Are you ready to shift?
I hope the increasing sunlight of springtime is offering you a shift in energy and opportunity to consider what is emerging inside of your life and your community this year. Spring is a waking up time. How much intention and choice will you bring to what's waking up in you this Spring?
I love the equinox(s). They are a reminder that life is full of cycles of reciprocity, and shifts that both repeat and offer something new every time. We get to retrace the unfolding from winter into spring again, we get to try on new ways of being. This shift in sunlight has me reflecting on how I want to shift my energy from the rest-time of Winter. I'm noticing the challenge of that how as I watch the bare branches of deciduous trees starting to shift from the protective rest of Winter. How do plants know when it's time to shift? The light, the longer days, wakes them. The shifts in temperature wakes them ––now entire months early for some due to the ongoing climate crisis. Maybe I idealize tree cycles. Trees make it look easy/easeful to move into action. Trees make a slower, restful pace make sense.
How can we act from a place of restfulness?
I'm craving the shifts of Spring, but this year's how has got include rest. I don't want to lose the ease and inward priorities of Winter in the action and community of Spring. I want to hold onto the ways I've been learning how to center my wellbeing. It's something I've been witnessing us collectively learn. This time of pandemic(s) has been one of confronting the truth that we have got to be well and in right-relationship with ourselves to be able to sustain wellness and right-relationships with those we love and with the living world.
We can build sensitive and expansive nervous systems (bodies!), with the capacity to rest and to act.
For me and for the work I offer, the shifts start with being connected with myself and expanding my capacity to feel, fully. When more of us feel what it's like to be living the way we are living, we will begin/continue to demand and require that changes be made to our conditions. We need bodies with the skill and capacity to make the changes (inside our families and systemically) that we need to ensure the thriving of future generations. We've got to struggle with and shapeshift the systems that prevent us from being well. We need to know, in the body, how our energy moves, how to use our power and how to rest.
That is why I love my work. I want to support more people to have expansive nervous systems, to know what it feels like to be well, and align their actions in the world with wellness for all of us.