Yesterday I logged onto Facebook and a fellow yoga teacher posted a picture with the following note scripted inside: “People don’t mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.”
I absolutely love this. Not only is it true in a general sense, but it’s perfect for our planetary moment. Make no mistake: right now the Universe is issuing a Cosmic Jailbreak.
To be sure, those who’ve gotten out first are going to stir things up for the stragglers. After all, no one likes to be reminded that s/he is suffocating under the weight of outmoded, denser energies by contrast.
But not to worry. We’re all right where we need to be. Of course, the love of the Cosmos can be ruthless, and everyone is feeling it right now. The Forces That Be are pushing us to evolve and "get real" in big ways. No one is getting off easy.
Earlier in the month, the energy of resistance was at its height. In my healing practice (which is essentially a microcosm of the collective) I watched as clients vowed that they were finished with difficult issues, only to find themselves eating their words weeks later.
Here we are at the end of September and, while we might’ve been able to outrun our “stuff” three weeks ago, it’s all but impossible now. Surrender seems to be happening out of sheer exhaustion rather than willful compliance. It appears that our Highest Selves are conspiring to catch us up with our “unfinished business” and our most difficult truths.
We are presently being faced with a perfect opportunity to do some major work if we can cultivate deep humility and let go. Everything is changing – jobs, finances, relationships, familiar structures, ways of being. Perhaps you have found that those things which no longer serve are beginning to fall away of their own accord, sometimes without much warning or explanation.
My advice: Go with the Flow.
This is actually an incredible (albeit scary) time. It’s a chance to pare down, to unburden ourselves from the weight of conditioning, stale energies, and denser vibrations. When we release our bindings, we find that we can land in the divinity of our Authentic Selves.
Ultimately this landing is a Gift, although many of us will fight it to the bitter end. If I can encourage you to do one thing right now, it would be this: let the Cosmic Jailbreak happen. Let your “stuff” come up in order for it to come out. Surrender. And, in so doing, welcome Freedom.
We all have our ways of knowing when we are living from the centre of who we are, connected to and aware of that which is larger than ourselves. Slowly, over time, we learn our inner “signals” and, on a good day, we have a moment of courage when we do not turn away from or try to bury a signal that does not fit with what we think we need to do to pay the rent or preserve our place of belonging. When that happens, when we listen and heed a deeper knowing, it is a good day.
