The Nervous System’s Divine Timing
Despite my inherently esoteric and mystical proclivities, I always found the notion of “Divine Timing” a tricky one to anchor and integrate. Probably because of its associations with new age-y, holier than thou spiritual guru types, with their emphasis on repressive Law of Attraction dogma, adherence to which has in the past created actual physical imbalances in my body, I eyed the whole notion of “Divine Timing” with a fair bit of skepticism.
However, after some conversations and transmissions from a couple of wise + grounded humans I’m fortunate enough to have in my field, a new relationship with a felt-sense of Divine Timing showed up, with my own meanings emerging from this organically.
(A brief caveat before I go on: the whole understanding and relationship to time itself is being recalibrated by many - myself included. For me, this has been taking shape as decolonized or mythic time, which I’ll be exploring with the members of my group offering, ROOT + RISE, as well as with my 1:1 clients. I won’t dive too deeply into that right now except to say that what I write about here is very much in resonance with mythic time).
So back to Divine Timing.
What has been unfolding for me goes something like this ~
Part of the ancient Hermetic dictum about the interdependent nature of the microcosm and the macrocosm states, “As within, so without.”
This has, along with the experience of Divine Timing, been co-opted by the aforementioned Law of Attraction industrial complex to create a sense of “there must be something wrong with me” if/when the things that I try to “manifest” in the world don’t pan out according to my (unintegrated) ego’s attachments.
First of all: there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. The sooner you take the dangerous, renegade step of moving out of that distorted belief system, the sooner you will come to feel compassionately amused with the time you spent playing in that particular sandbox.
It’s like taking the training wheels off your soul and moving into deep trust.
Try it.
It feels like flying.
Secondly: What if the Universe’s Divine Timing is giving you exactly what your nervous system can handle at any given time? Which is also in perfect alignment with your nervous system’s Divine Timing: As within so without.
And unless your nervous system is able to make space for and be in resonance with what is present for you Now, it cannot organically and sustainably create the capacity for future-based desires.
The lopsided Law of Attraction operating system does not allow for this attunement to the Now - especially if what is present for you Now is “negative” or “bad” or “not enough” - or any of those rejected poles of duality.
The lopsided LoA operating system only recognizes the “positive”, represses and denies the “negative” - leaving us out of coherence with our Now, creating blocks in our energy field.
And guess what: Divine Timing is all about being in resonance with the timeless Now.
Divine Timing is all about an organic state of committed surrender, innately sustainable to your nervous system and its capacity.
This will look different for each person. And especially for those of us tending to traumatized nervous systems: expansion is usually charged with threat, and has to come at its own pace.
Prune away notions of right and wrong, and put them on the compost heap. Instead plant seeds of coming into trust that you are supported and held - even if that doesn’t look like how your colonized/colonizer ego would like it to look.
To unsubscribe from the rigidities of what perfection “should” look like is to step out of the systemic enslavement of your wild Soul-Self, to step out of the “slash + burn” practices of monoculture that leaves the Earth’s soil completely used up + depleted, and our nervous systems numb, burned out and unable to attune to Life.
Come into relationship with your Now, with what your nervous system has the space for Now. It is from here that you can attune to Divine Timing - and however that organically unfolds for you.