Stop Fuelling The Flames

January 8, 2020

I woke up this morning with the flames of New South Wales burning in my mind, only to read news of Iran and Iraq and the US. I have been feeling engulfed by it for a few hours. Engulfed by images of burnt animals, skeletons of homes, clouds of smoke, smoke screens, simmering anger over government corruption. Because when you dig below the surface to the nitty gritty, both of these situations have their roots in the same thing. Disaster fuelled by fossil fuel greed and its toxic old boys club playing chess. And I get an aching knot in the pit of my stomach.

It’s a tangled mess of worry. My worry. Other’s worry. Millenia of ancestral worry packed into my core.

And I need to let it go.

Not because I don’t care. I care deeply. I gave birth to three South African/Australian children and I live in the Middle East, and every day I try to work out how to leave the world a better place for them and their families. Every day I think about their roots and whether the soil they find themselves in is nourishing or not. And how they can nourish the world.

And as fires rage, I’ve decided to shift my energy.

If I operate from the belief that I am connected to the earth and everyone and everything in it, then the earth’s energy fuels me and vice versa. I and everyone around me has a choice, daily, whether or not they will fuel toxicity, destruction, anger, fuel anxiety, resentment…

or whether they will fuel healing, nourishment, joy and love.

So, as we are faced with flames that have left thousands feeling helpless and as though all has been lost. As we are faced with the possibility of the destruction of war, I cannot let those flames engulf me. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t feel the sorrow or grief or fear or anger. But fight, flight or freeze won’t fix this long term. We need to work out how to turn that “fire” into something positive. And just as I know a woman can transform her pregnancy and birth by visualising her dream and surrounding herself with a team who support that vision, I’m pretty sure that the earth needs us visualising her healing.

I am, therefore, visualising the following:

Clouds forming over New South Wales, bringing rain and relief.

Strength for the rescue teams working.

The remaining native fauna protected and recovering.

Healing in the souls of those who have experienced the unthinkable.

Light filling the hearts of the those who were put in charge of the country who have allowed themselves to be corrupted and their judgment clouded by greed.

An abundance of love and support for the pregnant mothers in the midst of this, so that their babies will know this rather than sadness and fear.

A rising awareness in everyone that every bit of good energy and respect we put out there makes a difference.

Balance restored in every way.