Finding Peace in Times of Chaos Part 1

If you are currently feeling like you want to find an island to move to in order to escape the stress that millions of us are feeling right now, grab a mai tai, stick an umbrella in it, and continue reading. What we are all going through in democracies around the world is an attack on our all of our governments by enemy States, like Russia, in an information, or more accurately, a misinformation war. It is being fought on our televisions, tablets, and cellphones. It is on our computers driven by troll farms, fake sites, outright lies, and general craziness and propaganda. Bad actors have also found their ways into power positions in the houses of democratic governments. The constitutional court in Romania, a NATO member, just annulled their presidential election due to evidence of Russian interference in that election. They will be having another, carefully monitored, fair and free election in a couple of months. What happened is the far-right politicians and the extremely wealthy made a criminal and illegal play for even more money, more power, and tight-fisted control over everyday citizens, and they were caught red handed.  This playbook is being repeated in every democracy around the globe right now, and this is stressing and straining us all emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. If you are feeling more ungrounded, worried, anxious, depressed, or argumentative, it may well be because the tension right now. This energy is so thick for sensitives and intuitives like me and my friends, that we are pulling back to protect ourselves from its sturm und drang (storm and stress).  Since we are feeling this chaos as it washes all around and unbalances us, I thought I would share some of our ways of coping with all of you. Depending on how sensitive you are, the chaos may affect you differently. If you are being swept under and are not coping, please read through my earlier blog on mental health on my website www.evolvingspirit.com. There is some helpful information for self-care in that one to read through, for sure.

One of the first skillsets that I learned from my mentor was what she termed Psychic Self Defense. Let’s use an everyday example for this which can be expanded broader later on. Let’s use the difficult person that believes everyone is entitled to their very loud, angry, and obnoxious opinions. Let’s pretend that it’s your unfortunate turn to sit across from that person at a holiday dinner. We are going to focus on learning and using energetic and spiritual tools available to protect us being bombarded with the chaotic energies that erupt from this person. So, before going to sit down to dinner, I recommend taking a minute to go into a private room or even a bathroom stall to quietly assess how you are feeling inside your own skin. Knowing how you feel will give you a baseline to gauge how someone affects you. Recognizing is the first step of Psychic Self Defense. We need to be able to recognize how we are reacting to this person, or any person’s, behavior. Another step I would include is to imagine myself energetically surrounded and protected inside an egg of energetic, golden light for three feet all around me. This gold light energy is the preventative step of divine protection that will help you maintain your personal boundaries from taking in any negative energies coming from across the table. Even so, if an errant comment gets under your skin, there is even more that you can do. If you are wounded by an offhand remark, remove yourself from the situation. That’s right, get out of your chair and go to the restroom or go outside for some fresh air. This is the next step of Psychic Self Defense. If someone is being thoughtless and insensitive, you may choose to tell them so or not, but do get up and leave the table for a few minutes. Remember, this is for your defense, and you do not have to sit there and politely take abuse from anyone. Ever. So, go somewhere that you can be alone for 3 to 5 minutes to collect yourself and then release the negative emotions and energies of the other person and that may have been triggered inside of you as result of their remarks. The fastest way to do this is to imagine any negative energy you are feeling is releasing from your stomach and from your heart. You can visualize it in your mind’s eye as a dark cloud that is leaving your body from these locations and is blowing away from you. Once you successfully let all of this negativity go, now you can move on to the step of repairing your depleted energy. You already know some of how to do this! Remember that golden egg of protection? We will rebuild it after we heal and top off our heart and solar plexus chakras with healing white light from the Creator. First, imagine a ray of divine white light coming down from the heavens. Invite it inside you through the top of your head and send it into your chest and your stomach region. This light will repair and restore your personal energy, your life force. Then all you have to do is imagine divine gold light filling and surrounding you in your golden egg of protection for three feet all around you, protecting you once more. Now you have a choice as to how you choose to prevent any more damage from this imagined person at the pretend dinner party. This is the final step of Psychic Self Defense, Prevention. You may choose to move your chair to another location and chat with someone you enjoy being with. You may say goodnight to your hosts and choose to take an Uber home. The offender may actually apologize, or not, but the decision is yours to make whether you will return to the same seat across from them or to move on. (If you, however, are the repeat offender at dinner parties then it’s time to suck it up, apologize, and behave yourself. Everyone really wants to enjoy their time with you and with everyone else at the table. It’s time that you make that possible for them and, honestly, for yourself as well. A compassionate meditation practice may help you to understand why you are acting out in this manner, help you to heal whatever is hurting you inside, bring you some peace, and the bonus of a lot of loving relationships.)

So how can this Psychic Self Defense be expanded upon in our daily lives? Sensitives and intuitives incorporate a practice like the above on a daily basis - once in the morning and once at night usually as part of a meditation practice. It becomes a part of us, just like washing our face and brushing our teeth and hair before bedtime. It is a positive habit that we reinforce – often in the same meditation space – over and over again. The interesting part of this is the energy of the meditation room becomes charged by the positive energy of consistent meditation and builds up over time. This is much like a church feels from all the prayers that are said inside of it. The energy of the Divine has a well-worn pathway to flow down to a meditator, and it feels just like a comfy pair of slippers we just slide into every time we sit and practice. So consistent practice builds up our strength inside of us and in the space around us as well. Our ability to recognize when things are going south is finely attuned and we react much more quickly to what is happening around us and we avoid situations that less aware folks may walk into unknowingly. And you can develop your intuition to help you like this as well. It just takes practice, like anything we ever learned did. As babies, we learned to walk with innocence and determination. We did not doubt ourselves. We simply did it without thinking much about it. Imagine what we can do when we now use our minds to direct ourselves!

As for protecting ourselves, intuitives and sensitives have learned ways to protect our homes spaces from negative energies. We are taught how to clear out the negative, heavy energies and to replace them with our love and divine protection. Many of you may already be using sage to clear your homes and offices, but have you learned how to then fill your cleared spaces with the energy of the Divine and with your love? There are books on Amazon that you can purchase to teach you how to do so. Or maybe just use your search engine to find Household Energetic Spiritual Protection and see what pops up? This will give you a good place to start to help you to make your home an oasis from whatever chaos is happening outside in the world. Then you may want to think about how much news you want to listen to during the day. For mental health hygiene, I would recommend not listening 24/7. I do not recommend disengaging completely from the news. Just try to be selective about when, who, and how much you allow yourself to watch. The news is a tool that we can use to inform ourselves about the world around us. Ideally, it is not a tool that is used us to manipulate us, but it IS being used this way and we really need to be very careful and selective. For instance, Is the program you are watching actually rated as a news program or is it rated as an entertainment program? If it is an entertainment program, they can legally, ceaselessly lie to us from morning until night. They have no liability for what they spew because it is legally “entertainment” and can spout foolishness and lies like a sitcom. The next question is – who owns the news program, what are their economic agendas and what are their politics? Where is their money coming from? Are they biased in one direction or another or are they reporting all the news – and just the facts - like Walter Cronkite famously did back in the day? Being aware of this one aspect of the news, alone, is enough to give you a conscious choice, and can potentially change your mental health for the better.

Remember the power is in Your hands to defend your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing. Don’t give it away to unscrupulous fools who would turn it back on you and use it it harm you. Be discriminating in who you let into your head space. I cannot emphasize this last sentence enough. You are in charge of you and they only have power over you if you choose to give it to them. I will be back with another installment on this this topic, bu, for now, as the Sarge in Hill Street Blues used to say before he sent his officers out onto the streets, “Let’s careful out there”. Love you guys!

I send all of you love, peace and my prayers for your wellbeing.

Namaste,

Jean 🌱