September is here and it's time to put away those white pants and those incredibly bold floral patterns that were the rage and start looking to darker mochas and earth tones that define our autumn palette. It is also time to start thinking about the future. IM not just talking autonomous cars and uber shuttles to mars. I am talking about the progression of our best selves.
It has been a turbulent start to the month with Hurricane Harvey flooding Texas and the southern united states and with political unrest and what looks like the beginning of world war III. It is easy to feel overwhelmed. Or quite the opposite to grow uninterested; lackadaisical in spirit. With so much chaos going on around us it is possibly the most important time to take personal responsibility for every one of our actions. Most importantly, how we treat one another. How we treat those we perceive as different than us. We cannot control when our world leaders will lash out. But we can control how we act and react to each and every circumstance inside our control. Yes it sounds idealogical and unrealistic. But it is ultimately hope that I have that possibly one day we will abandon the notion that for me to win you have to lose.
Today we still talk about a man who was born in Judea and who's most important piece of teaching was to love one another. Not to just love those in our economic circle, not just those that are thin and pretty, not just those we think are worthy of it. But to love each other as he has. We still talk about this man so many years later because his teachings are real and aspirational. They are divine but they are inside each of us and we have the potential to get there... to Love as he loved.
Life has a way of hammering out our path of evolution. But with much resistance we are often finding ourselves up against the wall spinning our wheels with little progression. Let us just take the primitive tendencies for jealousy and greed. These two vices are still at the heart of our ugliest characteristics. They are pointless emotions centered on fear. Does it not make sense that they should not exist? Without boring you from my soap box, I just want to ask if you don't see inside the grand scheme of things that jealousy and the feeling of it should be just a passing feeling that we conquer and rise against. That experience after experience as we react to these feelings with strength and logic they will fade in significance until we no longer have to struggle with this unnecessary negativity. I challenge you to simply acknowledge these primitive emotions and work through them so that we get stronger and rise above it. If you are jealous ask yourself why. I'm sure the answer as you navigate through it is really hard to justify and the true reason- fleeting, and superficial. Those emotions have deep lasting effects. You can do this with every single negative emotion and characteristic you encounter every day. Steer your thoughts to only those things that serve you and the rest of humanity. It can be like a wave of momentum and can serve you in every category of life. And with your "positivity" frequency, you'll attract that same frequency in others and better yet change people from a lower to a higher state of awareness. GO where the love is.
I have seen an incredible outreach towards everyone who was displaced or in need in the wake of hurricane Harvey because at our essence that is who we are. We are connected and we have the potential to actualize our most loving selves. That is where we need to be. Holiday season type feels all year round. Until next time!
