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This was posted in a Gaia group, shared with permission:

Practical tips and helpful hints for starseeds and lightworkers: Getting real about ascension readiness.

Most people are familiar by now with the famous selective attention test in which a group of viewers were asked to count the number of times a ball was passed between certain players in a short video clip. Most got the answer right but failed to notice the guy in the gorilla suit stroll through the scene halfway through the clip (you can look it up on youtube if you haven't seen it).

A lot of us are starting to get toey about the ascension and "first contact" with ETs. We scan the news for articles about disclosure and UAPs, ...and yet, WOULD we notice a couple of greys if they turned up in a crowded shopping centre on a very normal busy day? Especially if we were focussed on getting those shoes in our size at that Black Friday sale?

Humanity is rapidly approaching the epicentre of a quantum historical event. Any number of outcomes exist in "superposition" right now. How things play out will largely depend on what the collective NOTICES amidst the chaos and CHOOSES by participation. This (essentially) is how the quantum possibility field works. It's also common sense. If we notice that we can all work together to make sure everyone has what they need, we can expect better outcomes than if we all focus on defending our private toilet paper stash with a shotgun.

We know that the current systems are not sustainable, and we hardly need channelled messages from super-intelligent extra dimensionals to inform us that life on Earth will probably get very chaotic as they crumble. The issue is what to do about it? The news is like a "pick your own apocalypse" adventure right now (will it be climate change and ten feet of seawater that takes us out or will it be deranged robots with machine-guns for arms?). 3D solutions generally only focus on one aspect of the problem (hey, let's re-freeze the arctic! Let's invent robotic bees! All our nightmares will be OVAH). In some ways, these solutions seem like a joke. In others, they give us a glimpse of what the world could look like if everyone was contributing their best and most imaginative ideas in a unified, functional system. All of it will have a place in the clean up mission. All of it will have a place in the creation of synergy.

I am not writing to preach to the choir. I'm guessing that most Gaia members have completed ET 101. We already know that we need to practice daily meditation and that part of our role as lightworkers is to know that a unified, harmonious system on Earth can exist and start living as though it is already here. Most of us also routinely practice imagining how this might look, and are NOTICING IT and ENERGISING IT as glimmers of it start to appear.

The reason I am writing today is about something that is often glossed over in the ascension narratives, and that is how to stay grounded in real life chaos. I'm talking about when the s**t really hits the fan. When the power goes out, the communication lines are down and access to clean drinking water is a bigger concern than access to scented toilet paper.

There are narratives in circulation that "the ascension" is a thing that will happen very effortlessly and rapidly, like switching a channel on TV. I hope this is true, but we need to prepare for the possibility that it will be much messier than that. In this case, our role as lightworkers may well involve simply keeping our heads through an event that initially feels a lot like Atlantis all over again.

So how do we do that?

I am a trauma therapist by trade. Part of my work involves teaching people about the autonomic nervous system. We all think we'll know what to do in an emergency. The reality is that the higher reasoning centres of the brain shut down when we are in "fight or flight". This is why navy SEALS learn "box-breathing" as part of their training. Being a starseed does not mean we are exempt from the rules of what happens when the animal we inhabit gets scared.

Getting it right takes practice. Preparing for the "ascension moment" (which might unfold over weeks or months in Earth time) is rather like learning how to lucid dream. If we want to become lucid in dreams, we practice checking to see if we are dreaming while we are awake until it becomes so habitual that we automatically start doing it while asleep. If we want to navigate a messy ascension without falling apart, it is worth getting into the habit of taking "mindful pauses" in the midst of stressful events on a daily basis (e.g, during arguments, while getting the kids to school when we are running late, preparing to leave the area because an extreme weather event is headed our way). This is not an idea designed to replace deep meditation practice. We need to do that too. This is more the "S**t, this is IT" moment training. We already know the kind of outcomes we hope to activate but we have to be ready to do it in real time. My suggestion is a basic script or drill like this:

Several times each day, pause and check:
* AM I STRESSED? If so, how can I tell? Is my heart racing? What is my body telling me?
* If YES...
* BREATHE and clear the mind - just a few mindful breaths is enough to bring us out of fight or flight (use whatever method works best for you, e.g., box breathing).
* LOOK AROUND. Take in "the scene". NOTICE. What is happening as "the main event"? What is happening in the periphery? Really pay attention.
* DECIDE rather than REACT. Ask, what is my most authentic response here and now? What is in alignment with the goal of ascension? Of harmonious first contact? Whatever stands out as most important towards the greater good, kindness and love right here, right now?