Getting my Vaccine: A Clearing Story

Here I am getting my Covid vaccine. The story I want to tell you, though, is not about getting the shot so much as clearing the noise and uncertainties I carried around that led up to it. It’s also a tale about the power of intention.

Before you keep reading, please know that this post is not meant to convert or upset anyone. It is meant to describe a process – my process – of getting clear. If it does rattle your cage, however, you have two good choices: 1) you can walk away or, 2) you can use it as another great opportunity to practice spacious detachment and clear the charge. (I might suggest the latter 😉)

Muddling through

I was not wild about getting vaccinated at first, to be honest. I’m no anti-vaxxer, but as a rule I don’t like messing with the body’s intelligence to heal itself. My modus operandi with this pandemic has been to stay as healthy as I can and follow the rules of non-engagement: socially distance and wear a mask.

Also, being among the fortunate ones able to limit my exposure has certainly helped to ease any fears around hospital ventilators and worst-case scenarios. But if there was anything that I needed managing, it was my fear of the vaccine itself: Will it hurt my body? Will it mess up my internal balance? What about the side-effects?

So what changed my mind? What helped tip the scales and get me to say yes to the vaccine? Three things: my family, my intuition, and my conscience.

Explain it like I’m in fifth grade

Spending bubble time with my thirty-year old daughter has been helpful and reassuring. She has studied the science and explained it to me at the appropriate fifth-grade level. “It’s not the virus you’re getting, Mom, but a special targeted set of instructions telling your cells how to respond to this foreign invader.” And like the old TV series Mission Impossible, “once the message gets delivered, it disappears,” my husband adds. All this sounds so radical until I remember that our daughter herself is a miracle, thanks to a then-experimental IVF procedure we did back in the early 90s when we struggled to get pregnant.

Due diligence

I’ve done a fair bit of kicking the tires as well – following up with my homeopath, asking the vaccinated few about their experience, listening to podcasts, watching videos. I’ve concluded that this virus is bad news, different than anything we’ve seen. There could be other more holistic approaches to healing this scourge, no doubt, but right now vaccination is the route our society has chosen to take. Plus, I may not be afraid of dying myself, but what if I got someone else sick who could die?

That was all I needed to say sign me up! Even with my lingering trepidations, once I said yes to moving forward all the stars seemed to line up. We lucked out with appointments – again, thanks to our millennial daughter who sniffed and pounced as soon as the internet site opened up in our city for our age group.

In the flow

It’s the day of and I’m still a bit nervous. I watch my mind like a hawk, doing my thing of breathing as much compassionate awareness and spacious detachment into my fears as I can.

We manifest a parking place right near the venue and walk right in – amazed that there is no line! And, BAM, before we know it, Jay and I are sitting side by side getting prepped to receive the Moderna vaccine. Yikes, that was fast. I guess the universe wants me to get this thing.

And what follows is where it gets very woo-woo interesting – which you’ll appreciate more after watching the short 20-second video clip below of me getting my vaccine.

Spacious zone

If you watch this video closely you might notice a burst of light at the exact moment that I get the injection. What might look like a technical fluke, I believe is something else – something significant, more real, and intentional – that was going on inside of me.

What is going on (that no one can see) is me in-tending, as it were, via this visualization:

With all my attention and whole heart, I beam (inject) love into the vaccine as it enters my arm, asking that my body receive all the benefits of this substance and filter out any of its disturbing effects. I invite this high frequency of love and light to infuse me; to radiate throughout my entire energy field and hold as needed for as long as is required.

Yes, believe it or not, like a flash of light, all of that intentionality happens in a split second.

What is also very cool (and I did not see coming), is the visual evidence of what happens when I’m the “spacious zone.” Wild, eh? The heart is a powerful thing.

And so is the mind. As an extra clearing measure, I began practicing my visualization off and on for about a week before getting the real thing. It may sound strange, but I could almost taste the vaccine itself as it entered my imagined arm. I could also sense a bit of soreness in the upper part of my actual arm. As an energy worker who is used to playing with time and space, however, a little bending of reality doesn’t phase me much anymore. I embrace it all with as much spacious awareness and detachment as I can.

Wait and see

We’ll see what happens for Round 2 of my vaccination. For now, I can report that I looked for side-effects in the days that followed. Save for a tiny ache in my upper arm, there were none.

Video credit: Special thanks to our daughter for the extra “booster shot” of love and support and the making of this video.

Want more?

If you’re still on the fence about getting the vaccine, or a bit apprehensive as I was, I recommend watching the Tyler Perry video below. It’s one of the videos that helped me turn the corner on this thing.

Short on time? Scroll to the 9-minute mark and hear the expert explain how the vaccine works in a way that even a five-year old can understand.