Deeply Well with Devi BrownToday, Devi delves into the emotional landscape following the election results, emphasizing the need to process our feelings, recognize generational impacts, and build resilience in the face of uncertainty. In times like these, it’s crucial to confront our true emotions, reflect on personal integrity, and acknowledge our shared humanity. This day, November 6th, 2024, is more than just another date on the calendar—it’s a day that carries profound weight for many. Yet, as a people, we have endured far greater challenges and will continue to rise above adversity.
Though the future remains unpredictable, we can choose to show up for our physical and mental well-being, foster hope, and keep moving forward. Embracing resilience doesn’t mean ignoring our struggles but rather holding onto hope, caring for ourselves, and persevering, one step at a time.
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Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it.
Now, release slowly again, deep in, helle hold release, repeating internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I am deeply deep well. I am deeply well. I am deeply.
Well. I'm Debbie Brown, and this is the Deeply Well Podcast.
Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place.
To land on your journey.
A podcast for those that are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher consciousness and self care. This is where we heal, this is where we transcend. Welcome to the show. I'm Debbie Brown. This is probably the fifth time that I re recorded this introduction. I'm recording this episode on November sixth, so it is the morning of the election results. I recorded this entire episode actually a couple weeks ago, and there's just no way it could air this week. So this almost feels like a time capsule. I feel like I'll be listening back to this episode in twenty years and just remembering this present moment. It's interesting, I think as I'm doing this in real time, you know, just a few hours after kind of waking up to the reality of right now, the reality of the years to come. I know, a lot of us are processing this in a few different ways this week, and so I'm just going to show up as I am. I'm going to show up as I am. I'm going to show up in whatever this feeling is. And I'm still not quite sure what the feeling I'm feeling is. Overwhelming emotions, right, overwhelming emotions. The thing that I think is so interesting about the way sometimes our lessons can be layered. I think it's really interesting to investigate how, where, and why this hurts for those of us that are hurting. With Vice President Kamala Harris losing this election to Donald Trump, so many things come up, and I think that has been so representative of the last decade in general. So many things not just about how we operate as a society, but so many themes and things about how much our internal world affects the outer reality, not just for us, but for so many have been coming up for review. So many different ways that we can look at and experience the undercurrent of feeling, the subconscious of our individual psyches and our psyche as a country as a species. All all of that has been coming up for a review. It's so interesting to the somadic effects of our experiences. So I have had many experiences with chronic pain in my life, and I woke up this morning and my back was just out, like it hurts so bad. So if you're watching this on YouTube, I actually have like a back brace on, I might look a little different. My shoulders are slouched forward, and I just like caught a glimpse of myself in the camera that's filming, and I'm like, yeah, this is what it looks like when you're hurting inside. You know, sometimes our bodies take on these feelings and these postures and we're like, oh, why am I just not feeling so well today? But it's you know, it's interesting to look at and what am I processing? Because I'm even just looking at the symbolism in my own posture. And this is not intentional by any means. I am sad today, make no mistake, But I also am strong and very resilient. We all are, and there are still many revolutions to be had in this country, in this world, inside of each of us, and so I'm not broken by any means by this disappointed, but physically to have a look at myself like my shoulders are like bowled forward, and as much as I'm trying to kind of like ough put them back and have better posture, that's just not what's possible for this body. And so maybe my outer reality wants to look like how I feel inside, and I'm going to give myself the space for that. And anyone as you happen to find this episode, whether it's this week and nice and fresh on the hill of this experience, or if it is in the weeks to come and the times to come. In whatever way you're relating to this information, notice your own body, Notice how you feel, Notice how you emote thinking and processing this experience and others. Some of the themes that come up that I know I'm exploring for myself, and I'd be so curious as you listen to this episode, and you may want to consider journaling about this in some ways, But what are all the ways that this news is affecting you. Let's kind of list out the ways it feels disappointing. Some of the ways for myself that this feels disappointing. Is so many layers, and this is just what I'm coming to now. I will be thinking about this for a very long time and exploring it. But I think one of the things that comes forward is one of the first things is I'm just I'm angry about the mediocrity of it all. I have anger in me for the fact that this is not for the greater good, and yet I am forced to take it. I am angry and frustrated that the thing that happened so often in our individual lives is playing out here. So many things, but one of them. You know, when you're the best, and you don't win, when you're the best person for the job, for the whatever, and you don't win when you have the most integrity, and you don't win when you've worked really hard, very selflessly, and you don't win when you see how irrational so many people innately feel and think. That to me rings out a lot, because you know, I think one of the ways that society is able to function is that we all believe in consequences for causing harm. It's what keeps us all safe. There is this shared belief as a civilization that if you cause harm to others, there will be consequences. Like really, as simple and fundamental as that sounds, it's what it really is what keeps us safe because we are connecting to this shared belief that we're investing in right and so when things like this happen and that is disproven, I think about what space does that create for more harm we're not seeing real outcomes. So many thoughts, so many thoughts, so many thoughts, so many thoughts. I've always thought since I was a little girl, I used to think about the Holocaust all the time as a child, and I used to think about the Civil Rights movement all the time as a child, and specifically I used to search my body and search my spiritual understanding for trying to understand how it could have felt in someone's body to be alive in those times. I recognized early on that every point in human history is modern history as it's happening, and we always look back, especially because early photography or videography was black and white, or it was choppy, or it wasn't as realistic as it all looks for us right now. So there was this way to keep it as separate and apart, but it was modern life, like day to day life. You had different clothes, you had different inventions, but the day looked to the people that were alive in exactly as it looks right now. The colors looked exactly as they looked. They had their own contexts for humor, their own context for belief, for consciousness, and whatever time they were, and it was the most advanced for the time that they were in. And so as a child all the way through now, I just always wonder how people felt as history was happening, especially if they were able to see ahead of themselves. And I think about that a lot now in this moment, because what are we watching the beginning stages of I'm really fascinated by generations, and so I think about my son's generation a lot, Generation Alpha, and since he was born really before, there were a lot of predictions from social scientists. I was already looking me up and I asked AI a bunch of questions about it, like, I'm fascinated by how we operate generationally and how different that makes us and how different that makes society. One of the predictions that you see about Generation Alpha is you see how the forecasting a lot of it is around how almost tribal society has the potential to become in that generation, how they'll really be spreading out into other spaces that we haven't really gone into before. They're parts of the country and just building structures and systems for themselves, but especially in a non kind of performative way, in a non zeitgeisty way, in a non societal pressured kind of way, like they are recreating what it means to be society and community. And it seems like in order to do that, you'd have to get back into a system that wasn't regulated by one big governmental system. So in the early reading of that over the last couple of years, and the way that there is going to be this hyperindependence and this real pull away from collective belief, if that's what that generation is going to be exploring in the next thirty to eighty years, what has to happen to make that their reality right? And I've been wondering that for a few years. What has to happen to make that the way their childhood, adolescent and early adult life unfolds, which is how society shifts right, How their core beliefs are formed, how they are able to learn, how they're able to enter society and take root as young adults. That's how those things come to pass. And so I've wondered over the last couple of years, how.
Does that become so? How does that become so?
And looking at the way things are unfolding now, looking at the way the map is spread with red and blue, and it seems like this is how that starts to happen. And believing that God has divinely designed so much of what this co created experience of being alive is. I think where I draw faith in this moment is I also have to trust that it is all by design, that there is a reason for how things have to unfold.
Deeply.
And I let a few ig lives the day of the election to just offer some support and some soft space. But one of the things I talked about a lot on that IG Live meditation was we have survived everything before this exact moment, right, one hundred percent of the things you have been through, one hundred percent of your worst days, your most anxiety filled days, your most fear based days, have been survived. When you look at the score of human history so far, right, when you look at all of the things as a species we've gone through since inception, So that's like, you know, hundreds of millions of years as a planet. We don't know how many times we've all done this dance. The planet has been wiped out so many times, but at least in the last few hundred years, there's been so many unfathomable circumstances. There's been genocides, there's been huge wars, global wars, world wars, civil wars. We have had great plagues many times. When I think back even to four years ago doing the election series Equanimity twenty twenty with deepok, in that moment, we were in global lockdown, we were in the pandemic in an election, and it felt like the absolute worst time any of us could fathom. Then in many ways, it was so unknown that so many fears for so many were that it wasn't survival. Right. Do you remember how that felt when we first learned of COVID and the idea of getting it, the ways we were approaching life, our families, ourselves that first election, remember back to the twenty sixteen election. The pendulum always swings. The pendulum always swings back and forth. Big gains, big losses, big gains, big losses. We learn, we forget, we learn, we forget, we learn, we forget. This is what it is to be alive, This is what it is to be alive. I have no solutions this episode, y'all. There's no solutions to be had for any of this right. We can't tip in, trick and hack our way out of these uncomfortable feelings. We are being forced to bear witness, bear witness to it all, bear witness to what is bear witness even outside of the political landscape.
To just.
The human pains and discomforts that are so present on the planet right now, so it's survivable. I pray we each allow our hearts to deeply remember the fortitude and the endurance that exists within each of us. The fortitude be endurance that we have moved through life with every single time it has all seemed overwhelming, impossible, confusing, disappointing.
That's going to be.
Present with many of us for a while, the disappointment that we really are here having vastly different experiences from one another, while still having a shared experience. Some of the stats and the data that has come out so far has really shown that black women and black men carried this election by far, by far, by.
Far, overworked by far, by far, by far, highest percentage of turnout, highest percentage of voters, highest percentage against Trump, and all the numbers, and so many other demos.
Were the exact opposite. I wonder, I wonder how this is going to unfold in our homes, you know, in the twenty sixteen election, with so many of us knew existed for so long, these great divides, these very different points of access, these different lived experiences, this complex trauma that has been brewing and brewing and brewing for centuries. That was the clear, honest look at what was true. This year takes it to the next level. This year deepens that understanding. This year lets us know not just how deep those roots are, but how forward moving into the future they are. I think in twenty sixteen we were looking at those roots as the past, as the generations that would be, you know, continuing to age and leave the earth. And this year we see that it's also the future. And how easy it is to pass it down, how easy it is to rewrite history, how easy it is to forget for so so many. There's grief there, right, there's grief there. It's a regenerating population of belief, it's a regenerating population of behavior. We got to think about that, We got to really look at that. Something I have been saying since twenty sixteen is that we should have always been approaching politics from a mental health capacity. We should have always been studying the narcissism, the sociopathy, of the mentality of this as its own living being, consciousness, system of thought, system of belief. It's more apparent now than ever. I'm letting this silence hold us a little bit. And I know this is an audio format. I know this is a video format for those watching, and we're not really used to that. I come from a radio and TV background, and our number one rule was no dead air, right.
That's the thing.
That could get you fined, could get you into big trouble, could get you fired if there was even a second that you weren't filling the space with noise. Obviously, as a meditator, I know the complete opposite to be true. But I'm letting these gaps of silence stay in this episode because we need this space, we need a hold in it. I'm processing thoughts in real time, I'm processing feelings. I'm being alive right now with.
You in this.
I know you may be listening to this having the same cadence of tick tick booms so so fast. The way our thoughts are racing right the way. We're beginning to build the bridges of what does this actually mean so we can have these gaps to let that be. I'm honored to be here in this moment today with you, in the unknowing and the fact they're not a single one of us has any answers. I deeply know that to be true about everything in general. But the shell right now this day may feel heavy. There may be grief, there may be frustration, there may be fear. There's a heaviness that's also present in a season that requires a lot of us, a lot of exposure to family, a lot of past experiences coming up, a lot of unresolved issues being skated around or confronted or just seen. All we can do is bas acknowledge the reality of what is. We have to be honest, and I think I think that this is a really also powerful call to action. Abou's something we spend all last month exploring personal integrity, personal trust, building your intuition, building your discernment, taking care of your individual body and health so you are not weathered by this world because none of this outside stuff will ever cease, none of it. If it's not politics, then it's personal family trauma. If it's not personal family trauma, it's some other system of challenge. It's what this is. So we have to devote to our own goodness, to our own health as best we can. Options to that may be more limited depending on where you live. One of the thoughts that came up for me as well was just recognizing, at least in this moment, that I do feel, honestly an extra layer of safety living in California, living in Los Angeles, living in a blue state, and it's very valid if you live somewhere else for there to be anxiety present about the unknown of what this means on a state level, all of it is valid. All we can do in this moment is bear witness as best we can, and show for our physical bodies as best we can, and have hope as best we can. There is still joy in this world. There is still profound beauty in this world. There is so much love in this world, and days like this commit me even more fully to the depth of that understanding. It keeps me even more angered into my own personal rituals and to creating delight between myself and my life even privately, in a way that others may not be able to see or know. But fanning your flames for yourself it helps keep us here, It helps keep us purposeful, It helps keep us serving. And I found that in moments like this, the best thing that we can do is just try to serve. If you need the day, take it. If you need a cry, cry, if you need a scream, scream, do it for as long as you need. But you gotta get up. You gotta get up, You gotta get up, you gotta keep going, you will keep going. Feel the feeling. It is present, it is valid, it's the reality of what is. And we have to keep our discernment sharp, and we have to stay rooted in the present moment like our lives depend on it, because they do. But there is love here, there is joy, there is hope, there is beauty in this world. There's opportunity, there's potential, and our hearts will feel full again they always do. Let's take a couple of deep breaths here together. You might want to place one hand over your heart that can feel really supportive. You might want to place another hand right on your core.
Take a deep breath in.
And release.
De Breathen and release.
De breathen.
And reallyase.
Spend time holding your heart today. Let your hand just pat your heart when you need it. Remind yourself of the feeling of your own heartbeat. We live to fight another day, We live to love another day.
God bless you big love, no mistake.
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