This period of Covid has most of us looking for safety. We are looking for safety because something has scared us. This is different for different people. Some are scared of the virus, some are scared of governments or corporations having too much power, some are scared of people not wearing masks, some are scared of what masks are doing for this generation of children, some are scared of the vaccine, some are scared of not getting everyone vaccinated.

How do you generally find safety? We can find safety by orienting outward or inward. Outward orientation could look like trusting the professionals, following the rules laid out by the government or health officials, or orienting to what our family and friends are doing and saying. Inward orientation could look like feeling it out, using intuition, or going with your gut. This orientation has generally been seen in our culture as leading to possible irrational choices,
so most of us are more heavily practiced in outward orientation and then relying on our cognition, rather than our bodies to help us make choices.

Some of my journey over the last few years has been about noticing how I have found safety through an outward orientation. Through a difficult experience (how the best learning happens right?!) I learned how my nervous system was constantly scanning for how others around me were feeling. I was good at using my nervous system to help others settle, so I could feel more settled. This is part of being an Empath. This created a way for me to feel safe in the world, and it was so practiced, I didn’t even know I was doing it. And it worked, until it didn’t! When it didn’t, I had no place to go but into myself. And there, I found a level of safety that I did not know existed. A safety that was connected to my body and it’s deep knowing, a safety connected to how I am a part of the larger whole, a safety connected to my inner divinity.

It’s from this place that I’ve gotten to experience myself in relationship to the Covid-19 pandemic. This new orientation has helped me trust in my body’s immune system, to take even better care of my body to boost my immune system, and to pace myself with tuning into the media, taking into account my personal lived experience, as much as I take in what is being portrayed. Somewhere along the way I learned this tool that seems to speak of the process I naturally came to during my healing journey. It is a tool that encourages decision making from the integration of these three pieces:

1. What do people or experts that I trust have to say about this?
2. What does my life experience have to say about this?
3. What does my intuition have to say about this?

Sit with these three. Do you have balance? Do you lean on one much more than the others? Do you discount your own experience? Do you feel connected to your intuition? In a world where we can find “experts” to say anything, I believe we need to pay more attention to #2 and #3. I know from my own life and those of my clients, that when we are in tune with our inner divine alignment, with our true nature, we will be pulled to choose what’s in the highest good for ourselves and the whole. Because that’s what nature does. And we are that. I work with my clients to take in what they hear from others, and then assimilate it through their life experience and intuition, to come to their personal truth. I want to live in a world where we are taking the radical self-responsibility to live our highest truths, not anyone else’s. Thank you for listening to mine and thank you for living yours.

Dr. Allan J. Hamilton, says eloquently in his book Zen Mind, Zen Horse “The reason the horse can become such a gifted teacher for us is because he does not need an inner voice. He doesn’t think in words at all. He feels. He experiences the simple energy of his emotional state of being…. Horses infuse emotional meaning into every body movement. They pour this vital, emotional energy – chi – into every gesture and glance.” The horse LIVES in the “WE”, and humans (or most of us in the western world) live in the “I”.

Zach Bush MD speaks inspiringly about the paradigm shift we are in RIGHT NOW! We are in a time similar in scope to the time when we realized the earth was not flat, or the time in history when we discovered that the earth was not the center of the universe. Change is not easy on us humans and these discoveries took a while to integrate. It may be that the shift we’re in as I write this will have to happen faster to save ourselves from extinction. What is this shift? This is a true embodied shift to knowing the WE- that we are intrinsically connected to EVERYTHING around us. So not just other humans. Yes, it’s about time that we wake up to the fact that hunger for some impacts us all, or racism has negative consequences for even those that “benefit” from it. But it’s also time to wake up to our WE with the natural world around us. I love this idea of awakening- awakening to LIFE, the life that courses through our veins and with every breath. The LIFE that is intimately connected with the trees and bees and our fellow humans.

Horses live this all the time and therefore resonate with this frequency. That’s why I love to get people together with horses. Because all we really need to do is get present with them and they bring us into that higher frequency! From here, I watch my clients have revelations about their purpose in life, I watch their creativity burst forth, I watch effortless release of old patterns. Are the horses “doing” this? Nope. We actually don’t need anything outside of
ourselves to “do” anything to/for us, to awaken to our true alignment- not horses, not plant medicine, not akashic record readers, not gurus. Horses are “being” it, and in this, they invite our vibration to meet theirs. Easy Peasy. And this is what we’re all up to on Earth in this moment. BEING our highest vibration and as a beautiful byproduct, those around us come to meet us.

So what spaces raise your vibration? Be in these more. Which suck your life force? Be in these less or not at all. Hard to know? Here’s a simple tool. Before you enter- a place, space with a person, etc. do a quick body scan on yourself. Don’t try to change anything, just notice what you notice. Any tightness? Openness? Warmth? Great, now enter the space. Take a few seconds to check in again in the same way. What has changed? How does this change feel? Expansive or constricting? Big or small? Open or protective? Now you know. And you get to do this 100 times per day, fine tuning your world for your highest resonance. Thank you for this work from all of us!