After years and years of intense experiences, deep and core
reaching and teaching spiritual experiences, it has taken me a very long time
to process and integrate. Am I finished
yet? No, not by a long shot but I’m
feeling my time of solitary contemplation is ending. In a world that seems chaotic, punctuated by
all that is negative in the media and the psychotic-seeming trolls that have
permeated all of our on-line existence, it sometimes feels very pointless to
speak a single word. So, during such times,
quiet solitude is necessary to begin to understand. Will we ever? Honestly, although I’ve had
some very serious doubts, I believe that we will.
The masses are purely frustrated and divided over things we
all consider to be important but it is not really the dividing lines that are
the real focus here. We are being
challenged to declare ourselves. Just
not in the way we might think at first.
I don’t know about you but if ever I find myself in wrong thinking, my
body speaks to me. It tells me, “wait a
minute, you are going a bit too far – be silent and quiet – let the emotion
settle and begin again in a better frame.”
I used to miss this important message time and time again until massive
episodes of anxiety or depression would strike and painfully remind me. So, I learned to be more silent and work
through the feelings and fears of hopelessness in all I witness in life on
planet Earth. If I clear away the
superficial thoughts and fears, I find something truly amazing. It’s sometimes a very tiny gossamer thread of
hope. Just when I think there is no
hope, I’ll see a sparkle out of the corner of my eye. I may witness the true beauty of the nature
of some humans so readily expressed that I cannot stay in a space of fear or of
hopelessness.
While the media expounds on this atrocious thing or that
heart-wrenching and mind numbing angry-toxic producing thing, they are getting
the reaction they strive for. I have
decided to no longer give it. I
understand the stirring of baser emotion for the sake of stirring negative
emotion. It gets people into a very reactionary
state and then the witch-hunts begin and the scape goats are strung up and
strung out and then there is even more terrible news to broadcast. But, but, listen – is that really the life we
want to live -a life being manipulated by the media and those with a dark
design? How does that help you put food
on your table, love those closest to you and strive always and ever to be
better and brighter? I can’t remember
which book it was but Thich Nhat Hanh has said something to the effect of,
“What are you feeding your head?” When
you are glued to the news channel late at night before bed. Is it easy for you to fall asleep? You get that concept, don’t you? If you turn
to hope and what builds and better supports you in this life, can you sleep
better and love better?
I don’t believe the world is any crazier today than it has
always been here at the hands of fearful humans. But, if that is all you focus on – that is
all you will continue to perpetuate. I
now implicitly trust my inner guidance system.
Whenever I feel absolutely incredulous watching the news or being
confronted by this human or that human I know there is a lie in the mix. Either one I am being told or sold or one I
am believing in. Rather than waste my
time and energy fighting back against the darkness of this reactionary
manipulation employed unwittingly or unintentionally, I stop. I pull myself back. I calm gently my ego’s need to fight back, to
be right, or to defend. I pause and
reflect to discover what part of my experience truly feeds my incredulousness
and it doesn’t take long anymore to uncover the truth. I then can move into the space of my heart,
see more clearly and then simply hold a space of understanding. Fighting back and defending is always an
option but with so much time and energy poured into this negative manipulation
of experience for ratings, for money or for God knows what else, it would seem
to keep us all exhausted and vibrating so low, thick and desperate. I don’t want that for myself and I don’t want
that for others. I also know that my
only choice is to be the change that I want to see. I need to focus on what lifts my own
vibration. I need to explore what better
supports me and helps me operate more clearly as a conduit for balance in a
seemingly crazy world.
We are all of us the darkness and the light in this
world. We can point our focus at any
time and in any moment towards dark or light.
It’s not good or bad, right or wrong, it just is and you can argue these
points from any angle for arguments’ sake.
You can troll me to the moon and yet, my inner guidance system will not
waiver. In that, I trust
completely. So, how have things been for
me lately since this shift in thought, while integrating experience? Peaceful.
I have found peace, I have found an inner well of unshakable love and
support. I have discovered in life where
I “went wrong” so to speak but I’m not angry for it because it taught me so
much. I no longer need to learn from the
obvious negativity in the world put forth by intentional or unwittingly
participating humans expressing their own form of environmental psychology. I can learn my
life lessons by connecting with the Earth, appreciating the Sky, the Wind, the Clouds,
the Birds, the Trees and every single blade of Grass. Creation speaks often. I now listen more closely and openly.
My intent and my focus of late is shifting my own energy and
letting that vibrate out from my being, letting that be the wake I leave behind
me as I place one foot in front of the other on this journey I call my
life. I’m living it my way and doing the
best I can. I’m turning off the news and
disengaging from that which does not support me or those I love on my
journey. I’m doing what I can where and
when I can to help change those things for the better where I see fit in a
positive, non-violent and non-toxic way that does not infringe upon the free-will of others.
I’m making a commitment to myself and to all things I relate to – to
strive to bring good, do not harm, and make a difference I can live with. I can stand for something I find important
without causing harm to another soul. I
have much hope that others in this world will rise up from this constant swirl of utter chaos and awaken and learn that
they too can make a difference without imposing upon the free will of
others. I have hope. Find your hope and
your faith. Trust yourselves to find the best way. May your God or Goddess or
Nature or Life in General – bless you in every possible way with great wisdom,
great compassion, great healing and great abundance. I wish this for the entirety of this
beautiful globe that is our home. It is
time. And, So, It Is.
© 2019 (Photo/words) Jaie Hart
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