We’ve spent so long in a state of hypervigilance, fear of socializing, and isolation that it’s hard to remember the toll all this takes on our spirit. If you’re feeling burnt out, tempted toward despair, hopeless, unsatisfied, and incapable of raising your energy, you are not alone. You’re in good company, and you’re likely already doing all the right things to lay groundwork for your future. Tell your inner critic to take a vacation; we’re in this for the long haul.

Revolution doesn’t immediately mean bloody battlefields. In fact, the battles often take place within us as we fight internalized social pressures while nurturing our own healing.

Remember that all press is good press. Rather than give power to the systems that we know aren’t working, let’s shake them with our own disbelief in their success. Play big and live small even and especially if it frustrates the capitalistic mob.

Though the delta variant continues to rage and, at least in our neck of the woods, fire season approaches, we refuse to give in or give up. Instead, we remind ourselves that we are playing a long game and that, even if the cosmic earthquakes have cracked the foundations, even if the ripple effects haven’t reached the penthouses yet, worldwide shifts in consciousness have begun.

As you live through humanity’s only chance to turn the tides, how do you bear witness? Where are your narratives naked facts and where do you romanticize? Watch how you form memories about this period, which will—undoubtedly—go down in the history books, and notice your strategies for unbiased observation.

With opportunities knocking and a fast-filling calendar, we’re staring down a month of excitement, anticipation, dread, overwhelm, and curiosity. What we once took for granted has suddenly become novel again as we step into the spotlight.

Having lived through a collective trauma and disaster, we have the impression that more and more people are waking up to what needs to change. The flood of momentum toward progress, toward a decrease in suffering, toward a redefinition of success has broken free of its dam and is heading straight for you. How will you surf these tumultuous yet exhilarating waters?

In the rush of excitement coming from the combination of vaccines and warmer weather, we’re all feeling the collective push toward movement, reopening, and acquainting ourselves with the post-pandemic world. As you begin the process of reemergence, know that you set the pace.

This month, we invite you to excavate your experiences and belief structures around morality, identify the magic you employ in your journey toward wholeness, explore your relationship to ease and stillness, and project into the possibilities you want to bring into reality.