It’s an often-discouraging path, trying to vision and co-create a sustainable future. As a species we’ve built a system of power founded on domination, disconnection, injustice, and greed. We’ve lost sight of the reality that everything—molecules and microbes, humans and hawks, black holes and beaches, stars and salmon—is interconnected and unfolding into our shared, infinite potential. 

We know that one potential is devastation from spiraling climate events and social disintegration, leading to human extinction. However, if we shift our consciousness and dream a different reality, another potential is transformation. 

I think about planting seeds for a transformed future every day—a future where we put life at the center, and where we create fundamentally different ways of seeing and being in the world.

Meanwhile, there is the present craziness. Nurture your internal and external calm and resilience with these four seeds practices:

Release Your Energy

This is a really good time to “eat hucha” as we say in the Andes—to offer your worry, anxiety, concern, or any other dense energy to the earth. It helps you return to kindness, compassion, and presence—qualities the world needs desperately. 

Learn to release heavy energy here 

Compost the Energy Around You

Another wonderful practice for clearing the field around you and creating space for community healing is eating and composting the heavy energy of other people and situations. Instead of releasing your own heaviness, you channel any density outside of you—rage, drama, terror, trauma, anger, tension, grief—back into the earth. Every one of us who does this, even once a day, helps shift the insanity around us and paves the way for renewed cooperation and mutual support. 

Learn how here

Bear Witness, Be Present

Bearing witness and staying present—instead of shutting down energetically, spiritually, and emotionally—is a third gift you can give to yourself and the world. Opening your heart to all the bad news, the suffering, the unfairness is an important way to keep going, stay strong, and continue to advocate for a more beautiful world.

Learn more here

Guided Journey: Planting Seeds for Your Future

Finally, you can ask spirit the same question I have been asking: What seeds shall I plant for my future? At the online IAM Symposium I offered this guided drumming journey to visit a huge, wonderful four-sided, double pyramid that sits above the Bay Area.

You’ll get to ask advice from the pyramid on “What seeds shall I plant for my future?” Many star beings and inter-dimensional beings join us in this energetic pyramid. It's a nurturing and healing space with wise advice for us all. Listen here or click below. You are welcome to visit the pyramid again, after this guided journey, to keep exploring and asking questions.

Meg Beeler—Author, Shamanic Guide, and Spiritual Mentor—is a lifelong explorer of shamanic, animist, and meditative consciousness who practices Earth-centered, nature-based, ancient wisdom ways, and studied Andean mysticism extensively with the Q’ero in Peru.Meg’s next book is Seeds for Our Future: How to Find Heart, Cultivate Your Radiance, and Create Our World Anew. Author of Weave the Heart of the Universe into Your Life: Aligning with Cosmic Energy, she is a contributing author and photographer to Where the World Begins: Sonoma Mountain Story and Image, and creator and host of the dialogues in “Seeds for Our Future.”Meg is the creator of Energy Alchemy™ and founder of Earth Caretakers Wisdom School. She writes for Elephant Journal, Healers, and Shaman Portal Quarterly. She chairs the non-profit organization Sonoma Mountain Preservation and lives on Sonoma Mountain in the North San Francisco Bay Area. megbeeler.com