Alice Redhead

These past weeks I have this feeling that the ‘the end is near’ ghost has grown in strength in people’s mind.

I feel the fear growing.
In myself too although it is mostly surrounded by a deep calmness.
There is a part of me that wants to start having some food set aside for tough times or wondering what can be done to be prepared but it’s always the same thing: be prepared for what exactly? What will happen? Where will it give first? We can’t know that! There are so many variables! The ship is sinking from all sides!

So what I actually do to prepare is this:

- I take care of myself. The best way to be ready for whatever comes is to be as healthy and grounded as possible. Fear will eat your body from within, don’t let it settle, acknowledge it, listen to it but don’t let it take the mic and take the wheel, it’s a drunken driver.

- I meditate. We live in an attention economy which means that the most precious resource you have is your attention. Spoiler alert it is your most precious resource even outside of an attention economy, this is what most spirituality points at. Other people feed on it each time you take your phone or give your attention away. Reclaim it.
Don’t let the internet grow seeds in your brain, reclaim your sovereignty, a lot of hateful stories are being broadly fed to us right now. Take some distance, listen to all sides, there is truth in any narrative but it doesn’t mean the narrative is the truth.
Meditation has so many more benefits but I can’t write a book here.

- I enjoy my life and feel gratitude for the little things so I don’t take them for granted. They might disappear, it will be mostly okay.

- I embrace change: the seasons, my cycle, astrology (I know! I must be stupid! Spoiler alert: I’m not), whatever makes me aware of the subtle movements that never end. Everything is already changing everyday. Make peace with it.

- I find ground I can feel and rest upon. By that I mean spiritual ground, you don’t need to be spiritual. Your family values can be your ground. Your ground is something that gives you meaning and peace. My current ground is that I have chosen to incarnate now and I’m here for it.