Eclipse Season, and the Changes We Are Going Through

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Nancy Furst

A New Moon solar eclipse in Aries on Wednesday, April 19th, signals another momentous period of change is at hand. Since eclipses always come about two weeks apart, the Full Moon lunar eclipse in Scorpio on May 5th, assures us that deep feelings will surface, offering a chance to sort things out.

Through this period, there is an emphasis on choosing what we’re finished with (or perhaps experiencing sudden news of endings that are out of our control), and setting clear intentions for new ways we want to create, be and live.

We’re already in the midst of so much change that this can feel overwhelming. The past may arise in ways that are emotionally challenging. Last night I had dreams of places I used to live and relationships that ended long ago. Old patterns of wounding can surface, magnifying our personal struggles. With Scorpio involved, there is no question an exploration of the depths of our human experience will occur. But Scorpio is also the astrological sign that holds the greatest potential for transcendence and that is where we can focus and direct our energy.

As an intuitive channel and empath who is passionately invested in how we evolve, I do pay attention to local and world events. I relate to all life as One, so it is impossible not to feel grief and despair watching the old paradigms of separatism and dominion fighting it out at the cost of our very lives, or have days when it’s all just too much. I’ve learned to accept taking naps, the inability to accomplish anything, and most importantly… myself as I am. In doing so, the momentum to continue and overcome always resumes.

We are all meant to be part of this evolution and are empowered far more than we realize. We’re being stripped of the illusions of safety and “normalcy” to shatter our conditioning so we can re-create based on what we know in our hearts and souls about respect for all life and our infinite potential to love. If we feel powerless to be effective collectively, we can focus on being effective in our personal lives. We can become clearer about our priorities and shapeshift our lives by making new choices.

This eclipse period can help catapult us in the direction we want to go if we flow with it, creating changes that serve us and working with the changes that appear. Fearlessly reflect on what arises for you. Process what you are going through with nurturing and deep compassion. Command your capability to let go and to create anew. Plant the seeds of your ideas. Have faith and patience, and summon your soul so you can trust and realize your innate ability to soar.

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Touching Death

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Nancy Furst

Something happened to me today. During one of my regular spinal procedures, I experienced aspiration/regurgitation, vomiting while under anesthesia, which can lead to death. When I first became conscious, I was laying on my back with a team of doctors around me, telling me to breathe. But my body was totally paralyzed, and there was no air to be had. I was literally suffocating.

I wanted to open my eyes so they could see my panic, reach out to grab someone’s arm, scream that I could not breathe, but all of that was utterly impossible. At some point, I found some movement in my legs and began wildly kicking to signal them. Someone was squeezing a plastic object over my face and I could feel air being forced through my mouth.

I believe I went out again, though, unable to take in breath on my own, and at one point in the alarming inability to take in air, I felt my head fall to the side of the table and heard my consciousness say, “Well, this is it.” I knew the feeling of someone dying. I had felt the struggle of my body fighting with everything possible within in it, to live, until there was nothing left. It didn’t feel like I was doing that, it felt purely like the biological impetus to live, in action. Which might sound strange coming from a spiritualist.

I do remember when the anesthesia was being administered at the beginning of the procedure, asking my angels to be with me. You can’t make sense or understand an experience like this until more time passes.

But I want to bring up the reaction I involuntarily had, which most humans do, once I had been restored; a reaction generated purely by fear and an effort to cope. I began looking for fault. Something went horribly wrong and it must be someone’s fault. I had done everything the same as every other time, in preparing for the surgery. My regular anesthesiologist wasn’t there, nor was the doctor who usually works on me. This shouldn’t have happened and someone had to have done something wrong.

But after reading up on what happened, I realized it was highly probable it wasn’t anyone’s fault. It occurred halfway through the procedure, even though I stopped eating the night before well before midnight, I had had a very late dinner and hadn’t been digesting things well, and acid reflux could have played a part.

At home, on the very same night of my recovery, I was able to let the misguided quest to find fault go. Instead, I felt relief for the illumination and was appropriately/extraordinarily grateful for the excellent team of doctors and nurses that saved me. Everything in me calmed down, my mind cleared and my heart opened – to myself in compassion for the traumatic experience, and to all the support that was present for me, both seen and unseen.

When things don’t go our way, when there is tragedy, betrayal, loss, bad news, death, or any number of awful life events, we are so conditioned to blame, fault, point fingers, attack, and be suspicious of others. It’s one thing to seek justice and have people take accountability, but I’m speaking to the part of our minds that immediately grasps in pain for false relief. Our heightened polarization and collective fear makes it all the more easy to go there.

But we are consciousness. And when we give our consciousness some space to reveal truth and guidance, it does. Its very nature leads us out of the darkness and into the light of clarity, wisdom, unity, connection, love, and trust.

That is a different path forward.

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New Beginnings, Spring Equinox

Posted on March 20, 2023 by Nancy Furst

The New Moon in Aries on March 21st, along with the Spring Equinox March 20th, is bringing a significant shift of energy for stimulating new beginnings and increasing the momentum for forward movement. Yay!!

Though I’ve been loving every moment of the unusual amounts of rain we’ve had in California and the inward pull of colder winter weather, I clearly recognize the benefits of having dealt with the issues that surfaced during this time, as I observe resolution beginning to emerge.

I think this is a universal truth, as we’ve all been facing harder truths or difficulties. Now, there are new shades of light softly illuminating the path ahead. It may take longer to shed light upon the global darkness, but we can experience greater headway personally, and that is a contribution in itself.

In the start of this shift, it’s important to reflect on the cycle you’ve come through and acknowledge yourself for the faith, courage, endurance, and growth you’ve realized. Equinox traditionally involves ritual and ceremony, and it’s a great way to mark the crossroads of change we are all embarking on. Creating an altar, simply lighting a candle for yourself, writing your intentions, or offering your gratitude to Mother Earth and Spirit, are all acts that invoke greater assistance and connection.

Equnox is an honoring time of Mother Earth and our connection with Her. When I studied with Native Americans for many years, I was often told: “The Earth is your true Mother, go to Her”. Through the years, I’ve come to understand the depth of that wisdom. We are her children and she is always there for us to reflect the true nature of life and our inter-connectedness. She shows us birth, death, regeneration, and the cycles of life. I’ve learned to shed my tears on her, say my prayers to the sky as I sit upon her, and always, always give thanks for the beauty of our magnificent Earth home.

If you’d like to come to a sacred earth place for an in-person spiritual session with me at the Ojai Valley Inn (ojaivalleyinn.com), I’m regularly there on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

May you be blessed this Spring with new energy, opportunities, creations, blessings, inspirations, and great abundance of love and support.

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Welcome, 2023!

Posted on December 31, 2022 by Nancy Furst

Looking at the numerology of 2023, I took a massively deep breath that landed in the bottom of my lungs and rested in numbing relief. The numerology of 2022 featured extreme emotionality that affected plans and created delays, at the very least. The events in our lives and world spawned emotions that stopped many of us in our tracks, posing great difficulty in moving forward, and triggering wounds of the heart.

Personally, I began 2022 with two spinal surgeries and ended the year with a fall that resulted in a sprained ankle and bruises from toe to hip. In the interim, I was forced to move for the third time in three years and along with taking months off to recover from surgery, my resort work died down to almost nothing. I most definitely experienced extreme emotionality and went into deep reflection from past lives to present.

Growth comes through all experience, but I’m happy to see some elements in the numerology of 2023, a seven year, that can lift us higher and see us through. As I reported to Fodor’s Travel in their request of my 2023 prediction (in a few sentences):

Though 2023 holds much of the same in terms of continued fluctuation, upheaval and uncertainty, there will also be increased frequencies of light and energy transmissions, unexpected downloads of inspiration and creative solutions, and sudden openings for transcendence and healing.  If we continue to choose the high road, express love and compassion generously, and keep our intentions clear, we can be supported and lifted beyond our wildest dreams.

Seven is a spiritual number. For many years I enjoyed having sevens in every home address, my favorite being “777 Cactus Gulch Ct.”. It speaks to the heightened energies mentioned above, and with focus of intention, we can be a clear channel for the quantum field, higher consciousness, and manifest as co-creators with the divine.

When life hits us with personal challenges, it can be more difficult to access these higher perspectives, let alone sustain them. After spending 2022 working with this challenge, I learned a few incredible things. No matter what state I was in, when I showed up to do spiritual counseling, praying to be sourced what I needed to be a clear channel for the highest possibilities of the encounter, I was able. My training, commitment, intention, integrity, and connection to Spirit yielded results, despite any frailty.

I also learned to remain compassionate, tender, and loving with myself through states of dis-ease, loss, and grief. To forgive easily, pray, and ask for help even when those I asked couldn’t be there. I learned to reassess priorities every single day given my limitations, and simply get the top things done. As a Virgo, I gave up perfectionism, left the bed unmade or the house in disarray until I had the momentum to address it. I let my office work pile up and took care of it as I could. The important things got done, and I functioned through it all, with greater acceptance of my vulnerability.

I honored my emotions by expressing them, journaling, or sometimes calling on a special friend (hi, Julie!); the rare capable friend who knows how to listen, makes time for you, is patient and asks the questions that let you know they are truly interested in what you’re going through, recognizes your needs and gives what truly helps, reaches out to check in on you and lets you know they love you all the time. Not easy to find, frankly. To have just one person like that is an unspeakable blessing. If you have more, bow in gratitude right now.

We’ve all faced and endured these hardships for the past few years, and we’ve cultivated great wisdom and inner strength. Now, in the seven year of 2023, we can be instruments for higher consciousness and manifestation. The journey of this year is up to us and if we seek higher ground in our minds and hearts, we will be met with greater response, assistance, and upliftment. The more creative we are in weaving a new design of our lives and boldly daring to love past our boundaries of “safety”, the further we will go in participation with the transformative energies birthing on this planet now.

Beautiful blessings to you this year, my friend. We have learned and grown so much, and now we can express ourselves from that wisdom and create wondrous new relationships, opportunities, and ideas that enable transcendence. I love you.

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You’re Not Crazy

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Nancy Furst

Ok, weird title, but this goes out to all my conscious, loving friends and people who are doubting, judging, or faulting themselves. If no one gets you, things are not going as you’d planned, dreams are not panning out, and/or basic needs are not being met, you are not crazy and it’s not your fault.

We are in a powerful time of endings in so many ways, with unexpected change a constant, and there is very little to hold on to, let alone control. Learning to trust in the midst of such uncertainty, and overcome the reactive impulse to grasp in desperation, can be understandably daunting. There is an option we can strive for, however: to manage ourselves and our lives with compassionate flexibility while we maintain clear intention, as we let go of the rest and allow the greater cosmic currents to carry us forward into new experience and expression.

These days, it can take supreme concentration to focus on belief beyond our fears and envision a better scenario than the one we are experiencing. It’s far easier to give in to embedded patterns than to create new ones. And let’s talk about grief. The relentless acceleration of loss from all directions leaves little time to even process the grief we feel. Loved ones die, illness appears, jobs and relationships end, and world events reflect the massive level of change and literal death that is occurring. There are countless ways we are being pushed to face what is ending in our lives.

This is not the only side of the picture, however, rebirth is occurring and awaits, and many are already progressing with greater ease and joy. For all of us, the direction is the same: we are collectively moving toward higher consciousness, love, and unity where the possibilities for harmony and creative solutions are exponentially greater. The time it will take is unknown, but we CAN be empowered in our challenges to chart the course forward through our growth.

My life and work are dedicated to this. I know what it takes to endure, transform, and soar beyond old constructs. It takes help, and when we help each other in any situation, all are lifted. In spiritual counseling sessions, each time I work with a client, I am equally blessed by the experience. It’s not just the income received to support my material needs (though I am unceasingly grateful for that), the frequency we create together inspires transcendence for both of us. The time we share in that space of unconditional love and support, is a gift the world receives because we exist in Oneness.

Any moment spent in gratitude, faith, love, kindness, compassion, self reflection, meditation, prayer, joy, or forgiveness, makes a difference. If you are in despair and you pause to connect to any one of these, you correct your course. And when we share these higher frequencies in connection with another, a greater energy of expansion is transmitted to benefit all.

Unfortunately, we have become conditioned in our culture, to expect instantaneous results. Generally, we are highly addicted and impatient. Only immediate and visible results tend to inspire our trust and commitment, so the pitfalls of disappointment and despair are an easy lure. With great compassion for all, we must employ our deeper vision and faith, now more than ever, and demonstrate our beliefs through our interactions and service.

Our souls are called in different ways. Some are leaving, and some are leading us through the tunnel of death to rebirth, as we remain. There is no right or wrong, and no one should be judged, for these times are not easy for any of us. Take time to look inward and listen to the guidance of your innate wisdom, it is there. Take the time to connect with Mother Earth and Spirit and ask for what you need, you are heard. And if you are blessed to be thriving, share with those who are not, in some way, to be the miracle of love for someone else. We are all part of the same, beautiful circle of life.

There is always light, there is always hope, there is always a way, and we are never alone. We are creating a new Earth in the midst of the death of the old archetypes and it as wondrous and violent as Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano erupting and all the great Earth changes we are living through together. It is a terrifying and incredible time to be alive, so summon your light when darkness falls, and shine for all to see, that we have greater courage because of your reflection. Namaste.

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The Difference Kindness Makes

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Nancy Furst

In the midst of colossal change and loss on a collective level, it’s understandable to have occasional feelings of helplessness. We are being pushed hard to quickly adapt, thoroughly let go, and create new solutions to historic problems. The pressure is on.

Most of us have learned the foundation block of self-care through the increasing energies, implementing stronger boundaries, accepting more gracefully what (and whom) is departing, and allowing for the time needed to gain clarity and make deeper connections with our souls and source. We’ve learned to increase compassion for ourselves and others.

As we go forward in our personal commitments and service, one of the greatest contributions we can make are generous and frequent acts of kindness. We may not know how another is doing, but we can be sure everyone is challenged in some way. We can recognize collective tension, fear, and strain and its impact on humanity.

An act of kindness is a catalyst for transcendence. The simplest act of recognition of another can be the demonstration that gives them enough hope to keep going, heals the wound of neglect or confirms a needed response that increases faith. It offers a reflection of our inherent nature and conscious awareness of our interconnectedness, which is a powerful reconnect to the greater truth of our capability.

A genuine act of kindness can include material offerings, but does not require them. It can take only a moment, or last the length of time it takes to listen actively. When you feel compelled to want to do more but cannot see how, look to others for how many acts of kindness you can offer in the day. There will be plenty of opportunities, and every act of kindness weaves a stronger connectivity that strengthens the whole. What benefits another, will also feed your soul, ease your mind, and fill your heart.

And don’t forget to include yourself in acts of kindness. Judgment, shame, and punishment are the old paradigm and we will grow exponentially with the fertilizer of kindness into the new paradigms created by greater compassion, kindness, and love.

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Becoming No-Body

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Nancy Furst

At a time when we are inundated with distressing news and events, along with personal challenges that are pushing us to grow beyond old limitations and mental constructs, there is an important practice that allows us to release from attachment and embody the awareness of our inherent state of oneness and infinite potential.

It is the practice of taking your mind to the state of being no-body, no-thing, no-where, in no-time. When I was first introduced to this concept, I was a young woman in love and overly attached to someone who was constantly eluding me yet drawing me in. Always one to pull cards from spiritual guidance decks as a touchstone for higher direction, while in a particularly painful phase of separation and angst, I asked for guidance from the Osho Transformation Tarot deck.

At the time, I was not enlightened enough to accept the wisdom of the card I pulled. Quite the opposite, I became infuriated, because I was looking for validation of my worth and righteousness in the context of the judgment I held for my partner’s behaviors. It was the card of Recognition:

The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody….and this is the miracle – when you accept your nobodiness, when you are just as ordinary as anybody else, when you don’t ask for any recognition, when you can exist as if you are not existing. To be absent is the miracle.

A nobody is not an ordinary phenomenon; it is one of the greatest experiences in life – that you are, and still you are not. That you are just pure existence with no name, with no address, with no boundaries…neither a sinner or a saint, neither inferior nor superior, just a silence.

Your somebodiness is so small. The more you are somebody, the smaller you are; the more you are nobody, the bigger. Be absolutely nobody, and you are one with the existence itself.

Decades later, what was inconceivable for me to accept, became my most welcome meditation. In order to practice better, I used to watch movies that showed an astronaut becoming untethered and dissolve into deep space, becoming smaller and smaller, Gravity was one. Rather than frighten me, I learned to feel the depth of peace into the surrender of infinity. Dr. Joe Dispenza’s meditation, The Generous Present Moment, beautifully guides one into this state, as well.

The benefit of becoming No-Body, is that it is a profoundly powerful re-set. It diminishes the attachment (positive or negative) to the outer, and returns one to a state of inherent peace, acceptance, and connection, bringing forth perspective, ease, and supreme capability.

In sessions with clients, I often guide them to imagine their soul’s energy before they entered their mother’s womb. I remind them they didn’t know they had to grow a body and a brain and there was no concern. Within them and as part of Creation itself, all existed to support the creation of their human form. This is who they still are and will always be.

It’s easy to get lost in the trauma and drama of life and let our weary minds grasp hungrily at fears and impossibilities. If we let them, those thoughts become stories, and those stories become our personalities and pathologies. Pausing to interrupt those patterns and engage our nobodiness, reconnecting to our true state of oneness, can illuminate paths we would not otherwise see. It can rekindle hope and inspiration, sparking the limitless energy we have within to continue co-creating from infinite possibility. The more we do this, and the more that do this, the greater connection we will make with one another and the greater momentum we will have for transformation.

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Shifting with the Winds

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Nancy Furst

(I began this blog before the recent school mass shooting in Texas, and have added something at the end, in reference.)

Change is the constant, the nature of life, and we’re all feeling its demands and repercussions more than ever. Moving from reactiveness to responsiveness is helpful in the midst of change, as is staying open-hearted and curious. But in the presence of global instability, minds that have been radicalized, and heightened collective fear, it’s a challenge that requires a strong practice, often on a daily basis.

We always have answers within and access to guidance beyond our field of perception. In the stillness that can be reached by creating space for resonance of mind, body and spirit, we can hear this guidance. In editing that which triggers our fears, learning to take in what we can handle and giving ourselves down time or even positive distraction to attain some balance, we can manage better. Even in constantly shifting winds, compassion, kindness, love, and positive action can be the cornerstones of a newly created foundation from which we build our lives now.

Lately, I’ve been allowing sleeplessness to bring up the deeper emotions and thoughts that course through me. Rather than fight it, I get out my journal and write. Even when tearful or despairing, it becomes a purification and self acknowledgment that wouldn’t present itself otherwise. I also have books on hand, or Lion’s Roar Buddhist magazine to then guide my mind toward nurturing, insightful truths, as well as countless meditations encouraging depth of connection and regenerative sleep. Most importantly, I let go of the old conditioning that insists I need eight hours of sleep and accept I will have the energy I need for the day ahead.

During a long recovery from recent surgeries, I discovered an unusually long series of novels taking place in the time of the Civil War, the Bregdan Chronicles by Ginny Dye. (So far there are eighteen novels and she plans to keep writing them.) It has been an astounding re-visiting of our nation’s history and profoundly insightful regarding the continuing problems we are facing. What I love the most, is the demonstration of how we can live to rise above those challenges.

Each book evolves from what she calls the Bregdan Principle, and I bring it up in lieu of our common grief, despair and helplessness over the lives lost in Texas last week, along with all the other tragedies of war and suffering we are in the midst of. I hope it inspires you:

“Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person’s story to create history. Your life will help determine the course of history. You may think you don’t have much of an impact. You do. Every action you take will reflect in someone else’s life. Someone else’s decisions. Someone else’s future. Both good and bad.”

She explains that she named this series The Bregdan Chronicles because Bregdan is a Gaelic term for weaving, braiding. It is a good reminder for us. We are each a thread in the tapestry of life, all of us artists contributing in a fluid design, with the power every single day to re-weave a more beautiful creation through our expression, choices and loving actions.

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Chronic Pain….and other considerations

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Nancy Furst

The title of this post is the reason I’ve not written since December 2020, and I wanted to update my readers (if anyone is still there, lol), share my experience, and support those who suffer similar conditions. It’s a milestone to be returning to the writing world, and I plan to create a new website that will include this blog in the near future.

Since 2014, I have been enduring progressive spinal degeneration that caused disabling pain and heralded a journey into continuous and countless treatments and procedures, frightening states of depression and isolation, and suffering that led to a recent spinal surgery I am currently recovering from.

My story is of someone who enjoys her career as a spiritual counselor, is still working in her sixties, and lives alone as a single woman. As my back pain worsened through the years and sitting became intolerable, I watched my social life narrow to eventual non-existence as my core reality became the effort to survive pain and maintain hope, while continuing my practice.

Long-term chronic pain weakens you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. It alienates, exasperates, confuses, and drains you. It can change your personality. At its worst, it eats away the very promise of life, and leaves you as an empty shell without hope for the future.

When you have chronic pain of any type, it becomes a journey of self awareness and education, and inevitably forces a change of structure and relationships. Given the current state of the world, it can be difficult to find people with the time, patience, and listening skills to be there for you, and reaching out can become debilitating exposure to disappointment. Personally, I learned to endure everything I possibly could on my own, becoming quite creative in the process, but there is no way around the times in life when we become so vulnerable we need help.

Here is some of what I’ve learned to hopefully support and inspire those suffering chronic pain and for their loved ones who care about them. First, for those experiencing the condition.

Expect more of yourself than others. Trust yourself and your Source to find your way on the journey. Accept breakdowns, failures, and bad days and nights. Expand and express your gratitude. Educate yourself on the condition, as you cultivate your intuition and listen to what your body needs. Talk to someone and don’t give up when people are not available. Be willing to forgive.

Depending on your resources, create a team of practitioners and healers that can be there for you. I finally hired a housekeeper, got massage, discovered a local acupuncturist who offered hypnosis during the session, and found a chiropractor with a decompression table.

Express yourself creatively, journal your feelings and experience, watch movies and read books that inspire and nurture, and listen to or play music. Cultivate your inner and spiritual connections, including the practice of meditation. Grieve what you no longer have or are able to do and be willing to let go. Invest in and feed your belief in your ability to heal beyond any diagnosis. Stay open and curious to what this experience can offer you and look at what it’s forcing you to change.

The greatest offering others can give, is the time to listen and show up. Pay attention to the needs of your loved one and anticipate how you can assist them, before they have to ask. In my case, having a neighbor take out my trash occasionally because lifting was a strain, was enough to brighten my day and outlook. When I couldn’t work, those who donated financially relieved a tremendous amount of stress that enabled me to focus on healing. Having people who don’t give up on you, despite the toll it can take on them to bear witness to your suffering, is priceless.

What I’ve learned through this particular struggle, and all disease, is that whole healing takes a whole lot. It involves not only physical healing, but emotional growth, spiritual awareness, and the ability to change the pain patterns of the brain and create new neuron patterns of wellness and possibility, which I learned from Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work in this field.

Eleven weeks out from spinal surgery, I am happy to be well enough to return to work at the Ojai Valley Inn two days a week and resume phone consultations, and I can feel the potential of greater relief from pain in my body, though I’m realistic of what still lies ahead.

It can be hard to remember we are not our bodies or the conditions in our lives, and to trust our inherent state of limitless possibility. Though it’s not easy to create beyond embedded patterns and damaging conditioning, we can. The conditions of our lives are the teachers for our growth, and every one of us can be a fantastic student who graduates to higher levels.

Never underestimate what you can do to change yourself or someone’s life every single day. Every one of us can choose to love so big and create so fearlessly we evolve into a new reality. I am with you as you strive to go forward, offering the deepest compassion and acknowledgment of who you are, and cheering every step you take!

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What is Happening?

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Nancy Furst

Waking up on Christmas morning to the news of the bombing in Nashville, I wanted to add an update to my last blog, reflecting on 2020. As an empath and spiritual counselor, I sometimes slide into the overwhelm and weight of the times we are in and, just like you, have to find my way upward.

So I wanted to share this morning what I believe is truly happening, and send a reminder of what is needed to not just survive, but rise.

What is really happening is a global shift, a paradigm shift, to an elevated consciousness and a changed way of life. It is a supreme movement of transformation happening to us, and through us, displaying the simultaneous affect on the individual and the collective.

It is an enforcement of the long-denied truth of our oneness, and our inter-connectedness: that which affects one affects the whole and what I do to you, is done to me. It is a truth that can be displayed through us in glorious transcendence of limitation or all manner of devastation, such as what we are experiencing in the pandemic, dictator-like leadership, climate change, and violence toward one another.

At this stage of saturation, exhaustion, and uncertainty, it is a time to grip tightly and hold relentlessly to the truth of the power of our unity through love, compassion and forgiveness, and our infinite capacity to create through idea and inspiration.

Neurogenesis is occurring as well as phenomenal adaptation at cellular and DNA levels, and we are feeling it all. Our capacity is expanding, not only to endure, but to grow and thrive. So that’s the challenge as we evolve through this chaos, to direct and re-direct our focus to our inner capacity for change.

To knock down the doors of our resistance and jump into the flow of transformation. To trust the greater consciousness we are a part of and be willing to let go of our blocks. To boldly shatter the dictates of greed and separation and demonstrate a higher consciousness of unity.

Accepting the organic nature of change and relinquishing our addictive expectations of immediacy is another critical aspect of the cycle we are in. That includes reducing or eliminating the behaviors that stimulate our addictions and that which perpetuates the illusion of separation.

There is not one aspect of ourselves or our lives that isn’t subject to the need for change and it is a daily investment in the changes we want and need, that will cultivate our resiliency and shine the light through the darkness to keep going forward.

We can no longer rely on moments of love and kindness, we are facing a greater commitment now; a long-term commitment that builds new communities, heals the planet and her eco-systems, restores honorable and respectful relationship to one another, and reignites the passion of the value of life.

Most who know me, understand that I have long-ago dropped the traditions of the holidays, opting instead to aspire to live every day in the spirit of appreciation and generosity, but I do wish you this Christmas Day, a special prayer of the heart: that you receive all you need to feel your wholeness, power, abundance, and riches of being loved. We are together in becoming this great change on the planet, and I’m deeply honored by your presence and support.

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