Overwhelm and Defensiveness
By: Nalini Macnab
Tags: Oneness, Wisdom, Sacred Feminine, Love, Transformation

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Is there a tiger in the room?

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed just now. WAY TOO MUCH seems to be happening. Those who thought they wanted ascension or enlightenment, even the most dedicated, find themselves in the midst of survival fears, survival programs, and all various other survival scenarios.

A friend of mine used to say, “We have no time for your stupid spiritual stuff, when bullets are flying over our heads!” Sad that a collective whose reverence for the planet began things, has come to this… at the end of the known. Do survival fears have to die in order for us to thrive? Perhaps so. We seem to be on our way to proving it.

Given: We are all here to learn what we are here to learn, the way we are here to learn it… This is the nature of a free will zone.

AND

That cycle is over. If we persist in learning things the way we set up this lifetime to learn them…well, anyone can see how that’s going.

Gaia is changing. The miracle that is her surface world, an atmosphere, life-sustaining nature, is also changing. This exacerbates, to the nth degree, any overwhelm we may already be feeling from our jobs, health concerns, inability to provide for our families…and these are real concerns for many.

These concerns are not mitigated nor will they be alleviated, by defensiveness. Do we want to feel safe, and for our loved ones to be so? Of course we do. Where does the feeling of safety come from?

We each have our own answers to that. The pathology of defensiveness does not serve any of those answers, nor the real solutions that could emerge.

This is not about what we think. Our minds were trained in the old cycle.

You must unlearn what you have learned. ~ Yoda

Some of it was useful, of course. And, overwhelm sends our minds and bodies running for a defended place, usually a fixed position in consciousness.

“I believe THIS!” And, no one is stopping you. Source always says “yes.”

Does that belief system make you safe? Does it make you feel uplifted, clear-headed, able to respond? Do we want to keep learning the hard way? Is that still fun? It seems to be, for many. I usually save these topics for my ‘students’ of egoic dissolution, but this one keeps knocking, so here it is:

The addiction to defensiveness is pervasive and insidious in today’s world. It is hard-wired into our inherited DNA {there is science to back this up}. We can choose to change this. The sciences of Neuroplasticity and Epigenetics have ‘proven’ what enlightenment knows:

We no longer need to run an instinctive ‘prey’ response to overwhelm. We may feel cornered and scared, but this is because we have been programmed to feel that way.

We can learn ~ as enlightenment has taught ~ to move with life, and find our safety within Her flow.

“Everything is Consciousness” ~ sages of every age

You can be still, what the doubters call ‘going to your happy place,’ at any moment. You can change your energy in the space of three conscious {not controlled} breaths.

Our minds have been conditioned to take those breaths, practice those asanas, take time in nature, then, to tell ourselves we are exiting that moment. The conditioned switch flips and, once again, we are in agitation or whatever vibratory state will make us the most upset and off balance in that moment. “Well, that felt great, but what am I going to do about__{your fears go here__? Oh Noooo!” And, you’ve just hit bottom on the sine wave of suffering.

This is what is meant by “Get off the Wheel.” Reincarnation is not necessarily about sequential embodiment, but more about repetitive states of mind. If we insist on our mental and emotional repetitions, we insist on living them out. Why do we do this? Why do we send our worries, doubts and fears into syndication?

There is an alternative available to us all. The peace of an open heart has no need to defend itself. Like anything else, it takes practice. Love is the key. REAL love lifts our energy into higher octaves of experience. No sci-fi, only truth.

The vibration of divine love is the most practical thing any of us can practice. With every cellular shift, every nuance of enlightened embodiment, that practice deepens. There is no graduation, no ‘there’ to balance out an illusory ‘here.’

It is not enough to decide to be kind {a good start, that} or to ask “What would love do?” Becoming Oneness requires a state-shift, a sea change, in every part of what we believe ourselves to be.

Releasing the addiction to defensiveness does not necessarily mean dropping both sword and shield. Rather, set them aside, cleaned and at the ready, for when SHE might wield them through you…. and don’t fall prey to the temptation to pick them up until SHE does. Then, well… Sekhmet-Kali-Durga take the field. And She will let those tools lie forever rusting if we don’t let go of control.

We all feel overwhelmed, one way and another. The way through is not to instinctively draw up lines of battle nor to defend how right our minds/emotions tell us we must be.

Occasional battles will be waged…but only REAL love is the Invincible Force. Ask Durga. SHE has stories to tell.

~ Namaste ~