I love a microphone and a stage. I love a big, bold, beautiful band. I want nothing more than to be in a room of live bodies, to allow our energy to bounce off each other, amplify our celebration, magnify our joy. 

And that is not available to me right now. 

We are in a time of massive shift. Rather than working against this energy, I am committed to working with it. How is this massive shift in service of my expansion and evolution? How is this exactly the gift that I have needed? 

We live in a curious time. I know you’ve felt it. We are birthing a new state of consciousness, and that means unwinding from hundreds of years of social conditioning. Everything we have once known is under review—mystically, spiritually, cosmically. That is disorienting. If you find yourself in this moment feeling a little unlike yourself, give yourself some grace. This is a time to really pay attention to the cadence of your life. What is wanting to be released? 

Because here’s the thing: any remnants of your pre-COVID life—the things that weren’t working—are going to loom large during this kind of shift. The dis-ease will be amplified. The discomfort will get louder. Again, this is a good thing. 

Would you be willing to consider that you are being called to make changes in your life that perhaps, if left to your own devices, you never would have made? 

This is a beautiful time of year. A powerful and potent season to tap into the sacred and still nature of the dark. To go inward and really sit with the parts of yourself that may feel a little sensitive, a little tender to the touch. What hurts and resentments have you been carrying with you? What obligations have you outgrown, or perhaps were never a right fit for? What commitments need to be recalibrated, revisited, reinvented? 

This is not easy work. Be gentle with yourself. Just like a massage therapist tells you after a massage, or a yoga teacher after a yoga class: Rest. Drink lots of water. Give yourself time and space to feel your feelings, move your body, stretch. Grieve the loss of the way things have been, so you can make room for all that is coming.

As 2020 winds down, we can create space to take stock of our attachments and expectations, to see what we want to carry forward into the coming year. You might use this remaining six-week period to do a kind of inventory of your life. The expenditures of time and energy, the relationships, the material goods. Go through your paperwork. Get those drawers clean. And through it all, be loving and generous with yourself.

For me, this season is a falling away of things. The pandemic has required that I build an infrastructure to my business that, if I were only ever pursuing the fun and the hit of a live experience, I would have continued to avoid. 

As I say yes to this new emergence of me, yes to this expansion of my work in the world, I am using this sacred, holy, and still time to craft something that is in deep reverence to what I value. A contribution to humanity that will enable my work post COVID to be magnified. 

We always get to choose who we are going to be at any given moment. That does not mean a Pollyanna presence, one in which we diminish or deny our real feelings about something. I can sit here and feel resistant, agitated, and disappointed in what I’m not going to experience in the next several months. Believe me, I give myself all kinds of place and space to feel those things. But it is not where I am going to wind up. 

Something more is happening here. Something greater is happening here. Life is happening for you. And it is happening right where you are.

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