If there is anything I’ve proven to myself over the last few years, it’s that there is there is always a purpose, a potential in every situation, no matter how dire it may seem at the moment.
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
It’s especially difficult to see that seed in the midst of a crisis, when it feels like the world is crumbling down – your emotions range from hopelessness to rage, and relief is nowhere to be found. But if you deliberately look for it – if you set your goal to find the gems – you’ll see them right there in plain sight.
The current political situation in the U.S. is a perfect example of a crisis on a large scale. Almost all of my friends – in US and Europe – are having a difficult time coping with news from Washington that seem to get progressively more frightening every day.
So what good can possibly come out of all this? Will the president’s actions have the supposed positive consequences he promised? I doubt it. But I already see many signs of something even better emerging as a result.
This turmoil is creating a shake-up deep within every individual, who’s more or less aware of what’s going on in the world. Almost everyone is faced with very difficult decisions, and this is already causing people to wake up by the millions. People march in peaceful protest, as we’ve seen with the recent Women’s March, which was the largest in the history of the US. People put their careers on the line and defy orders. More and more people are standing up for their morals, for what they believe is right.
When a person makes a new choice – one they haven’t made before, a choice that is empowering and heart-centered – this moment marks a step toward personal freedom. The current crisis is sending waves of these moments through millions of people around the world, and we’re all waking up to our real potential.
What could possibly be good in the fact that all world leaders are corrupt liars? It’s making each individual on the planet claim his or her own sovereignty. It’s a gift, if you think about it. Every person is eventually faced with a very difficult choice: a) I can suffer a victim’s fate, or b) I accept responsibility for my life, stop hoping that some leader will fix the world, and lead by example.
Elisabet Sahtouris and Teresa Collins described a beautiful analogy found in an intricate biological system right here in your backyard:
The more each one of us stops trying to fight what’s going on around them wishing it was different than it is, and realize that it’s the old falling away, the easier it will be. If I feel different from it, then my reference point needs to be inside, at the center of every cell that’s oscillating with this new frequency, and let myself be connected to it. It’s massive, and it’s waking up to itself. Each one of us is an integral part of it. Who knows how long it will take for this “ripple” to move through, but the momentum at a certain point is going to trip the system – at some point there will be a mass trigger, and it’s going to wave through the DNA mutation, etc. It will ripple through at every scale of existence, and, as it’s rippling, it will be going back on itself with that energy, and bouncing off again – it will be a tsunami! But if you relax, it will be the most exhilarating ride! You have to really relax into the current of it, so that – from the inside – you’re being moved into the same direction as the leap, so you have to be generative and engaged by how you’re responding to everything that’s happening. This will unfold over a stretch of time, but individuals are starting to wake up to this now. These individuals are tuning in to the frequency and creating attractor fields for more imaginal cells to stabilize and to create fields of coherence. There are now individuals, organizations and communities that get this principle.
Do we need a majority, in order to change the world? No, evolution is not a democracy. To create a beautiful butterfly, the world needs just one more imaginal cell. The world needs you.
All art – the creation and the experience – is a clue you left for yourself to find your way back home. Art is a reminder of how to intentionally create your dream and how to have a truly fulfilling experience. Art is a guide, a sign post pointing to that which is most important.
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The diversity in human beings – the infinite uniqueness of each person’s body, genes, character and mindset – allows our experience to be unspeakably rich and colorful. What makes it so exciting to live in these times is that this diversity is currently presenting humanity with a gift – a tangible opportunity to evolve. This gift is lovingly hidden inside the most challenging riddle humankind has ever faced – how do we transcend our self-imposed psychological limitations of fear, lies and the illusion of separation, evolve as a species, and live our fullest birthright potential?
When I want to alter any aspect of my experience, I ask myself the question “What internal change do I need to make, in order to see it reflected in my external experience?” In order to create peace on Earth I make peace with myself. In order to really love and accept everyone – including the psychopaths, which is absolutely essential – I fully accept and love myself, I shine my light on those parts of my psyche, which I’ve been hiding in the dark, ignoring or resisting. In order to unite the humankind, I heal, integrate and unify the entirety of myself.
It’s not about “them”
You couldn’t wait to be here. Eagerly anticipating this wonderful dream, with all its colors and sounds, delicious smells and fireworks of senses, you were drawn to that sacred couple making love. The more they lost themselves in each other, the closer to You they were. The eternity of their bliss turned into a timeless moment when Two became One – a singularity. You gave the fertilized egg all your attention, all your care and love – so much so that you became it. “This is how I will begin my journey,” you thought.
Why is it so difficult to say ‘good bye’? Why is it so difficult to let go, to release? There is a fear behind parting ways with a good experience, and that fear is a negative projection into the future, which makes you think that you will not experience that level of joy again, that the future will somehow be worse than the past. 
Forgiving is like cleaning the bathroom – I just have to do it. I don’t want any of that stuff to stay with me at all, let alone brew inside me for years, hoping that time will somehow make it better or that I’ll forget the incident at some point.
Each one of us is a Story, which the Universe is telling to itself. Sometimes we are the actor, other times we are the audience. Sometimes we are the book, other times we are the child turning the page. This is one of many examples of the inherent duality of the double-torus feedback-feedforward loop: creation and experience, male and female, electromagnetism and gravity, expansion and contraction, question and answer.
We don’t like to change our convictions, and seem to be stubbornly stuck with the first, or with the most emotionally charged conclusion, at which we previously arrived in regards to a given subject. This is because the ego hates to be – or to even have previously been – wrong. To the ego being proven wrong equals a mini-death. The discovery of the paradox of its existence is ego’s own biggest fear, since this is possibly a precursor of its subsequent loss of control. 
Becoming aware does not mean “trying to get others to change” or “attempting to change the world around you.” Becoming aware means choosing to be the best version of yourself in the moment, being rooted in your inner-most truth and – by example – inspiring others to do the same. Interestingly enough – as the result of this becoming, the world around you changes. 
Fear – in its essence – is a machine, in that it’s an artificial program. This program targets the primal root of our physiology – the fight-or-flight response mechanism of the cerebral cortex. Using our automatic emotional reactions, the fear program exploits this mechanism and fully subjugates the host.
Matter and energy are an extension of consciousness into the “physical” world. Consciousness is the source – the foundation – of everything. Consciousness both creates this world and chooses to extend itself into the “here and now” in various forms, in order to experience and learn about itself. Consciousness germinates the seed into a plant; consciousness grows a fertilized egg into a human being. 
The “message” you send out to the Universe is never a logical conclusion, it’s the way you predominantly feel. So, first, tune your emotional instrument by creating a detailed sensual “vision” that encompasses all of your senses and hits all the wonderful notes. It may seem silly that you’re reveling in your own mental-emotional construct, but your heart knows that this is the way it works – savor each detail, really enjoy the melody, revel in the state your vision elicits in you, and the Universe will answer with exactly the circumstances, opportunities and relationships that will keep playing that music in your heart.
The moment you pick a side is the moment you lose the argument or conflict. Why? Because you’ve bought into the lie that one side must be right and the other one wrong. You’ve bought into the lie that you will help find a solution by contributing to the problem. You’ve bought into the lie that by allowing this argument or conflict to be part of you, you’re helping someone.
The real strength that I’m looking for is the strength of my will to be true to my heart in every moment, no matter how important or mundane the moment may seem. The real fulfillment I’m after can never come as the result of turning to any other – or any thing – for strength, relief, help or solutions. Real fulfillment can only come as the result of being myself, of making the choice that comes from my heart, especially if that choice seems difficult.
The real essence of choice – and thus the essence of freedom – is the deliberate choosing of this particular instance of reality by consciously choosing the thoughts that I focus on in the moment.