Do you feel out of whack? 36 Ideas to Come into Alignment

Maybe it’s the intense energy after the eclipse earlier this week. Maybe it’s the quickening towards 2020. If you are feeling out of whack, you aren’t alone. If you think the world is out of whack, you aren’t thinking this all by yourself. What is going on? How do we find alignment?

The truth is we are off balance. Our yang is way overstimulated and way too activated.

Let’s Talk about Yin and Yang

What’s yang? It is the masculine principle (nothing to do with gender here!), doing, the outside, dynamic, creative, outward, hot, bright, the sun, fire, daytime …. Summer is a yang season.

Yin is the feminine principle (again, nothing to do with gender), being, the inside, slow, nourishing, inward, receptive, cool, dark, the moon, water, nighttime. Winter is the yin season.

Yang is sky and yin is earth. Yang is also electric and yin magnetic. By the way the brain is electric and the heart is magnetic.

Wellbeing comes from a balance of these energies.  It’s through what we eat, how we feel, the structures in our lives and in the world. It’s living in alignment with highest expression of who we are.

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When Yin and Yang are out of Balance

It’s easy to see how yang has been dominant. What gets our attention in the world? How do we define success and failure? Are we in nature, with the earth? Or are we mostly with our electronic gadgets? 

Remember also that the brain is electric and the heart is magnetic. In the world today, we mostly prioritize brain intelligence over heart intelligence, don’t we? 

When yang increases, yin decreases. They are two aspects of unity and harmony, neither one better nor worse, neither one good nor bad. Yin and yang are ever-flowing, eternally in-flux. Life is change and life is relationships, so beautifully illustrated and personified by the famous Taiji symbol of yin and yang.

I was listening to stone medicine woman and acupuncture practitioner Sarah E Thomas and she reminded us that we need yin as a container for yang.

We have all this outward movement, this externalization. Do we have a balancing inwardness?

This imbalance is pretty clear with the quick reactionary outrage and outpouring following some high profile events. Without knowing the full story, everyone jumped to conclusions from one image. Yes, that image. The story is complex and nuanced. People are complex and nuanced.

News coverage of the original story and then of the fuller video, as the industry wheels churn, I wonder where all the rage and hate are actually coming from? Why do we feel we must defend what we’ve aligned with? And sling such venom at “the other side”?

This is what happens when we don’t have a container. This does not mean we contain our emotions. No! It means we can tap into a space, a groundedness, to look beyond our immediate judgements and biases. To look beyond the game they want us to play, pitting us vs. them. Simplifying the story and labelling people as demon and angel, victim and perpetrator, the hero and saviour, eases the malaise of cognitive dissonance. We have a tendency to seek consistency in our beliefs, which largely remain dualistic in nature.

It also makes it easy to perpetuate the wounds and prejudices we have yet to heal. Especially when we don’t question our beliefs, assumptions, and our fundamental view of the world.

We are no longer naive to #falsenews and the lack of journalistic integrity these days. Yet, we fall victim to it. And then we get pissed about it. Do we take responsibility or do we lay blame? How are we complicit in how the way things are? Every time we share a negative story on Facebook, jump on the complaining bandwagon, and gossip, we are sending energy to it.

Stabilizing in New Energies

Something even bigger is afoot.

You may have heard that we have moved into 5D? 3D and 5D realities are separating. While we’ve been in the new energies for a while, many of us are still finding our footing because well, everything is different. We may be hanging onto the tools, practices, and generally how we live in the 3D because for so long it’s worked. Or did it?

With tenuous footing, fear can arise as we feel our way now. We cannot fall back on what worked before. It doesn’t work in these times. What works is being completely present and in the moment and relax into it.

And let’s remember neither 3D or 5D is “better” – each serves our soul journey in its own way. So we’ve made our choices of where to continue and it’s crucial not to judge each other’s choices. Leading by example, rather than forcing conversion through shame, guilt, and fear, is ever more essential now.

This is the age of light, which means all will be revealed and nothing can stay hidden. And if you don’t agree with something or someone? Agree to disagree and focus on bringing your heaven to earth. Focus on your dreams and the vision you have for yourself. As Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche teaches, suffering is when we try to change someone else.

If you are feeling whacky, getting out in nature, focusing on your breath, magnetizing with your heart, integrating the cranial-heart-gut brains, and consciously choosing can bring you back into alignment.

Ideas for Tapping into the Points of Balance