Reconnect Festival

I went to a music and community festival on the weekend called Reconnect. Reconnect is created by the crew :Astral Lotus: every year. Astral Lotus do amazing work and put together one of the most important shows for Adelaide and interstaters. This year proved different for my partner and I as there were going to be people at the festival who we were not going to be able to "reconnect with". Certain people who had very much hurt our friends, lied to them and treated them badly. As soon as we arrived, we saw their camp and my heart started racing, I started to feel sick in my stomach, I got dizzy and was unsure if it was going to be a good weekend at all. However I soon recognised that they were merely defense mechanisms and it was these mechanism patterns that I needed to break to take back my ability to cope. I started talking to my partner about how it made me feel (communication is SO important in these instances as it helps the mind recognise what is going on and help keeps it calmer) we started talking about how we felt, what we wanted to do, whether we wanted to run away or stay and confront. In the end my intuition was telling me that we could live in the same environment, it would just take my ability to forgive but not forget, with a little twist of putting myself into the confrontation, so to learn that it does not have to be a negative experience IF it is on my terms. So any chance I go, I sat in the same tent, walked near them, just made myself confront the issue, even though I did not speak to them, it was enough for me to realise WE COULD live in the same environment and not have to be upset or angry.

I have no idea how they felt, but I had a great weekend even though they were there and it really made me realise how quickly I can get myself into a stressful point without thinking or talking it out.

Reconnect was a beautiful festival, with a cleansing ceremony at the start. I felt the white sage release my emotional pain and it actually took a physical effect on myself! Powerful stuff! Witnessing that was beautiful.

Reconnect festival also helped my partner and I reconnect with ourselves and each other. We had both been disconnected from ourselves - not necessarily looking after ourselves and being disconnected from each other, however the festival really helped us appreciate more in life and we started to realise this whilst being away.

This weekend has been one of the most important experiences in my life, teaching me lessons, helping me trust my intuition more, understanding people and the way they behave and most importantly reconnecting with the old friends and making new friends, also eating awesome vego food!