The Inspiration Reaction to Devastation

As the dusk arrives on another revolution for us little tiny creatures around the sun, a powerful opportunity for reflection presents. It's been an enormous year for the planet. So much dialogue happening around it's care, a rising of voices sharing their love of Mother Earth and their desire to nurture it in ways that have been missing since the world changed with the industrial revolution. So many minds connecting with inspirational ideas as to how we can all live a little better each day, how WE can be the swarm that changes things for the good, a willingness to let go of the tired old, resource-devouring, material-gathering, convenience-obsessing status quo.

in all my business spaces this year - The Yoga Shack, Living Hormoniously, in seminar around the country and around the globe, I’ve been privileged by the most wonderful tales of people rising up in response to destruction with such wonderful actions of inspiration. Folks planting out their gardens with big trees along their perimeters and thickening their gardens with native vegetation to create their own mini biospheres of humidity and supported growth. Of more and more people, growing more and more of their own food, localising their resources. People getting rid of chemicals around the house, so every bit of water used can be recycled for the gardens - people plumbing their detergent free shower water to their vege patches and newly planted natives. Wonderful people cleaning up oceans and waterways, whilst others work on technology to deal with the rubbish collected. Children making wonderful choices around plastics and consumerism, a generation more conscious than many that have come before. We've heard tales of buying secondhand, of sharing, gifting and exchanging - of people stepping almost completely out of the resource/manufacture cycle. There is a community response through these actions; people remembering that connection is key. That consumerism and first world ‘privilege’ often equates to isolation. In times of crisis when all we thought solid and steady becomes no more, giving way to incredible acts of unparalleled care. Through so much desvastation, there has been so much inspiration.

I am beyond honoured to have had so many wonderful people walk through my doors this year and I want to share a reminder that whilst you take all of the actions you possibly can to love the Earth, and to care for each other, that you also remember to fall into the trust that is deeper than the swirling panic of the conscious mind. A reminder to always do all that we can to be kind, caring, conscious, active, supportive, safe humans whilst remembering that whilst we are but tiny little creatures, spinning on a sphere through a vast and ever-expanding Universe, we have all of the power of that Universe within us. We are but a manifestation of that pure intelligence and the number one answer to surmount all of these problems is to master our own minds, so that the pure intelligence, the tjkurpa - all that is - becomes all that we are.

Gift yourself a moment to acknowledge all of the wonderful things you have done this year in small service - your kind gestures, your conscious choices, changes that you've made, creatures that you've saved - whatever it may be. Don't grade those things into small or grand - there is no such thing - you are not aware of how your most unconscious or subtle of kind words or actions may have rippled through the world into magnificence. A small child might not have anything more to give than their small hand of comfort on the shoulder of a weeping adult but that small gesture can not only change the adult touched but anyone in witness. We do all that we can; nothing more, nothing less.