Our relationship to action is very much in question right now.

At some point over the last months, we have likely all found ourselves dismissive or reactive or both, in the face of the COVID-19 virus.

Habits of self-validating through action will keep us locked into actions that are misaligned with what’s happening around us, as well as with ourselves.

Beneath these habits of self-validating through action, we’ll likely find our fear of not being enough and/or our fear of being too much (these two exist on the same spectrum).

Let’s not forgo this opportunity to look at and feel into the roots of our reactivity, and dismissive tendencies.

Our meeting with, tending to, and examining of, our fear is vital right now.

We need to see where our fear is motivating us in order to instead take action from choice.
This is the time to really take hold of our capacity to act from choice, in a way that supports and serves ourselves and others as a collective.
And to do this, we need to take hold of our fear.

We will likely be required to meet some of the many ways in which in the past, we have been compelled to act through fear. Our ‘same old fears’ have long been waiting for us to finally meet them, tend to them, and care for them.

This is the time that we are called to gather up our fears and carry them with us, as ours. The time to take back, hold and love all our once disowned fear.
Only with our fear held can we actually choose to act in service of something greater than ourselves.
We can only really be in service of the collective when our fear is taken care of.

This is a time of great responsibility to each other and ourselves.

Our ability to rest deeply in silence and stillness with ourselves will determine our capacity to pounce and strike like a tiger when it is needed.

Leopard image by unknown artist.