The past few weeks, I have cried with my clients and loved ones and felt the gamut from anger and fear to being alive and uplifted. I am reminded that this election and its results, as everything is, a mirror of who we are as a whole society, and parts of who I am as an individual.

This country and this world, like our own bodies, cannot go on without all that are apart. We thrive effortlessly when all of of the cells of our body are working together, not individually or against one another—It is cancer when some parts go rogue and attack the rest of the body, and likewise, we typically attack back, in Western medicine, by killing it off.

We cannot continue this in terms of the concrete world- in terms of killing off each other.

Our bodies tell us something is wrong by creating symptoms. This society is telling us continually that there is something wrong and we have not been listening. There is a deeper underlying pain and hurt that is expressed here. We need to understand and kill off or let die the ideas and beliefs that became the cancer instead of each other.

If we are connected with ourselves, we innately feel for others when they are in pain. But if we are disconnected or feel overwhelmed with navigating our emotions, as many are, we may project our disgusting or bad parts onto others and say “I'm not like them at all.”

Some very powerful experiences have come from myself, clients and people around me including:

• the empowerment to speak and not be silent about uncomfortable emotions and experiences
• waking up out of complacency + shock
• past experiences/ancestral experiences unearthing
• the desire for understanding the opposite side
• stepping up to what they know they are meant to do or be
• that life has to go on, but we have to bring forward the new learning
• the desire to protect and stand behind LGBTQA, ethnic minority, muslims & women

AND we need to remember that as long as we “other” people (including Trump and his supporters), we perpetuate the division, fear  and separation that got us here in the first place. Let's look at our own shadows.

The results of the election provide us all an opportunity to know ourselves deeper- to look at where we are activated, to see what is happening as an expression of ourselves too, to integrate any feelings we disavow onto other people, and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton or their supporters.

Anytime we are disgusted, repulsed, hateful or intensely angry at another (which are all healthy expressions), we have the opportunity to evolve ourselves and the global consciousness in the process of allowing these emotions to be witnessed with loving awareness, and to ask ourselves, how are we like them?

If you're looking for ways to explore how the elections may your mirror, here are a few ideas:

1. Notice your reactions about other people and how they are or have acted. Feel them and witness. Let the emotions, sensations, and impulses be noticed and move through.
2. Ask, what connects me strongly to this person or way of being?
3. Do I have previous experiences that remind me of this?
4. Are there experiences in my family that are similar?
5. Notice, how am I like this person (Trump, Clinton, or other)?
6. Are there beliefs or judgments I have of others that match judgment toward myself?
7. What underlying dynamics or patterns do I have a part in that need to end or die?
8. What parts of the election do I have a reaction to? How is this a lesson to me?