Take a nice couple of deep breaths in your own rhythm.
Adjust your posture to be comfortable,
If you haven't already.
Pay attention to your body.
The body is always present,
Always guiding us towards presence and groundedness.
Feel,
Listen,
Sense the wisdom of your body,
Please.
And come with me today on a journey to Phoenix Rising.
It's understandable in the human experience that when things fall apart,
When things crumble,
When things burn,
When things die,
That we're overwhelmed by that because we're grieving and in pain.
Different kinds of pain,
But still pain.
But in fact,
Learning to accept that moment can entirely shift your perspective on the moment.
Barbara Marks-Harper said it best when she said,
Our crisis is always our opportunity.
So I want you to think about crises.
Crises of a country,
Your family,
You.
Pick a crisis,
Anything large,
Anything small,
Whatever you want,
Something where you just feel in the middle of that crisis overwhelmed,
Depleted,
Exhausted,
Maybe scared,
Certainly uncertain.
And these are uncertain times right now.
You know,
We have massive political change,
A global pandemic.
And in those uncertain times,
Sometimes our personal uncertainties arise,
Sometimes not.
Some of us are able to be more stable than others.
But I want you to feel your way into the burning and the ashes and the destruction and the crumbling and the oh my gods,
Because it's real.
It's more real for people that are less privileged than those that are.
They suffer at the front lines like cannon fodder.
So just feel all of their pain for a minute,
The deaths of hundreds of thousands,
A million people around the world,
Millions.
Illness,
Long haul impacts of coronavirus,
Job loss,
Economic strife.
Just feel it.
It's hard,
But just feel it for a moment.
It's part of our reality.
But it's possible.
It's just possible that everything serves a purpose.
And if that optimistic view is possible,
We should examine it.
And the purpose may be phoenix rising.
The purpose may be a beautiful bird of many colors,
Literally and figuratively rising out of the ashes.
There would be no phoenix without the ashes.
There would be no new forthcoming discoveries,
Shifts in perspective,
Creative invention,
New levels of collaboration,
New understandings,
New increased consciousness without the ashes.
So bless the ashes.
Thank them.
Grieve them.
Know them in your heart of hearts and be ready to move on.
Feel your wings arising.
You are the phoenix.
Feel them just starting to move a little bit,
Shift the air as you wake up from your slumber.
And a phoenix represents the new and the creative and the never having been before out of the ashes.
Be the phoenix now rising up above the fire and the ashes and the flames beginning to soar.
And as you begin to soar,
New vistas open up literally and figuratively.
Everything is possible.
Everything.
Just feel that in your heart of hearts.
Going from the tightest contracted,
Most frightening,
Most sparing spot to the opposite,
The most open,
The most generative,
The most potentiality even beyond imagining.
And feel that light shining out of the eyes of the phoenix,
Over its wing tips.
Feel that light of possibility for all of humanity,
All of the world,
All of the planet.
Everything imaginable is in this turn of the phoenix.
Everything is possible.
And think about your own life now and your family and your community and your region and your country.
And just see the fairy dust that the phoenix spreads out with her wings overall,
Awakening them to new possibilities,
To new ways of being,
To sloughing off the old and letting the new.
Like a new sake skin.
Slough off your old skin.
Enter the new.
It's a bit raw.
It's a bit uncertain.
It's a bit who knows.
A bit scary in an anticipatory way,
But it is the new.
And smell the air.
Feel the wind on your face as you fly with your phoenix wings.
Just take a moment.
You are the phoenix by choice,
By intention.
Everyone can be the phoenix,
And we can live,
So to speak,
In their phoenix.
Feel the vibration and tone of being a person,
A human who's totally open to the new,
Totally ready for new forms,
New ways for things to be,
New ways for you to be,
For your loved ones,
Your families,
For your colleagues to be.
New sense of community,
New sense of team,
New sense of collective will and intention.
And see all the phoenixes rising now across the entire country,
Across the entire planet.
The new settled in this phoenix way right in the middle of your own heart.
And when you're ready,
Give thanks and back into the room,
And have a wonderful day.
