I'm going out on a limb to suggest that the most powerful thing you can do these days is your own inner work. Take responsibility for your feelings and your reactions to the world around you. 

I was going to say it's more powerful than voting, and then my husband asked me why I wanted to make such a big claim. That helped me realize - it's the same loop - using a polarizing statement/belief to convince YOU that I know something, and you should listen to me.

That convincing energy is sooooo sneaky.....we think we know something better than another person. We get attached to that belief, and it becomes more important than relationships, more important than listening and connection to others.

Trying to convince others creates push back and polarization. 

The gift of these Stressors - they are not actually the cause of the emotions - but our reaction shows something's stuck. Emotional inflammation alert!

The invitation: look inward and find your personal source of inflammation. 

This personal gift of inflammation-information, how is it able to help you?

• Showing you a time in your life when you truly felt powerless – childhood for example – and today’s event is touching that button?

• Or is it a mirror, to show you how some of your inner parts mirror the outer situation? (This rarely matches exactly, sometimes pointing to ways one does the same thing to oneself.)

• Or a longing of a way to live differently, more in line with your deeper values and purpose? 

Tis the triggering season. 

Are you feeling everything amped up in America these days? The upcoming election shines light on our many dysfunctions.

The energy, from where I sense it, is heightened, chaotic, angry, moving fast, destabilizing. It’s easy to get swept off our feet by the constant changes, announcements, attacks, conventions, and social media framing.

This intensified energy affects us all - and has impacts on all our interactions, not just conversations and beliefs about politics.

You, my friend, might be caught up in this too, getting triggered. 

Who gets overwhelmed at all that you need to do to really care for yourself?
          {me - raising my hand}

Therapy, energy work, medical stuff, physical exercise, eating healthy.

Not to mention, earning a living, keeping up with your passions, taking care of children or elders, maintaining relationships and friendships, neighborhood involvement, politics....

Dang, it's just too much. 

Our culture truly is not geared towards health on so many levels.