September 17
We want to advise you today about how you can best handle the current hurricane-force winds of energy which are knocking so many of you around.
Some of you have a tendency to try to see things through to a kind of conclusion, to closure, to completion. This will not happen anytime very soon.
You are in the midst of a long-term transformational process, for yourselves, for the human race, for the planet.
The intensity of the energies which are attempting to move you is sometimes beyond your ability to withstand. It may be easy to think that if you can just hold on this long, or that long you will outlast this process, and be able to return to your feet whole and recognizable.
That, however, is not what this is about. Those of you who are ready and willing are being altered. You are moving away from the old, slower vibrational lives and beings you had and were. You are becoming the future, the hope and the promise.
This will not happen overnight, as you know.
Imagine that it happens in waves, for this is exactly how it does work. The waves may last in your perception an hour, a day, a week, a month. The duration will differ, but the rhythm will not—there will be times when you are under tremendous pressure to reach higher, to do more (or less, as the case may be), to stretch beyond any point you thought you could reach.
And then there will be a respite, a time to allow for integration and rejuvenation. Now, these “off” times will not likely be as long or as deep as you might like, as you remembered them from long ago.
They will not come in equal measure to the times when you are asked to move forward. But they will come. And it is exceedingly important that you take advantage of them. Anyone who fails to rest when the opportunity presents itself is unlikely to have the stamina to survive this process. And you see that many are not surviving. This is a real concern.
It is sometimes very difficult to adjust downward when you have been running on high; this is a skill we enjoin you to work to develop.
Use whatever techniques you know and love to relax in those times when relaxation is possible. The problem is that in general you won’t get two weeks at the beach to gradually ratchet down. Instead, you may get an afternoon, or a day or two at most. And despite all the commitments in the world and all the things you may need to do during those hours, it is essential that you give respite to the higher aspect of yourself who is working so hard these days.
A few moments of deep breathing, a quick walk to change the tone, a candle lit—basically any act that will assist you in making a downshift.
And then there is the difficulty of recognizing those times. It is critical that you are able to read the energies. If you are not yet fluent, it would be good to practice. Most of you will notice when the pressure abates.
Attend to this and be ready for it. Be prepared to lie down, figuratively if not literally, to treat yourself to some pampering and simple sweetness for as long as it lasts.
We hope you can hang up your hammock today and take a well-earned rest. There is much support for sweetness, gentleness and softest consideration today.
It would be wonderful to gather these into your life as balm in the moment and as companions on your journey tomorrow into whatever life holds then.
We send love and blessings. — E. West
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