As I was preparing for my ‘Finding Your Voice’ course, which starts tonight, I had several friends and students call and express to me what was going on with them. They told me that it was a very intense time for them right now, full of uncertainty, loneliness, and deep anxiety. I spoke about how many people have expressed such feelings to me lately. I passed through a period like that a while ago, and realized that it was something happening in our collective consciousness, not just to me. For me, this is one of the most powerful things about learning to speak from our core, without holding back. And learning to listen from the heart, with unconditional acceptance. We discover that we are not alone! This kind of experience and understanding relieves a lot of our suffering. Things are not easy in our world right now. Our whole species is on the edge of an evolutionary leap, a movement from separation and isolation to unity and mutual engagement. We simply cannot manage by ourselves any more. It is not working. We need each other, in a way we may not have ever needed each other before.

This July, in Nelson, B.C. Canada, I was a presenter and organizer at the Global Inspiration Conference. The theme of this conference was these words from the Hopi Prophecy-‘the time of the lone wolf is over.’ We contemplated these words a lot together, and since then, the truth of what they are saying continues to be demonstrated in my life and the lives all around me.

This week, try taking a good look at how you hold yourself separate. It’s a deep conditioning in all of us. When you meet a big challenge in your life, how do you know that it’s just you, struggling with this right now? Are there ways that you could reach out and connect with your world, your community, your friends and loved ones that would truly open your connection with them. What are you holding back? What are you assuming about the ‘others’ in your life that might not be true at all? Is there someone or something that could help you deepen these connections and widen the whole stream of your life?

Feel free to write me about this. The truth is actually very good news. Each one of us is totally connected to everything and everyone, always.