PACT: An Elixir for Uncertain Times

I am wishing you reminders of every day miracles in the midst of these times of rapid growth and decay.

In this unstable uncertain time where we are discriminatingly experiencing the exhaustion and grief of these times while coming back to in person gatherings within a system that wants to pretend that it is ‘business as usual,’ I offer you an elixir that came to me in the middle of the night when I was in the midst of a challenging situation. This PACT with myself has become my go to whenever I have big feelings and the fire within me wants to simultaneously burn everything down and extinguish.

I hope that this PACT supports your creativity and imagination to be more powerful, deep, whimsical, and fluid. I hope your PACT feeds your soul the medicine that they need.

PACT: An Elixir for Uncertain Times

Ingredients

Pause

Acknowledge

Curiosity

Trust

Recipe

Pause: Invitation to take a breath, close your eyes or look at something that grounds and centers you. Take another breath that connects you to the ground and to the sky. Keep focusing on your breath until you feel ready.

Acknowledge the sensations on your body and/or your feelings and needs and/or the feeling and needs of others.

Curiosity towards what is arising in you and what might be happening for others. You could ask questions to clarify what the other person meant, questions to understand, or questions to see if how you are experiencing the situation is the same others. You could ask open and honest questions. You could get curious about what you are feeling and needing.

Trust your own intuition. Trust the process that you are going through. Trust your gut and what you are experiencing and get curious about what is happening between you and the others so that you can move towards having a fire that warms you and others in a good way.

These ingredients flow into each other. Although I would recommend taking a pause first, this does not need to be a linear process. Trusting your intuition may lead to more curiosity or getting curious might make you pause.

If you try it out, I would love to hear what you learn and how you re-mix the recipe to meet your needs and this moment in time.

Image is a drawing by Corey Wellik