Taking Care of Yourself...

I am reading of so many individuals in pain and having negative symptoms. With the changes in energy this will continue to happen. So much is coming up to heal and our bodies and psyches are learning to live in the new energy.
I would like to present just a few ideas for your consideration to help with these negative symptoms. Take what you can use and forget the rest.
1. Much is happening now but we have chosen to be here. We are not victims.
2. Accept responsibility for yourself.
3. The negative symptoms are not fun but we can learn to handle them.
4. To handle negative emotions learn to sit with them for a time. Breath deeply at least three deep breaths. Allow yourself to feel the feeling as much as you can. If they appear to be overwhelming, feel them as long as you can and then do something to distract yourself and come back to it when you feel it again. When it feels better after sitting with and feeling the emotion, let it go.
5. Sometimes if the challenge is too much for you, you must seek assistance; Professional help, 12 step program, body work, more.
6. Pray, meditate, make contact with your guides, angels and most of all, your Higher Self.
7. Surrender, surrender, surrender....

I might also recommend the work of Dr. David R. Hawkins, Kryon, from Kryon.com and the work of Robert Schwartz.

Pain and Suffering...

Sometimes we are so caught up in our own world that we fail to notice the pain and suffering that goes on around us.  And we live in the country that is probably the richest nation in the world.   Having worked as a social worker my entire life I have been exposed to pain and suffering within my world and yet I can little fathom the suffering going on in the refugee camps of Africa resulting from genocide and hunger.  I can’t imagine what the people of Haiti have gone through during and after the devastating earthquake and subsequent attempts to recover and find some semblance of normalcy.
There is a lot of pain and suffering in the world.  Siddhartha Gautama the historical figure who became the Buddha is said to have left his princely palace as a young man only to find death and suffering.
Stories abound of Jesus healing the sick, feeding the hungry.  I think it is a safe bet that he knew about pain and suffering.  Are you aware of the pain and suffering around you and in far off places?  These who suffer, who are concerned about survival needs, food, shelter, medical care, have very little chance of climbing the spiritual ladder until some of those needs are met.  What can we do?  A smile or an unspoken blessing is a good way to start.  My dear friend always took a plate of food from his holiday feast to the streetperson that slept in a doorway close.   Buying an extra can of food to go to a food bank or volunteering at a food bank or soup kitchen are ways that can be helpful. 
When you look at yourself and complain about an ache or a pain be grateful for the roof over your head.   When you are passed over for a raise at work, be grateful for a job.
Take a look around you.  Perhaps the greatest thing anyone can do is simply to be aware and realize how much suffering and pain is in the world.  

Let go of Resisting...

Let go of resisting.  What you resist persists.  This has been the suggestion of many therapies and new age ideologies.   It is suggested that if you resist pain it will get worse and letting go of that resisting and allowing yourself to feel the pain helps with both chronic and acute pain.  It also is suggested in dealing with fear.  Allow yourself to feel the fear, the sensations associated with fear, feel them and let it go.  The fear will fade.  This is only an introduction to the idea of letting go of resistance but its an idea  worth looking at.

It is So Easy to be Tired...

It is so easy to be tired.   Sick and tired of hearing of the pain that we heap upon each other that is pushed in a bigger pile by the media. 
There is pain associated with birth, sometimes a lot of pain.  The dawning of the new day sometimes comes during a storm.  
Take care of yourself.  If you feel their pain, allow yourself to feel it and know that by feeling the pain of the other you are helping to expose the wound and cleanse it. 
It is so easy to be tired of hearing, even experiencing the pain of the planet and its inhabitants but keep the faith.   If we don’t believe we are birthing a new way we won’t.
It is okay to sleep through the news.  It is okay to turn off the ‘in your face drama’ of the world.  If you do encounter it, feel it, and then let it go.   The storm clouds do break up and move on eventually.