Imagining Beyond Stuck, Frozen States

As the moon reappears in the sky and this new cycle begins, how do you feel?

As we dive further into this month’s theme, Thawing Freeze States, I am reminded that this protection state can truly feel ENDLESS. While on the one hand it feels like I am my most “realistic,” in reality, my view of the world is so constricted. My entire experience is collapsed; in this state I am generally drinking less water, breathing less, eating less, detached from my senses, sitting in slouched and rigid posture,  and my creativity and imagination are miles if not realms away.

So much of healing is remembering past lives, sloughing off everything that burys and weighs down our innate, liberatory spirits. Our guiding cards for the month, The Fool and The Tower have some messages for us. From the Ancestral Healing Tarot Deck by Care.

Freeze states are a natural response to the Tower— a time of deep upheaval, where we are actively tearing away the foundations that we once believed support us. While we strive for a sense of home, The Fool is here to remind us that our imagination can be a wildly generative, powerful space.

When I’m in an extended freeze state, getting myself to do ANYTHING is a struggle. One of my favorite tools is a simple task visualization: imagine yourself getting up and doing whatever simple thing you are avoiding. This preps your nervous system for the change.

Imagination is not just in the mind, it flows through the whole body. Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish well between real or imagined, it just feels. Imagine with all of your senses, and follow your creativity. There are countless ways to visualize. Imagining that I am brushing energy off my body, or that I’m standing in a warm cleansing waterfall is a wonderful way to release my day and refresh.

Imagination is central to liberatory work, where we are imagining a world beyond everything we see and have been told is permanent. When everything is uncertain, our imagination can flood with fear, or we can guide it to a place of boundless potential. May we reclaim this as a generative space, and expand together.

~sending love through this relentless world