When More Comes

The Practice of Holding Presence

May carried enormous energy for many of us.

Some felt inspired. Some felt exhausted. Some experienced both in the same afternoon.

I know I did.

Beneath the surface, however, I noticed a common thread appearing in conversations, dreams, creative projects, and moments of stillness: something new is trying to stabilize within us.

That theme emerged from The Collective’s June Transmission, Holding Presence.

If you’d like to experience the full channeled message, you’ll find it on YouTube. What follows are a few reflections that stayed with me after listening again.

The transmission begins where last month’s message, Stay the Course, left off. Rather than urging dramatic changes or sudden pivots, the emphasis is on connecting to your center while life continues to move around you.

I find that not only reassuring…but essential now.

There is a great deal unfolding in the world. There is also a great shift unfolding within each of us. Creative callings are emerging. Relationships are changing. Long-held beliefs are being questioned. New levels of awareness seem to be arriving faster than many of us can comfortably integrate.

One phrase from the transmission stayed with me:
More comes, and you stabilize. More comes, and you stabilize.

The invitation is not to rush ahead.

The invitation is to stabilize.

That feels like a useful description of spiritual grounding—and growth—in our current moment.

Life does not pause while we catch up. New insights arrive. New opportunities appear. Old stories surface asking for attention. The practice is not to control the process but to meet each wave with enough presence that it can be integrated before the next one arrives.

The transmission also touched on something I have been contemplating personally: spiritual worth.

How worthy do we feel of our own awakening?
How worthy do we feel of our creativity?
How worthy do we feel of taking our inner life seriously?

These questions are not always comfortable, yet they reveal much about the places where we still hesitate to claim our own power.

Two Practices for Holding Presence

Meditation Through Sound

As daily meditation has returned to my life, I’ve found that practice doesn’t have to be complicated. Here’s a simple exercise that helps bring me back to center.

1. Download the Mindfulness Bell app.

2. Find a quiet place and set aside two minutes.

3. Adjust your phone’s volume and tap the bowl.

4. Close your eyes and listen to the tone until you can no longer hear it.

5. Tap the bowl again.

6. This time, listen with your whole body. Notice the vibration as it moves through your awareness. Continue listening until not only your ears can no longer detect the sound, but your body senses the vibration has completely settled.

This simple practice focuses attention, quiets mental chatter, and reconnects awareness to the present moment.

Personal Energy Clearing

I use this brief affirmation regularly, either spoken aloud or silently.

I close my energy field to all except my higher self and those beings of the highest consciousness who are meant to accompany me on my evolutionary path.

I claim my energy field as whole and complete.

I am a powerful energetic being.

I am sovereign.

It is done.

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What I carried away from this month’s transmission was not a prediction or a warning. It was a reminder…a remembrance.

Presence is not something we achieve once and then possess forever. It is something we return to again and again.

As conditions shift, as new energies arrive, as old structures continue to fall away, the question becomes less about what is happening out there and more about how we are meeting it.

For me, that is the deeper invitation of this season.

To stay the course.
To trust the unfolding.
And to practice presence.

In joy and unity, always.

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