WhenYour Weeble StopsWobbling
By: Holly Woods
Tags: Resilience, Purpose Driven Business, Purpose, Consciousness, Perspective

There are so many reasons we might be running naked down the street right now, given the state of the world and this dreadful year.

And yet, in general, as humans we’ve responded to 2020 mostly by cheering each other on and noticing the positive effects of very challenging scenarios.

If you’re like me, you may be almost tired of hearing about Silver Linings. But we keep noticing them.

The Resilience in a Silver Lining

This week I had another near-encounter with huge grief.

Grief has been the nemesis for me in this pandemic. The isolation of living alone in lockdown and SIP has been intense, and it’s allowed me to grieve the patterns of aloneness that I engendered in my formerly hyper-alert empathic nomadic and intentional (aka slightly workaholic) life.

My COVID kitties helped, though kitten fur is not flesh and I adore hugs.

Back to the near-encounter.

Planning for 6 months to have a holiday road trip with my two adult daughters has been the glue that’s held it together for me. We haven’t been together for 2 years, and the trip has inspired me to be incredibly safe and COVID-free.

And last week, on the verge of this trip, somehow I let my guard down and was exposed to COVID.

Upon realizing it could jeopardize my trip and my time with my children and the only real time with humans since last June…

I panicked. Slightly freaked out. Started down a rabbit hole. [if you’re familiar with the Enneagram I’m an Enneatype 1 and I disintegrate to a 4, so yes, it got a little dramatic.]

I started looking for rapid testing centers and they were all booked. My panic was making my search nearly impossible.

Then I stopped to CREATE SPACE for solutions, because I know they don’t happen when my limbic brain is manning the control panel.

I Breathed. Got present. Grounded. Relaxed. Opened up to possibility. Chose to receive from the universe.

And yes, I called on Angels to keep me safe. Something I seldom do but I’ll take all the help I can get.

And then within a few seconds I remembered a private testing site. Altered my schedule to book a time slot.

And I immediately began to think about how I could use the week to nourish myself if in fact I tested positive. I’d catch up with creative projects. Spend time outdoors. Read good books. Sleep. And do all the things that others seem to have had time during the pandemic that didn’t happen for me.

I almost started to enjoy the idea more than my planned holiday.

Wait, no, just kidding.

So I got tested yesterday and thank god it came back negative.

How Silver Linings Happen

But what I realized is that my ability to almost IMMEDIATELY turn a challenge into a silver lining has become SO PROFOUND that it only could’ve happened because of all this practice we’ve had during this long annoying pandemic.

And, if you didn’t notice this already:

— — ->> Silver Linings Only Happen after a Black Cloud <← — -

As uncomfortable as those clouds are, they’re always perfect to resolve whatever is still in our way.

We are NOW Superstars on the Resilience Index.

Our ability to only wobble rather than fall down means that we can do what is necessary to create the next phase of humanity from here.

Cause it ain’t gonna be easy dismantling the structures we created while we were sleep-walkers on the planet thus far, using resources we didn’t have and segmenting each other into haves and have nots- animals, humans and other species alike.

Yes, it will continue to be chaotic.

Yes, we will continue to experience what looks like divisiveness and destruction.

Yes, we will have to take both personal action and support systemic efforts.

And now we have a different energy on our side.

On 12/14 the Total Eclipse/ New Moon signaled the beginning of a new era. On 12/17 and 12/19 Saturn and Jupiter will slip into the sign of Aquarius, signaling revolution and possibility. And then on 12/21 they meet in a Great Conjunction on the Solstice no less- creating a bright light we haven’t seen in 800 years. The last time Jupiter and Saturn met here was in 1405, the crest of the Renaissance. [no astrologer here, this detail comes from my friend Tomar Levine]

I remember as a small child singing The 5th Dimension’s song The Age of Aquarius (though notably they took poetic license and didn’t quite get the astrology facts correct).

Feet dancing barefoot in the cool grass, looking up at the summer skies, even then I envisioned a different world than was present in the Vietnam War and Civil Rights era I grew up in.

Some of us have waited a long time for this moment.

It’s arrived. We are the Ones.

I’m ready to let the Sun shine on my less-Wobbly Weeble and believe that we can do this. No matter who tries to stop us.

There is no force greater than the indomitable authority of sovereign beings to evolve into the future.

And we get to do it together, because we are now one Humanity.

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About the Author

Dr. Holly Woods is the Author of the #1 Bestseller, The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life. Read it, you’ll never again think your life doesn’t matter.

Holly is a purpose activator. She believes that touching the spark of your soul lights you up so much that you alter the world just by being in it.

Holly’s spent nearly 4 decades helping visionaries build products and businesses that change the world, as a coach, mentor, consultant and entrepreneur. She’s younger than she’s ever been because her purpose inspires her to keep making a difference. That’s what she wants for you, too. Holly helps her clients uncover their nuanced purpose, gain capacities and mindset to attain their unreasonable goals, and align decisions, products, strategies and systems around what matters most.

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Holly earned a PhD in Human & Organizational Development, is certified as an Integral Master Coach®, Purpose Guide®, Professional Mediator and Facilitator, Master Energy Practitioner, and is a Stages of Consciousness developmental practitioner.

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