There’s a teaching in Kundalini yoga that either you live your life or your life will live you…you ride the energy or it rides you…you vibrate with the cosmos or it vibrates you.

More and more I am coming to understand that surrender is not a weak act and prosperity doesn’t require material wealth. Going with the flow and loving what you have are, I now have no doubt whatsoever, indeed the secret sauce to a life well lived. The Holy Grail. The best kept secret of all time. Hiding in plain sight and as simple an answer to the ultimate question as there ever was.

I have been watching the anxiety rise….the Coronavirus, tornados & earthquakes, plunging stock market, melting ice... I’ve been watching it from my nest in the Queendom, alert yet relaxed, and it looks a lot like what we’ve been expecting. We KNOW change is coming and yet we’re miffed that it’s impacting US. Fucking up OUR vacations, OUR professional development, OUR nest eggs, OUR plans.

As the truth comes to light, it makes sense that we should be feeling a new dimension of stress, an existential anxiety, psychic pain and maybe even primal fear. It makes sense. Even with the painful truth now waving its dick in the wind (our globalized civilization is sick and failing!), the shiny, corporate billboards of the material world are still trying to convince us that the secret to our well-being is hiding behind door number one, or will reveal itself 10 pounds from now, or resides at an all-inclusive retreat in Costa Rica. If we just buy this thing or increase our engagement or hire this coach or or or or or or…..THEN we’ll have the answers and only then will we feel peace. Or validation. Or acceptance. Or worthiness. Somehow the pain of the world will be eased by a mocha latte, a donut and 25 new Instagram followers.

Yes, the Earth is crying.

Yes, the world is scary.

Yes, things are going to get worse before they get better.

Yes, this is a challenging and intense time to be alive.

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We can choose to vibrate the chaos or vibrate with courage.

We can succumb to the comfort and convenience of extractive corporate capitalism and convince ourselves that we’re too small to make a difference or we can fucking change some things about how we’re living. Right now. Today. Seriously. You…can you not buy the thing? Can you not book the trip? Can you just be with what you have for one day? Can you give yourself one day where you have what you need, you love what you have and you’re pointed at something creative and generative and beautiful that yields no return but your own satisfaction?

We can let the suffering of our sick civilization suffocate us or we can make our lives works of beauty regardless. We can be victims of the times or we can trust that every ancestor that ever existed survived so that we could take our next breath. Unfathomable suffering has unfolded to allow us to be alive right now and squandering our precious days wallowing, stressing, spinning, freaking, numbing, fighting, fearing is time wasted.

This is an invitation to reclaim your sovereignty.

Reclaim your center.

Reclaim your power, truth, beauty and attention.

Where your mind goes, energy follows so be conscious of what webs you’re spinning.

If you’re not sure where or how to spin or what or what not to do…go outside and walk in nature. Sit with the trees. Sit with the water. Breathe in the air. Be still and be grateful.