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Maintaining Your Equanimity in These Times

     Maintaining harmony within is essential to preserving harmony around you. When you’re afraid or mad or out of balance, you can’t maintain your equanimity. So, what to do?

     It’s not easy, but it is possible, to let the density go and fill with lighter energy. I learned the hard way, when every single day was filled with trauma, PTSD, worry, fear, and exhaustion. Desperate to keep from metaphorically drowning in grief, I started doing the energy practices I’d learned in the Andes. Multiple times a day. For a minute or an hour, I could create an internal calm that let me breathe. I could step back, gain a little perspective. Then something would happen and I’d have to practice again.

     Just like the Dalai Lama and Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mother Meera and Adyashanti, Pema Chodron and Amma, we have to maintain a daily practice of breathing, releasing, stillness, being present.  

     According to spirit, there are four crucial daily practices to help us meet changing times and challenges: 

1. Root yourself into the earth.
2. Release or spin off what doesn’t serve and fill yourself with lighter energy. 
3. Align yourself with Earth and Cosmos or with a column of light.
4. Open your heart in connection withal that is and feel supported. Relax into the support.

     Most of you have practices similar to this. How you do it is up to you. What’s important is the four steps of root-release-align-open. If you’re not sure about one or all of these practices, Weave the Heart of the Universe Into Your Life is a great resource.

     Whether your nervous system is imbalanced, you’re overwhelmed with fear and anxiety and want to shut down, you’re suffering the effects of intergenerational trauma, or your home just got flooded/blown to shreds/burned up, doing simple practices like this will help you shift and cope. 

     You don’t have to succumb to despair in these times. We humans will face challenges on every level, and it will be hard. If you stay aligned and connected, rooted and open, you’ll have the energy to carry your personal harmony to others. You’ll be able to feel the support of others, seen and unseen. You’ll have moments and days when you feel yourself part of the interconnected whole, when you can join hearts with others who seek peace and justice, and when you can vow once again to bring harmony and equanimity to your family, community, world.  

Changes in 2025

     In 2025 I’m switching to a different email provider— Mailchimp instead of AWeber—and I will only send occasional missives and invitations to ceremony. After 20+ years of writing Shifting Your Consciousness News monthly, it’s time to stop!

     Some of you have been working with me or reading the newsletter for a very long time, and some are new. I appreciate all of you for your curiosity and feedback, your commitment and love for the earth! Do not hesitate to reach out—I’m always an email, phone call, or appointment away through my website.

     I will still see clients for healing, mentoring, and shamanic exploration. I love guiding people on their paths, helping them remember and heal their souls, and sharing Earth-based energy practices that can change your life. 

Interviews and Resources

In this Shaman’s Directory interview with me on You Tube I talk about my shamanic path and essential learnings. You'll discover:

• What is a shamanic calling? 
• How you can move from learning experientially—through travel, workshops, or personal healing—to living a shamanic life every moment 
• How Andean energy tools can save your life 
• How you can learn to move from density and heavy thoughts to beauty, light, and spirit 
• How ceremony can shift not just your energy but the energy in the world.

Wake Wheeler of Shaman’s Directory and I explore all of these questions. We travel through my experience of feeling safer with trees than with humans as a child, and how I learned to entwine the spiritual with the physical demands of life. We talk a lot about filaments of light connection (seqes in Quechua), seeing from heart, us as nature and the universe, and being part of world, not separate. 

You’ll hear about listening to your spirit helpers through journeying, the differences between healing and mentoring, stepping between worlds, and how traditional ceremonies gift us with deep connectivity and ways to transform. 

As Wake noted, “Meg is authentic, heart guided, honest, and visionary.”

Shaman Portal webinar with Meg: Listen Here!

Your bright, shining light, your heart, and your love are essential to these troubled times!  The people of the High Andes live with a cosmovision where stars and rivers, stones and mountains inform their daily lives. Discover from this time-tested tradition how to lift heaviness from your heart and open to the beauty and harmony of our interconnected world. 

In this Shaman Portal webinar with Meg you’ll learn potent, embodied practices and explore practical strategies for shifting your energy and awareness. Find the courage and tools to step from separation to connection and belonging.

For all you Instagram users, I've finally broken down and added it to my social media! Follow me at meg.beeler.author.

Are you looking for healing, soul retrieval and integration, or mentoring? Do you want to learn to make shamanic journeys to get answers and support? Make an appointment! 

I will help you explore the mystical, address the trauma, find your wholeness, and learn to interpret and integrate your shifts of consciousness. 

We can meet in person in Sonoma—in my sacred Medicine Wheel or healing space—or remotely on Zoom.

“Weave the Heart of the Universe Into Your Life is on sale at Amazon! 

Find simple practices to calm your nervous system, connect with Earth and Cosmos, release what no longer serves you, and fill with the light of the universe.

“An excellent guidebook with clear and powerful exercises for developing a consciousness that recognizes our place in the ever-unfolding universe.”  

~ Tom Cowan, Shamanism As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life

"Meg Beeler is a woman of great compassion and wisdom. She knows how to transform personal energy into cosmic energy, so that the energy of the heart extends through the entire river of Being… Weave the Heart of the Universe Into Your Life is an immensely beautiful book."

~ Américo Yábar, founder of the poetic, energetic movement Salk’a