As we enter the final countdown to the U.S. presidential election outcome, it’s no surprise that collective feelings of apprehension and exhaustion fill the air. Elevated levels of upset, angst and uncertainty running parallel to the current of everyday life. Even if you actively avoid the news, don’t talk politics, or are faithfully lighting an internal candle of hope with each passing day, it’s nearly impossible to escape the wide net being cast by millions, the slipstream of intensified energy created by the many.

FOR TWO FULL MONTHS NOW, I HAVEN’T SAT WITH A SINGLE CLIENT THAT DIDN’T MENTION SOME VERSION OF THIS PHENOMENON IMPACTING THEM. THE FEELING OF CARRYING A LAYER OF THICK, LESS-THAN-WELCOME ENERGY THAT ISN’T ENTIRELY THEIRS. EXTRA WEIGHT AND DRAG COMING FROM A SOURCE NOT EASILY TRACED.

This is what I refer to as the Collective Energy Grid.

The system that we’re all plugged into as humans, a structure that both stores and radiates energy according to what the masses are experiencing. Transmission from the Grid amplified when there is a funneled and focused passage that legions are moving through together.

And as we well know, “together” doesn’t necessarily mean that there is a single, shared goal. It refers instead to a common energy state, the prevailing resonance. One that can be perpetuated by wildly varying points of view – as with this year’s presidential election.

In this moment, that common energy state being one of hovering. Discomfort born of a too-long period of suspension, stretching us to our limits as we try to make sense of the senseless, live with the presence of an unspoken yet pervasive feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Polarities intensifying the collective emissions, the Grid straining under a push-pull of extremes.

AS A RESULT WE’RE ALL, TO SOME DEGREE, SWIMMING THROUGH THESE ENERGETIC RIPPLES AND RUPTURES EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Certainly, you aren’t actively looking to take on more, carry around the energy of others. And yet, it happens. Most especially if you’re a highly sensitive person, your empathic body more apt to absorb what’s bouncing around in the ether, looking for a place to land.

All the more reason for us to be actively engaging in one essential daily practice right now: DISCHARGE.

While the practice will look different for each person, the focus is singular: discharge of collective energies built up over the course of your waking hours. Time made at the end of each day for intentional cleansing, a direct and clear message to body and spirit that they can put down unneeded accumulations from the day.

Even if you’re a highly-skilled practitioner in the energy and embodiment realms, accustomed to keeping your field clear and protected, I encourage you still to consider this daily exercise. Because we all benefit from a shared discharge practice, the momentum of personal effort and intention yielding regulation of the Collective Energy Grid.

THIS IS IN LARGE PART POSSIBLE BECAUSE A DISCHARGE PRACTICE DOES NOT MEAN RETURNING DYSREGULATED ENERGY BACK TO THE COLLECTIVE GRID.

It’s about dissipation of that energy, dissolving it outward into a much larger space – cosmic-sized, I would offer – so that it’s not given a chance to reorganize and recycle itself back into the collective field. In effect, we end up helping to equalize the larger Grid each time we actively discharge and regulate our own, internal grid.

I’m writing this piece not only because of how maxed out many of us are, standing in the daily wake of collective energies, but also because November 5 will not be an end date. We aren’t magically going to wake up on November 6 with the Collective Grid clear of all muck and strain. In reality, our discharge practices are going to become even more essential in the upcoming months, no matter the outcome of the election.

We will, millions of Americans, enter immediately into a new chapter of adjustment. Vibrating our feelings and desires right back into that Collective Energy Grid with fervor as we seek new ground to stand on, calibrate to whoever takes the oath of office on January 20, 2025.

As much as we are all hanging in the balance, awaiting election results that will set the tone for the next four years, our daily practices of discharge and re-balancing will be equally as critical to the settling and shaping of our future here in the United States.