Once again the world is buzzing with what happened in Boston a few days ago. For the people directly involved, it is an experience that they will be unraveling for some time. The shock, the horror of the maiming and death………very painful and frightening,
For those who are just onlookers through the media we may feel that we have been given evidence once again that “The world is not safe.”
I am heartened by many of the beautiful responses that are being sent through Facebook. Headlines seen in the news is all about the “bombing” and “the victims”. Aggression and powerlessness. Interesting because these are probably the SAME emotions that drove the person to make and plant the bombs.
I sometimes think I may appear to be a bit calloused when I write my response to these types of experiences being played out on the planet. Believe me, if I had been there or immersed myself in the personal stories of the people involved I would be crying my heart out.
But as at teacher I also try to sit back to see more of the greater picture and share what insights I receive.
I have written previous blogs around “Asking the Right Question”. When I read headlines that say “How do we stop the bombing?” I wonder if that is the highest, most enlightened question we could be asking here? If we ask a question that centers around violence it seems the question or response may hold an energy of violence as well.
What if the headlines were “How can we create deeper pockets of peace?” “How can we create a safe haven for those that struggle in our society? “How can we develop a deeper sense of value for Life and property?” Then I suspect that the answers that came through would hold the energy of harmony, peace and compassion.
What we put out we get back.
Here is the other part of this.
When something “bad” happens, we are all about the “bad” guy. The “other”. This person that is horrible and makes bombs and explodes things and hurts people. Or whatever the story is. It is much more comfortable to project all of our un-owned baggage onto the “bad” guy.
Again, I am not condoning what happened. But we are always being lovingly invited to look at that which appears to have happened outside of us and see where that truth also resides within us.
Where have you “exploded”? Where has the “shrapnel” of your anger, manipulation, control, shaming etc. been inflicted on another? Where have you “amputated” another”s sense of power or self worth?
The collective unhealed parts of ourselves has an energy that shows up on the world theater.
There are questions to be asked but what are the BEST questions that will move us towards a world of greater peace not a police state.
I read recently that world wide this is the most PEACE the world has ever experienced!! Perhaps we ARE moving in the right direction!!
What questions can you ask yourself? Remember that who we are and what we feel internally flows out of us energetically. If you have deep sorrow or anger or resentment that you do not address it still flows out into the world. Just “tamping” it down does not make it go away. It just comes out sideways.
Hold your loved ones close. Express your love and gratitude as you feel it. We never know what any one day will bring. Spend some time healing those places inside of you where you want to explode. As you can, hold this person and any other who is contemplating any similar acts, in a place of high vibration and love. You never know when a thought may enter into someones psyche that would say, “no, I cannot do this.”
So let us collectively create peace in our homes, our workplaces, and within our friendships. Let us open our hearts to those who seem to feel that life has forgotten them. Let us continue to develop the brother and sisterhood of all………one baby step at a time.
Blessings to those who were or have ever been touched by an act of dis harmony. May the world continue to evolve to ever greater peace and harmony. Much love, melaniej
http://melaniejwilliams.com/asking-the-question/
I was recently told of an African tribe that does the most beautiful thing.
- Creating the Circle
When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him. For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as GOOD, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, …
happiness.
But sometimes in the pursuit of those things people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help.
They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he’d temporarily been disconnected: “I AM GOOD”.
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