Who are you listening to?
How are you staying grounded and listening for the solutions to move forward during this time of pandemic and change?
Politics know that people are easier to control when in a state of anxiety and panic. With the airwaves set at fear and chaos and with so much change happening in our lives, how do we find the inspiration to help us source our own resilience?
Where are you finding the hope and inspiration needed for the long haul?
I dip my toe into the main-stream news and then I make sure I take a full bath in the silence that helps me find my own inner voice and guidance. We each have a role to play, and we have to be careful not to be pulled into every argument of distraction.
Make no mistake that we are in a time of transition and how we keep our hearts engaged matters. How do you come back to yourself? How are you rooting out the anxiety?
When I feel my energy body being pulled into the fear and chaos, I walk, steep myself in nature, do herbal brushing and salt scrubs and take baths to let the water wash out what is not me. I then remember who I am and what gifts I have to offer in tending to this life with love and care.
Getting lost in looking at the trees and clouds also helps bring me back.
Then I look to the wisdom keepers. Who are the leaders and healers that have the big perspective? That can help remind us that we are living during a time of great change and that this is an opportunity to heal our trauma and recommit to what is important in our relationships with each other and the Earth.
Many Elders are speaking and have a lot of wisdom to share about this time.
I hope there is a perspective here that helps you, these are the Wisdom Keepers I have been listening to.
The Mother Earth Delegation of United Indigenous Nations 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqPMkB8dP0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.centerforsacredstudies.org/the-mother-earth-delegation-of-united-indigenous-nations/
Intergenerational Global Prayer 2020
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=941169146393685&ref=watch_permalink
THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS OF NATURE TRIBUNAL
https://www.rightsofnaturetribunal.com/
Bioneers
https://bioneers.org/
Pachamama Alliance
https://www.pachamama.org/
Antocal Nesdi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUIlZhW0quk&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0F28cqwSRoS4mSI1I0gPFJ0eYKjF9CN3vjt2nrsEpGsrzaFiK6L95_lIs
Elder Diane Longboat
https://www.reachyogalifestyle.ca/red-table-wisdom-talks-2/
Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire:
https://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/who-we-are/grandmother-maria-alice-campos-freire/
Grandmother Mona Polacca
https://indigenouswisdomsummit.com/library/8681/462
Maya Tiwari
https://www.wiseearth.com/the-podcasts/
Robin Wall Kimmerer
https://bioneers.org/the-honorable-harvest-robin-kimmerer-zstf0619/
Thanks for sharing these links. I’ve listen to several in the past but, will revisit. So much wisdom
Hi Kami, Thank you for posting this well written email. If only we could make these realisations known to our politicians and health ministers our planet and the people who inhabit it would be much better off.
I applaud you for your honesty and well researched work and hope that you continue to bring your knowledge, experience and wisdom to the masses.
I love that you have included the wisdom from our elders and included links to some of these very knowledgeable people.
With thanks all the way from Oz!
Thank you, Kami, for an intelligent conversation around the response to covid 19 being so limited as to only a vaccine as our only hope. In fact instead of treating the sick fish in the tank with pharmaceuticals, we need to clean the tank. Our environment, our agriculture, our food quality, our herbal medicine knowledge must be expanded and taught as education. Now is the time, now is the moment to garner our wisdom, teach our children, listen to those who are still connected to Mother earth and her biorhythms. I am so lucky to receive your emails and look… Read more »