July 28, 2023 • 17 mins
How would it impact our life and the world around us if we decided to embrace the world of energy that quantum science points the way to? The Climate Emergency is being felt around the world this summer. Many of us may be experiencing the fear response in the face of this "global boiling". Christine explores the idea that the Climate Emergency is calling us to evolve beyond the fight/flight/fear response, and the shift that results when we choose to live as if we, and the world around us, is vibrating energy.
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Video: Tapping on the Climate Emergency
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Headlines:
'Climate change is changing our lives': The latest on extreme heat around the globe (CBC News)
"We are now in the Era of Global Boiling" (BBC News at Ten)
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Top 10 Things You Can Do About Climate Change (David Suzuki Foundation)
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(00:00):
"But quantum science is telling us is that what we see in touch isn't all that there is to reality.
In fact,
the world of the five senses is just the very superficial surface of things."
You are listening to Climate of Joy,
the podcast where we talk about climate change and consciousness in light of what quantum science is telling us about reality and the dramatic opportunity for healing that the climate emergency offers.
(00:34):
I'm Christine Panner Polle,
a self described climate crone who is a Canadian mom of 2, 3.
If you count Gemmy,
my little Frenchy-Spaniel Cross.
I'm an author,
a speaker and an energy intuitive specializing in loosening the invisible knots that keep us stuck in unhealthy patterns at both the personal and collective level.
(01:00):
This podcast is being recorded on the traditional and unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples and the Esquimalt, Songhees and W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations. Recognition and respect for these people's past,
present and future presence and caretaking of this land is essential to reconciliation. As a settler,
(01:25):
I want to honor and thank the original peoples of this territory and also recognize that my presence here is the result of European colonization which has had devastating impacts for the original people of this territory and right across Turtle Island.
(01:45):
Wow,
this is the summer that we can say climate change is affecting our lives.
Wherever we are in the globe,
there's record heat waves hitting Europe
North Africa is having a devastating heat waves as well.
(02:06):
There's fires in Europe,
there's been deadly heat waves across the US. In my own country.
Oh,
my goodness!
Here in Canada there's hundreds of wildfires raging just in my own province of British Columbia.
And there were devastating floods across the country on the east coast of Canada. In Nova Scotia where people died because they were swept away in their vehicles. Just devastation,
(02:37):
devastation and across the country,
there's wildfires burning that have been causing record air pollution levels,
not only in Canada, in different places across Canada,
but down into the US as well and in some of the most populated states like New York.
(02:57):
So folks here we are,
those of us who have been following what the science has been saying about climate change aren't surprised to hear this.
At the same time,
I would add that all of these extreme weather events are happening.
There's food supplies that are being affected.
India just brought in an export ban on its rice to ensure it has a domestic supply,
(03:24):
which is unprecedented and people are panic buying rice all over the world.
So again,
not surprising.
For those of us who have been following the climate science,
this is what scientists have been warning will happen if we continue to pour greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere.
(03:50):
And that is by burning fossil fuels,
which also happens to be the way that we fuel our society,
all of our economy.
So we are in a crisis.
And so my conversation today isn't so much to focus on what's going on.
(04:15):
You can read the headlines.
( I will put a link to some articles that are summaries of what's going on with the crazy weather around the world.)
But you can read the headlines. If you're listening to this,
you know,
we're in unprecedented new territory with regards to our climate and the implications for what that's going to do to our society.
(04:42):
My hope today is to focus a little bit on the automatic "fight flight or freeze" instinct that we have when we're threatened. Because climate change is threatening not only our way of life,
our food supply,
for some of you listening,
(05:03):
it may be actually physically threatening your homes,
there are communities being evacuated because of wildfire threats all across my country.
So this "fight fight or freeze" response,
this fear response, is going to kick in for me as well as everybody else.
(05:25):
But my hope is to give you some tools to deal with that fear,
to bring down that rush of adrenaline.
And also to give a perspective about these incredible times that we're living in because we are standing on a precipice of a whole new way of being on this planet.
(05:53):
And all of us listening,
all of us alive.
The nearly 8 billion people on the planet today,
we get to cast a vote on whether we're going to shift into a world of peace where everybody gets to thrive where there's more cooperation and more health.
(06:15):
Or in fact,
if this climate emergency and all of the other planetary emergencies that we're facing - the biodiversity crisis,
the economic crisis,
the inequality crisis - is this a gateway into a world where everybody thrives? Or a gateway into increasing chaos,
(06:40):
conflict and toxicity?
So no pressure at all!
Here we are.
What's a person supposed to do in these unprecedented times?
It's tempting to look away.
But if you're one of those courageous souls who can't look away and you're trying to make sense of and live coherently in a world seemingly gone crazy.
(07:07):
I'm glad you tuned in because there is a frontier where eco-grief and quantum consciousness and quantum healing meet.
That is the invitation that the Climate Emergency is extending to us.
And in order to take up that invitation,
(07:29):
which really is about releasing the past way of doing things in order to cultivate a different reality than the painful one that currently dominates the globe.
In order to do that,
we have to make an effort,
it doesn't mean we're perfect.
We don't want perfection to be the enemy of the good here because none of us are perfect.
(07:55):
We're human.
If you knew me well,
you would know how imperfect I am.
But the findings of quantum mechanics or quantum physics suggest that we have the power to shift our consciousness.
And the Climate Emergency is telling us that the old way no longer works and the same system of thinking and being in the world that has brought us to the brink of global disaster,
(08:29):
which has caused this fractured relationship with mother Earth.
For most of us in the western world,
it's also taught us not to trust our sixth sense,
our intuition,
we're told it's only our five senses that can give us information about the world.
(08:50):
But actually,
but quantum science is telling us is that what we see in touch isn't all that there is to reality.
In fact,
the world of the five senses is just the very superficial surface of things in the quantum world.
We aren't solid matter,
we are vibrating energy and that means our consciousness has an impact on reality.
(09:20):
So what does that mean in the middle of a summer of alarming weather and increasing food prices and threats to our health and well-being,
we are invited to stop and breathe
(09:42):
That's always a good place to start. Breathe and connect to the here-and-now. There may be looming disaster ahead.
If our system is consistently in" fight flight or freeze" mode,
we're going to overreact,
(10:03):
not just when the threat physically arrives,
but before. We're primed for fighting or fleeing or freezing,
none of which,
is a helpful response to this incredible invitation that we're being offered.
So I guess a question that I would put to anybody listening here as well as something that I remind myself regularly.
(10:34):
How would it impact one's life if one acknowledged and integrated the reality that, as solid as we and the world around us seems, we are vibrating energy. At our essence,
(10:56):
is vibrating energy.
And each thought that we put out there affects ourselves and ripples out to the world.
How would that change the way we think about ourselves,
the way we think about others,
what we put out into the world?
(11:18):
And how would that mean in the context of the Climate Emergency?
How would that change our response to what we're seeing on the news?
It's incredibly difficult if you're someone like me who has recognized for years that this is what the climate scientists have been warning us about.
(11:43):
They've been very clear about their warning and yet it has not only has the science been disregarded by policy makers,
but in fact,
there's been an active campaign to undermine the reality of the climate science by and for those who are making the most money from polluting our the world that sustains life.
(12:12):
So it's very hard, and I speak from personal experience,
not to feel intense anger and disdain for those who would pollute the earth for the sake of making a buck.
(12:32):
So I want to recognize that that is righteous anger if that's what you're feeling,
but if this is to become an evolutionary moment for humanity,
which it has the potential to do because the threat is so large that, as we're coming to recognize,
(12:57):
it threatens every nation on earth.
So here we are,
and how are we going to turn the corner?
Well,
if we continue to feel anger and vengeance towards those who have put us in this place,
that is a consciousness that will continue the same state of affairs.
(13:23):
But if we recognizing that we are vibrating energy as solid as we see that we are more space than we are matter science tells us.
Do we have then have the ability to change the narrative,
(13:46):
change the story that we tell ourselves and say for my part,
I'm willing to release anger and vengefulness? And embrace the idea that we move forward collectively trying to lift everybody up.
(14:06):
And that means letting go of anger and resentment personally and collectively,
it doesn't mean we continue to let the fossil fuel companies dictate the agenda.
Absolutely not.
But we don't spend time and energy focusing on what they've done wrong and how they have gotten us into this situation.
(14:37):
Rather we move forward contributing a consciousness that is grounded that is willing to forgive and willing to do its own healing work.
(14:58):
I would love to hear from you listeners about what you do to keep yourself grounded in the midst of the crazy times that we're in.
I love to walk , especially to walk in nature.
(15:18):
I, of course,
use energy healing techniques and I'm going to put a link to a tapping video that I'm going to create specifically for dealing with these feelings that come up in the Climate Emergency of feeling powerless,
of feeling angry and acknowledging it,
(15:41):
one has to acknowledge what one feels before one can shift it.
And that is also true in EFT tapping the energy healing tool that I love to use and share.
One doesn't pretend that one feels any different.
One acknowledges one's feelings while tapping on the acu-pressure points and then shifts things that way.
(16:07):
So that's my invitation today is, if you're listening to this and you want to shift some of the feelings that you have around the climate emergency, to feel free to use that video.
There are more resources available on the Climate of Joy website. Thank you for joining this conversation.
(16:30):
I love feedback.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch,
Christine at climate of Joy. I wish you well,
wherever you are and whatever you're doing,
that's a wrap for this episode.
Thank you so much for listening.
If you enjoyed this show,
please leave me a rating or review or tag me on Instagram at @cpennerpolle or find me on Pinterest at 350orbust.
(16:59):
If you are ready for more peace in your life,
even in the Climate Emergency,
head over to Climate of Joy dot com to grab your free copy of "Tap into Peace".
And while you're there,
sign up for my free online healing circles which happen once a month. Till next time,
(17:19):
be kind to each other.
Remember,
we are all just walking each other home.
"But quantum science is telling us is that what we see in touch isn't all that there is to reality.
In fact,
the world of the five senses is just the very superficial surface of things."
You are listening to Climate of Joy,
the podcast where we talk about climate change and consciousness in light of what quantum science is telling us about reality and the dramatic opportunity for healing that the climate emergency offers.
(00:34):
I'm Christine Panner Polle,
a self described climate crone who is a Canadian mom of 2, 3.
If you count Gemmy,
my little Frenchy-Spaniel Cross.
I'm an author,
a speaker and an energy intuitive specializing in loosening the invisible knots that keep us stuck in unhealthy patterns at both the personal and collective level.
(01:00):
This podcast is being recorded on the traditional and unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples and the Esquimalt, Songhees and W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations. Recognition and respect for these people's past,
present and future presence and caretaking of this land is essential to reconciliation. As a settler,
(01:25):
I want to honor and thank the original peoples of this territory and also recognize that my presence here is the result of European colonization which has had devastating impacts for the original people of this territory and right across Turtle Island.
(01:45):
Wow,
this is the summer that we can say climate change is affecting our lives.
Wherever we are in the globe,
there's record heat waves hitting Europe
North Africa is having a devastating heat waves as well.
(02:06):
There's fires in Europe,
there's been deadly heat waves across the US. In my own country.
Oh,
my goodness!
Here in Canada there's hundreds of wildfires raging just in my own province of British Columbia.
And there were devastating floods across the country on the east coast of Canada. In Nova Scotia where people died because they were swept away in their vehicles. Just devastation,
(02:37):
devastation and across the country,
there's wildfires burning that have been causing record air pollution levels,
not only in Canada, in different places across Canada,
but down into the US as well and in some of the most populated states like New York.
(02:57):
So folks here we are,
those of us who have been following what the science has been saying about climate change aren't surprised to hear this.
At the same time,
I would add that all of these extreme weather events are happening.
There's food supplies that are being affected.
India just brought in an export ban on its rice to ensure it has a domestic supply,
(03:24):
which is unprecedented and people are panic buying rice all over the world.
So again,
not surprising.
For those of us who have been following the climate science,
this is what scientists have been warning will happen if we continue to pour greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere.
(03:50):
And that is by burning fossil fuels,
which also happens to be the way that we fuel our society,
all of our economy.
So we are in a crisis.
And so my conversation today isn't so much to focus on what's going on.
(04:15):
You can read the headlines.
( I will put a link to some articles that are summaries of what's going on with the crazy weather around the world.)
But you can read the headlines. If you're listening to this,
you know,
we're in unprecedented new territory with regards to our climate and the implications for what that's going to do to our society.
(04:42):
My hope today is to focus a little bit on the automatic "fight flight or freeze" instinct that we have when we're threatened. Because climate change is threatening not only our way of life,
our food supply,
for some of you listening,
(05:03):
it may be actually physically threatening your homes,
there are communities being evacuated because of wildfire threats all across my country.
So this "fight fight or freeze" response,
this fear response, is going to kick in for me as well as everybody else.
(05:25):
But my hope is to give you some tools to deal with that fear,
to bring down that rush of adrenaline.
And also to give a perspective about these incredible times that we're living in because we are standing on a precipice of a whole new way of being on this planet.
(05:53):
And all of us listening,
all of us alive.
The nearly 8 billion people on the planet today,
we get to cast a vote on whether we're going to shift into a world of peace where everybody gets to thrive where there's more cooperation and more health.
(06:15):
Or in fact,
if this climate emergency and all of the other planetary emergencies that we're facing - the biodiversity crisis,
the economic crisis,
the inequality crisis - is this a gateway into a world where everybody thrives? Or a gateway into increasing chaos,
(06:40):
conflict and toxicity?
So no pressure at all!
Here we are.
What's a person supposed to do in these unprecedented times?
It's tempting to look away.
But if you're one of those courageous souls who can't look away and you're trying to make sense of and live coherently in a world seemingly gone crazy.
(07:07):
I'm glad you tuned in because there is a frontier where eco-grief and quantum consciousness and quantum healing meet.
That is the invitation that the Climate Emergency is extending to us.
And in order to take up that invitation,
(07:29):
which really is about releasing the past way of doing things in order to cultivate a different reality than the painful one that currently dominates the globe.
In order to do that,
we have to make an effort,
it doesn't mean we're perfect.
We don't want perfection to be the enemy of the good here because none of us are perfect.
(07:55):
We're human.
If you knew me well,
you would know how imperfect I am.
But the findings of quantum mechanics or quantum physics suggest that we have the power to shift our consciousness.
And the Climate Emergency is telling us that the old way no longer works and the same system of thinking and being in the world that has brought us to the brink of global disaster,
(08:29):
which has caused this fractured relationship with mother Earth.
For most of us in the western world,
it's also taught us not to trust our sixth sense,
our intuition,
we're told it's only our five senses that can give us information about the world.
(08:50):
But actually,
but quantum science is telling us is that what we see in touch isn't all that there is to reality.
In fact,
the world of the five senses is just the very superficial surface of things in the quantum world.
We aren't solid matter,
we are vibrating energy and that means our consciousness has an impact on reality.
(09:20):
So what does that mean in the middle of a summer of alarming weather and increasing food prices and threats to our health and well-being,
we are invited to stop and breathe
(09:42):
That's always a good place to start. Breathe and connect to the here-and-now. There may be looming disaster ahead.
If our system is consistently in" fight flight or freeze" mode,
we're going to overreact,
(10:03):
not just when the threat physically arrives,
but before. We're primed for fighting or fleeing or freezing,
none of which,
is a helpful response to this incredible invitation that we're being offered.
So I guess a question that I would put to anybody listening here as well as something that I remind myself regularly.
(10:34):
How would it impact one's life if one acknowledged and integrated the reality that, as solid as we and the world around us seems, we are vibrating energy. At our essence,
(10:56):
is vibrating energy.
And each thought that we put out there affects ourselves and ripples out to the world.
How would that change the way we think about ourselves,
the way we think about others,
what we put out into the world?
(11:18):
And how would that mean in the context of the Climate Emergency?
How would that change our response to what we're seeing on the news?
It's incredibly difficult if you're someone like me who has recognized for years that this is what the climate scientists have been warning us about.
(11:43):
They've been very clear about their warning and yet it has not only has the science been disregarded by policy makers,
but in fact,
there's been an active campaign to undermine the reality of the climate science by and for those who are making the most money from polluting our the world that sustains life.
(12:12):
So it's very hard, and I speak from personal experience,
not to feel intense anger and disdain for those who would pollute the earth for the sake of making a buck.
(12:32):
So I want to recognize that that is righteous anger if that's what you're feeling,
but if this is to become an evolutionary moment for humanity,
which it has the potential to do because the threat is so large that, as we're coming to recognize,
(12:57):
it threatens every nation on earth.
So here we are,
and how are we going to turn the corner?
Well,
if we continue to feel anger and vengeance towards those who have put us in this place,
that is a consciousness that will continue the same state of affairs.
(13:23):
But if we recognizing that we are vibrating energy as solid as we see that we are more space than we are matter science tells us.
Do we have then have the ability to change the narrative,
(13:46):
change the story that we tell ourselves and say for my part,
I'm willing to release anger and vengefulness? And embrace the idea that we move forward collectively trying to lift everybody up.
(14:06):
And that means letting go of anger and resentment personally and collectively,
it doesn't mean we continue to let the fossil fuel companies dictate the agenda.
Absolutely not.
But we don't spend time and energy focusing on what they've done wrong and how they have gotten us into this situation.
(14:37):
Rather we move forward contributing a consciousness that is grounded that is willing to forgive and willing to do its own healing work.
(14:58):
I would love to hear from you listeners about what you do to keep yourself grounded in the midst of the crazy times that we're in.
I love to walk , especially to walk in nature.
(15:18):
I, of course,
use energy healing techniques and I'm going to put a link to a tapping video that I'm going to create specifically for dealing with these feelings that come up in the Climate Emergency of feeling powerless,
of feeling angry and acknowledging it,
(15:41):
one has to acknowledge what one feels before one can shift it.
And that is also true in EFT tapping the energy healing tool that I love to use and share.
One doesn't pretend that one feels any different.
One acknowledges one's feelings while tapping on the acu-pressure points and then shifts things that way.
(16:07):
So that's my invitation today is, if you're listening to this and you want to shift some of the feelings that you have around the climate emergency, to feel free to use that video.
There are more resources available on the Climate of Joy website. Thank you for joining this conversation.
(16:30):
I love feedback.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch,
Christine at climate of Joy. I wish you well,
wherever you are and whatever you're doing,
that's a wrap for this episode.
Thank you so much for listening.
If you enjoyed this show,
please leave me a rating or review or tag me on Instagram at @cpennerpolle or find me on Pinterest at 350orbust.
(16:59):
If you are ready for more peace in your life,
even in the Climate Emergency,
head over to Climate of Joy dot com to grab your free copy of "Tap into Peace".
And while you're there,
sign up for my free online healing circles which happen once a month. Till next time,
(17:19):
be kind to each other.
Remember,
we are all just walking each other home.
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