1. Acknowledge your feelings about world events. It is normal to have strong reactions to what is happening in our world. It is neither healthy nor spiritual to repress/deny parts of yourself. This is what leads to war in the first place.
2. Once you have acknowledged your feelings, notice where you experience them in your body. Take some time for yourself to relax into the feelings, witnessing them from a space of unconditional love. Once way to know what this feels like is to think of a young child or an animal companion. Then "transfer" your response to the emotions you are witnessing and just be. You may notice an immediate shift or it may take consistent practice. The key is to just love and observe.
3. Practice forgiveness. The acceptance of your own feelings opens the door to a more expansive perspective. It is the fear based need to control that has people wreak havoc on the planet and each other. People are not good or bad. We are all afraid and we all have our own responses to the fear. Forgiveness means clearing the way to respond from your own power instead of from someone else's fear.
4. Discover your own way to respond to world events. We are all connected and so everything that you do no matter how seemingly insignificant or unusual makes a difference. There are as many ways to respond as there are people. You may choose responses such as letter writing or demonstrating or you may choose to try the activities in this article, witnessing world events with unconditional love, etc. The format is not as important as your intent.
5. Do not victimize yourself. It is easy to feel powerless and to respond from feelings of victimization, fear and anger. This only manifests more victim mentality. Notice without judgment all the situations in which you feel victimized and powerless. The activity in #2 of this article can be used to address this. Remember that we are all one and as you resolve the victim feelings you are creating space for others to do likewise.
6. Develop an awareness of true power. Power is a collective experience. We are all connected and therefore our choices impact the whole of creation. This makes us all very powerful co-creators! Our power is responsibility. Responsibility is the ability to respond. It is not about blame. Responsibility can be misunderstood and used in fear as a way to stay stuck or as a way to use our power more lovingly, productively and with greater ease.
7. Focus on the positive. Express gratitude for what is beautiful, peaceful, effective, growthful, and healing. Acknowledge people who make a difference in the world and in your life. There is so much to be joyful about! Feed this! Feel it in your body. Send it lots of love, offer it to the connectedness so it can nurture us all.
8. Develop your innocence, openness, sense of wonder and trust. To be jaded, resentful and over-protective is to restrict your life force energy making it difficult to access the sustenance that comes from our connection with each other. Our power is in our connectedness.
9. Do what you can at your own pace. Nobody is evaluating your worth based on how much you offer or how quickly. If they are, it is coming from fear anyway. Everyone is different. Take the time to nourish and replenish. Wearing yourself out- ignoring your inner peace not only depletes your resources to offer others, but since it is self victimization it detracts from the planetary peace you are striving to create. Self sacrifice is victimization of yourself and others.
10. If you find this article helpful, pass it on to others. I believe our shift of power from fear-based-false-power (based on feeling powerless) to that of true power (based on connectedness) is the natural result of embodying peace. Fear cannot exist in a climate that does not recognize it. Additionally as each of us embodies peace this also impacts our leaders since we are all connected. Together we are making a difference!
Peace,
Linda White Dove
www.lindawhitedove.com
www.energymedicinecabinet.com
The purpose of my articles and poetry is to inspire you to see yourself and the world around you from an expanded, healing perspective. If you would like personal assistance applying the information in this article/poem to your life circumstances, the Living Oneness Attunement and the Sexual Empowerment Attunement are designed for this purpose.
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