The sun rises this morning over a great deal of tragedies.
Now-days we have such constant communication with each other and the world’s trauma. What. A. Blessing.
The internet and social media may be just the tool we needed to break the spell of severance that has numbed us for so long. Fairytales are not to be read word for word, they are secret messages. The only way some Truths can find their way to the future. Re-read sleeping beauty as a metaphor of our times. Hmm, is it love which saves humanity?
The reason everything feels so heavy and you feel so powerless is because you’ve been trained to feel that way. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s just plainly written, even in our very well scripted history books. Plain and simple.
With great privilege comes great responsibility and it is your responsibility to train your body, heart, mind, and culture to stay with the excruciatingly pain of our times. Because it will indeed be our times, it will be ongoing. The ache of today is from those who looked away or, only at themselves, for centuries. Do you want that legacy? Or do you want to be part of the legacy of peace? Those teachers, peace-makers, activists and community leaders have a legacy too- it’s much harder to hear and see over the violence. But it’s there, woven into your hope.
The first wars were over diminishing resources. The last wars will be over diminishing resources. But we get to decide if they are the last because we finally drove ourselves to extinction or if they are the last because we finally grew up. Grew into fully mature humans capable of balancing their nervous systems, reasoning, compassion, and using the magic of our brilliant brains to solve problems together. WE right now get to decide. No one asked if we wanted responsibility- they just passed it down the line to us. So, now we must find a way.
This is all my work, helping us train our bodies and spirits for peace. We cannot find peace because we haven’t invited ourselves into the “space” where we can access those solutions. We can’t even dream them up in our current state.
You must train yourself to tolerate fear and panic and pain in yourself and another. Not so you can “make it through” but so that you can feel it. I challenge you today to find just one tragedy which moves you and let yourself really mourn. Maybe post to your stories on social media. Why? Because mourning is meant to be done together. This digital connection fosters that. Maybe we cannot get physically handle being together, all together, in our grief. But we can practice.
It is from that primal wail of collective grief that peace will be restored.
