Hello Lovely!
We Hated 2016 Didn't We:
So, pretty much everyone and their pet dog feel like 2016 was terrible, and they are so happy to be saying good riddance.
Many are feeling like 2017 is a kind of fresh start, a beacon of hope that will shift all the suffering and pain and destruction that seemed to rear its head in 2016. We are collectively looking for a brighter, lighter future, and believe in the magic of the turn of the page in our calendars to provide said brightness.
This, realistically, is not going to happen.
Not because it can't happen. Not at all. There is absolutly HUGE potential for us to step into 2017 and to create something totally, radically different. 2016 provided a perfect launching pad for change, being that it was so uncomfortable for all of us. It is generally through suffering that we see the greatest opportunities for change and growth.
The caveat is that we must first take responsibility for that suffering, and realize that we have the power, through LOVE not HATE to create that change.
The thing is, our collective mindset is not really in a place where this radical shift - that creates a radically different world - can take place.
Understanding What 2016 Really Was
The issue here is this - 2016 did not 'cause' any of our issues.
Not collectively, or individually.
2016 was a year in which we were very clearly SHOWN where we are really at.
We were shown the results of our current mindsets. Our current view points. Our current modes of operation.
We were shown what all the fear, chaos and disharmony that most of our societal structures are built upon have really caused.
It was made clear to us that the war mindset, the survivalist mindset, that the 'out for number one' way of living and being is not working.
We were shown that being out of alignment with nature, believing we can and have conquered Her is completely damaging to us. The effects of being so disconnected from nature and our own bodies became blaring.
We have been shown how our lack of understanding for 'others' is simply causing more and more issues for everyone who calls earth home.
We - if we want to - can now clearly see that the way we are collectively living and thinking is not serving us. Individually or as a whole.
Unfortunately, most have looked at all the disaster and destruction as something that has befallen humanity, rather than something that was CAUSED by humanity. We are playing victim, we are playing the blame card. We are looking outside of ourselves. THIS is why change is not probable.
We are not collectively seeing that we were the cause of this destruction, and thus if we want it to stop, we must make some massive shifts.
There is still so much 'magical' thinking in our society that fully robs us of our power to make change. We believe so much that these things just 'happened' and thus all we have given ourselves the power to do is hunker down and hope that they stop happening. Until we realize that we are the cause, nothing is going to change, and in fact, most things will likely only get worse.
If you keep on down a path, you keep getting more and more of what that path has to offer.
Separation Kills:
What we are essentially being shown is that it is our fundamental belief that we are all separate, that we are all out for ourselves, that we are separate from one another, from nature, from our own minds and emotions - that has caused us to suffer. If we really take moment to critically look at all the disasters that are currently going on in the world, they all boil down to this. We believe, and so act, as though we are separate.
This lack of unity causes pain.
This separation causes war and destruction from the micro to the macro:
We war as countries with other countries.
We war within our countries with one another.
We war within corporations.
We war within families.
We war within ourselves.
There is an ever present, over arching theme of wanting to dominate, destroy and clear away.
THIS is exactly what needs to be looked at.
We are killing one another, the planet, our family structures and OURSELVES because we are so disconnected.
So What Does This Mean For 2017?
If we really want to see a change, that change must start with each individual.
That change must start with how you treat yourself.
This change that we are collectively hoping for, is not going to come through protest. It is not going to come through acts of violence. It is not going to be created with more separation, more blaming, more making of enemies. It is not going to randomly befall us. It is not going to be given as a gift of grace. No miracle is going to occur. It is not going to come from any of the things that CAUSED the issues to exist in the first place.
This change that we seek, is going to come from two things:
1. The capacity to objectively look at the world as a REFLECTION of US, rather than something that is happening to us that we are victim too.
Step one requires that we all remove our blame and shame hats. That we all stop pointing fingers. That we all stop looking for someone or something to oppose or fight or wage war against.
It requires that we stop believing we have no power. That we stop believing that things are happening 'to' us. That we stop looking at our circumstances as evil or unjust or unfair.
We must realize that WE have created this.
All of us.
We must start to look at WHY we are so afraid of one another. Why we are so adamant about domination. Why we are so addicted to suffering and harming ourselves. Why we allow ourselves to be manipulated into believing we are anything less than divine.
We must look at the systems as wholes - rather than in fragmented pieces. We must take a step back, and take a clear look at how nothing has come about haphazardly. We are in the place we are in, fully because we have all put ourselves here.
We all must understand that our individual levels of self hate, our individual levels of self destruction, our individual levels of internal war and conflict are simply manifesting in the grander whole of society. As above, so below.
We are never going to see true change, until more individuals start to make shifts within themselves.
The macro cannot be changed before the micro is changed.
2. The capacity to go in and start unifying with YOURSELF.
Second, it is time to give up self hate. It is time to give up that inner war. It is time to start integrating your own wounds that tell you that you are not good enough, that you are fundamentally flawed.
It is time for you to take a look at all the places that you are at war with yourself - how many times a day you tell yourself that you should not think/feel/be who and what you are. How many times a day you berate and beat yourself up. How many times a day you can tune in and notice that your body is tense and tight.
It is time for you to realize that nothing in this life has EVER happened TO you.
It has all happened as a reflection FOR you.
That everything that has felt terrible has been something that was trying to teach you something.
It is time for you to realize that so long as you are in resistance to yourself and to your life, you are creating disharmony. And this disharmony is being reflected in the world around you.
It is time for ALL of us to stand up and say NO MORE to this idea that we are not good enough. That we are not acceptable. That we are missing something. That there is a void that must be filled by things outside ourselves.
No more of that. It is not true. It has never been true. It will never be true.
It is time for you to stand in your own power. To reunite with who you have always been. To love all your shadowed and rejected aspects back into your light.
It is time for you to look at the system that wants to manipulate you as just that - a manipulation.
You are SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL than the manipulation.
You are already everything you are supposed to be. Having everything you need.
You have just forgotten and rejected yourself.
We need you to remember. Then to fully own who you are. To fully stand in who you are. To fully embrace who you are. Because who you are is DIVINE.
No if's, ands or buts about it.
Stop believing anything less than awesome about yourself. Watch how this transforms who and what you are in this world.
We need more people who have ended the internal war. You can be one of them.
If We Really Want 2017 To be Different:
We MUST take deeper responsibility for ourselves.
We must take action in the direction of true self love. Not self tolerance. Not self improvement. Not self healing.
Self LOVE. Self ACCEPTANCE. Self KNOWLEDGE.
We must now admit that as a society and as individuals, we don't really know ourselves. We don't know who we are, what we are capable of, why we are here. We don't know what our gifts and talents and skills are. We don't know what our emotions are. We don't know why we are so unhealthy. Not consciously at this point anyway. Then we must be willing to discover all these things.
We must take the time to go in and find ourselves.
Then, take that new found perspective, and apply it to everyone and everything.
We must get curious about why things are going down the way they are, rather than fearing what is happening and resisting it.
We must lean in, and look to LEARN something from what is being reflected back to us, rather than naively assuming it is going to blow over and change because some numbers on a piece of paper changed.
If we really want change, WE have to change.
YOU have to change.
You must dedicated yourself to harmony within.
Then, and only then, will we have a change at seeing a new world.
If we are not dedicated to this, if we still want to blame and project and play victim, then it is only fitting that 2017 will be even harsher a wake up call than 2016 was.
We are not going to find a more peaceful existence by accident. It is not going to happen upon is.
We will create it.
So the question is, are you willing to take a look at your life? At your levels of self hate? At the disharmony that exists in your being? Are you willing to take a step back and start to love and integrate those parts of yourself? Are you willing to become a beacon of light and hope in this world - rejecting the idea that you must reject yourself that that you are unsafe, in order to own the idea that you are exactly as you should be, and so what would you like to create for humanity?
Are you ready to stop living from fear, and step into the expansive experience of love?
If not, that is OK. The universe will simply continue to be a perfect mirror.
If so, the universe will continue to be a perfect mirror, that will then be allowed to shine something new back to you.
It is up to you.
Fear or love?
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P.s. If you are looking for support on this whole self love thing, check out this series on youtube.
