By Natalia Rose 10 February 2015

By Natalia Rose, New Earth Wellness: Vision Keeper

Have you ever noticed that the words typically used to describe curmudgeonly old codgers—such as calcified, stiff, inflexible—also happen to be the words that describe the intermediate stages of the death and decay cycle? On the trajectory to death and decay there are various stages of rigidity. In fact, we can actually reduce the whole death and decay cycle down to the one premonitory symptom that precedes all others: contraction.

Contraction comes from the Latin root contrahere, which means “shrink” or “shorten.” Notice that in contraction we also have the term contract, as in those agreements entered into, knowingly or not, that we at New Earth Nation are disbanding with. Contraction also breaks down into contraaction—suggesting “going against” (contra) our natural, desirable action. Contraction, as I am referring to it here, is a defensive reaction to some alien threat. It is a kind of recoiling. We recoil when something is offensive to us. For example, when the body is instinctually repelled by a substance, it is effectively saying, “No, that’s not life-generating or viable for me. I do not wish to be exposed to that.” We contract around negative emotions, acidic substances, and ideologies that offend our nature, to start. By becoming conscious of the contraction reaction in all aspects of our lives—emotional, physical, mental—we may root out that first stroke of the decay trajectory, and thereby root death and decay out of our lives to the greatest possible extent.

If we were conscious of the way contraction weakens our state of being and invites death and decay, the prevention and release of accumulated contraction would be our highest priority. Cultivating expansiveness—e.g., creativity, lightness, flexibility, freedom of thought and movement—would be our highest cultural value and measure of success.

As it is now, with the exception of only a few highly evolved beings whom we can look to as guides, humanity en mass is in a state of continuous unconscious contraction. Stress is the greatest agent of contraction, bombarding us—to borrow language from New Earth Project Founder Sacha Stone— via “the gods of time, money and fear.” Time, money, and fear are the unholy trinity that have kept the world ticking for as far back as our history books take us.

We humans basically start contracting from this trilateral bombardment from birth; babies and young children are especially receptive to their environments and are shaped by the frequencies in which they are bathed—primarily by the frequencies of their parents, most of whom operate in enslavement under the ten-ton bricks of time, money, and fear. Before most children can even taste the nectar of life abundant, they are fighting for their life submerged in the entropic cycle, well on their way to calcification and decay by way of chronic unconscious contraction.

A life lived under the dark cloud of the money-time-fear paradigm creates nonstop conditions of contraction on the human organism and energy field. Cell by cell, system by system, organ by organ, thought by thought, emotion by emotion, we freeze up and diminish our whole beings. Consider some of the symptoms and their connections with the etymology of contraction: the stomach gets “tied into knots,” the head “pounds,” joints “stiffen,” breath is “short” and “shallow,” the throat “closes,” the voice “stammers,” bones become “brittle,” muscles “tighten,” heart valves “constrict,” blood “clots,” feet “cramp.” Even the mind is “hardened.”

Central to the sovereignty movement is the work of disbanding with those contracts that have held us in bondage to the dictates of time, fear, and money. These contracts actually cause us to contract. To take the semantic connection a step further, these contracts have defined us as corporations (corp meaning “body”), undermining our individual and communal sovereignty as thinking, breathing, expansive, interconnected beings and reducing us to a single inanimate body subject to the rigid rules of commerce.

Everything we encounter in our world— from the foods we eat to the emotions we have to the energetic frequencies of our environments—has either a contracting or expanding effect on us. We must understand this phenomenon if we are to evolve from a state of unconscious contraction to conscious, expansive engagement with ourselves, with one another, and with the world at large.

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