It kept happening, night after night, and then it happened one more time. I awakened at 2am feeling a strange, oppressive, invasive energy. Even my kitties were on high alert, pacing, looking out of the bedroom window into the desert darkness, eyes wide with fear. The silence was deafening and disconcerting, and…annoying. I just wanted to sleep. I wanted to believe that it was a coyote or perhaps a bobcat wandering through my backyard. But, intuitively, I knew that wasn’t the case. It might have been an animal, but it felt like the two-legged kind. Whether it was physically present or in spirit, I was uncertain. What I did know is I wanted it to go away so that I could sleep. So, I did what any good mystic would do, and surrounded my house with a band of blue light which acts as a kind of energetic “Keep Out” sign. It worked when I was bothered by aliens, so maybe it would work now.
After a few nights of this, something within me changed. My heart felt protective and filled with love for all of the neighbors in my community. Instead of a blue band of light around my house, I visualized a blue dome of light covering the entire community. Suddenly everything felt incredible soft and peaceful. My kitties abandoned their watch and settled down for the night. I smiled and drifted to sleep again.
Instead of waiting to be awakened at 2am, I decided to do an intervention tactic and covered the community with the blue dome after pulling up the blankets under my chin. Several peaceful night passed, and then I noticed something remarkable. As I took my afternoon walk in my often aloof community, suddenly people were smiling, waving, and stopping to chat with me. Even the Amazon and UPS delivery people seemed to joyfully skip up to the doors with the packages they were delivering. People were visibly more cheerful. Was it possible that a simple energetic act each night had shifted how people saw and felt me, and maybe even life itself? Or, in offering this community hug each night, had something shifted within me?
I pondered this as I slipped under the blankets. “Hmm…maybe it’s both. I may never know for sure. But, I’ll keep doing it. It certainly couldn’t hurt, and only takes a few seconds.”
I smiled as I did the visualization again.
There’s no place like dome.
