These last few years, as US politics have gone totally bonkers, I’ve found a number of my seeming quirks to be pretty helpful for my own mental health and spiritual sovereignty. 

So I thought I’d share a few of them, in case you want to borrow a little of my personal weird as tools to get through the next week.

It’s been helpful to have had the Old Testament history lessons I received as a child.

Because, if you’ve studied the Old Testament, you know: World rulers have always been bananas. King Herod, anyone??? In a bizarre show of toxic, malignant narcissism, King Herod — a real person in history  —  issued a government order to massacre all baby boys in the land under two years old because he heard that the next big king had already been born. 

And he wasn’t the only world leader with a disturbing lack of scruples. King David wanted to sleep with Bathsheba so he had her husband sent to war and killed. Yeeeeeah. 

King Solomon was the wisest man on Earth, they say, but one of his court orders went like this: There’s a dispute about which woman this baby belongs to? Okay, saw the baby in half and give one side to each of the women who claims she’s the Mom. 

Sure, he was trusting that the real Mom would protest the verdict. But, like, what??? That is not a good court order.

Yet somehow, despite the stunning inhumanity of some of our world leaders, humanity always finds its way back. We lose the thread. But we always find it again. 

It’s been a blessing, this past few years, to have this default worldview, which is a cosmic point of view. 

The point of view that knows that what we can see with our physical eyes, is just the tip of the iceberg. 

It’s been helpful to take the zoomed-out, eternal point of view. 

In a time of spiritual crisis, it’s a helpful thing to be wired as a spiritual contrarian.

And it’s been helpful to know the laws of the Universe, including the one that says all expansion is preceded by contraction. That just means that shit gets really real sometimes, before it gets better, and the upheaval is part of the process of things getting better.

It’s been helpful that I used to be a lawyer back in the day. So I have an understanding of how this country came to be and how the laws and culture here have evolved, and how they are evolving right now, right before our eyes. 

It’s helpful to have the point of view that sometimes it is the total and utter breakdown of a legal or cultural institution that must take place for the next season of evolution to begin. 

It’s also helpful to be reading Animalium with Londyn right now, with its lovely Tree of Life. It’s helpful to remember how the evolution of species works, how the sponges grew new body parts when they needed to do more than whatever it is that sponges do. 

And how it took hundreds of generations for the frontal lobe to become a thing. 

It’s helpful to think about how we don’t judge the sponge for not being quick enough to evolve, which is helpful reminder to refrain from judging or criticizing humanity for the process of evolution that we are in the middle of right exactly now. 

On Facebook the other day, a client expressed her deep fear and anxiety about the coming election, here in the US. 

“What will happen?” she wondered.

My answer is this: 

Humanity will continue.

Divinity will continue. 

Evolution will continue. 

Regardless of who’s elected.

Will the more beautiful world we all know is possible take longer to become real? Will the bumpiness of that road differ based on who’s elected? 

Maybe… maybe not.

But you don’t get to be the boss of that.

And neither do it.

What we do get to be the boss of is our own business.

And your own business is your mind, your body, your affairs.

Your thoughts, your actions and your emotions. 

The most powerful asset you wield is the power of your attention and your focus.

Will you spend it wailing and wringing hands, fretting about possible events beyond your control? 

Or will you reclaim your sovereignty, reclaim your energy and reclaim your focus so that you may tap into that repository of energy that is at the very center of you, and uncork it, allowing it to flow to and beyond you?

It’s totally possible to do a little bit of both, by the way. You can major in sovereignty and minor in wailing, if you need to.

Honestly, you may even need to major in wailing for a minute. Just don’t pitch your tent there, okay? The rest of us need you. 

If you decide to major in sovereignty, know that that’s the one where you get to hear what you are being called to do in this season and have the energy to act upon it.

The choice is up to you, and I trust that you’ll make it in Divine Timing.

Head up + heart out,

P.S.: Read this. 

P.P.S.: Just to make sure I’m not being opaque, I voted weeks ago. For Joe Biden.

Tara-Nicholle Nelson, MA, Esq.
Founder + CEO of SoulTour

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