 Hello beautiful souls. This is a message about healing the collective and a very simple thing that each of us can do to really help that process along. I'm going to be illustrating using this wonderful set of Sharpies that I picked up on clearance recently. I went in to get black ones and left with every color Sharpie under the sun. So I'm just going to be using this to illustrate if you're not familiar with my channel. My name is Christy. My channel is Art of Awakening. And Art of Awakening is about exploring ideas and methods for realizing yourself as a divine creator with nature as a guide. So one thing that I've really noticed and you know that I think is something that it doesn't get talked about a lot because it's almost become like this cool thing to do is that a lot of people who really care about the planet right have this attitude about humanity that I think is really not serving the collective. It's not serving us as individuals and it's definitely not serving Mother Earth. Now they think they're you know the idea is it's it's not like there's anything that is being done that is consciously you know not consciously trying to hurt the earth. In fact it's like they're trying to feeling like they're they're feeling very protective of earth. But the concept is that we as humanity humanity is wrecking the earth that we're destroying the earth and that humanity is really a bad thing and ought to be wiped off the face of the earth and that the earth would be a lot better off without humanity on it. Now I've heard this concept articulated in many many ways by many people over the past few decades and in fact I used to kind of think that way myself and it really does come out of a place of hurt and wounding but it's really not serving anybody okay because when we heal as individuals one of the most important things the most important is really to learn to love the self and we as a collective as humanity you know especially in our western culture we're recognizing the extent of just you know how bad things have gotten on the earth in terms of you know what what what's happening to the planet what's happening to the ecosystems and it is there's a lot of a lot of suffering going on you know with with the earth and the creatures and and there's a lot of things that have to stop a lot of things that are like definitely not well right and a lot of what humanity is doing is making it worse but when we come to it with with this from this place of you know oh my god humanity is terrible it's it's very very damaging because what it does is it perpetuates it right it creates this this veil of just it's self-loathing right and it this it shins and it guilts and it's all those nasty things that we're trying to clear you know in on an individual level for ourselves as we heal but we're doing it to humanity as a whole and so I this is a message that I was just given to express to help to illustrate humanity's place on the planet in the earth and the consciousness and just to illustrate the importance and how wonderful and beautiful we are as a species why it's so important that we stay on this planet and why the planet loves us why mother earth mother gaya loves us so much okay so what I was given was on the planet there's you know the planet gaya earth mother earth she's got a consciousness and we're part of it and the the consciousness is expanding because that's what consciousness does this is the goddess since right always expanding it's very abundant and so but with with mother gaya all her children including humans were part of her right so it's almost like gaya is this tree and or the consciousness of gaya is like a tree here it's like a a plant and I'm going to take you if you've ever had college biology and take you back to that and in the growing part of a plant if you look at the cells and so forth you know there are cells in the bark and there are cells in the woody part of the the plant there's cells in the leaves there's there's you know the chlorophyll and the leaves that helps the plant to you know convert light into sugar you know the trees are amazing plants are amazing they they actually eat light but there are also these growing points so part of the tree and a very important part is these cells that actually are the cutting edge of growth and what I was shown was that different species because it's it's almost like the different species are different types of cells on the plant okay so where these cutting edges are these they're they're a little layer of cells that kind of pushes forward and expands and really leads the growth of the tree it's called a meristem and a plant will have multiple meristems like in this one there would be one here going out that way there would be one here that run out that way and here is the one at the top and that's the one that's leading the growth right and it's called the apical meristem which means the leading or the top um the apex the the top and what I was shown was that humanity occupies this spot right here this apical meristem that's what we are for consciousness on the planet um and there are other meristems and I was shown that you know maybe the cetaceans the whales would occupy this spot here the trees for the plant kingdom you know so the whales would be the apical meristem of the ocean life right and the trees are the apical meristem of plant life they're they're they're the most conscious they're the ones that are pushing the consciousness um in in that particular you know uh sector of of Gaia um some of the crystals are going to be the apical meristem of the the the mineral world okay there are ones that I'm told that I don't even know what they are but they're in the fungal kingdom you know there'll be a species or group of species that are going to be that that that meristem um but well I shouldn't say apical I should say for the trees that's that's a meristem right um so it's like these places where consciousness is expanding the most or where that growth of expansion is happening um and then all the other cells are also there you know they're supporting it so the meristem is you can't see it's more important or less important than any other part of the tree because the meristem is only just a little bitty uh layer of cells right where that growth happens where that spark is so it you know and the tree will survive without it but it's it's not going to be expanding or growing the way it should now if you cut off a branch right here you know it will regenerate and and eventually find another apical meristem but you've kind of retarded the growth for a while you've you've you've set things back okay so yes earth would do fine without us but it would miss us tremendously she would miss us tremendously and she would have to then regenerate another species to take our place where we're at okay and that would cost her so it's it's like but I think what's happened is that you know some of this biblical idea of humans were made you know as special and as you know to be over the others other species there's a core of truth to that for sure because we do occupy that spot but I think ego has seen that phrase or seen that concept and misinterpreted it to mean that oh we've we we can lord it over everything else and we're more important and that we can trash everything else for our own you know desires that's completely a misinterpretation and and not what was intended um so just this this whole thing is just to illustrate this concept of we are indistinguishable like we we are so much a part of everything else and it and it's all interdependent but that we occupy a very very important role and that is the expansion of consciousness now when we're looking at um kind of where where humanity is right now so it's like why why are things so hard why are things been so hard why why don't we get to this point if if we're like the center for growth if we're the this this apex of growth where the growth is happening then why are we trashing the planet you know what's up with that um well what I was told was that there is like a lot of it has to do with the masculine feminine roles because that's the creative forces that come together right and um indigenous societies and you know the the ones that are close to the earth they have definite um you know ways that the males and females relate to each other um you know those those are all mapped out and so they're able to live in a harmonious way you know through this but it's all mapped out for them but things had gotten kind of static to where nothing was really there wasn't a lot of change happening and growth to happen change has to happen consciousness needs to change in order to grow um and and so what's had to happen with humanity is like in order to you know step expand the consciousness because we've kind of gotten to the point where there was not a lot of growth happening in consciousness something had to shift so that so that things could be like opened up for bringing in greater levels of consciousness on a collective level okay um we'd kind of filled the ability of a single person and it was time now to to start bringing people together and collaborating and and and this is the next phase of consciousness this is the cutting edge where we're all coming together where there's going to be telepathy and and stuff like that um but in order for that to happen things had to kind of shake up it's the whole idea of um sometimes you gotta destroy stuff or cut it down or um you know shake it up before things can come back together again in a different way in order to you know expand and grow and develop so that's what happened with our whole society it it really had to be that way and it's not that we are intrinsically evil although there are some forces that were at play that sort of I think catalyzed this and in fact you can call it evil but you can also call it a catalyst okay so um it it doesn't necessarily mean that you know no judgment here it's what happened and it's what happened that results in this expansion of consciousness that we're experiencing right now um so sorry lost my train of thought so um but it all comes down to this is what had to happen this is where we're at and right now it's really really important for us to to heal a lot of this wounding that had to happen or that happened in the in the process of this dissolution of of of culture of society right and now is a time that we're we're beginning to remember who we are and remember why we're here and to start to pick up the pieces and put them back together in a different way that's that's that's going to really expand consciousness in a huge way this is like a supernova kind of expansion happening on the planet right now and and a lot of it is is happening within humanity i mean it's happening in all the species but for humanity we're a key part of that and it is the ascension of the earth okay this is how the earth herself is extending in large part through us okay so it's a healing and this is why it's really really important right now to catch ourselves when we start thinking bad thoughts about humanity thinking that humanity is bad thinking you know that it's shameful to be a human or or you know feeling guilty about what we've done to the earth um so yes it's very important to be aware of what's happening to the earth and to start to shift how we you know act in order to you know begin to to heal what's happened but as if you have done any healing on your own you know that it's really really hard to heal when you keep um you know thinking bad thoughts about yourself right so it's really important to have that self-love it's also really important to love the collective to love humanity to recognize how important humanity is and to value humanity and this is a message that I was given to relay um from mother earth she loves us she loves us tremendously mother earth loves us like there's no tomorrow and um she really wants us to love ourselves as well okay so I I hope that this hopefully is resonating with some people um if you've enjoyed this then then please do like um like this video and share it because I think it's it it feels like it's a really important message it needs to be shared it needs to be heard it needs to be definitely heard um so thank you thank you so much for watching I really appreciate it uh if you would like to subscribe to my channel if you're seeing this on higher self 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