During this time of great changes and transformation, there is great exposure and increased awareness of all that is wrong in our systems of government, the environment, the quality of our food, the economy, and our self-serving corporations. Gradually, we are opening our eyes to what from one perspective, we may have preferred not to know about. Ignorance is bliss when the blatant reality of the social systems around you is reeking of greed, selfishness, corruption of values, and our governments’ and corporations’ disregard for the publics’ best interest.
How is it possible to remain positive in the face of such glaring inequities? Do we even have a democracy anymore? Can you blame people for ignoring these issues, especially since one feels so utterly powerless to do anything about it?
So, if people turn their attention away from these issues, it may be because they prefer to focus on their own individual lives, where they can have more control, thus more positivity in their lives. Who can blame them? We all do it to some extent. Let’s just bury our heads in the sand, and live our own lives as best we can. Can’t do anything about that stuff anyway.
The open-eyed awareness is such a downer, and then if you do get educated about the issues, that means you should do something about it or take some kind of action. Life is too busy for that. Who’s got the time when we’re just trying to survive? Whenever there is an internal “should” thrown around, there is usually guilt that follows right behind. Who wants to feel guilty? For example, if you know that “partially hydrogenated” oils are toxic to your bodies, that means you have to make a change in your lifestyle and diet, which takes discipline, commitment, and figuring out how to change how you do things, and replace what you have always liked and been used to. Again, too much work!
So, the bottom line question is: how do we deal with all of the negativity that is all around us, be responsible, and still remain positive?
To answer that question, we must first ask, what is our desired outcome? What results are we looking for? That isn’t too difficult: I think we can safely say that most of us want things to be better. Most people would love to live in a world of mutual respect and caring, where our human rights are a given, where there is an abundance of energy flowing and available, where happiness abides wherever you turn, where prosperity and a good life is available to everyone. Imagine everyone thriving physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually? What would that look and feel like? Can you see our children all smiling with happy faces, crowds of healthy people eating healthy food? I personally would love to see personal gardens abundant and healthy and our tables filled with rich, green, sumptuous dishes. And can you see our environment with clear skies and waters, totally rejuvenated forests and streams, animals of every species thriving, free energy from the natural environment available to everyone? Living in total harmony and co-creation with nature is a dream come true. Economically speaking, jobs are available to anyone and everyone, there is more recreational time, fair and just laws, and truly a government that represents us and stands for the greatest good of all.
No matter how dismal our present reality looks, this is where our true power lies: in the power of visualization and manifestation. Furthermore, no one can take that away from us. For universal laws of manifestation are based not only on the thought forms we project outwardly, but even more on the emotions we emulate. So, by seeing the potential future, and feeling what it would feel like to live in God’s paradise, this is the most powerful thing we can do to promote the changes we would love to experience.
So, it turns out that our natural instinct to turn our eyes away from the darkness we see is correct. I have been told that this is what “turn the other cheek” means. However, turning our eyes away from negativity is not based in ignorance, but a deeper instinctual knowledge that we want to experience and express positivity, even in the face of the world of chaos.
Those who have the courage and the fortitude to squarely face the injustices in the form of challenging them and bringing them to the forefront so that they are no longer deceptively and secretly maintaining control over others, this aspect of change is needed also. Our deepest gratitude to you brave and stalworth warriors as you continue your journey of exposing the truth for the greater good.
Another way to see the dark realities before us is through neutral eyes. This is the approach I have taken. I want to see what has been hidden, but without judgment or knee-jerk feeling reactions of fear, intimidation, resistance, or battle mentality. You know the old saying, “That which you resist, persists.” From within universal laws, a “no” does not exist; the “no” only exists in our human dualistic existence. This is why when you say “I don’t want so-and-so to happen,” and that theme keeps repeating itself in your head, you are actually strengthening that which you don’t want in your life. That is because without the “no,” the universe hears “I want so-and-so to happen.” And you know the power of our thoughts, and the feelings that go along with it. Fear attracts that which is feared, because the universe is manifesting based on what you think and feel. So neutral is good; it allows the seeing but without all the reactionary baggage.
One of the most challenging and powerful ways to reflect on today’s madness is to see how those patterns and negativity exists in our own lives, and to heal and release that part in ourselves. If enough people do this, a collective consciousness pattern is formed that has a “hundredth monkey” effect on humanity as a whole. The formula for this healing is actually quite simple: take greed, for example, one of the most blatant de-values that is so much of what you see out there. Find that greed within yourself, own it, allow yourself to feel that greed fully in all of the cells of your body (where genetic memory is stored in your DNA), and with full expression, it will automatically be released. You will feel the release, but it may take several release sessions to be complete. When I did this process, I was overcome by the most intense feelings of “It’s MINE!!” “I deserve it!” and “It’s okay to take it (from others)!” I could actually identify with how it must feel to be those Wall Street guys, or the big bad corporate boys. Not so strangely, it was accompanied by the opposite side of being a “poor me” victim. The feelings were very similar to the greed but from a victim side: “I need help!” “I deserve it!” “It’s okay to take from others!”
It is certainly understandable that many feel anger, frustration, and resentment at all that is going on with the control and domination of a few and the suffering and the powerlessness of the many. Yet these emotional responses and dwelling on the negativity around us actually serves to give more energy and power to that which we are seeking to eliminate, and why would we want to do that? So, as we are looking at reality with open, educated, yet non-judgmental eyes, let us also allow our hearts to see through that so-called negative reality into the real and positive face of that which we would very much prefer to see, feel, and experience. Perhaps we can call this double-vision. For as we see through the negativity to its positive counterpart, we are disempowering the negativity, thus dismantling it as well.
This leads us to the most powerful tool of transformation: LOVE. How does love see negativity? It absolutely does not; love is beyond duality. The words “I love you” bridges the “I” and the “you” and melds them into ONE through the ultimate power of that love, erasing all separation. The heart is love’s instrument, and only the heart can bridge the separation that seems present when we look “out there” into the world. So let love and your heart guide you and answer your questions about how to deal with what’s out there. But first, make sure your heart is open. Most of us have lots of protective walls around the heart. With your permission and request, the heart can dissolve those walls. All you have to do is ask. So, with an open heart, next time you see one of those “negative” realities out there, try uttering the words, “I love you.” Let your double vision kick in, feel the bridge dissolving the separation, and then see what is your experience.
