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The Center of Your Power

Close up of the ground

It's important now to build the community you need for the long haul. To upgrade your long-distance communications to have as many layers as possible to approximate togetherness. Audio. Video. Handwriting. This is part of your new survival, like food and water but for both body and spirit.

It's important now to notice any conditions you have the thought "We will be okay if..." hooked into. And unhook them. Either find something non-situational or non-circumstantial to anchor your "We will be okay if/because..." into, like our resilience and determination, or if you need to go to "We aren't going to be okay," go ahead and go there. Plan and act accordingly, shoring up whatever you need to face that.

The important thing is to locate the center of your own power, to live on and move into the world from that ground. We need each other in our power. Distress feels less useful.

If you haven't figured it out yet, many distressing things are coming. Many have been among us for a very long time but this moment spotlights or makes them appear heightened.

Sometimes it's grounding to remember the world has always been broken in more ways than we may ever know or understand. Our dismay, awareness, or shock may be the only thing that's new.

Let's stay in our usefulness. Crouch down low in your heart to feel the center of your own gravity. Come down. Get connected. Stay low.


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courage, Survival GuideJen Lee