Naughty or nice — Santa’s year of duality, collective shadow and trauma healing
By: Barbara Belger
Tags: Journey, Christmas2020, Santas Shadow Work, Coronavirus, New Zealand

Meanwhile Santa is back at the North Pole — somewhat in disbelief…

Ho, ho, ho

If I had to say only one thing about the year 2020 then it is that I didn’t think that enlightenment would look like that! I do, however, want to say more than just that one thing … so here goes.

For those of you who remember how I returned to the North Pole after an expanded, intensive course of life-coaching with coach Barbara in New Zealand, how I started to change many of my beliefs and perceptions, re-gained my good health and felt well and truly prepared for this new chapter of my life… well, it didn’t happen the way I had thought at all.

( in case you haven’t read it yet, here are the links to part 1 and part 2 of last year’s Christmas story, the accidental journey of enlightenment)

When I set off on my journey of enlightenment — accidentally — it was my concern for the planet, for humanity, for the current 6th extinction in an increasingly unpredictable climate that set me off, that and too much milk and cookies and not enough self-care, resulting in quite some health-concerns.

Well, turns out that I did well getting my health in shape because there was a whole lot more work to do than I had thought, I hadn’t even begun to grasp the extent of what really was happening on Mother Earth and with increased resilience I was ready to face it.

My eyes were now open wide open about the pollution I had co-created with all the (plastic) presents I had been delivering, how industries world-wide had created near irreparable damages to the air, to the soil and the water and how tricky mind ‘games’ had lead humans to want more, want it faster and better and then again more of that again. With something humans called ‘marketing’ (Propaganda style) the belief that they weren’t good enough, fast enough, beautiful enough, rich enough, smart enough had kept joy and fun out the door and the constant battle between naughty or nice, good or bad, right or wrong was leading to more and more hate, judgement, war and — above all — fear. But we’ll come back to ‘fear’ in a moment.

With my new kind of expansive thinking, my meditation practices and especially my heart-coherence breathing techniques I had begun to have heightened levels of awareness and was able to hold thoughts in a way that ‘good old Santa’ had once been able to hold but over the years and through a certain rut in life style I had pushed away.

And with this new level of awareness I came to the conclusion this year that the world was in a deep crisis of ‘consciousness’.

And this is how the year 2020 began to unfold: Just as Mrs Claus and the elves were holding our first council of the year to plan ahead for the 2020 Christmas season we were getting news from around the globe that something very ‘unusual’ was happening and it had to do with a novel virus, a corona virus.

For 50+ years scientists around the world had had their eyes on what humans called ‘corona viruses’ and it seemed that each new version of this virus gave them more to worry about. There had been occurrences that had required drastic measures over the past decades.

When Mrs Santa and myself looked down on earth and saw what was happening we wanted to find out about this virus as much as we could, some schools and universities were offering free online courses, there was a good deal of basic information on Wikipedia and we began long, long conversations with scientists, doctors, virologists, epidemiologists from around the world who were all quite enjoying discussions with ‘Mr and Mrs Santa’, although they did give us a funny look at times!

With greater and greater concern, however, we noticed that instead of forging greater community and support the separation between people got bigger and bigger, there were dramatically different opinions and decisions were made above their heads and took many of their sovereign basic human rights away. The systems that had already been on shaky grounds, the same grounds that had lead to my concerns earlier on, seem to ramp up their levels of ‘inhumane-ness’ and the world’s fear levels were at an all time high.

How could this be? We found ourselves on very unfamiliar grounds, mostly in disbelief about what was happening and about the measures that were implemented and a lot of the information we found simply didn’t make sense. And why was the one side not listening to the other side, why was there a ‘nice’ label on some of the experts and a ‘naughty’ label on the others where really they should actually talk together to get the best possible outcome in all this?

In midst of all this chaos I was glad to see my coach’s country faring quite well and Christmas was still going ahead there.

In most other places on the planet, though, people were kept in confinement, separated from each other and distanced from all or certainly most meaningful human activities. We will be shaking our heads for quite some time longer over this and we’ve come to the conclusion that — leading by example — we, Mr and Mrs Santa Claus will bring more love, more compassion and a whole lot more joy into our lives, into our relationship and from there on OUT into the world and that this would be the best gift that anyone on this planet could receive this year. So from our heart to yours may you keep your heart open and receive our love and compassion and may you find within you the courage to live, to enjoy life and keep your mind open to be each one of you part of ending this crisis of consciousness. May you find peace in your hearts, may you recall your freedom and from there — together — create solutions, as ONE humanity.

Ho, ho, ho … at this point I must say I feel that this story is ‘to be continued’ and I would love to imagine that this time next year there will be much wonderful things to tell you.

For now, let me bring in Mrs Claus whose own journey of self-discovery and whose own evolution has brought her to the decision to form a ‘Sisterhood’ movement in 2021. I’ll fill you in on that next year too, promise!

Merry Christmas and as much JOY to the World as we all need now.

p.s. In love !

Charles Eisenstein’s essays https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/

Zach Bush MD https://zachbushmd.com/appearances/

Irene Lyon ’s Trauma work — Vlog https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tIcR-r0CU6BjM09c3wxrYooDD4bok_g

Collective trauma work Thomas Huebl https://www.youtube.com/user/thomashuebl

It’s me now, Barbara with a little update on my past year.

Age 97, my mother passed away last Christmas. Shortly after that I became a grandmother for the first time and I’m learning to adapt into the role of ‘Oma’.

March saw the launch of my first (co-authored) book “Stories of becoming myself” and yes, my intention still is to write the 2 or 3 other books I had started over the years.

I also turned 60 this year and am actually finding that really exciting!!!

Remember the “Living from the Heart” programme? It came online — and went again — as the NZ lockdown (We were in L4 for 6 weeks in March/April) took the wind out of my sails, the first retreat in one of the most gorgeous venues in Northland’s Oke Bay never happened and the signals were set to ‘move on’ and start all over, which is what I want to do with an integration of ‘all of the above’ actually #TheTealRoom (next year’s hashtag)

Meanwhile back in March/April 2020 I started live videos on Facebook and you can still enjoy them here. I believe the world would be a better place if we did these practices daily, lived more from our heart, less from our ‘logo’ and sent some of that awesome heart energy out into the world!

Let me end here with gratitude for, well, for being alive to start with, for having a beautiful family, for living in a wonderful part of the world, gratitude for my awesome friends, for working in a supportive and nurturing environment, gratitude for my coaching clients who never seize to amaze me … there is so much more to be grateful for and I want to finish off with special gratitude for my canine companion, Cody who is forever teaching me to be ‘more Zen’ !

I am wishing you all a peaceful, loving festive season and a New Year 2021 filled with COMPASSION — which is what will see us through this. We won’t reach the necessary levels of compassion without first healing our shadow, our wounds and our TRAUMA. My own work next year will focus on LIFE tips, with coaching through all of life’s seasons.

Arohanui, Barbara

P.S. I’m pondering to integrate all my programmes and workshops and put them into a ’TEAL ROOM’ and I’ll keep you posted Via social media and website www.barbarabelger.com which I’ll probably keep and integrate ‘The Teal Room’

P.P.S. I have moved some of my social media presence to TELEGRAM and MeWe and am finding BitChute as a non-censored source of information quite useful

P.P.P.S. My recommendations for your end of year reading/viewing is here:

Charles Eisenstein’s essays https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/

Zach Bush MD https://zachbushmd.com/appearances/

Irene Lyon ’s Trauma work — Vlog https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tIcR-r0CU6BjM09c3wxrYooDD4bok_g

Collective trauma work Thomas Huebl https://www.youtube.com/user/thomashuebl

Email me barbarabelger@gmail.com to arrange for a copy of my book, or an extract of my clients’ workbook or a taster of my hypnosis tracks … or just email me and let me know how I can be of assistance to have a better.happier.healthier.life