The Great Awakening: Trees As Lungs of Our Planet

How Are You and Yours Today? (I actually really do want to know.)

My family and I are well, thank goodness, and thank you to all who've reached out to stay connected and ask about my perspective.

The Great Awakening

Through dreamtime, I saw that we're amidst the Great Awakening.

We're amidst this time that's been prophesied. 

A time when what's been inside-out-upside-down in our collective values would transition into an age of truth. A time where light prevails over darkness. A time of great enlightenment.

We did not necessarily know that it would arrive in the form of a pandemic virus, but we did know that it would be of "pandemos". 

We knew that such a time, would begin to awaken "All the People”.

First individually, and then collectively.

What else would have brought us to a halt of this magnitude?

Or as one social meme has put it, "Mother Nature Just Sent us all to our Rooms!"

And, yes, amidst hope and levity, there is also great suffering happening at this time, and our hearts go out to all who are experiencing illness, loss of loved ones, loss of livelihood, loss of  physical interactions.  

Our hearts go out to those who are struggling to stay inside the stillness or isolation of their own homes or navigate the busy-ness of tending to children while simultaneously working from home.  

Our hearts go out to the brave medical professionals on the front lines of loving us.

And, simultaneously, we are awakening to our connection to how precious a red apple is, the sanctuary of a warm roof over our heads, the grace of each breath, and the gift of what we will do with our next breath. 

We wake up to all the reasons we'd like to live and bless each day with our offerings.

Use All Your Skills

For me, it's been a gift to show up on daily remote session calls with clients. 

A hospital nurse whose job has drastically changed overnight. 

Business owners facing steep plummets and innovative opportunities, parents who are now homeschooling children while also working from home, and doctors and therapists who need support learning new skills to serve remotely and keep their practices afloat.  Friends worried for their parents.

I've also had the opportunity to support those who appear to have the virus.

I've begun to understand how to help us heal through it, while refraining from magical thinking, and yet creating magic. 

Watching how these teachings can begin to make luminous again, the light behind the skin, the cheeks, the eyes.  Staying curious.  Learning.

I'm working to share those in a wider way. 

This is all to say, every single one of our honed skills is needed today.  This is a time to be still and to also rise.

85% Loving 15% = One Species in Remembrance

As 85% of the healthiest folks on the planet profoundly show love for 15% of our most vulnerable ones and healthcare professionals perhaps our real questions are,

How are we today? How are we in our breath of life today?

The Q'ero medicine men and women grow up in the Andes mountains, on earthen floors stomped by their own family's feet, greeting one another with this same question, "How are we?"  

They live in reciprocity with the Earth as if she is the living breathing entity that she is. 

They live with awakeness. 

And now, we're all being called into the next levels of this Great Awakening, too.

What if we're being asked to remember that we're actually part of an ecosystem of aliveness?

The Lungs of the Planet

So, here's the deal.

We are part of the respiration, the lungs of our planet, together with our trees. 

We breathe out carbon dioxide, they breathe it in. They breathe out oxygen, we breathe it in. 

What if we are being called back into reciprocity, deep rapport with the trees and Earth?

Any ways in which our work products or services have been out of rapport, what if we're being asked to courageously bring these into alignment?  

Any ways in which our homes have been out of rapport? What if we're being asked to courageously bring these into alignment?  

Connect with a Tree

My Offering Today is Simple:

Connect with a tree.  

Go outside. Maintain, of course, 6-12' of physical distance with others.  

Walk up to a tree.  

Hover your hands, palms up towards its tree trunk, about a foot away from the tree's bark.

What do you sense? feel? see with your eyes closed? smell? taste? hear?

Ask the tree to

"Show you, teach you, what you’re to learn today? What would it like you to know?"

Feel the tree's vibration. Yes, its vibration.

Let go of fear of judgment.  First off, everyone else is inside.  Second, this is actually one of the most sane acts we humans can participate in.  Remember, the world’s been inside-out-upside-down; this is an act of righting it.  Own it.  Embody your wisdom, your truth.

The Science of Forest Bathing

In 2016, scientists researched nature's effects on health. In part, they found that being in nature, significantly reduced pulse rate and significantly increased the score for vigor and decreased the scores for depression, fatigue, anxiety, and confusion." (NIH, 2016)

Doctors in Japan began prescribing Forest Bathing, and teaching people how to do it. (Time, 2018).  Science has beautifully confirmed what indigenous peoples have known for centuries.  

Trees Attune Us. . . Vibrational Consciousness

Nature remembers us to our Oneness,

if we allow ourselves to grow sensitive enough, in rapport enough, to let her.

So, Walk outside. Meet a tree (or greet a plant in your home).

 Introduce yourself. Become friends. Begin to build rapport. 

Thank it for its service. Ask how you, too, might be of service to it's aliveness. Learn. Listen. Love.

We are not just these bodies. We are not just these minds.

We are an infinite vibrational consciousness currently embodied.

We are filled with radiant lit-up cells.

We just sometimes need help remembering.

As always, if you or your loved one is in need, please reach out for

guided meditation support, shamanic session work, or a kind word.  

I'm here and I care.

Stay so very replenished, nourished, rested, well during this time.

And do let me know, from what you see, How are We Today?

Rumbling into Stillness: The Birth of Energy Alchemy

Here's a little background on the early rumble of how the

Energy Alchemy

course began.

Picture this.  Four feet of snow, piled mid-trunk across the Michigan trees.  It's February, and as I looked outside with no green grass nor sunshine anywhere in sight, my phone rang.  

"Uh, Sheryl, I'm not going to California next month."  

"What?" 

"Yes, you heard me, and according to another colleague's FB post this morning, you aren't either."

"What?!"

My mind ran like an angry bull, plowing through porcelain places inside me.  

It was one of those moments when you can't think straight.  One of those moments, that if you were a car, your red hazard lights would be flashing "Warning! Warning!  Warning!" from here to Mars.  

It was one of those moments when you want to blame, "Whose fault is this?", and shame, "Did I cause this?" and where you complain inside your own head, "It's so cold, and it was going to be so warm."  It was one of those moments.

Except suddenly, I realized that every person I was blaming, was going to feel my invisible blame.  That my bullishness was not just crashing and smashing internally, but each thought was like a poison arrow that I was flinging at people I loved and respected, unconsciously.  

Something happened inside that moment, and it awoke a willingness to do something kinda revolutionary, and evolutionary, and

Energy Alchemy

began.

I asked myself, "What are you running from?  What is so blasted uncomfortable, that you're blaming, shaming and complaining?"  

Here's what I've discovered . . .

Each of us has a feeling that stalks us, that trips our inner wire, that incites us to press that inner eject button.  

It's a feeling so simple and simultaneously so profound that we've patterned a fight-flight defense system around it, such that if we even catch the scent of it, we're outta there.  What's fascinating here, is that we spend so much energy not feeling it, and then overeating, or overspending, or overhabituating whatever our self-soothing mechanism is, that we stop being present and often start behaving out of alignment.  Discordant.

So, I made a radical choice.

I consciously chose to do something else instead.  I consciously chose to sit and actually feel the feeling that I most did not want to feel.  You know what it was?  It was plain old disappointment.  

When I first began sitting with disappointment, it was unbelievably uncomfortable.  Picture cruising along a dirt road in a jallopy without shock absorption, I kept wanting to pop right out of my seat, to escape the discomfort, but then a series of potent meditation tools began to download and I began learning to stay.  The more I practiced, the calmer I grew, until something started to transform, to alchemize, and only oneness remained.  This really still, knowing, universal wisdom, experienced.

Energy Alchemy: Attunement 2015

teaches tools that reconnect you to you.

If you feel called to learn these tools, too, practical tools for Centering, Grounding, Connecting, Intuiting, Removing the Old Habits and Anchoring New Ways to Stay Present, inside you,

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Energy Alchemy: Attunement 2015

is like upgrading your operating system to universal truth.

One Gigantic Launchpad

Good Energy LLC

January 5, 2015

For weeks now, I've been sensing. . .

2015

is

one

gigantic

launchpad

for our dreams

A time when we think a thought and

it's like we've just jumped onto a trampoline and are soaring to the stars.

Increasing our ability to stay centered, grounded and connected amidst turbulence and to masterfully pilot both inner and outer space are now necessary skills. 

It's a time beyond waiting.  It's a time to transform dreams into abundance, and significant mindfulness tools are simply required.