Reply #16: Hope begins when [View All]

[LWolf]

you let go of fear, anger, and despair. When you accept that you can control your experience, if not the outer environment. When you choose to find the joy, love, and light where ever you happen to be. When you accept the other without allowing yourself to be thrown off-stride, without taking your eyes off the path, and continue to walk it.

I have, in the last few years, developed a sense that the whole mess our country is in is a metaphysical mess. If you believe that everything is energy, including our thoughts; that what we focus on we actualize, you'll see we've been controlled through emotion. Fear, anger, outrage....caught on a self-perpetuating hamster wheel of negativity that feeds the energy of despair.

I quit watching tv news long before the 2000 selection. To find out what's going on in the world, I glance at print and online headlines, read when something of interest pops up, but spend very little time on the atrocities. I'm aware of them, but they are not controlling me. I browse thread titles online, and dip into very few of them these days. It's not worth it to me to argue with people, Democrats or not, who are determined to make the worst of everything.

Turn the world off for awhile. Breathe, walk, read, listen to music, sing, dance, do whatever brings you joy. Look for the things that will feed your sense of goodness and right, and shine that light wherever you go. Talk, vote, work, campaign....but know that all of that is just the tip of the iceberg, and it's the changing of attitudes by example that will make the real difference.