The line of demarcation for the group is a responsibility we all share when acting upon the energies of any kind. Today, we're working with the energies of a natural disaster. People are scared and wondering what will happen now that so many are homeless, and the infrastructure seems to be lost in many areas of Butte County. The first priority is safety. Once the need for safety is met, what comes next?
A friend recently confided in me that the incident with the recent Camp Fire and the threat of mudslides is "crazy-making." She can't wrap her brain around the magnitude of what is going on. In a recent study, it was shown that stress impacts health and well-being. Another friend of mine, a nurse, said that everyone is more susceptible now to getting sick. We know the Norovirus has infected many people in the evacuation shelters. First-line responders are often the next to become infected.
However, I disagreed with my friend. Sickness is a state of being, as is the experience of trauma. It isn't that we don't go through trauma together as a community, but we do have various levels of ability to process the energy and become fully functioning. Not everyone exposed to a virus becomes sick from it; not everyone who experiences a natural disaster will become severely affected by it. Baseline is the ability, beyond all controversy, to find one's foothold in life again. Beyond this is thriving.
Fear and doubt are the killers," my friend and spiritual sister on the path once said to me. "You have to put away all doubt as to any effort to make progress. Progress is natural. Failure isn't."
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