Finding Balance and Equanimity in These Times
Maintaining harmony within is essential to preserving harmony around you. When you’re afraid or mad or out of balance, you can’t maintain your equanimity. So, what to do?
It’s not easy, but it is possible, to let the density go and fill with lighter energy. I learned the hard way, when every single day was filled with trauma, PTSD, worry, fear, and exhaustion.
Desperate to keep from metaphorically drowning in grief, I started doing the energy practices I’d learned in the Andes. Multiple times a day. For a minute or an hour, I could create an internal calm that let me breathe. I could step back, gain a little perspective. Then something would happen and I’d have to practice again.
Just like the Dalai Lama and Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mother Meera and Adyashanti, Pema Chodron and Amma, we have to maintain a daily practice of breathing, releasing, stillness, being present.
According to spirit, there are four crucial daily practices to help us meet changing times and challenges:
- Rootyourself into the earth.
- Releaseor spin off what doesn’t serve and fill yourself with lighter energy.
- Alignyourself with Earth and Cosmos or with a column of light.
- Openyour heart in connection withal that is and feel supported. Relax into the support.
Most of you have practices similar to this. How you do it is up to you. What’s important is the four steps of root-release-align-open. If you’re not sure about one or all of these practices, Weave the Heart of the Universe Into Your Life is a great resource.
Whether your nervous system is imbalanced, you’re overwhelmed with fear and anxiety and want to shut down, you’re suffering the effects of intergenerational trauma, or your home just got flooded/blown to shreds/burned up, doing simple practices like this will help you shift and cope.
You don’t have to succumb to despair in these times. We humans will face challenges on every level, and it will be hard. If you stay aligned and connected, rooted and open, you’ll have the energy to carry your personal harmony to others. You’ll be able to feel the support of others, seen and unseen. You’ll have moments and days when you feel yourself part of the interconnected whole, when you can join hearts with others who seek peace and justice, and when you can vow once again to bring harmony and equanimity to your family, community, world.
Medicinewoman, Shamanic Guide, and Mentor Meg Beelerhelps you heal soul, balance your energy, and empower your spirit path. Drawing on Earth-centered, nature-based, ancient wisdom ways, Meg is passionate about reweaving the connections between all beings. She the is author of Weave the Heart of the Universe into Your Life: Aligning with Cosmic Energyand coauthor of Where the World Begins.