As Hurricane Sandy was growing off the Florida coast, I was feeling more and more drained, as if the life force was being sucked right out of me. I felt like I had the flu because I could barely muster up the energy to get out of bed, yet I was not ill. But then as she peaked and the winds started blowing I started to feel the release of all that energy it took to create one of the largest and most powerful storms in history and I started feeling super charged and amazing as a result. What I was feeling aligned perfectly with what nature was doing. To build a storm of this magnitude requires a great deal of atmospheric energy and nature draws that energy from everything at her disposal, including us. Then when the storm’s energy releases in the form of winds, rains and huge ocean swells, we become energized by her massive release as well. After all, we are one and are all part of the same planet and energetic universe as are the storms.

The night before the storm hit I set up a group prayer for safety with my friends from Facebook both far and near.  At the designated time, I went outside to channel the energy of everyone’s prayers.  After about 5 minutes, I felt the prayers of hundreds of people surge through my body and in a blast of energy the essence of all the prayers rushed out of my hands and into the wind and clouds. Right then a huge gust of wind, twice as strong  as any other prior gust, roared through releasing the prayers into the atmosphere and I knew in that moment that our work was complete. Continue reading →