Survival Shift: Humanity at a Crossroads

There comes a point where talking is no longer enough. Not because the story doesn’t matter, but because what was experienced can not be described or remembered by the mind. It lives in the body.

Having read a lot of somatic work, most work I’ve digested has been written by the masculine, and while the research has provided valuable insights into the intelligence of the body, this work does of course lack the lived experience of a woman – as well as the different ways in which the female body responds to danger and survival.

Survival

The threats to survival present different in both sexes, but we all face the same reality.

With declining fertility rates and birth rates, a lack of reproduction is fast becoming the biggest risk to the extinction of humans, with some mathematical models suggesting this could be as early as 2339.

Consciously or not, this very real threat to our collective survival and IT IS felt at biological, primitive level. Many women (and some men) are feeling it, the call from mother nature herself to come back into connection with nature.

Because not only are women and children being openly oppressed – murdered, raped and abused - most of us are also raping the planet every damn day.

We have been so conditioned to consume. Sold the lie that the more we have, the happier we’ll be. Yet is this very consumerism that is keeping us stuck in a system that supports nobody, with most believing they must keep earning the wage to keep up appearances of “having it all”, to continue extracting from a planet that is suffering at the hands of our greed, carelessness and selfish ways…

…Distracting ourselves with meaningless BS in an attempt to avoid sitting in our own discomfort to examine how we individually contribute to our very own suffering.

We have become so far removed from nature that we have lost the wisdom of listening to our most basic instincts, when to eat or when we need the bathroom.

I’ll tell you one thing I never see…

…Is a lion raising its paw to seek permission to go to the damn bathroom. Yet this is one of the first things we teach children as young as 4 to do…

Basic Instinct

And where do those most basic instincts live?

In the intelligence of the body.

This isn’t new.

We’ve just been conditioned to forget.

To ignore the very nature of who we are.

Most of us cannot even be present with a mouthful of food. There is little attempt to notice how nourishing (or not) our body feels in response to what we’re consuming…

If we’re disconnected from our instincts, ignoring our primitive survival responses and not able to feel our bodies, is it any wonder we feel disconnected - from ourselves, from each other, from the planet?

Just pause for a moment and ask: Who the hell benefits from this? Because to most of us (men and women), it sure as hell is not us.

To bring in one of the Hermetic Principles (Laws of Nature): The Principles of Polarity. Everything has a dual - hate and love, dark and light, cold and hot. Everything has an opposite.

Polarity – A Choice of Freedom

The opposite of consumerism?

Creation.

Not just procreation.

Art. Music. Movement

The simplest forms of expression, absolute magic.

Consumerism is the shackles. Creation is freedom.

The Shift

What is clear is that people are responding to the call differently.

Some are ignoring the dissonance, resisting the very change that is needed.

Some are clinging to structures that bring nothing but suffering.

But those structures are being challenged.

Both women and men are fighting to find their way back to who they were before fear and conditioning.

Inner Wisdom

Having ignored my own instincts, intuition and inner wisdom for the past 36 years, my body has always spoke first - now I must listen. But I am still very much learning every day, I hold wisdom yes, but all of this is new to me too.

I can have awareness and notice the patterns, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they change immediately. I notice how my own conditioning and deep-rooted patterns have recently kept me orienting to one of the biggest threats to women and children’s safety and survival… Men.

This is not a “I hate men” article. This is a biological fact.

I want to MAKE IT CLEAR, I am not saying all men are unsafe.

But when a men’s desire is placed above mine or anyone else’s safety, that man fast becomes unsafe to everyone in his environment. Even more so if accountability is absent…

I notice how I have continued to try to support the shift in men. I observe how I’ve written content that highlights the patterns I see in men specifically, whilst failing to address the pattern I observed in myself - my orientation towards unaccountable men.

Men who have been unable to meet me with reciprocacy in relational repair. Men who instead have met me with an unwillingness to be accountable to the harm they either cause, or allow to go unacknowledged or unchallenged in other men.

I see the wound.

I hold compassion for you.

But I am not responsible for absorbing the impact of your unhealed wounds.

And when you cause harm, I’m certainly not sticking around when you can’t be accountable to your own actions.

What I realised is that it has never been my place to contract, contort or soften myself to try to get certain men to be accountable. This was the earliest conditioned response I learned to survive.

Men Holding Men

Men need to hold men to account.

That is one of the most desired traits women see as an example of a healthy masculine.

This is what most women are actually asking for.

Not the world.

Just for protection from harmful, unsafe and dangerous behaviour from other men.

While men stay silent, or blame women for the oppression, women are still fundamentally rooting for men. We still believe in the potential we see.

Women see a world where community thrives, and that community is in partnership with men, not separate to it - this is core difference of what a matriarchal society is. Many of us just want men to stand up against other men, to make the environment safe. Not ask keep asking us to change ourselves, to soften, contract or contort, to stay safe.

A reminder, flowers bloom in the right environment.

The Body Holds the Answer

What is clear is that women’s tolerance for unsafe environments, for both themselves and children, is at a threshold. Many women are reconnecting with their own instincts, intuition and inner power.

When we’re deeply connected to the body, we notice:

How our nervous system senses where an environment or person feels unsafe.

How our system responds to that unsafeness or danger.

How our breath becomes still or shallow.

How our body it contracts, contorts, shrinks and goes inwards - bracing for impact…

How our muscles tense in preparation of potentially needing to absorb danger.

This is the intelligence the female nervous systems has learned over lifetimes of generational, ancestral and cultural conditioning for survival.

Except now we feel it.

Safety is Non-negotiable

And we’re building discernment.

We’re not prepared to negotiate our safety anymore.

We’re leaving environments and people faster…

Not tomorrow, not next week.

Immediately.

Because our patience at holding space for a man to rise into his potential, is not the same as reality.

Raising the Bar

We are remembering our power.

We are coming into community. Protecting each other. Protecting our children.

We are choosing. Not waiting to be chosen.

And we are raising the god damn bar to where it should always have been.

Men will either choose to meet us there, or not.

But we’re no longer waiting for men to arrive.

We’re rising anyway.

Women - If you felt this and you’re ready to lean in, trust the call. You don’t need to have it all figured out, maybe you just need to start… Learn more

Men - Is this triggered something in you, access free self-enquiry tools here.

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