With much abandon and vitality has Earth revved up her sacred dance. And she is just getting started. The music started softly some 20 years ago, but many were too loud in their lives to hear it. The beat was steady, just drums at first. Boom boom boom boom. Helping us set our internal rhythms, for most of us were out of step with our own lives, running too fast because that’s what we thought we were supposed to do. We were flying through our lives, but just as two dance partners need to be in rhythm or someone’s feet get stepped on, so our dance with the earth upon which we trod was out of step, and the result was disharmonious and unpleasant to watch. How to correct that? Turn up the volume.
So that’s what’s been happening for the past 20 years – the music of the Universe (aptly called One-verse) has gotten louder in our ears, reverberating through our bodies. And of course it’s felt through the earth, because we ARE Earth, we are Spirit in earthly form. At first we put our hands over our ears, singing “la la la” very loudly to drown out what we knew would require us to make changes in our lives. We fear change. We like things exactly the way they are – it’s comfortable. But why keep dancing off-kilter if you can swirl and twirl in grace and beauty? Did we listen to the music, did we change our tune, did we make the necessary adjustments to our internal rhythm to get ourselves in step with the Universe? Mostly not. So now is the time to really help us ‘get it’. Earth is now vibrating louder and louder with the rhythm – BOOM BOOM BOOM – we now FEEL the rhythm rising up beneath us as it waves through our bodies. No longer can we ignore the music and continue as we have before. We are now the Music as it flows through us, and try as we might, we can no longer dance to our own music if it isn’t in ‘time’ with everything else. We are stammering and tripping and falling over ourselves, looking around confused, wondering what is happening. What IS happening, then? The music is getting louder, that is all, to allow us, okay, force us, to move into that place of groundedness, centeredness, and harmony. It’s not an option any longer. Is that unfair? No, not really. How can we expect our body to function optimally if we let the heart do what it wants to do without regard to the arteries and veins and blood? How can we even walk if not for an intricately designed system of communication and energy flow between our brain, our nervous system, and our muscles? Everything needs to be in sync, integrated, working TOGETHER, not separately.
“But I don’t want to be controlled. I don’t want to be told what to do. I should have the freedom to be exactly what I want to be!” I hear your battle cry of the individual. And that is true – up to the point where you have to decide if what you want to ‘do’ is based on your truest sense of Who You Are, or your human sense of What You Want. Those are two different things and only you can decide what you are doing. In your truest core of who you are, there IS no want, no desires, only open space and love and bliss. You don’t ‘need’ a new TV or pair or shoes. You don’t ‘need’ more money or food or love or time beyond the basics. If everything were balanced in the world, there would be no more hunger or lack of anything. There is enough for all – that is how the world is set up. Those who have more are dancing faster than the rest. Those who have less are dancing slower than the rest. It is time to all dance together, so the beat is louder and unavoidable as it pulses through our bodies. Can you feel it? Are you adjusting accordingly? BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Relax into the rhythm – let it flow through you so you can really feel it. Quiet the music in your own head and hear the Universe. Slow your frenetic pace and sway into the new music. You will feel calmer and freer and more energized. It will be a relief. It will feel perfect to you, once you get into rhythm. There is nothing more disconcerting than constantly being ‘off’. You wonder what’s wrong, you wonder why your life isn’t working the way you want it work. You try harder, faster, longer, and that seems to take you FURTHER away from your goal. Stop. Breathe. Relax. Sit. That will bring you to your goal; that will bring you into alignment. That will bring you into your Song. All IS well. It can be no other way. But trust what you’re feeling, and be grateful that you no longer have to work so hard to run away from what you know to be the Truth. It’s like the screaming child that doesn’t want to go to bed, even though she is exhausted. As the parent firmly carries the child up to bed, she may still fight, but in the end she is relieved that she now gets to rest. The fight is over.