Joy Overcomes

Her Joy Overcomes Gravity

This is title of an oracle card that I pulled yesterday.

I had wanted to write before the election and then after. But I found myself in a freeze. What does one say to mixed emotions, intense feelings, some elated, some in terror, some angry, some relieved. I had things I wished to share but in all honesty, I gave in to the intense swarm of energy and spent too much time on social media reading, judging, assessing and I felt really yucky.

But I have removed social media from my phone and intend to contribute more and consume less. You may need a reminder to do the same. Because it isn’t just my responses I feel it’s the energy of every post, every reaction floating out there. All of it floating to you. Especially for empaths.

I lost my own awareness that sees shadow and light but looks for love in all.

Although it feels justified when it comes to politics, rights etc. to be angry no matter what side you stand on, at the end of the day, that is merely us giving away our power to something external. It’s losing ourself to an outside input. We are told to be angry or outraged. And don’t get me wrong all of your emotions are valid and can lead you forward but they are not all truth. They are just an experience.

And we must ask ourselves is this where I want to give my life force? If you are afraid of something, ask yourself do I believe that this force is bigger than the divine flow in my life? Does this external thing have power over me? Same with anger, what for me personally makes me angry about this? And what do I intend to do with that? Is this personal to me, about something else for me? Where do I believe in disempowerment?

And if we feel happy because of an external condition that is okay too but also that happiness is dependent on that condition remaining, just as much as the anger is. Its feeling okay because life is going according to our plans for now. Which is not bad but it does set us up to be very conditional and as all things change or pan out to be different than we thought.

So what are we to do?

Seek Joy.

Remember the way you view and experience life can be one that creates joy or one that doesn’t. And while there are certain actions that will contribute to this, its mostly a way of perceiving life.

There is a fear that choosing joy will create tolerance of something unwanted and while it might help you tolerate something that can not be changed, it will not create a version of you that allows for an injustice that you can change.

So imagine this scenarip. Lets say you became in prisoned behind a fence. Someone chose to put you there and you don’t know how to get out. And once you processed the emotions of the experience you choose joy. Now if you made the most of this, and one day you saw a fence open, you wouldn’t stay you would joyfully walk your way out. Now you may say anger would have gotten you out, but it also might not. Fear would have paralyzed you and made you easy to control. Joy is not saying I deserve this, or I am bad because I am behind this fence. It says yes I would like it this way but for this moment I am behind the fence and the sun still shines. And as you feel the freedom of that, you may come up with a way to have greater external freedom. Or you may realize you used something unwanted and turned it in to something that served your deeper self.

The amount of constrictions you feel in the external is the amount of freedom available to you on the internal if you choose to realize it.

So what do we do with divide between others? How do you feel joy when people out there directly oppose the freedoms you wish to have?

Here is the thing, we must step past the gap between me and you, you and them. You must try to see from another’s perspective. Even if you think it is vile or filled with hatred. Seeing how someone might have come to a certain way of being does not mean it is right or that you must then adopt that belief, it creates connection and understanding. Understanding allows for real change. Unity allows for you to create more love instead of more separateness.

Understanding how someone could be filled with hatred or cruelty will not make you cruel nor should it make you a victim to it, it will make you intelligent to the ways in which something is created and what lies under the facade of outer hatred. And if we know that, we can create bridges of healing to the real issue instead of arguing points that will never shift.

So today more than ever, sit with your emotions and aim for joy. We will not always be there but if we can find it in difficult moments within us, then we can always have our power.

And remember now is the time to start creating. Times of change that may bring about some unwanted shifts are not the time to give up, they are the time to look for new ways to grow and contribute.

Also if you are in a place of relief remember don’t stop contributing your light because you now think the structures that be will up hold your perspective. Create what your heart longs to give to the world. Don’t outsource you to something external.

If you are in need of support and bridging the emotional gap, reach out. There is always love and deeper truth available to you.

And some big homework for the brave and open hearted. Pick someone you feel resistance to, a politician opposing your beliefs, or maybe a vocal advocate for something you disagree with or even a family member who represents whats wrong with the world in your eyes, and see them. Try and view them in this moment, beyond the past actions and words, beyond what they are saying and doing, just see them and breath until you can see more of their soul and less of their journey. See what lies beyond. You may find love, pain or even you looking back.

Let me know what you find.