Episode 15: Hope After Tragedy

Let’s talk about hope. There are tragic things that happen in the world that are outside of our control. Just in 2022, so far in the United States, there have been 200 mass shootings. That number is outrageous. It is heartbreaking. And everything else that’s going on in the world on top of these events can cause a lot of anxiety. It can cause a lot of stress. It can also cause a lot of heartbreak. There’s family members that are losing loved ones, children. And it can be very hard, especially as an empath. We can sometimes be very affected by worldly events. And I have students that will come to me and ask me, like, “Amy, how can I move forward when so many bad things are happening around me? How can we restore hope when there’s a war happening, when people are dying?” And it’s a tough question to answer because I feel it so deeply and it hurts. The only thing that I can say to someone when they’re hurting and when we sit with these collective things that are happening, we have to lean into our faith. It’s also important to embody hope and spread hope has the ability to assist us in reducing stress, worry, and anxiety.

It allows us to lean into a greater power to restore faith in humanity as well. Things can be very destructive in our human experience. If we allow that destruction to overtake our reality, we can’t create change. And so the one thing that we can do that’s in our control is to lean into our faith and our hope. And today, what I’m being guided to do is to do something a little different than what we’ve been doing on the show and it’s to do a guided visualization and prayer so we can expand our hope. And since we have listeners all around the world, this will create a really powerful energy that will be moved into the collective. And when we as a collective pray and as a collective send different prayers out into the universe, we can start seeing the universe respond in different ways. And I can’t say it’s going to stop the massive shootings, but it can support the collective. It can support people that are affected by it. It can also support you in releasing some of the anxiety and the worry that you might be holding on to as well.

So if you are driving, I want to encourage you to come back and listen to this. Especially if you have the tendency to go into a trance and meditation. It’s always available for you to listen to. I just want to just say that. Practice safety. Anytime we’re doing guided visualizations and meditations just because you want to make sure you are safe. So if you are in a space where you can take a cozy seat or lie down, or you can also do this visualization while walking, whatever feels safe for you, go ahead and take the position now.

Close your eyes and drop down into your heart space. Sink into the sacred nectar of who you are. Receive a breath. And as you receive a breath, allow your shoulders to relax. Exhale any tension you’re holding on to in your body, giving yourself permission to receive another deeper breath. Breathing in and out, allowing yourself to relax more and more. And as you relax from up above, there’s this golden light that starts to shower you with love. This golden light allows you to ground and root into Mother Earth deeply. And as you root into her love, she showers you with love as well. You are being held and supported as above and so below.

And within that support, I want you to sense, feel, or imagine these beautiful energies wrapping around you, lifting you up out of this space and time and bringing you across space and time where you will land in a beautiful, sacred space. This space is your happy space. It may be a space you’ve been before or completely brand new. And when you land, you feel safe. You feel supported. You feel held. And in this sacred space you’re going to notice, sense, feel or imagine that there is a beautiful, pure white feather on the ground right before you. You pick up the feather and you hold it near your heart and your heart starts to vibrate and connect with this sacred gift from Spirit. This feather is a symbol of hope. You hold it near and dear to your heart and as it vibrates, you start to fill up your whole body and being with the energy of hope. And this hope filling allows you to have your heart smile with great joy and great love. You’re sending hope not only to yourself and gifting it to yourself, but you’re gifting it to your community, to your country, to other countries.

I want you to imagine that the space you’re in is lighting up with the energy of hope. You are being blessed with hope and you’re blessing others with hope. This beautiful, pure white feather also is a symbol from Spirit. Birds are messengers of God, of the universe, of the divine. Whatever sacred title you have for that beautiful, powerful being that’s always supporting us. I want you to hold this feather near your heart. I want you to breathe with it, knowing that there are sacred messages that are being downloaded into your system, into your energy field for you to receive signs throughout the day that there is hope. There’s hope for everything, hope for humanity, hope for change, hope for peace, hope for love. You may even receive a message just holding it in this space. Breathe with that feather, breathe with yourself. Breathe with the energy, the power of hope. And then I want you to set the intention that you’re going to increase the feeling of hope now.

And you might even notice that there’s a little dial that you can turn up in your heart space. Maybe it’s on your chest or Solar Plex. And this dial is tuned in at the certain level of hope that you’re sending out now, but you can turn it all the way up. You can even go past the maximum on the dial. And I want you to increase the feeling of hope. There is hope. There is faith. Change can happen. Change can happen. We’re going to pour love into the community, love into the world. And we’re going to increase our faith. Dial it up as high as you possibly can. Give yourself permission to feel this in every cell of your body. Hope. And from this place, we’re going to say a prayer.

We pray for peace. We pray for kindness. We pray for mercy. We pray that the people that are hurting inside from these events are able to heal, able to receive help, and able to be supported in their community. We pray for hope. And we send hope out now into the universe, into the world. We send light and love. And we ask for this or greater. And so it is.

I want you to feel, sense, or imagine a beautiful light beaming in your space and all around the world. And this hope, this prayer, this connection is creating long-lasting change. I want you to breathe that into every cell of your body and being. And whenever you’re ready, take a nice deep breath in, wiggle your fingers and your toes and start to come back into this space and time, blinking your eyes open when you are ready.

I would love to know how that felt for you. I want to encourage you to keep coming back to hope. I want to encourage you to have faith, faith in humanity. We’ve got to. It’s necessary. And when we have faith, inspiration will come. And that inspiration that comes can create change. And it just takes a community, a tribe to assist in that change. So know that your prayers, your hope does make a difference. So keep praying, keep hoping. And I hope that you are able to feel the change within you as well. Let me know how you’re feeling after this. I am just sending you lots of love and light. And I look forward to seeing you or connecting with you in the next episode. Bye.