Do you notice a pattern?

[OneGrassRoot]

Just wondering about this today. Most of us reading and sharing here recognize when there is a rather universal energy going on...sadness, anxiety, depression, fear...rather than it being individual. Even for those who are blessedly able to detach, perhaps you notice these waves of global energy in those around you?

Has anyone noticed if these waves occur after significant losses, such as the recent cyclone, and now the earthquake in China....the tidal wave in 2005....Hurricane Katrina.

Today, for example, so many people (often people who are usually very positive and upbeat) are down and don't seem to understand why. They say there is no particular reason, and they are not necessarily people who pay attention to the news, certainly not to any significant degree as to be directly affected by news reports of death and such.

Just pondering this morning and wondering what your thoughts are.

Sending hugs to everyone

[MorningGlow]

1. Lots of posts about depressing times and fear of the future in other DU forums

I've seen them in the Lounge and in GD recently, especially. Seems lots of people can feel the change coming and some are quite fearful. And rightly so, in a way. After all, we're undergoing a HUGE lifestyle change along with the energy shift--people all over the world are leaving in droves, the rising energy and food prices herald a major change in the way we live our lives, the economy (banking, mortgage) has been revealed to be built on sand, the political world is shifting (a good thing, that, but there's always anxiety while a change is taking place even if it's for the better). I guess the important thing is to embrace the old adage "to make an omelet, first you gotta break some eggs"...and reassure people who have fear but can't pin it on any one thing that we WILL be all right in the long run. We're just in the middle of a bumpy ride on the way there. :hi:

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Hi, MorningGlow...

Reminds me of a dream I had about five years ago...with this booming voice saying, "Sometimes the heart of things has to break wide open to let the light in." Yep, yep. The foundation is shaking up all right. I hear ya.



:hi:

[MorningGlow]

3. WOW--what a cool dream!

And that is a great message. Thanks for that, booming voice! (Hee--doncha just love those kinds of dreams?)

It is just so hard to see beyond the immediate difficulty sometimes--well, most times. We just aren't built to see around corners. Gotta buy a periscope thingie.

Several years ago, my elder led a great meditation that I still do once in a while: The premise is, since technically there is no such thing as time, you can be your own guardian angel. In the meditation, we visited ourselves when we were younger and going through a tough time to tell our younger selves that we were going to be all right, to just hang in there, and to send ourselves love. It worked really well. I'd like to send those in fear now reassuring light from the future that things will turn out all right in the long run.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. Beautiful message...

"I'd like to send those in fear now reassuring light from the future that things will turn out all right in the long run."


That's beautiful. :) Thanks for the reminder. I join you in this.

Gosh, that elder meditation really struck a cord. I recall doing something similar...at some gathering..."seeing" ourselves in different times, comforting our~selves from these different perspectives (big buzzword with me now: perspective, along with perception).

I started a blog finally - even though I write for a living, I have ALWAYS been resistent to journaling. Not sure why. Anyway, I just started a rather personal blog a few days ago, and used the pic of me at age three. I had that meditation in mind, of me in the present comforting that three-year-old girl...and imagining an older me reassuring me in the Now (sometimes I don't think I can FEEL much older...lol).

:hug:

[MorningGlow]

7. Hey, me too!

I'm a writer and editor (as a matter of fact, posting to avoid editing one heinous magazine article at the moment--one I didn't write!) and I got myself a blog last November. But have I written anything in it? NNNnnnnnOOOOOOoooo! Hee.

I kept a journal for 10 years, until I was at my last godawful full-time job, and my journal turned out to be one long gripe session about it. Ick. I stopped keeping a journal just before I got pregnant--too bad--I should have really kept a record of it as well as a record of my son's development. I have a really good memory, though, so I hope to write it all down before I forget everything.

My blog does sort of sneak up and tap me on the shoulder once in a while--I do hope to get to it soon.

[Shallah Kali]

11. I sometimes send Reiki and good vibes to my past self and past historical events

Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen



No Time

No Space

All Is One


In tough times I think of The Hobbit when Bilbo and the dwarves were lost in the forest and because they were half way through it and in the middle of a valley when Bilbo climbed the tree the forest looked endless. Sometimes the way ahead looks hopelessly hard but only because we are stuck in a rut right now. Although things won't be all better right away each step is an improvement that takes us to where we really want to be.

[Delphinus]

13. Me too, Shallah!

I worked on a client once - she brought in a picture from her childhood - and after a few weeks of working on healing this particular part of her past, I swear you could see the change in the picture!

[SeattleGirl]

9. Whoa, MG!

I was talking to a friend of mine last night, specifically about the protracted dem primary season, and he said the same thing about breaking eggs. As soon as he said that, I felt better. Then to come here this morning and read the same thing from you just made me feel "betterer"!

[MorningGlow]

10. Serendipitous for sure!

That's a riot, SG! :hi:

[Callie McAllie]

4. On the greening verge...

I read this great book a few years back called "On the Greening Verge," which is a quote from a poem and refers to that edge of rough grass between cultivated land and uncultivated land.

The whole point of the book is that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who fear change, and try to control it or minimize it, and those who embrace change and look for the new opportunities it can provide.

I definitely see myself in the latter category, and look forward to big changes to come. But do not underestimate the number of people who are invested in preserving the status quo, whatever it takes. There are a lot of them, and most of them have money or power or both.

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Absolutely, Callie....

I agree 100%. Those who are fear-based (controlling others through the use of fear) are indeed fearful themselves right now, IMHO. Fear they're losing control. That's why the proverbial shit is about to hit the fan, as they do everything they can to retain control. I truly don't see them being successful any longer. Enough are wide awake. Finally.

Just my thoughts.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. The law of transmutation of energy.

The higher energy now pervading the Earth is uprooting all of the old forms. They become evident as they surface and leave. Like bubbles of stinky gas at the tar pits. Pop and they're gone...

[Shallah Kali]

12. Energy Compost. Old yuk can be recycled into bright fresh new vibes

and as you said sometimes cleaning things out shakes loose the dust and exposed the moldy bits we didn't even know were there but once they are cleared out make everything so much healthier. Or think of a pond full of mucky debris and trash that when cleaning it stirs up all the muck but once they are gone the water can finally flow cleanly again :)

[Callie McAllie]

14. I like that image

It works on so more than one levels. Tar pit -> oil field. The Bubbles of Stinky Gas think they're on the rise, but will soon be exposed to the open aire where they will simply no longer be able to exist.

I can name a few Bubbles of Stinky Gas I'd like to see go pop. ;-)

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Pray for grace and ease...

I personally am grateful that my own burden is diminishing. God is indeed all power; I cannot do this myself.

[TNOE]

15. It helps me to realize

that there is "perfection" in everything so I am not completely devestated anymore by these huge events and the suffering. I do feel definitely that the old guard is breaking away - and I am very hopeful for our new and brighter future.

[Avalux]

17. I have observed this in myself.

I was driving home from work yesterday, listening to NPR's coverage of the earthquake in China. The reporter was interviewing a woman who had lost her child; she was speaking Chinese and I couldn't understand her, but her sobbing between words really got to me. I started crying and couldn't stop. This sort of thing doesn't happen to me; left me in a somber mood all evening.

I was browsing in this forum as I do occasionally; your post jumped out at me so I decided to reply. :hi:

[Brewman_Jax]

18. Just found out

2 of my friends and trivia teammates just ended regular relationships with their girlfriends. One had a long time, but long-distance relationship and other one, the young lady had been job hopping/hunting. I'd say stress has a lot to do with that.