It’s the end of the world as we know it?
“And I feel fine” - isn’t that how the song goes? When Green Day sang this back in the day, I used to feel panic, like wait…what are we saying?? The world is ending? What do I need to do to survive it, etc…
And he’s saying he feels fine?? What? Panic, panic, panic.
I now listen to this song with a different lens, like, isn’t this true? It is actually the end of the world as we’ve always “known” it but hasn’t it been unraveling for a while?
One could say that all of our worlds changed because of COVID, and that’s true, I think collectively we can all agree on that but there have been microcosms shifting all along our lives leading up to this exact time and space where all order has been thrown up in the air like confetti to see what lands.
I think the youngest age I began to feel the words land scarily…”end times” or “end of the world” and it would keep me up at night, in my tiny body at maybe around 8 I would think things like, what does that mean, does that mean the lights just go out? I don’t get it…
This is around the age that I began astral traveling too, but that’s for another day.
A few years later when I was around 12, I remember it making a little more sense when my hometown was on a fault line and there was a prediction that a great earthquake would end civilization - I was like, oh ok, so like a natural disaster, got it.
Then a few years later when Y2K hit and our computers were going to explode or something?
And then a few years later 9/11 and then a war, and then a recession, and then another recession, and then the pandemic and now…well…everything.
Point is…when has the world ever been “as we’ve known it”, has it ever been something we’ve known? If not, how do we know what kind of times we’re living amidst?
I’m bringing this up today because there are articles running around that WW3 is starting on Sunday…but again, hasn’t it already started and what kind of war? Many types of war are already under way, not just the physical kind we’re accustomed to learning about.
Our bodies and minds are tired. We’ve been chasing down information or being bombarded with it, just trying to keep up. There is a balance to be struck between being informed and being overwhelmed.
Do you allow yourself to assess your capacity before watching the news or opening an app? Maybe start there.
There will always be something going on outside of you, always, as I listed above. The ask is, how are you creating your own personal safe space in your body? That’s “how” you get by or even feel good from day to day.
Now is that time.
Regardless of what is going on in the world, are you allowing for yourself to feel safe, to feel peaceful within your body, even if not in your physical environment but again, your body, your energy space. What are you doing to maintain your energetic hygiene right now?
Speaking of which, one easy way, if you have access to daily water is to wipe down your body with the water to cleanse the energy that doesn’t feel good or that isn’t yours to get back to neutral.
Whether or not something big or small happens on Sunday, or today, or tomorrow - whenever - what will you do? How will you navigate differently? Will it help you to spiral into despair wondering what will happen? Will spiraling do anything to stop the events from unfolding?
This.
This is the discernment between what is yours and what is not yours and to even consider that everything is happening or unfolding in perfect order. I know - that’s wild. When “bad” things happen, we struggle to connect a why to it because we couldn’t fathom doing such things - but - and - that’s why each and every soul is existing at this exact space and time…to showcase for each of us what we do want and what we don’t want.
Take a step back from a soul perspective and assess…what if nothing was good nor bad, just something to meet with discernment? The goal is to get to a place that no matter what happens outside of you, you trust and feel OK within yourself. That’s the ask. That’s the how.
What do you need to get there?