Raising Self-Awareness, Discernment & Emotional Healing Is Needed Now

As I watch the bifurcations and name calling, each side accusing the other of evil, and as I’m watching corruptions being exposed like never before and bold actions being taken, I’m starkly reminded: There is good and evil within each faction, each family… and each of us.

What is recognized by few is: This “enemy is within” phenomenon is the legacy of living in duality, combined with the hybridding of the human race by our interdimensional creators and visitors. We are literally part angelic and part reptilian.

I propose that due to this great mixing that’s part of our very DNA, we’re being called to rise up by clearly naming the positive and negative, the helpful and harmful, within each viewpoint, each coalition, each move, each decision.

It’s important to know that those who want to demolish the dark power are usually in bed with the dark power, somewhere, somehow… again, because we are all angel and demon, and because our systems are knotted together in myriad ways. How can we work with the positive without becoming the programmed slave of a “side”?

No one is totally saint or sinner, and understanding this may well be the road to developing sophisticated unity consciousness.

Also, the degree to which each actor has done their emotional healing and shadow work will determine their efficacy in leading in fair and truly effective ways.

Similarly, the degree to which each of us has done our emotional healing and shadow work will determine how effective we will be in dealing with the seeming chaos, and in communicating and working with others close up in our families, workplaces, and jobs.

What do I mean by shadow work? Recognizing our own negative capacities and tendencies. For example, take me. I’ve become more and more aware of a tendency to be a know it all and tell others what to do. I have to catch myself. Even this very article rides between the poles of loving compassion and supercilious superiority. Not sure I’ve found the true middle ground, but I’m doing my best with the spiritual and emotional maturity level at which I am presently.

If we want to know how we can “handle” what’s going on in our world right now, I suggest it’s helpful to look to the micro things that trigger negative emotions every day in our relationships, and to continue the healing of those trigger emotions. In other words, we can continue to heal the personal trauma. Through… personal therapy, other forms of healing modalities, support groups, meditation and contemplation, medicine work, what have you.

These lessons that lead to a greater level of well-being and healthy regulation carry out to how we relate to larger groups and our world itself.

A certain leader right now is mentioning that his addiction was a great gift in life, because it led him to develop a daily practice of exercise and meditation, combined with a daily 12 step meeting. This, he says, has allowed him to be far less emotionally reactive to the great pressures and accusations that have been put upon him publicly.

In a group that I’m part of, I can discern that those who are basically falling apart right now have done little emotional therapy work and spiritual development. Even though these are intelligent, well-meaning, and largely loving people.

I’m observing that another leader who is taking the sledgehammer to things that may rightly need correcting is limited by their own lack of sophisticated empathy, and to some degree is creating other tyrranies to replace the ones being dismantled.

As someone famous once said, we can’t get out of the conundrum we’re in with the same tools that the master uses to enslave. We must rise above and dig deeply below.

So… how are you doing? If you’re deeply upset, what do you need at the basic physical, emotional, and spiritual levels, and what steps will you take to support yourself? If you’re in expectant glee, what can you do to be discerning about leadership decisions being made and not get swept into “everything this person/side is doing is right” so that you yourself are getting “possessed by (one side of) a pole”?

Some spiritual folks are suggesting getting off the mainstream media. Find a variety of other informational sources and use your discernment with everything you hear and see.

Consider where your discernment meter is presently set? How can you nudge it toward 100 so you can say “I like this part of this policy but I don’t like this part of this policy” instead of “this person is the one I lean toward so everything they do is right”?

Can we nudge ourselves into awakening our consciousness more and more and more to see the energies really at play beyond just the human level, to understand their agendas, and to stand tall like trees and not succumb?

Breathe. Be in nature. Call on your guides. Eat well. Love one another. You know, the basics. This is what will get us through this sieve.

Also, we might consider asking in any given instance: What would Mother Mary do?

Blessings to you as you move through this next level of initiation.