on your stuff, you lose focus on the other person's and when you focus on their's vice versa. We are not going to get through to the other side until we can see the perspective of both people - or every side. First, we need to be aware it's our stuff that's coming up and give ourselves as well as others some space to process our respective worries. It means learning to get out of the way of ourselves and not projecting blame onto others or even ourselves, and it also means letting the other person do the same and forgiving when they have erred.
It's to start to purge the thinking that we are at battle with each other and we need to learn to act and work together as a whole. We will see this happen in smaller ways - from the small family unit, to the community, to corporations, and on a global scale. Not hoarding at the supermarket. The crampedness you feel from working from home with your spouse can make you realize how things were not working in the relationship and that probably really needs your focus now. Sensitive children could feel the illing necessity of this purge and be restless and have this unexplainable sense of dissatisfaction and not have the vocabulary to explain how they are feeling. When people start to work remotely we don’t have all the resources we need at hand but we start to see what really matters most. We also are not aware we’ve been heavily relying on support from our friends and then when we are limited in our connection, we realize who really matters.
Being together is double the fun and half of the trouble. At the same time, it can take longer to cooperate and it can take effort to make it work. This is the time for that open conversation. This is the time to reassess a better way of feeding the family and dividing the chores, not to expect meeting obligations the old way. The old way is no longer. We’ve got to change the rules. This isn’t the time to jump to conclusions.
The paradigm has changed and will keep changing with or without us. It’s our choice to go with it or not. Times like these call for us to be the light at the end of the tunnel, to keep us having hope for a better tomorrow, and calls for each and every one of us to be that change. To keep us safe and protected we have to think of the collective good. In our collective effort we can get through this.
When we've really adopted a way of life that incorporates love - that every life matters - you will see that the world becomes a much more harmonious and beautiful place. That is what I felt that Mother Earth was really wanting from us. Nature is not impacted from this change - it is only humans and so it is up to us to make that change from within. She really commends us for working so hard but it's time to take a step back and see the bigger picture and accept more harmony and joy into our lives.
I had some time to get away last week for a hike in the woods amidst all the changes, and this is the message I picked up and the direction I feel and maybe your experience is different but I thought it might be helpful to put it out there.