Once upon a time, when we were in our mother’s womb, we were encompassed by her love from head to toe. We were safe, nourished, and connected.

Then, we were born, but we were still held, caressed, and kissed.

As we grew older hugs and kisses continued to be our source of happiness, joy, and health.

Touch is vital to our life. It secretes oxytocin in our bodies and helps us stay balanced and healthy.

Yes for some reason, it is precisely touching that has currently become a danger to us.

Covid-19 has taken the safety out of touching and forced us into social isolation.

Keeping a distance has become a life-preserving measure, yet what is a life without an embrace?

There is a higher spiritual root to embracing, kissing, and mating- it is the unity of our souls.

So then why would life/nature/the universe do this?

What is the message?

The answer is that we are meant to have much deeper connections than we have now.

We need to reach a state where our hearts and actions are aligned.

For so many years our individualism and egoism have grown. We have become accustomed to wearing masks- not N95s, but those of status, of perfect FB feeds, fashion fads, and all the other efforts we had made to look good in the eyes of others.

We may have smiled at others, but on the inside, how connected did we really feel?

Nature has merely presented us with this truth: that we had been divided, separate and inauthentic.

It has given us an opportunity to miss each other, and to learn how to enter deeper levels of connection.

In isolation, celebrity status and fashionable looks became redundant. Instead, heartfelt connection, support, and shared humanity became more prominent.

This is the new trend we will see grow more and more.

Our world has started a new stage in its evolution, towards conscious connection and oneness. 

To quicken the pace of change, we must truly rid ourselves of our artificiality by opening our hearts.

In this new reality, our actions and intentions must be in alignment and so, closeness must be both external and internal.

If we want to be free to go out together with others once more, we need to truly care.

Fake smiles will not do. Only a heartfelt sense that we are one, will allow us to navigate this new territory.

To begin practicing this new connection you can do the following exercise: 

1. Think of someone you want to connect with but cannot meet in person right now.
2. Visualize this person and send them your deepest love, supportive thoughts, and well wishes
3. Really concentrate your thoughts and feelings on connecting with this person.
4. Do this a few times a day, knowing that it is having an influence! It may not be immediate, but your thoughts are powerful and work well beyond the illusion of distance or separateness.

Keep practicing this with more and more people. By doing this, you are training your inner sense of connection. It is like a muscle that can be trained.

This exercise will help you be prepared for the new level of consciousness opening up gradually in our world.

The more we can all begin to be more intentional in our relationships with one another, infusing the network that connects us with love, the more quickly our planet and its systems will heal and come into balance.

The more we move with the evolutionary process taking place, the less difficult it will be.

The time is now to start changing ourselves and making this shift, we can do this! Together.