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Writer's pictureHayley Barkla

Finding Grace in Triggering Times


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There comes a time in every little girl’s life when she must pull on her big boy pants and call it how she sees it! Let’s just say I’m one leg in. Intentionally so. Amidst the unprecedented times we are facing I have more common sense than bullishness to lay all my cards on the table in such a public forum, but it would be remiss of me to overlook the big, fat, glaring elephant in the room.



So, it’s time to touch on the P word, the C word and the V word.


HEADS UP, this won’t become my soap box platform, nor is it a debate on the pandemic ethics behind it all. The key take out I hope for all is that we continue to see each other as free will, loving human beings and not land ourselves at arms in fear and anger.



Who pulled the trigger?


This weekend my trigger was pulled point blank. I’ve blessedly been isolated from the isolation conditions which have been imposed across Australia and throughout the world. For any shortcomings to rural living, it has had a major upside as we have escaped the lockdowns upon lockdowns our families and friends have endured.


Saturday afternoon this all changed.


Before many throw their hands up in warranted rage that I could be triggered by my first lockdown, please hold fire. It wasn’t the direction to stay at home that unleashed my anger, frustration, and emotion. I had been anticipating the order for weeks as I watched our little town become an island of freedom amongst the regional closures creeping in around us like falling dominos. It was not unexpected and really, makes very little difference to the way I go about life.


The trigger was the crashing of the tsunami-like energy wave that knocked my feet from beneath me. I’d been feeling this garnering force over the past few weeks way out in the collective conscious ocean.


I read it in comments on everyday joe’s posts like “Shoot all the unvaccinated” and “Lock them up”. I watched it as borders within our country closed on those who don’t prescribe to the larger narrative. I saw it in families fighting amongst each other over it. Ah... mine for one! I heard it when a man in our town became barred from entering our supermarket as, despite being mask-exempt, he was branded disease-ridden. I felt it as I phoned around psychologists in just one local municipality in Melbourne, where they are into their sixth lockdown, and was told time and time again, our wait list is 4-8 weeks. Some clinics with 20 psychologists, other individuals, yet all with the same message, “Sadly, covid has been great for business.”

All this combined with the timeframes and details I’ve channeled personally alongside a friend of mine on how this may all play out and “BANG!”, the gun was fired.



Fight or Flight for what Plight?


The hysteria is building, it’s evident world-wide with protests, passports and propaganda. In fear, we ignite our fight or flight response. A human condition; and one we need to acknowledge, settle from, and use all the information at hand to work out the level of threat we are really under and from which direction.


Two themes came up during this week in what I witnessed, DISRESPECT and OPPRESSION. I decided to channel a universal perspective on these words as something for us all to ponder and hold in our hearts over the coming months. I hope this helps us treat each other with dignity as we each make our own choices for what we individually feel is best.


It really CAN be this simple:


If you do choose the v, congratulations you have made a choice to protect yourself.


If you don’t choose the v, congratulations you have made a choice to protect yourself.


We must not allow an irreparable rift to form based on available data that doesn’t support such extreme and explosive division.



A Channeled Message on Oppression


Oppression is a state of mind more so than a state of being. When one is oppressed, they become fragmented in their thinking and resultantly, can no longer function in full capacity. It is the Oppressor however that remains in most denial during their reign. For you see, the Oppressor is under the limitation of the Oppressee’s mind. They are NO MORE than the compliance and complacency at which the Oppressee is willing to succumb too. With denial, comes error. And error leaves open to change.


The cycle of OPPRESSION AND OPPRESSIVE CIRCUMSTANCE is one that breeds into itself and then out of itself, as the limitations of the mind subside. One can only be led down a dark hole for so long before they feel lost, abandoned, and akin to a newborn entering the world. They will instinctively fend for nourishment, for light, for a way out into shelter and safety. It activates the base survival instinct within us all.


So, note the Oppressee will without fail come to the self-salvation they sort all along. Yet the Oppressor remains unaware of all this as they follow their own power play and become masked by their own story of self-fulfilment.


We’ve seen this play out over eons and eons of exchange and we can attribute you with this advice:


RIDE THE COLLECTIVE WAVE OF CHAOS AS IT INFILTRATES THE MINDS OF YOUR MANY. WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR THE TIDES TO TURN, THEN WILL THE ONES SAFELY ON THE SHORES BE THERE WITH OPEN ARMS TO WELCOME BACK THOSE THAT HAVE DROWNED IN THEIR OWN MISFORTUNES. DO SO WITH LOVE AND PRESENCE. THANK YOU.


In a nutshell: Good will eventually, but always, prevail out of circumstances of oppression.



A Channeled Message on Disrespect


Disrespect is being overworked in your generation. A tirade of trashed lips has filled the domain of your world for the last four decades. It is not for us to judge but what occurs when the words one hears too often become appeased to the minds of the masses is that TROUBLE FORMS IN THE THOUGHTS AND MINDS. IT IS NOT A TROUBLE OF CRIMINAL PROPORTIONS BUT A FIXATED AND FIERCE FLOOD OF WORRY IN THE HEARTS OF YOUR GILDED HUMAN.


Disrespect is felt in the heart. It is held in the heart, and it serves the heart. Dis-serves the heart, shall we say. But nonetheless, disrespect will action out of the heart as choices one makes feed from this energetic imprint. If I disrespect you, you will then disrespect others or self. It is as simple as an input/output equation. The pain of disrespect is self-influencing. It becomes a loaded gun. Bullet in, bullet out. Spraying hatred across the land.


This is the ULTIMATE POWER OF DISRESPECT. That it may shoot down so many, a firing match between inner and outer demons. This perpetuation of disrespecting others is that it feeds the feeble. It brings across anarchy and shoves the spoon down towards the back of people’s throats as they learn to swallow the pain. As pain flies around, back and forth, inside and outside, it fills your cells with defiance and hatred. Wilful, but clouded visions of ALL THINGS fall out of the slinging match.


Hatred is the fall out of disrespect. Sadly so, as it has become a driving force on your planet and WILL EVEN MORE SO BE PREVALENT in the weeks and months to come. Tipping into a crescendo of DESPISING DISPOSAL. What a fine man once said, is that lack of respect is separate from disrespect.


Lack is the limitation of action and therefore cannot be witnessed. The disrespect of others is an actionable quality, purposefully placed into the conscious mind. An actionable response will cause an equalled retaliation. It holds true that when one practices DISRESPECT, they will intentionally cause harm to the mind and fragile heart. They mean to make a person feel less than – depleting their power – and holding them trapped in inner turmoil. It is not that lack of respect does not wield its sword in negative ways – BUT IT DOES SO WITH LESS MOMENTUM AND CONTINUUM OF PAINFUL PUNISHMENT.


If you choose to have differences with another and are unable to control your feelings – then choose to show no respect in preference to disrespecting. It’s minor in its action but MAJOR in the flow of energy.


In a nutshell: You stop the flow of negative energy where you exhibit NO RESPECT (ie. display no action toward another or self), but you force the flow of negative energy where you exhibit DISRESPECT (ie. take action to show your disregard to another or self).



What is Worse than Death?


Mortality is not a pleasant topic for discussion but its part and parcel of our cycle on Earth and what underpins fear at our very core. Without doubt it’s the key driver for the polarisation we are experiencing amongst humanity in this moment. But death can be looked at in many ways, not just the physicality of life ending.


For me, death would be living like you may as well be. Under restriction, regulation, censorship, hatred, violence, segregation, defamation, isolation, limitation, fearful of your common man, frustrated your liberties vanished before your eyes and without freedom of expression as your core human right.


We live to experience and create, otherwise I would question, “What is the point?”


Fundamentally in our current environment, I view the risk weighed between death physically versus death spiritually, for want of a better word, and all increments in between. This is a super personal decision to make and not one that should come with penalty or pressure.


Never before have we been tasked collectively to go within and feel our way out. Let’s not judge each other for where we stand on the scales as we emerge.



If you’ve been triggered lately or by reading this article, great! It’s good to be challenged as it helps us cement who we truly are. As I do for myself, you could try my 1 Question Reading service with something like “What lies behind my trigger?” if you wish to seek a little ethereal guidance. Book in here.



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