Get Out of the News Cycle and Into Your Own Practice

This Portal is an Inside Job

The most important things you can be doing right now are leading with your heart, resourcing your nervous system, sharing beauty, amplifying joy and gratitude, tending your vitality, mastering your own frequency and raising your consciousness. Change begins with you and this portal is absolutely an inside job first and foremost. So I wanted to talk about some orientations and pathways to lean into as we birth a new world.

1. Regulate Your Nervous System First

Higher awareness doesn’t land well in a dysregulated body. First you need to figure out what tools you most need. The way we support regulation is going to be different for someone in shutdown vs. someone in fight or flight. Nervous system love notes are not just about being calm. They are about clearing static in our emotional body. They are about a felt sense of real safety in the soma. They are about more time in rest/restore/digest/manifest.

Many skip the purge part and try to go right to box breath. We need to move energy and then we can grow capacity.

If the body feels unsafe, the mind stays in survival loops. Fear, comparison, doom scrolling, urgency.

Practices that help:

  • breathwork

  • fascia / somatic movement

  • walking without stimulation

  • humming, chanting, sound

  • bottoms up regulation tools

Astro thread:

Look at your Moon sign and house. That shows what your nervous system needs to feel safe enough to perceive clearly.

Examples:

  • Fire moons → movement before insight + ample time to discharge

  • Water moons → emotional processing + healthy boundaries

  • Air moons → conversation, inspiration or writing

  • Earth moons → grounding through the body or environment

2. Clean Up Your Inner Dialogue

Your thoughts are the atmosphere your consciousness lives inside.

You can’t access higher perception if the mind is constantly running scripts like:

  • nothing works out for me

  • people can’t be trusted

  • the world is dangerous

  • I’ll probably fail

This isn’t “positive thinking.”

It’s removing distortions that keep perception small. And when it comes to thoughts we also circle back up to nervous system support because a dysregulated nervous system birth dysregulated thought loops, catastrophic thinking and mental limitation.

Other helpful practices:

  • EFT

  • talking to the body (the love up on your bod EFT in This Is The Space is quite popular)

  • subliminals

  • journaling out the thoughts that repeat

Astro thread:

Look at Mercury.

Mercury shows how your mind processes reality.

Supporting Mercury = supporting consciousness (and your nervous system).

3. Take Responsibility for Your Attention

Where your attention goes… your energy goes.

Consciousness rises when you stop outsourcing your focus to algorithms, fear cycles, and the daily outrage theater. Orient yourself to the world you want to see more of.

Try:

  • limiting news cycles

  • intentional media consumption

  • reading things that expand your thinking and open your mind to what’s possible

  • spending time in silence

Astro thread:

Check your 3rd house and its ruler.

That’s the gateway of perception and daily mental input.

4. Create Space in Your Life

Awareness expands in space.

Not in schedules packed so tightly that you can barely hear yourself think.

Consciousness grows when there is room to notice things. When Higher Consciousness has space to land.

Examples:

  • scheduled white space in your day

  • less multitasking

  • quiet mornings

  • walks without headphones

Astro thread:

Look at your 12th house.

Everyone needs some form of retreat, reflection, or solitude to access deeper awareness.

5. Spend Time With What’s Real

Nature recalibrates the nervous system and the mind.

The body remembers coherence when it’s around:

  • trees

  • water

  • animals

  • sunlight

  • fresh air

Nature doesn’t perform.

It simply is.

Consciousness naturally rises when we spend time in environments that aren’t artificial.

Astro thread:

Your rising sign and chart ruler often show the environments that restore your vitality.

6. Follow What Feels Alive

Consciousness expands through curiosity and aliveness.

Pay attention to what makes you feel:

  • fascinated

  • inspired

  • energized

Those signals are your system orienting toward growth.

Astro thread:

Look at your Sun placement.

The Sun shows where your vitality and life force expand.

When you’re living that energy, awareness tends to increase naturally.

7. Work With the Body, Not Just the Mind

Real shifts happen bottom-up, not just through insight.

You can understand something intellectually for years… but when the body processes it, everything changes.

Support the body with:

  • movement

  • breath

  • hydration

  • rest

  • touch

  • nervous system repair

This is why embodiment work changes consciousness faster than endless studying.

in closing

Consciousness doesn’t rise from consuming more information. These next years with so much fire and air it will be more important than ever to decrease input and give your spiritual self space to breathe, to expand.

Raising your consciousness is less about transcending the human experience… and more about becoming coherent and fully present inside it.

This Is The Space is your playground for the times.





amanda barnett