When I was a kid we were constantly bombarded with fear of nuclear war. We would likely all die.

Then it was the hole in the ozone layer and acid rain that was going to kill us.

Meteors and comets made a brief appearance for a couple years as the monsters that would end the world.

Then it was pandemics.

Then it was terrorists. Terrorists were going to kill us all. I’m sure you all remember that one.

Now it’s the climate. The Earth and everything on it will be destroyed unless we act now!

Wait… update…  NOW it’s a Pandemic AGAIN!! AGGGGHHHH!!

The news is always feeding us something to be terrified of and there are always plenty of experts and scientists to legitimize the terror. And of course there are real, terrifying things that do happen all the time. And, there are countless beautiful acts of kindness and compassion that happen all the time. But we generally only hear about the news that induces fear and stress. Why?

It’s important to understand that the corporations (Blackrock and Vanguard) who ultimately own the all legacy news outlets also own:

  • The companies that make the the products advertised to you
  • The banks that lend you money to buy them
  • The oil you fill your car with as well as emerging ‘green’ technologies
  • Most of the politicians who are supposed to represent you
  • The pharmaceutical companies that can medicate your anxiety or depression.

This sounds like ‘consipracy theory’, but this is documented fact. The world of media is a business, and that business profits from keeping you stressed and terrified. Social Media is no exception, the algorithims are written specifically to divide us and keep us in a form of turn-and-response combat so that we stay online longer, so they can harvest more of our data, a commodity that is now more vaulable than oil.

So maybe it would be a helpful idea to turn off the news and instead practice tuning into yourself and your immediate environment.

What does the ground under your feet tell you?

Do you know how to hear the actual Earth speaking?

Can you hear the messages in the wind and water, the voice of the sun and the trees?

These sources of information are a lot softer than the TV and internet, and it may require some work to quiet the worries that have been poured into you, and this will likely involve working on your unresolved trauma (which almost everyone has) and restoring regulation to your nervous system. Often we need to heal our own trauma before we can really hear Her, though the practice of tuning into that voice is something that I highly recommend to complement any healing process.

And, just like it’s a good idea to try and heal the effects of stupid greed and thoughtlessness inflicted on the world at large, so it is also a good idea to heal the effects of the violence, neglect, stress, and societal programming that almost all of us have received in one way or another.

In fact, that might be the most important place to start.

So please, consider turning off the news, taking a break from social media, and tuning in to the trees and the dirt, the rocks and waters and sun. You are part of the natural world, even if you’ve forgotten.

Our systems our simply not designed to process the news and stress of an entire world.

The message from the Earth herself may be very different from what ‘the world’ is telling you.

What she tells me is this…

I will not be destroyed by you, 

For you cannot destroy me.

I have been much hotter than this,

And much colder too!

I have been sterilized of almost all life,

And yet life has returned.

The changes now occurring are part 

Of a cycle that is much bigger than you.

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This civilization you have built will change

As all civilizations eventually do.

It may crumble and serve as soil for the next to grow from

Or it may gently evolve as more and more of you heal.

 

One thing is certain and that it this – 

There is a great potential for all of you to flourish 

And step into your greatness at this time,

And doing so will mean first facing your own darkness.

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So much depends on what you make space for

and choose to cultivate within yourself.

If you sow panic, stress, fear, and despair then that is what you will harvest.

If you sow love, compassion, equanimity, and joy then that is what you will harvest.

So learn to listen to yourself and to my voice around and within you.

Heal your wounds and be of service to others as you can.

Throughout it all I will remain

Your Mother.