Today, like any other day, you have a choice.
Don't take the bait - my thoughts on the election.
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Doomsday language. Us versus them. Pointing fingers. “If X doesn’t win, we’re f*cked.” On and on it goes. The heavily conditioned reactions to an event that determines the state of the world and as such, the state of You… or so they say.
Starting last night, I felt waves of anxiety and peril wash over me. I felt the sadness in others’ hearts as we slip into outsourcing our power and responsibility to something and someone out there.
Before letting such feelings totally take over me, I realized: today is not any different. Today is just like every other day where we are presented with a choice, a fork in the road. This choice point has many names and many dualistic terms that can be used:
Love or fear.
Faith or fear.
Hope or despair.
Doom or glory.
Whatever you term it as, it’s the same choice we’ve always been faced with: To reclaim and remember our innate power or to give it away to someone, something, some event outside of us and let that determine who we are.
I have never felt a stronger, more visceral pull to the former. I have never felt more certain of what they mean when they say timelines are splitting and it’s all happening on the level of consciousness. Today I know that I am the creator of my reality. Today I know that you, reader, are the creator of your reality. Today I know that absolutely nothing outside of us gets to determine who we are or what happens in this grand play.
Even further… If you know anything about the massive astrological shifts happening in this age, you’ll know what it means to say that this is all literally written in the stars. And no, that absolutely does not mean we have no “control” over what happens. It actually means that we can have faith in a grand intelligence that is going to help us through this time in ways we can’t even imagine, nor do we need to know how it’s all going to work in order for it to be okay.
Think back to ANY time of challenge or hardship you faced. Your choice to have faith over fear was what propelled you into closer alignment with your inner power and ability to create your reality. Circumstances do not define you. I am pretty damn certain that even the most challenged community or individual would want to hear that over “yeah, sorry, you’re doomed today and for the next 4 years.” But as a collective we seem to have forgotten some of these basic truths.
And that’s the most insidious part of it all. Someone really tried to convince us that turning inward and working on our own consciousness isn’t enough. That I need to opt into YOUR system and YOUR way of doing things in order to be free, to be safe and secure. It’s funny they thought I’d simply fork over the most important work there is to do. The biggest irony of it all is that in reclaiming my own power and responsibility over reality, I know that “they” have this power, too. I know that even those who disagree with me are sovereign, independent beings capable of creating whatever they wish. I am another you.
The choice today is to remember and steep further into empowerment over victimhood. To steep further into belief in the unseen and knowing that consciousness moves matter. The New Paradigm isn’t a battle on a field between soldiers or voters or political candidates vying for our approval. No. It is a quiet storm, brewing in the background. A garden planted seed by seed. Watered daily. Nurtured and cared for by you, by the people. It does not scream or yell. It does not play mind games or propel division and othering.
You are the movement. The movement is you. To quote my dear friend Angela Doss, “Your capacity for resilience during this election season is directly related to your awareness that you, and not they, hold the power.”
Don’t take the bait. Take a deep breath instead and come back to your ineffable inner power. The power that can heal, transmute, shift, and build. An inner well that is filled by divinity. Created by God, Source Energy. You are the walking POV of universal consciousness experiencing itself.
Today, like any other day, is a choice between embodying that truth, or forgetting it.
Choose wisely.
Thank you for reading. I love you and I see you. We are one Earth family.
Xo,
Bella