I woke up this morning and, unusually, was prompted to turn on the television. I was just going to put it on the Seasonal Music station; in order to get there, I go to channel 2 (CBS here) and scroll backwards. CBS was, of course, showing scenes from the Connecticut school shooting. After assessing the immediate facts, and having a moment, I was reminded of September 11th, 2001. This is an unprocessable event, one that throws all of the witnesses (to say nothing of the victims) into trauma. There are likely millions of people watching this unfold on television, which will keep them in that trauma. There will never be a satisfactory answer, on a human level, to why this happened. And, personally, I one again had no idea what to do with all of this. I’m not sure anyone would, other than first responsders there on the ground taking care of immediate, physical issues.
As I did a little over 11 years ago, I reached out to Spirit and asked for guidance. “This is no different. Turn off the TV. Go write.” What I was told, that morning in September, was “Blessed are the victims, because they gave their lives so that we might shift. Blessed are the witnesses, because we are being given an amazing opportunity through this tragedy. And blessed are the perpetrators, because they have taken on the karma, the blot on their souls, to afford us the opportunity to shift.”
One of the things that I have seen, after each tragedy since 9/11/01, is that mass-scale trauma allows us to band together, to operate as a community, to act in compassion, acknowledging that we are all one. Every time we do that, we raise our vibration, we move that much closer to the energy of the Divine, and we start to pull ourselves out of the stuckness of the paradigm that created the tragedy, the paradigm that is no longer working.
These opportunities are coming fast and furious now. Hurricane Sandy. The mall shooting in Portland. And Danbury, Connecticut. So, rather than argue politics, rather than arguing at all, I urge you to band together, to be a comunity, to reach out to those most immediately affected, while acknowledging and also reaching out to those who are not as obviously affected, the people who bear witness to this through their televisions and the radio and newspapers and the internet, and remember that was are a a community, we are all connected, and we are all one. Take up this opportiunity to shift and focus, not on fear-based information, but on a new paradigm, on what we want our future to feel like. Because I know that how I feel right now, when I watch the television and its message of fear and lack, is not how I want to feel.
The constant message I have been receiving about this shift is just that: “Focus on how you want your future to feel. Your experience is dictated wholly by how you feel. All of the things and experiences you think you want are simply because of how you imagine they are going to make you feel. So skip all that and be clear about how you want to feel. Conjure up those feelings daily, hold the up to the Universe as what you are asking for more of, and you will change your reality, your experience, your paradigm. Stay out of what you don’t want, stay out of the fear and the lack, and focus on what you really want.”
May you be the light of the world
Namaste
Ayamanatara