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I want to invite you today to make sure that you don’t go back to sleep as we move into phases two and three of this COVID-19 world pandemic where we’ve been sheltering in place.
I’m Anna Gatmon, and wherever you’re watching this, it’s coming to you from The Expansive with Anna Gatmon YouTube channel.
So there is this famous poem by Rumi and the line is “Don’t go back to sleep.”
Don’t go back to sleep, don’t go back to what it used to be. Wake up. And I’m going to read the poem. So the poem is called “The Breeze at Dawn.”
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the door cell where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep.
It’s a very famous poem by Rumi and one of my favorite of his– very simple and it says it all. And so I just completed the first part –a full weekend, Saturday, Sunday– workshop of The Expansive Path course, and we had a wonderful time, and we worked on how to not go back to sleep, how to stay awake in an expansive state aware of the sacredness of life, your own divinity, showing up in your full potential and really tapping into your spiritual resources and your emotional resources, which is what we need at a time like this.
So we’re moving slowly here in California into phase two. Different cafes and restaurants are opening with only service at the door. And today’s Memorial Day, so shops that have not been open for 10 weeks are open, but you can just go to the bookstore, and on the curb, they can give you a book. You can’t go into the bookstore. But it’s the first time that I see these stores open. And so we’re slowly, slowly going back to normal or to the way it used to be or maybe to something new. And I want to suggest that we move into something new because we can’t go back.
And what’s normal? There’s a new normal, there’s going to be new needs that people need that we’ve never thought of before. Everything is going to be a new dawn, right, it’s going to be a new reality. We’re going to have to figure everything out from new. We’re not going back to the way it was, and as much as you might want to or we might want some comfort of what it used to be, a lot of things are not going to be the same. But this is a global event that, from a spiritual perspective, is just what we needed to wake up. And “the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
And this is what has happened now. People have been wanting that there’ll be less flights, less pollution, eating less meat, clean air, clean water… And nature has had such a respite from the human assault, that we’ve gotten what we’ve asked for, and so we don’t want to go back to how it used to be just for our own comfort and for the next disaster to occur. It’s going to be even worse, and maybe we’ll wake up then.
Just wake up now. And there’s such an opportunity for you to create the vibrational field that you want to live in, the life that you want to live in with intention. And that’s what we’re doing in The Expansive Path course and what the expansive path is all about.
And so the second verse of the poem is: “You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep.” So this is the time, even if you’re feeling fear or worry or concern, this is the time to ask for what you really want, and then to begin making it a reality because you want to be one of those who can sail through this crisis and be born into a new you.
You arrive as you sail, arrive to a new land, to new land that you’ve never been before, but you’ve dreamed of and you’ve longed for all your life. And you know it’s there. You know it exists and this is the time to do it. It may seem like a time to just, you know, constrict yourself and just stay at home and wait for this to wash over. But this is here for a long time because our whole lifestyle is going to change until we have a vaccine. And we have, you know, an ecological meltdown that’s happening with storms and fires. And tomorrow where I live, there’s a fire warning because it’s going to be very hot and windy. And this is just May, we’re not even in the fall.
And we’ve had fires three years in a row. And so this is not going away. It’s just going to have different forms where it shows up. But it’s here to wake us up. It’s here to wake me up. It’s here to wake you up. It’s here to wake all of us up. And so don’t go back to sleep.
And so the final verse is, “People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.”
So as human beings, we have the capacity to tap into the spiritual reality, the larger spiritual reality, our imagination, our spiritual and emotional resources, and take strength from those. And take wisdom from those– inner wisdom, spiritual wisdom– and then bring it into your everyday life and what you’re doing to create the world that you want to live in. This is what it’s about– us together creating the world we actually want to live in and not just saying, “Okay, well this is what it is. The bad guys win. That’s it.”
No, it’s for us to create the world that we want to live in. And so “the door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep.”
And so I invite you to look at different videos that I have that speak about how to expand your consciousness, how to stay awake. You can also visit my website at annagatmon.com. There’s a lot of free material for you there. And maybe the next time, the next round that I do The Expansive Path course, you might consider joining, so you really learn the nuts and bolts of tapping into the larger spiritual reality and into your spiritual resources in order to create the world that you want to live in and you’d want your children or the children on our planet to live in.
So remember, as you go back into your life, into some normalcy, into some familiarity, don’t go back to sleep.
Wherever you’re watching this, leave me a comment.
Blessings.
