by Karen Murphy

The energy of May is starting out quite differently from that of the month previous. Whereas in April you were mostly concerned with your individual processes, now after only a month you have moved a distance into the awareness of one another as a global community. This is but a single step along a long path toward true awareness of your connection to one another, but it is a step nevertheless.
While many of you are feeling energized by this new sense of belonging and connected community, many of you are feeling this as having come from fear. Yes, there are fears now worldwide over the potential of pandemic. We would say that it is largely the fears that are creating the potential of rapidly replicating viruses that still have the potential to decimate populations. Why do we tell you this, then, since we know that even saying this will bring fears to those who hear these words?

We wish you to understand that you exist in a world of possibilities. In every moment there is a choice, a range of choices, and within those choices the seeds of whole realms and realities exists. The choice exists to create disease. This "small" choice sits within the "larger" global choice to create change in the way you interact with one another, and within that "larger" choice sits the choice to create this new interaction by choosing that there be, eventually, fewer of you on the planet. Just as many of you chose to be here NOW, for this set of choosing and for this set of choices resulting in an overall trend toward new interaction, so too are many of you (we use the collective "you" here, as this will at first largely affect people living far from you) choosing to discarnate and return to Source for the time being so as to help assist the shifts occurring for those still incarnating.

Again, a choice.

So this fear is a natural result of the fright over impending change. That is normal and it is difficult to not feel fear about the unknown. But fear weakens the body, weakens the chi, weakens the impulses and creates and stringer susceptibility to other influences, even if those other influences (like a flu strain) are largely creations of your own collective making.

As our friends Abraham might say, you get what you ask for. You get what you create by what you put energy toward. Putting this more succinctly, the fears over a flu pandemic are potentially creating that pandemic.

Back to the month at hand. While we see that it begins with a stronger sense of connectedness, understand that not everyone reacts to that sense in the same way. For many of you it feels like "home," like an increased sense of belonging. Things will feel as if they are flowing, that you are making the "right" choices in life and that your path is golden.

Others will feel almost the other end of the spectrum: increased fear, suspicion, violence. You can expect some new and shocking examples of the violence humans can do to one another to arise or erupt this month. But understand, this is simply one manifestation of the greater changes taking place all around you.

Take Care of your Self
If you are energetically bothered by the news around you, intentionally disconnect yourself from its source. Turn off the screens. Mentally watch yourself disconnecting from the news media (which feeds on fear and is a creation of fear, largely, and has been so for nearly 150 years in the Western world) by seeing the cord that connects you to it, and then severing that cord.

Go for a walk outside instead and connect with something that feels permanent and fixed and immutable, like a large rock outcropping or a lake or an ancient tree.

Breathe your fears and uncertainties into that fixture and feel your body becoming more relaxed. If you do this several times over the next month you will better be able to withstand fluctuations in energy levels (you can expect dips around the 15-20th of the month) and the fears you might be feeling around you so that you can instead feel that you and your loved ones and your life in general are truly in the flow and on the golden path.

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