Energy of Winter

I went shopping the other night to pick up a few craft items for my kids. We are going to make some cute ornaments. Went into the store, it was surprisingly busy. My son and I wandered about until we got the supplies we needed. That was that. So I thought.

On the drive home, I was experiencing this overwhelming energy and feeling of stress. My heart began to race, I was feeling anxious. The thoughts of money, and family came through. I was feeling exhausted. As a empath, I am antenna for the energies around me and by the time I got home, I realized that these energies are not mine. Its coming from the collective around me.

Why is everyone feeling sad, stress, and anxious. Isn't this suppose to be the most magical time of the year? It led me to this energy of expectation. As a mom, we are expected to make this day magical. We are suppose to host dinner, have family over. Even though a part of us is quietly screaming for help. We got into this cycle of doing to meet the expectations of others rather than doing because we want to do it for ourselves. We forgot to physically slow down and ask ourselves, do I really want to be doing this right now?

When we are feeling this, guess what our kids are feeling our shit too. We were never taught as parents, that our kids feel into our energies. They don't use their mind to analyze the situation, right. They are feelers. If you are stressed, frustrated about this time of year, trying to get it all done, and get it done perfectly. They absorb these dense energetic frequencies and accept them as their own. We all sort of forget about the lead up to Christmas getting distracted by the gifts. This teaches our kids that the dopamine hit from the gifts is the band aid fix to feeling energetically low.

We completely lost the meaning of winter. Our spirit wants us to slow down, reflect upon the year. Prepare for spring, which is a time for action. But in our matrix day to day, we work up until Christmas, then back to work right after. Our days are not in rhythm with the season. We are being energetically pulled in all sorts of directions this time of year. We are birthed from nature, our bodies and spirit are craving this wind down. Our minds are still in this go-go energy, and our emotions can't decipher what to emote. Which leaves us feeling ungrounded, anxious or stressed. But hey its okay coffee and baileys becomes socially acceptable at 9am in the morning...(said sarcastically).

How do we let our bodies, mind and spirit integrate? We integrate the lessons learned from the year and integrate the energies we want to cultivate for next year by resting. Reflecting on our wins, celebrate the dismantling of old program belief systems. How we manifested more time with our kids. Then reflect on what we want for ourselves, what do we want to call in. What experiences do we want to have next year. This time of darkness, when you really sink into the energy of winter, it is gifting us time to slow down. We don't feel called to be in action 24/7. No one is rushing to the park at 5pm when its pitch black and -22. We are being given the time to connect back into celebrating the year and calling in want we want for the year to come.

The collective energy is very chaotic, the more you take time to cultivate peace in your home, the more grounded you and your family becomes.

Tips from spirit

• Eat dinner under candle light. Turn off the overhead lights.

• Draw/craft with your kids. Grab your favorite coffee/tea, play some music and just sit with your kids. Draw, color, make a gingerbread house. All these activities is very grounding. Grounding yours and your kids spirit back into their bodies.

• Reflect back on your year. Recall the moments that made you feel great, celebrate all the small wins. Look at the bad moments, what lessons were learned.

• Journal about what you want to experience next year.

• Get a box and write down one thing you want to call in for yourself. Each night for 5 nights, write something down you want to experience. Put it in a box. Each night light a candle as you add a new note to the box. As you light the candle, take a deep breath - say sprit ground yourself into the center of your being and set the intention that you are gifting your future self these experiences and calling in support from spirit. Turn this into a nightly ritual leading up to the new year. Take a moment to feel the experience you are calling in for your self. Say "spirit show me what this experience feels like".

• Ask yourself if this is something I want to do, or is this something I feel like I need to do for others. If you had a year, you want to spend a few days off to reset. Say no to hosting, say no to going out if you feel like staying in. Checking back in with ourself strengthens our energetic boundaries.