Navigating 2024 with Microdosing - Grace + Flow 🍄
Can I share a little secret with you??
2024 is going to be a bit bonkers 😜 here in the muggle world, and the forces of nature are here to support us... This holiday season, I invite you to lean into your practices, self-care, true nourishment & begin preparing yourself - mind, body & spirit - for the year ahead. 🍄
How we feel in our bodies, our energy, mindsets & environments will play an immense role in our ability to lead our lives with love & possibility over fear & limitation - if we can harness our creative potential, 2024 promises to be one of quantum leaps for our lives!
Microdosing practice & support helps us build resiliency, makes us more flexible & adaptable, better able to see the bigger picture, and vision a more expansive future --- creating a stellar foundation of resources we can lean & draw upon in the coming year.
This week in our Community Connection call I shared a forecast of 2024 through the lens of spirit + nature, eyeing the turbulence and transformation ahead through ancient, wiser eyes. Here are some of my thoughts on orienting ourselves to the energy of the new year, supporting ourselves with microdosing, and navigating the year with grace & flow.
As a human collective and era, we are moving & evolving from a Tribal paradigm in human history, to one of the Individual. If we zoom out in perspective, we’re already witnessing this evolution within our youngest generations alive on the planet as they push back on traditional learning, conventional gender roles, and the narratives that keep us identified with groups & institutions. When you consider how much of our modern lives and relationships have been dominated by the institutions we associate with (our jobs, our schools, our churches), it’s clear how much our choices, decisions and life narratives have been defined by the ‘tribes’ we associate with. For the majority of modern humans, the stories of our lives (who we date, marry and have children with, socialize and interact with) have been based less on authentic, innate connection but rather dictated by the institutions & cultural norms we share. This is about to shift in a big way!
In 2024 - ready or not! - many of the institutions we’ve taken for granted as “reality” are going to continue to dissolve, further destabilize and descend further into dysfunction. We can choose to view the instability of change & rebirth as frightening and push back with all of our might, or we can embrace it for what it is: a great adventure of possibility, opportunity, and the prelude to a sweeping creative renaissance. How we learn. How we travel. How we heal. How we exchange goods & services. The role & operations of government. Monetary systems. How we feed, nourish ourselves and create. How we lead. Practicing with earth medicines can shift our perspective & resonance from one of fear of the unknown to faith in possibility, perhaps our greatest ally in these times; the mindset we cultivate in 2024 will have an immensely important role in how we ride the tidal waves of change into the decades ahead…
Nature is going to continue to do her part in nudging, steering & pushing us - ready or not! - into our personal & collective evolution. Everything we see happening around us today are clues pointing us toward our own greater human potential if we’re only willing to look beyond the mainstream narratives. Many of the things we deem ‘catastrophes’ are nature’s best effort to wake us up and reorient our society & culture toward a more hopeful, vibrant and sustainable future… one where humans are just one part of a greater planetary eco-system and symphony of life co-existing here on our shared earth. How we cope and respond to extreme weather events, travel disruptions, mental & physical health crises, and growing adversity will make all the difference in the world - will we innovate, be resourceful, generative and creative? Or will we respond with belligerence, greed and human arrogance? (Spoiler: Nature Wins either way, but the mushrooms are rooting for us! 🍄)
In a future based on the Individual paradigm, knowing oneself - radically, truly, honestly - will become essential to our actualization. Becoming whole, healing our lineages, living our purpose, cultivating emotional intelligence & sensitivity, staying in energetic alignment, and being of service to the collective will grow more important than our institutional affiliations, teams and tribes. Without the institutional structures & systems that bind us, what will hold us together?? Our shared humanity. Our building community around shared purposes & passions. And soon, the shared challenge of saving the planet we are on the cusp of destroying will show us how interconnected our destinies really are. Nature humbles us, awakens us, and helps dissolve our tribal and institutional identities — practicing with nature, staying close and attuned to her greater wisdom, is one of the most powerful ways for us to grow, evolve into our human possibility & potential, and usher in a new era for our world.
We’re at the very end of an Ending, the very beginning of a Beginning - Nature is here to accompany, support & inspire us in the journey toward a more beautiful, living world and begin building the future, today. 🌎
