Trauma and grief and the collective unconscious

As I sit to write this, I'm not sure how to even begin. I have no clue what to name this post, so I guess I will simply write and see where we go.

Like so many of you, my heart and soul feel a great deal of heaviness. I guess part of this blog is allowing myself to examine, feel and work through this heaviness, I guess I'm trying to make sense of a world that has been going mad for a very long time, and maybe you can relate?

I guess most people who would read this have at least a basic understanding of the Quantum field and the collective unconscious, we know that we are all intricately connected at a deep energetic level, not just as humanity, but also with the plants, animals and even minerals. Everything in the universe vibrates at particular frequencies, the aspects of the universe that are physical make up a miniscule percentage of the whole and is simply held together by the vibration and movement of atoms.

At the moment everyone is talking about Trauma. Usually an individual's trauma, but compounding this is the trauma that is held in the collective field. We have been traumatised for millennia, by wars and greed and the sufferings of innocents. In earlier times we had tools and skills that helped us overcome these traumas. If we weren't among the starving, we had access to nourishing foods, we lived and ate seasonally and followed the rhythm's of the natural world, our central nervous systems were nourished and replenished.

Today we are living in a world where even our 'organic' food has been corrupted by pollution, our meat products are energetically tainted with fear and trauma as we have lost the respect we once held for the sacrifice of an animal for our own nourishment (and yes, I am an omnivore), we are overfed, undernourished and have completely lost real connection to the natural world and our communities. We live in a near constant state of fight or flight and our bodies are struggling to replenish with the necessary nutrients to calm the nervous system down.

As a collective, we have been traumatised by a surge in crime and senseless deaths, and the seemingly never ending wars taking place somewhere in the world at all times. Going hand in hand with this, we are seeing a loss of compassion, empathy & even sympathy. As a collective, the fear, trauma and diminishment of compassion has led us to allow ourselves to be divided when more than ever we should be uniting. Fear is the greatest enemy to our physical and mental health, and it also leads to anger. Although fear and anger themselves are not bad things, living in a constant state of fear and anger is.

Fear and grief are driving this lack of compassion, empathy and sympathy, they are driving division, they lead to trauma and anger.

And as a collective, we are grieving. We grieve for Dau and Chol, two beautiful little boys senselessly slaughtered down in Cobblebank, simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We grieve for the loss of innocent life in Palestine, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Nepal. We grieve for police offers Vadim De Waart and Neil Thompson, just doing their job. We grieve for Iryna Zaretska, murdered on a train coming home from work. And we grieve for Charlie Kirk, slaughtered in front of his wife and children for having beliefs and opinions that others didn't agree with. We grieve for our loss of innocence, and feelings of safety and security.

Currently, we see so many people who have no compassion, empathy or sympathy for the loss of Charlie Kirks life......its a very sad state for someone to be in & we should pity those people who have lost the ability to feel those things, they are not evil, they are somehow disconnected.......but conversely, we also see that in those on the conservative side......many of them have lost the compassion, empathy and sympathy also, for the policemen gunned down in Porepunkah, for political figures killed who are on the 'other side'......they too are somehow disconnected.........or maybe its me and people like me.....are we disconnected in some way? I'm sad, my soul is heavy, but I'm not in fear, I'm still feeling love and compassion, I see and understand the views on both sides of the equations, I'm not completely neutral, I do have my opinions of course as we all do.........but we must temper our opinions with love, compassion and respect, we don't need to agree with everyone, but if Charlie Kirk taught us anything, it was that we can have a civil discourse even when we profoundly disagree.

So this is all well and good to say, but what can we do about it? I'm not entirely sure. But I think first and foremost, as a collective, we need to let go of all the fear and anger. There's a saying "energy flows where attention goes", but its much more than just giving something attention that helps to manifest it, its when we constantly focus on the issues we don't want and keep sending the energy of fear & anger to it that we begin to bring it into our reality, especially when we couple it to actions..... We set up the old 'self-fulfilling prophecy'.

Ok.....maybe that's not much help lol, but I think understanding, or innerstanding our fear and anger; but also sending out our love and compassion into the field; is a good first step. One of the most difficult things we can do is to sit in a meditative state and send love and compassion to our 'enemies', its also one of the most profound things we can do because whether or not it helps the other person/people is almost irrelevant, its what it does to us that is incredible. It really does help to stimulate some healing for ourselves.

Anyhoo, enough of my little foray into feels thing, I'll do a proper blog soon on what Herbs and other things we can use to help us in these times of grief and stress