Why Proactive Mental Health?
Our mental health is at risk.
We are living through a societal dissolve and there within invites an epic scene of chaos. Perspective is King. How will we navigate these waters? Some will not, others will cling to a “side” for dear life (or to viciously fight for or against as a way to justify violence), and few will go deep within to resource from that which is greater for understanding, clarity, perspective, courage, and faith. Faith is cultivated from experience beyond belief. What do you currently believe?
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What Is Extraordinary About 2020?
“I feel within me a consuming fire of heavenly love
Which has burned up in my soul everything that was contrary to itself
And transformed me inwardly into its own nature.”
-William Law
What isn’t extraordinary about 2020 could be a better question. We have officially “left the building” as a society, or perhaps have sailed into the great unknown of uncharted territories. Either way, the structures of old, past ways of being, our false sense of security, and the times of “uniting” within our country are behind us. We are in a new room. And it is a revolution in the making.
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Civil Disobedience?
The wind is stirring, the leaves are rustling, the moon is blasting, and the planets are squaring. Change is in the air. It seems there is a deep “missing” of life before 2020 for many humans on the planet, and this full moon in Aries conjunct Chiron is only going to illuminate those wounds while rubbing them with salt. The future is upon us with every new waking day and truly, if we think it is difficult now, we should count every blessing of every moment of the now. Challenge awaits us.
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Are Those Stars in Your Lapis Lazuli?
Have you ever stared into a stone and asked it to share the mysteries of its life? Or tried to imagine the journey it has lived, mined from the center of the earth to now sitting on your desk staring back at you? It’s not that I am bored and have nothing to do, trust me, it’s just that there is something intrinsically profound about the weighted cosmic majesty I experience when meditating with my Lapis Lazuli.
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Do You Have the Time? 5 Ways to Become Your Own Super Hero/ine…
Do you have time to fret, waste, or to be distracted? No, we don’t have time for this. To numb out, escape, or fall prey to conspiracy? No, definitely not. To complain, point fingers, name call, or blame? Nope, not that either. How about to wallow in self-pity, luxuriate in self-importance, or sit back and watch while the fabric of the world as we know it comes undone? Even if it is time for a bit of undoing, still the answer is no.
What about time to be distraught? Unsettled? Or challenged? Yes, yes we do have time for this. We don’t want to remain here forever, however, we can accept that this is a natural state of internal affairs to meet the unsettling challenges externally.
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Are You an Extraterrestrial?
It is in moments like this on planet Earth that many of us may yearn for another time, another space, that feels more like “home” than what is currently being served. This is normal. It is natural to desire to be living in the “way it used to be”, “when things were easy” and “when we could do this” or “that”.
Or perhaps we are becoming perpetual daydreamers of other lands, or even other planets that we pray to escape to---also normal in the face of extreme difficulties. Although nostalgia and escapism are ways to avoid feeling the reality of the moment, they merely mask the inevitable; to accept what is ours to feel, see, and experience in order to transmute the challenge into a new possibility.
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How Do You Birth a Reality?
Birthing a reality is a commonplace event. Each of us has created our personal bubble in response to our current life circumstances. Regardless of what is occurring to us externally, which may very well be out of our control, we are deeply responsible for our internal experience---almost a parallel reality if you will.
A key to our personal freedom is when we can travel between our inner and outer world with seamless grace and ease. We are one. We are transparent. And...We are living a congruent truth. There is no hiding, need for secrets, or shame/guilt that can survive such a luminescent attitude. There are shadows yet, and if we are humble in our approach, we can transmute that darkness into our empowerment.
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What Is the New Conversation?
We are each a living, breathing, pulsating, life-force that compliments all of the other living, breathing, pulsating, life-forces on this precious planet of ours, Earth. We are the same. We are each as unique as it comes; ultimately as diverse as anything ever seen or known before and there is only one of you. We are different.
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Why Are You Restless?
How could we not be? We’re in the dog days of a summer that feels like it’s just beginning and yet school and the election are just around the corner, winter is coming, and a looming unknown remains in nearly every area of life. A Leo new moon (feels like a full moon) has arrived and with it the fierce nobility of the creative fire beckons us to express! Now the question…in what ways will we choose to express ourselves and from where?
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Are We in Labor?
I suppose it depends on who the ‘We’ is. If ‘We’ are the ones who are aware that the current systems aren’t working while recognizing we are living into a choiceless election for the President of our country, then yes. We are in labor. Labor of what? We are birthing a new reality. Regardless of gender, we each have the power to give birth to the new. And now, perhaps a new politic. New governing structures, beyond the polarized imprisonment of mind. A world where we’ve combust into flames fueled by the blame and projection upon one another and the outcome? A rising of the phoenix of the future from the ashes of the past.
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Are You Radical?
Every one of us is made up of an internal universe. Stars, planets, asteroids, and space debris are all orbiting the inner planes, instigating an experience that is completely unique to our individual lived present moment. In this way, each common and known planetary body is represented as well as those yet to be discovered. Uranus, a planet of extraordinary energy, insight, and power is the rebel of our galaxy and is also center stage in the exploration of our current full moon in Aquarius.
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The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self
The status quo is collapsing, and only by changing our minds can we change the world. The Inner Journey is an invitation to take on self-responsibility with fervor, a call to remember your true nature, and a welcome companion on your path toward self-actualization.
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What Is the Cost of Freedom?
Isn’t it curious how in exploring this very paradoxical question we are immediately faced with an existential crisis? How can that which is inherently free have a cost? Good question.
Perhaps the reality that we are even in this inquiry reveals the truth about where we find ourselves at this moment. Where are we in: time (as in what century), location---externally (Yemen, the US, or...) and internally (in my mind, my heart, my body, or all three), the galaxy (Earth, Venus), the spectrum of duality (do I believe this is true)? Let the exploration begin…
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Are You Ready for This?
A Cancer moon. And not just any Cancerian moon, by the way, this is a new moon ripe with emotions yet expressed. A fruit nearly bursting through its tender flesh awaiting fullness; a luscious drop of nectar slides down the hidden curve, seeking resolve…Welcome to the complex moment of our heart’s desire to be heard, be seen, and belong.
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Crisis or Chrysalis?
Let’s pause, take a deep breath, and observe the moment. Can I get to an objective perspective while immersed in such a profoundly uncomfortable subjective experience? What is this all about? And where is my power at this moment? Regardless of what the current crisis is, I’ve been through enough of these to understand that there is something for me to learn here. This perceived moment of immense challenge will inevitably fortify me into a new level of resilience and I can trust that I am letting go of what I no longer need, making room for more truth on the other side.
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Are You Breathing?
Under a knee? Behind a mask? Swarmed by locusts? In the midst of the sandstorm? Can’t summer in the south of France? Everyone has their relative anxiety-inducing reality. One equals death, the other equal inconvenience. We share a world and yet we each live in our own. There are as many different realities as there are people on this planet. Some people share common circumstances thus their days are similar, yet most hover inside a bubble of their own creation. Whatever it is, be it horrific, sad, or exhilarating and inspiring, it is familiar and, in that familiarity, there is false a sense of security; or an idea that the world as I know it is indeed the world.
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Why Do You Care?
Inside our hearts, there is a light. Inside this light, exists a fire. Inside this fire, is your love. Your love is a superpower, a high octave of sound beyond mind. An insurgence of fierce knowing, a doorway to compassion…And with this love, everything is possible.
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What Is the Answer?
Think for yourself.
In a time of forced reflection upon our collective wounds, the past, misdeeds, and various forms of oppression, the truth is yet to reveal itself entirely…This is just the beginning. At this moment, we reflect on racism. It is an ugly beast and degenerate wart upon our society. It is a virus that lives and breaths under our skin.
Racism, within itself, does not care what color your skin is, it only craves to torment the “other,” and label another as less than itself. This thought that another is less, creates an air of superiority in the racist. The infliction of supremacy begins to eat one from the inside unknown within social circles and the raise of a glass. All appears well on the outside, until…
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How Can I Change?
My mind? My perspective? My limiting beliefs? When we talk about change, what are we actually talking about? Changing our hair, moving to a new town, changing our name, changing partners…many of us have exercised these ways to “change” up our current experience of life. Or maybe, if we just want to feel different, some reach for a drink, others buy something online, sext with a new prospect on Hinge, or just scroll through Instagram. These actions do not reflect or induce change. How do you define change and are you truly ready for it?
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What Can You Do?
At this moment, as with any moment that I am conscious and aware, I can always, always listen. First, I listen to my heartbeat, and to the powerful voice of love that guides me toward my truth. And from there, I can listen to the many voices of my community who have fought hard to finally be seen, heard, and witnessed. There is no ‘easy’ about this moment, every single one of us is called to do our part. If we have been living in the shadows of our own shame, fear, and suffering, it is time to rise into healing. If we have been oppressed into a voiceless and shamed reality, it is time to rebel into action from our heart, if we have been an oppressor - consciously or unconsciously, it is time to recognize our weakness and ignorance. And most likely, if you are human, you can claim all of the above.
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