Violent Weather Extremes are the New Normal
So How do YOU Stay Safe?

     Global warming puts way more moisture in the air.  That means a "normal" thundershower or cold front slamming through can dump 3, 4, 5 inches of rain in an hour or two.  And, as the Weather Service says, Harvey's 40 to 50 inches in a few days is "unprecedented."

Well, it WAS unprecedented...   It's very "precedented" now.

     I could go on about drought, wildfires, terrorism, fascism, nuclear brinkmanship, and more--but you understand.  So what does "safety" look like as these Earth-Changes accelerate?

     Apprenticed to shamanic teachers in the 90's, I was taught one thing before all else. There's a real but limited amount you can do to prepare physically, but way more important is whether you prepare spiritually, emotionally, psychically.  

Look, even animals know when Nature's emergencies are imminent--so why don't we also FEEL what to do when?

Earth-changes Push Lightworkers--
Go Deeper Now,  We Need You WELL!

     I think it's fair to call most of us alternative healers "lightworkers"  And many more of my readers here I know are lightworkers, regardless of profession. 

So I ask you, have you felt it over the last few years? 

That intense push to move through the layers of your personal and family trauma and get clear of it?

     I know I've felt it big time, and so many I know have.  That push is there because Earth needs us to be open, fluid, resilient, and compassionate.  And it's much harder to do that carrying the scars of a heavy personal or ancestral wound system.
 

The Parallel Worlds Perspective on This

     A couple of years ago I spent 5 hours under hypnosis with a very evolved Thai woman.  As part of that, I saw Earth's futures splitting.

     A patient named Karen was being interviewed after an operation that split off the right from the left hemisphere of her brain.  It was done, as it has been for decades, to cure severe epilepsy.  The corpus callosum, the thick bundle of fibers connecting the two halves of the brain, is severed.

     “What are you doing?” asked the doctor, shocked to see Karen’s left hand unbuttoning her blouse.  “Oh my goodness,” said Karen, and she fastened the buttons again with her right hand.  But the left hand followed along and just unbuttoned them once more.  The doctor called his colleagues and said, “Hey, we’ve got a problem here.”

Split Brain = Split Awareness

     I heard this reported on NPR, but it goes back to Nobel Prize winning work done by Roger Sperry in the fifties.  In most people, the left brain controls the right side of the body, and the right brain, the left side. 
     By studying people who had undergone this “split brain” operation, Sperry proved that the two hemispheres had distinct jobs and even quasi-distinct consciousnesses.  Sever their connection, and you often get a “secret self” that can and does do things, but cannot speak about them.

     So what’s that got to do with family constellations, with recovery from personal and/or ancestrally inherited trauma?  Well, actually, quite a lot.

In group constellation workshops, the intake interview is a short one.  It homes in quickly on the problem, guesses at ancestral blocks, and moves directly into setting up representatives.  It’s in the nature of a workshop that it has to be this way. Four to six constellations happen in a day.

But what happens in one-on-one constellations?  Or rather, what should or could happen in private versions? 

Do We Just Copy the Workshop Approach?

Many facilitators I know do something similar.  The constellation, whether remote or in person, happens in one sitting.  Some exploration of the issue and creation of a shared set-up of representatives is followed by the client and constellator both “feeling into” being parts of the family system. 

A dynamic is observed, and a resolution is achieved, more or less—and the interaction is over.  It is, in many many cases, an isolated, one-time event.

Early on, I stopped doing and teaching private constellations this way.  Too many things, starting with sufficient rapport with the client, and moving on all the way to subsequent follow-up—were left out in this approach.

So an initial private constellation with me, whether remote or in person, evolved quickly into three sessions.  Here’s what happens in them.
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Fight? or Flight?

The limbic midbrain, triggered by what Bessel van der Kolk calls the “smoke detector” amygdala, sets in motion an array of autonomic responses. They prepare, more or less as needed, our whole organism for possibly extreme efforts to recreate safety.

All processes not immediately relevant to that are slowed down or completely stopped. These include digestion, the immune system, more rationally oriented presence of mind, and more.

Threat level detection in the brain, blood and hormone flow to muscles, everything important to choosing and carrying out actions that will recreate safety--all these become primed and super coordinated for possibly lightning fast response.

In modern life, we most often experience “fight-or-flight” more as “resist-or-evade”. It’s slower, but just as real. And we can stay in milder forms of this stage for hours, days, or years. Too bad for digestion and the immune system.

But what if the “friends/” stage comes even before “fight or flight”?