Add To The Joy Not The Sorrow

I am deliberately not watching too much TV news at the moment, because it is so full of atrocity reporting and associated dogmatism and negativity. However, we cannot deny that these emotions are being expressed through humanity at this time in our history.

I have been alerted to the emotional response which we as humans express quite naturally when witnessing the unfoldment of such inhumanity and devastation. Our natural response is to judge and condemn - and before anyone even imagines that I am about to support a particular side in this current devastating destruction we are witnessing in our world at the moment, I want to make it clear that I am just expressing an important point about where we are in terms of our spiritual growth and the opportunities we are being presented with at the moment to evolve as spiritual beings in a human body.

Many will not associate the idea of spiritual unfoldment with the subject I am covering here but it is the one aspect where we can find a true solution to what is going on in the world today.

On a human level we can resonate greatly with the suffering that others are experiencing at the hands of their fellow humans - who think they have the right to take what they believe is theirs to hold for ever - at the expense of destroying others.

As we witness these atrocities, we feel helpless and even though we will rally around and offer monetary support to aid agencies and look to those we have elected into global positions of power to act on our behalf, these channels are limited in what they can do and achieve. They will always be limited, because they are being expressed through the human level of being that carries inbuilt global and personal prejudice and limitation.

But there is a greater and more powerful part of us that has been under-used for centuries (dare I say for almost as long as humanity can remember living in time and space). It is a part of us that we have denied, ridiculed, ignored and feared although it is the most powerful aspect of ourselves that we have access to. It can change our lives in an instant, it can heal us, bring us prosperity and dare I say it - bring peace to our world.

It is natural to have an emotional response to negative news of any kind, but then we have a choice as to how we process that information and that is where our power to influence lies; as our collective thoughts, emotions and consequential actions arise and affect its outcome. This applies to both global and personal events and our response should be the same.

It may appear too glib to say that the response I refer to is love, but the truth is always simple. For centuries we humans have tried to embellish the truth of all matters by overlaying our ego consciousness upon it and it has not worked! So why not try something different, something that unfortunately a lot of people will still call stupid, worthless and ineffective - but is our only weapon against all evil (unconsciousness).

For many the word love is limited, because they only know personal love and more often the lack of it!

It is important to recognise here that a lot of religious teachings have never been presented in their original form and have been censored by human interference.

When great teachers like Jesus and Buddha talked about love they were referring to Divine Love from Source that holds the creative energy that can create worlds! Those worlds that can be created stem from thought and visualisation that turn into form. If we are to believe that God took 7 days to make the world and we are an aspect of God, then surely we have the same energy and propensity to love and create. And remember Jesus said “these things that I do, you can do also.”

The only thing that stands in our way is our ego consciousness.

Our direction now is to embrace that greater love that we are discovering to be our truth and which encompasses us all. I would suggest after you are exposed (and make this exposure brief) to the news of the day, go into the silence and connect with that inner part of yourself - for that is where you will find the true essence of love.

Many spiritual teacher souls are now sending out the message of inner love connection. Visualise and get a sense within yourself of how good it feels to turn on the TV and hear the announcement that hostilities and atrocities have ceased and a peaceful resolution has been reached. It does not matter that is has not happened yet, the only thing that matters is that we know in our hearts and minds that it IS happening. Do not get sucked into the belief that time is relevant here, only your intention is relevant and how you know you will feel (start practising now) when you get the good news. Ignore time and bring forward your feeling of joy on hearing about the outcome.

Your ego will come in (if it has not done so already since you have been reading this article) and say “what a load of rubbish”, “what use can a single person like me do?” Your choice at that point is to stop, think and take back your power! You will take back your power by the thoughts that you allow into your mind. This process will not be easy and you will have some hiccups, but the more you do it, the easier it will become.

You have a choice of course. To ignore what is going on in the world and to shut it off because you do not know the answer to the situation and cannot allow it to fester and creep into your own consciousness and then become distressed; and that is your choice. However, when this happens we seek to judge and to blame someone or something to ease the pain we feel within and as a result of this we go into negative thinking and only add to the situation of dark thoughts swirling around in the consciousness of the world.

Collective negative consciousness is not helpful. It goes without saying that everyone who is in their ‘right’ mind realises this is a tragedy happening before us. These things have always happened in our history - believe it or not, some even worse than that going on today - the only difference being that humans alive at that time were not so aware of it happening. But in this day and age, when almost everyone on this planet has access to a phone, a computer or a tv, we can witness it before our very eyes. This makes it a very hard pill to swallow!

Technology is a double-edged sword. So let the experience of grabbing it allow you to use the side which will carve out a symbol of beauty and peace. Take up your power to use your thoughts to transform the negativity, by praying for peace and resolution (rather than adding condemning judgemental thoughts to the situation.) Transforming it as a collective is the only way and the most creative way we can assist in this moment of history.

This is not to say that we will not be called to action - but by using our higher mind to access the higher will, we will then be directed to any actions that our higher self knows we are more than capable of fulfilling.

We all came together to stand on our doorsteps and clap our nurses and doctors, surely we can all come together in mindful loving thoughts to send out peace to the world from our peaceful hearts in our WORLD WITHIN.

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