Inauguration Day

Today is a day we will not forget. Like other significant markers of history and delineations of era's; when the prefixes "pre" and "post" define timelines. Years from now we will recall where we were, what we were doing, where otherwise ordinary details are the set and setting of the extraordinary circumstance. 

What is so extraordinary about today? 

First the good news, the highest seat, so far, that a woman will take in U.S. leadership begins today. 

Second, regardless of political standpoint and whether or not you are in favor of the elected 46th president, we nearly lost our democracy. Democracy is who we are. Until we are able to discover and consciously create an even better form of political organization, I believe democracy is the best we have for where we realistically fall on the scale of collective conscious evolution. I would like to believe that we are ready for something greater, perhaps something more utopian. Yet, what has been revealed in recent years is that we as a country are severely traumatized. Our countries' most haunting shadows and demons no longer linger in the dark, they were brought to light in the last four years. Uneasy as it is, it is the only way to heal, transform and evolve in an integrated way that is not bypassing the issues that persist when not acknowledged and dealt with. 

Today, we begin to heal. 

It was brought to my attention that I might reconsider having class today as it is a block from the State Capitol building where there is plausible risk of violent protests of today's inauguration. As valid as it is, I instead have chosen to not miss this opportunity to practice being present, awake and nonreactive as possible on a historical and intensified day. And, as I love to say, to be in the eye of the storm. To some, choosing to sit in meditation or practice mindfulness (or other seemingly nonproductive or action oriented things), while there are real issues to deal with, might be considered bypass and an elite privilege. However true that may be, it is also true that there comes a time when attention shifts where it is needed most. And that time is different for each individual and each moment. Some are called to take action, to demonstrate, to speak, to celebrate. All rightful expressions. 

Right now, the moment for me calls to be still and objective. To hold conscious awareness within myself, and those who show up. There is immense power in the invisible energy of conscious awareness. The expansion of our unified field of consciousness is nondiscriminatory; it envelopes all and assists in the healing that is necessary as we move forward.