When things on the outside look like they are getting worse and when seemingly, there is nothing we can do to make them better, that’s when it’s important to remember that outside circumstances can only be changed by changing ourselves on the inside, first.
The outside world is a mirror reflecting our internal state of being, thinking, feeling and acting. With a bit, and sometimes a lot of a time-lag between our actions and their reflection, so it’s not really easy to correlate that. If it was instantaneous, like when you step into a puddle and get splashed with mud, you would probably not do that again – but when the splash comes a year, 10 years or a few lifetimes later – it’s not easy to see how our own foot has caused it.
If you can accept that whatever happens, ultimately you are the creator of it, and stop judging, blaming and criticizing people or things for your problems, you would have a much easier time. You can’t change events that happened, but you can change your experience of them.
You got hit by a drunk driver and broke your leg; blaming the driver doesn’t help the situation, but knowing that in some way which you can’t see as yet, this is going to help you to grow spiritually, will have you focusing on how can this benefit me? And have your mind searching for some positive outcome. Even if you can’t find the answer, you are feeling a little happier, and isn’t that already a positive outcome?
When we see conflict in some part of the world we are immediately drawn into blame, judgment and fear. So we join marches against wars, against drugs, against this or that, without realizing we are adding our negativity, anger, and sometimes even violence to the violence already existing in that place thousands of miles away. Through our resistance, we are actually bringing that negativity onto our own doorstep.
If we have to march and give outer expression to what we are feeling, instead of opposing anything, could we just peacefully march with a slogan that we are upholding the Light and the Truth of life, which is peace and harmony among all beings and communities, joy, abundance and health to be experienced by all people.
Even just the use of those words, out loud and with conviction and enthusiasm, would lead to an inner feeling of peace, joy and harmony within the participants of the march, and spread to those around. While words like war and conflict, hate and attack awaken feelings of violence and fear – even if prefaced with “No,” like no war, or no disease.
Remember the Universe is all things, and cannot not be. Words like “no”, or “don’t,” or anything negative simply doesn’t exist in the Universe. When you say “We don’t want war” all the Universe hears is “we want war!” Just like a genie, it says “your wish is my command” and gives you more war, internal and external. It responds to your feelings, or vibration, more than to your words, so what you see is the result of your average vibration. Look to your own vibration first, and proclaim your highest truth; then you won’t have to heal the world
