Imagine The Shift * Home of the Good News Muse

I'm Dawn, the Good News Muse.
Welcome to "Imagine the Shift" where I hope you'll be inspired to engage more fully with your journey and in so doing conspire to create a world that works better for everyone.

Just because I write about the shift doesn't mean I'm good at it. I've been pulled kicking and screaming over the threshold of my own journey several times, but I'm getting better with practice at leaning into discomfort and following the quiet voice within that I call "The Whim." I'm grateful for the shifts I've ultimtely embodied for to do otherwise means I'm aborting what's unfolding in my journey. I don't know about you but I do not want to sleep walk through these extraordinary times. I don't have the answers but I've lots of ideas and musings as well as resources, people and organizations "Seeds of the Shift" inspiring you to embrace the shift in your own life.

Why imagine? To me it seems we’ve gradually outsourced our imagination to television, advertisers, the news, politicians, analysts, preachers - to other people. We live vicariously through reality tv, overlooking there’s another reality in which we can engage. We believe sound bites without stopping to consider their source or funding. We fill our homes with new stuff seasonally, not stopping to ask if we really need what we're being told to purchase. How is it we've turned our ability to think over to others? How is it we've lost our capacity for curiousity without even realizing we've done so?

Children are naturally curious. My nephews as three year olds all asked ‘Why?’ repeatedly. Now years later, I wish I had known that I didn’t have to have the answers. I wish I had known that they were waking up and I was being presented opportunities to encourage them to think and encourage their wondering. I’m certain their answers would have been much more creative and provocative than mine. What’s happens to our sense of curiosity as we grow? Does our educational system educate us out of being curious as we’re rewarded for memorizing answers to questions? It's never too late to re-engage the imagination and what better time than now?

What shift? To me, the shift is internal and external while framed in the context of a larger historical shift. I believe we're here to return the heart to the planet and its people, thus the internal shift involves living from a place of love, a love that's courageous, thoughtful and open, rather than reacting in fear. This internal shift births an external shift that alters how we engage with others and the environment. These shifts move us from competition and control to partnership and conversation as described by Paul Hawken in his book "Blessed Unrest." I suspect by the fact that you're reading this that you in your own way are part of the movement for good Hawken describes that's sweeping the world as millions of people cross prior religious, racial and economic divides to unite and address ecological, health, education and social issues. These shifts are unfolding in an unprecedented period of history in which we're seeing the re-emergence of indigenous wisdom from native people around the world as well as research in quantum physics proving we're connected energetically by a quantum energy field. We are living in a possibility-filled field of energy. I can't think of anything more exciting and challenging than living in these extraordinary, "mythic times" as Jean Houston calls them, times in which we've the opportunity to awaken to our heroic journey as individuals and as a planet.

I call this Good News! So visit often, click on my email below to recieve regular Musings or my upcoming newsletter, check out the "Seeds of the Shift," listen to "Wake Up & Live," or one of my essays and Imagine the Shift with me. I'm ready. Are you?