I often use the word “navigate” to describe my suggested approach to our changing, and often tumultuous world.  With intention and awareness, you can consciously choose your destination.  Yet, even with a clear goal, the journey to arrive is often unpredictable and challenging.

Sometimes you need a laser beam of focus to see through all of the disturbances and keep “on track.”

In this article, I would like to offer you a “laser beam” for navigating with a deep and heart-centered perspective despite all of the disturbances enacted around you.  I call it “purposeful communication.”  Purposeful communication was born of my desire to NOT be used as a garbage disposal unit for others’ unprocessed energy, emotions, and thought forms.  Sound like a good idea?

With this approach, I invite you to rethink your mental, emotional, and energetic expressions, and how you engage with others.  And, of course, how others engage with you …

All of the stuff that people say

The inspiration for my approach of “purposeful communication” is all of the distressed and frustrated expressions that I have been experiencing around me since the COVID-19 crisis began.  I don’t need to elaborate that there are many people who are expressing unhappiness, anger, fear, and all sorts of inner strife.

Most do not recognize that much — and probably most — of their experience is self-generated from their own reactions to beliefs, expectations, and powerfully broadcast social narratives.  Unfortunately, it is an exceptionally tough time to point that out because the turbulence of the external world seems so dominant and outside of personal control.

(For a detailed three step process to health and well-being in a time of crisis and transition, please see my series of articles on the “The Expansion Principle.”)

As a tolerant, peaceful, mature, and loving person, I often inadvertently become a destination for people seeking an outlet for their trauma.  Sound familiar?  I surmise that many spiritually mature and loving people, especially women, are in this position frequently.  It can be difficult to be an island of sanity and positive energy in the sea of madness.

Initially, I continued as I usually do — listening with Stillness, compassion, and offering heartfelt suggestions for others’ experiences.  I endeavor to create a supportive space for people to elevate their awareness and self-reflect into a new reference point for their reality.  I have found this an approach with a high success rate.  Until recently.

One day, I realized that I needed to do something different in some situations.  The abundance of un-productive dramas had become too distracting and energetically draining.

The birth of purposeful communication

Purposeful communication emerged from my desire to not be used as a destination for others’ energy, emotions, and thought forms.  That’s putting it politely — some people seem comfortable using others as garbage bins for their unprocessed “stuff.”  It is very problematic on many levels — energetically, emotionally, psychologically, physically, and spiritually.

Unfortunately, many social roles and norms support this unhealthy transfer of energy.  Again, women are particularly susceptible, both in how they construct their own identity (e.g., nurturer, caregiver, healer, etc.) and the long historical precedent for conditioned abuse of the feminine.

What I propose is that you consciously create an (inner/outer) structure for your communication space with others.  An empty space can allow new expressive potential OR become a container for rubbish.  It takes discernment — and usually intentional effort — to determine how “open” your communication space should be with a particular person or in a particular situation.

This is the key question to structure your communication space: “What is your purpose?”

That is, what is your purpose in sharing this with me?  What is your purpose in asking me this?  What is your purpose in telling me this story?

The phrasing can be varied, and more subtle, but the intention is the same: to evoke consciousness as to why the person is bringing their (baggage of) ideas, emotions, issues, questions, problems, and needs to you.  With this awareness comes a conscious choice.

A conscious choice for whether or how they would like to continue.

A conscious choice for whether or how you would like to respond.  Honestly, I often do not know how to respond to someone unless I know why they are asking or saying something.  The “why” is usually the real and deep purpose of the communication, not whatever the superficial topic is about.

From my view, a truly valuable response comes from answering the “why” — not the “what.”

Benefits of purposeful communication

When you re-focus your attention on the “why” of your communication, a number of very beneficial results can occur.  First, you can stay focused on your intention in a conversation (spoken or written).  Hopefully, there’s actually a reason for your dialogue.

Second, you can see through, or move through, the debris field (mine field?) of events, details, and emotional maneuvers.  Techniques of verbal manipulation are endless.  You can effectively navigate by orienting to the core reason, motivation, or purpose of your communication with someone, rather than all of the stories, complaints, and energetic charge.

Third, you are much less likely to dissipate your time and energy when engaged in a conscious conversation or interaction.  When you lose focus and intention, it is much easier to be sucked into an unproductive exchange or recycling of patterns.

Finally, and holistically, you can create healthy boundaries to maintain your self-respect and well-being.  I note that many people feel entitled to others’ time, energy, and participation in their personal drama/agenda.  How much you participate is completely up to you, but asking (yourself) “why” — having a purpose — makes your participation a clear and conscious decision rather than an extraction or entitlement.

Going beyond the conversation

While I have emphasized “conversations” as the background for purposeful communication, you can apply this perspective to every form of communication.  It can change how you read something — what is the real purpose of the person writing this?  It can change how you listen to something — why is this being discussed, or why is this story being told?  It can change how you write and speak — why am I investing my time and energy into this exchange with the “world”?

As you expand outwards, it becomes apparent that purposeful communication is inherently connected to a purposeful life.  Becoming purposeful in all that you do brings incredible energy, power, impact, and focus to your life.  Suffice to say, the experience of a purposeful life is entirely different than an unintentional or reactive life.

One of the “benefits” of our volatile planetary situation — and I might be one of the few to call it a “benefit” — is highlighting the deficiencies of “bliss trip spirituality.”  This is the childlike fairy tale that you will at some point enlighten or ascend into a delightful and effortless life.  It IS true that there is radiant peace, joy, and expansiveness that comes with embodying inner wholeness and a direct connection to Source.  However, it is rarely an easy life path to sustain this deep and sincere journey.

The potential of clear and deep purpose is available to you in every moment.  If you choose it. If you embody it.  If you think it, feel it, write it, and speak it.

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If you are experiencing crisis — of any type or degree — I do not wish to waste your time.  Therefore, I offer my fundamental perspective right from the beginning: heart-centered expansion is the core response to create wholeness, well-being, and uplift in a time of shock, disruption, and uncertainty.

If you are excited by a different crisis model — fear-soaked scenarios, envisioning new problems, or broadcasting emotional drama — this article will not provide much.  There are plenty of others who can assist and co-create with you on those pathways.  I wonder if people even realize that they are spinning future realities from the unresolved threads of the past?  It can seem so obvious, natural, and rational to do so.

But reality does not need to be created in those ways.  You do not need to attend the disaster party!  I would like to offer three clear steps to walk a different road towards an elevated life experience — regardless of your current or past circumstances.

I was inspired to write this article to uplift the responses to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.  However, I do not want to focus on the current, changing drama of the “virus” because there is no singular situation — every reader is in a different place with different impacts.

Furthermore, this wisdom transcends any particular event — these recommendations are relevant and potent no matter the source of crisis, be it physical, economic, spiritual, or emotional.  Over the years, I have worked with many, many planetary and personal “disasters.”  The power of these steps endure far beyond our immediate planetary context.

So, please, join me, if you feel called to create a more peaceful, clear, and uplifted future … for yourself, and those around you.

To begin, the three steps of self-empowerment during/after crisis are:

1. Choose to expand instead of contract
2. Allow grief and loss to be present while energizing renewal
3. Commit to wholeness and uplift rather than decline and distress

Each of these is a starting point, an entryway for many forms of awareness and creative inner/outer response.  The core simplicity of each “step” will launch you into constructive, healthy, elevating, and compassionate action NOW.

Step 1: The Expansion Principle

“Choose to expand instead of contract.”

Inner health and wholeness are your REAL sources of power to be resilient, patient, compassionate, and participate in a reality of your own creation.  There are so many different realities that are experienced during a large-scale crisis — some stable, some chaotic, some fearful, some peaceful.  Each personal reality fundamentally originates from basic (un)conscious choices.  That is why I am offering these three key steps — to make your choices clear and beneficial.  It is truly the smallest scale that manifests (large) experiences.

Now, might I ask for a pause here: what type of reality are you actively (or passively) creating?

Can you see your choices of how to perceive, feel, and act clearly?

Your answers provide your starting point: which aspects of your reality to elevate, which to eliminate, and which you wish to sustain.

I have no doubt that expanded awareness will lead you beyond the veil of uncertainty and chaotic energies, regardless of the particularities of your situation. But you have to actually use EXPANDED rather than fear-contracted awareness.  In a larger-scale crisis, the contracted state is usually directed by hyperbolic headlines, reactionary decisions, streams of meaningless news updates, and emotionally charged social media chatter.

It can seem that your reality is being mostly driven by “outside events,” but that only occurs if you accept and orient to the projections of others.  Many people have poor discernment regarding the information that they consume or people that they listen to for advice.  Just because someone says something, or makes a graph of something, does not mean it is an inevitable or even likely future reality. It is well-honed skill to help recapitulate disasters, and resurrect the (long forgotten) memories of other personal and planetary catastrophes into current events.

These projections do not have to be your reality unless you decide to spiral your life into the world that they are (consciously or unconsciously) promoting. I call this “swallowing reality bait.” Most have had a choice, and usually many (conscious or unconscious) choices, along the way to the outcome that they ultimately experience.  Much more on this issue in the third step!

Faced with the circumstances in your life, whatever they may be currently, you can make a conscious choice to expand rather than contract.  If contraction tends to be automatic for you, then you will need to consciously re-choose, repeatedly, to expand.  That’s ok — it gets easier once you are in the expansive flow of energy and awareness.  Sometimes the initial shift from fear/contraction is the most difficult part.  In this case, you will need to make a strong and clear choice; half-hearted effort will likely suck you down again.  Making a conscious, direct decision will launch you into freedom and new potential outside of the “personal and planetary drama engine.”

No matter the circumstances, a key component of living through, or better yet, living beyond a crisis is clear navigation.  You have to make decisions and bring supportive energies into motion for your well-being.  If you are looking “down” or “backwards,” you are not going to have the perspective to lift yourself and others “upwards.”

Orienting to fear usually results in an ever-narrowing circle of awareness and perceived options.  If you have any doubt, observe your body, thoughts, and emotions.  Creating from the state of heart-centered expansion and open awareness is very distinct from the state of fear, self-doubt, panic, and helplessness.  Generally, you embody a state of expansion by first looking within.  Sometimes stillness practices, contemplation, and meditation lead you there.  Connecting with other people oriented to expansion can pry open the doorway out of contraction.

If nothing else works to shift into expansion, just stop.  Stop.  Stop your chain of action and re-action long enough to breathe, look around (and within), and open an inner or outer doorway to allow something new to enter your awareness.  A moment of peace, a different thought, a possibility that hasn’t occurred to you before.  I call this the process of “emerging from your reality container”: you can learn more about empowered Stillness in this article.

If you embrace an expanded state of awareness for yourself, you can also assist others to go beyond fear to greater creative capacity.  The expansion then keeps expanding.  Everyone who connects benefits.

The NEXT Step: Moving from Loss to Renewal

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This afternoon, I was contemplating some of the energy flows of my life, and larger patterns of contemporary culture.  What struck me?  How little of the dominant structures in our planetary system support a life that is healthy and whole.  I’m not just talking about the prevalence of fast food restaurants, or health care systems that orbit pharmaceuticals as solutions.  Much more comprehensively, health can be hard to find in the most genuine and basic facets of its expression.

Have you seriously contemplated what “health” and “wholeness” mean to you?  How fully are you embracing a “healthy life”?   I invite you to consider these questions with me …

What is health and wholeness?

The prevalent notion that “health” is about your physical situation — what you eat, how much you exercise, or whether you are diagnosed with something by a doctor — largely misses the deep and full embrace of a “healthy life.”   For energy to flow coherently and powerfully, all aspects of life must be in relation to each other, or there are dangling compartmentalizations and cognitive dissonance.  An expanded vision of health and wholeness recognizes the essential continuum of awareness, experience, and embodiment.

For starters, I would describe a true state of health to be a life filled with loving relationship connections, a full spectrum of emotional experience, work that is co-creative and co-beneficial to all involved, ongoing spiritual growth and maturation, and a clear, expanding mental/psychological view of the world.  Just to name a few key aspects. Unfortunately, some, or all, of these are in short supply for the vast majority of people, regardless of their geography or economic situation.

The creation and sustenance of health is a foundational principle.  It isn’t an activity, a location, a food or beverage, a spiritual practice, or any sort of singularity.  From a spiritual and energetic perspective, I would say that the purpose of cultivating heath is the realization of wholeness in all aspects of your being.  Physical, mental, emotional, psychological.

I am reluctant to tack on “spiritual” to the end of the list above.  From my vantage point, true health emerges from wholeness on the soul-level, which reflects into well-being in all aspects of your physical and multi-dimensional experience.  Most forms of ill-health in the physical experience can be traced to fragmentation, disconnect, or disturbances of the soul or higher Self.

While you can address physical symptoms of inner fragmentation or disruption in the physical aspects of existence, you usually only suppress or temporarily ameliorate the dis-ease unless you venture deeply enough to reach its origin or source.  That journey generally requires strong intention, consistent effort, and dedication.  (The same can be said about realizing any aspect of true health in a society that is full of normalized pathologies.)

That last sentence brings me to the reflection that originated my desire to write this article: true health is not generally embodied in the contemporary world.  Health and wholeness take ongoing effort to maintain if you do wish to embody them.  For a simple example, when traveling, if I wish to eat food that is prepared with conscious intention from ingredients that do not harm people or the natural world, I’d be best to cook and bring my own food with me in most locations (which I do).

It’s easy to find meals filled with low quality ingredients that would bring poor health to myself or others.  The same can be said for superficial relationships, synthetic technological realities, commercialized emotions, and endless mental and psychological content designed to provoke anger, fear, and reactive behavior.

These types of (unhealthy) offerings are in abundance worldwide.  Metaphorically, I envision most people as living on the surface of a balloon.  It appears continuous, solid, and uniform, and brightly colored.  Beneath that thin skin (of reality), the inside is hollow.  Emptiness resting upon illusion — and I’m not speaking of the cosmic or spiritual sense of emptiness.  If you press through that thin skin, the whole superficial reality deflates, sometimes dramatically or explosively.

The commitment to true health and wholeness

One of the reasons that I am pointing out the superficiality of reality and common perceptions of well-being is because I observe a lot of discussion, much of it as vague finger-pointing, of reasons why people are widely unhappy, depressed, unfulfilled, burned out, or suffering from various ailments.  Pointing at symptoms doesn’t activate change at the level of (un)creating an (un)healthy reality.

Unless an individual makes a change in what they DEEPLY want from life, and decisively acts upon that intention, then they will keep getting more of the same, though it might look transiently or superficially different.  It is easier to continue living on the bubble of shared reality than consciously calling forth your existence from authentic inner awareness.

In other words, tweaking your life doesn’t equate to genuine transformation. No matter how compelling the marketing for the (rapid, external) “solution” to your (health and wholeness) dissatisfaction might be.  If you are seeking revitalization, full health, and spiritual liberation, I do not suggest cherry-picking interesting or comfortable parts of your experience to contemplate and change.  Wholeness requires, by definition, engaging with the whole.

Deeply wanting to be healthy and whole on all levels of existence is a fundamental commitment.  It is not the path of ease, external validation, or “normality.”  In fact, it is generally a path towards the opposite, as unhealthy social, economic, and political structures don’t spontaneously embrace contrast.  That’s largely because the contrast of health and wholeness would cause disruption or destruction of those dominant structures if it became widely recognized and adopted.  Such is the nature of undertaking change in the core fabric of reality, be it personal or planetary.  No one who succeeds undertakes such a venture lightly or casually.

Furthermore, there is nothing static about true health and wholeness.  My experience is that new levels of health and wholeness become desirable as your awareness opens and health deepens.  Being “healthy” in the full sense is not a goal that you can measure, and then check off a list as “complete.”  Furthermore, no one can proclaim health and wholeness for you. The promotion of quantitative measures of “health” are probably good to bring awareness to certain issues and things to observe, but the totality of health transcends any measurement.

How do you measure a healthy relationship with another person?  With the planetary system?  How could you exclude those from a meaningful understanding and experience of “health”?  Are you “healthy” if you can run a marathon, but lack spiritual awareness, loving connections, and inner purpose for your life?

Does healthy = happy?

Can you be “healthy” if you don’t know why you work at your job, why you are married, or why you have children?  Or add in any number of the “why’s” that make up the weaving of a human life.  So many aspirations to wholeness and happiness are based upon others’ ideas, re-created or repeated without much consideration.   True health — from my perspective of spiritual and inner wholeness — necessitates deeply conscious choices of creation.

A deeply conscious choice is not the willing replication of a someone else’s path, tradition, or life results, no matter how respected or valued those might be by others.  Just because something worked out for someone else at some other time does not create an inherent benefit — or obligation — for you to take it on as defining your health and wholeness.  Their choice can be theirs, and yours can be yours, without conflict or contradiction.  That being said, becoming conscious of the choices that have brought forth your past/present life does not necessarily evoke “happiness” or “joy” in the understanding — much of what you become aware of in the process of becoming truly whole and healthy can be rather horrifying.

In my experience, everyone that I know on a deep contemplative path can attest to (inner/outer) darkness standing out more vividly in contrast to their emerging light of awareness.  This shocking, dismaying, or horrifying phase of awakening can last quite awhile too; it’s not wrapped up in a healing session or weekend workshop.  (Years, not hours.)

Yet even this aspect of your inner process can be embraced as an uplifting part of the path to true wholeness.  It is a matter of perspective and orientation.   Sometimes there will be gratitude for difficult awareness, and sometimes simply acceptance of the bridge to be crossed.   In this way, challenging recognition and transformation can be elevated above the purposeless misery that so many cycle within.  Consciously experiencing emotion and unconscious suffering are entirely different.

Don’t give up — or believe you are on the “wrong track” — if your quest for true health and wholeness does not bring immediate inner joy, peace, happiness. Evaluate shifts rather than an idealized goal or end point.  Sometimes seemingly “slow” mortal progress covers vast distances of time and space.  Wholeness is a state of being experienced far beyond the ephemeral joys and happiness of physical perception.

Conclusion

The conclusion of these reflections is meant to be an initiation — a purposeful beginning or launch into your own deliberation and consideration of what it means (to you) to be healthy and whole.  The start is a simple question: does “this” contribute to my true health and wholeness?  “This” can be anything and everything in your life. You’ll have a pretty good awareness of where you are right now after 30 minutes of inquiring about “this” and “that,” even if you haven’t fully examined or defined what true health looks and feels like to you.

It doesn’t ultimately matter what health and wholeness mean to someone else.  Your health and wholeness are yours to choose, create, and sustain.  No one can has the responsibility or empowerment to do it for you — there is tremendous opportunity and freedom in that awareness.

My best wishes and blessings for your work, your awakening, and your journey.

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In my articles and recommendations, I consistently encourage people to “create the future from the empowered present” — don’t allow circumstances to dictate your path or live in reaction to outside forces. Your most expansive opportunities and creations come from your conscious inner alignment.

I also recommend that this conscious creative focus is the best way to avoid undesired or unpleasant outcomes.  You can avoid “re-creating catastrophes” from other time-spaces, enacting unconscious patterns, and sidestep being caught up in others’ predilections to do these things.

But what happens if these efforts and alignments appear to go awry? And something unexpected happens? Why?  And more importantly, now what?

The Fluorescent Green Plastic Grass

I recently had a rather unexpected event come into my life, and this set of circumstances has provided the inspiration for this article. We rent a home in a fairly secluded location, quite ideal for my work.  All alignments have been toward us staying here until we purchase a property in a couple years, when we have more geographic flexibility for the next stage of our life and work.

All has been good and quiet with the landlords, who live on another house on the same (large) property.  We can actually go a month without seeing each other; our lives and paths don’t intersect much and we respect each others’ privacy.

One Tuesday night, there was a knock on the door.  Possibly the first time one of them came to the door in five years.  The announcement?  On Saturday, they were tearing up the lawn in front of our house and installing a “play area” for their grandchildren.

It happens that my orchid shadehouse is on that “empty” lawn outside the house.  They agreed that the new play area would end well on the other side of it.  Hardly ideal, but the “lawn remodel” should be out of sight and tolerable.

I’ll spare you the details of construction and heavy machinery for several days.  The decision was made to rip up the existing sod and replace it with plastic grass, currently popular in our area to save water.  It looked like it was almost complete, and then the contractor announced that that there were several extra feet on the plastic grass roll. Unilaterally and without warning, on Sunday morning, the (several hundred) orchids would have to move “somewhere.”

Easier said than done.  When the reality of waiting half a day for us to disassemble the growing areas set in, the contractors decided to cut the plastic roll.  However, the “play area” now extends to within 9 feet (3 meters) of our house, leaving us a small strip of dirt along the house, with a swingset just outside our door.  All plant life removed and replaced with plastic and rubber mulch.  Our residence dramatically shifted in a few hours because of an extra large roll of plastic grass.

Up until this week, I didn’t anticipate needing to relocate, and have been pondering how unexpected events like this materialize even in the midst of well-established alignments and pathways.

(Note: maybe I exaggerated a little … but the plastic grass is a remarkably bright (and surreal) green contrasted with the otherwise brown summer dry season.  From the description, I’m sure you can guess how I feel about the new local aesthetics.)

The Why of the Unexpected

In general, there are two types of unexpected events: 1) unexpected because you had limited awareness (for whatever reason), and 2) unexpected because it was not likely or probable even with a full and clear awareness of the situation.

I mostly caution people about the first type of “unexpected”: perceptual, emotional, mental, or vibrational blinders that cause you to not see a situation clearly and fully.  Hence you avoid or don’t anticipate something, though you could have been aware of it.  Many times, belief systems or desires tunnel you into hopes or fears rather than clear and whole perception.   Seeing the entire picture often isn’t pleasant or pretty, so the “ugly” is surprising when it pops out.

The other circumstance of the unexpected is when other beings make a decision to do something that was unanticipated.  This could be breaking an agreement or suddenly choosing a lower (or higher) vibrational creative pathway.  When a being, or group of beings, shifts into a different vibration, then they can create a different outcome.  Sometimes this is better for all (when they choose a higher energy flow path), but often it is a sudden degradation of circumstances when they bring a lower vibrational energy flow and creations to intersect others’ pathways.

In a free will environment, you can have alignments and conscious choices, but you can’t dictate what others will do. Having foresight from the clarity of your awareness, you can create the best possible alignment from the energy flows that are available.  But nothing completely prevents another being from “jumping ship” and initiating a different energy flow and outcome for all involved.  High vibrational energy flows, consistent alignment, and clear pro-active choices minimize this possibility, but do not eliminate it.

The sudden manifestation of the fluorescent green plastic grass and a chaotic toddlers’ play area outside my front door is an example of the latter.  I couldn’t anticipate that the landlords would suddenly “need” to have plastic grass last week, and that they would suddenly decide to dispense with my orchids without notice.  I have some awareness about the background causes, but that’s not really relevant here.   It was unexpected and reshuffled the deck.

Dealing with the Unexpected

How you deal with the unexpected determines the consequences or effects of the unexpected.  I purposefully chose the most neutral word that I could: “unexpected.”  What comes after the unexpected is neither essentially bad or good.

Something “unexpected” indicates a disturbance in the prevailing energy flow, but it’s up to you to deal with the “new” energy flow.  How you handle it is the difference between “response” and “reaction.” Reaction unleashes a chain of energy, emotions, and actions rather automatically.   The “re” part of “re-action” indicates a repetition, a recycling or habit.

On the other hand, you can evaluate the situation, and look at your options for (re)establishing the highest vibrational energy flow and outcome going forward.  You might have a lot of feelings about this — anger, grief, disappointment, betrayal, etc. — depending upon the specific circumstances.  They don’t have to consume the situation.  Emotional reactions can be experienced and observed “on the side” rather than becoming “central” to determining your pathway forward.

In this way, I strongly recommend that the path forward be based upon the most uplifting and empowering emotions and perspectives available — what can be created for the future instead of looking backwards at what was lost or dissipated.

“Real” Maturity at the Crossroads of Life

After a collision with the unexpected, one life pathway tends to lead towards some mix of anger, bitterness, and blame towards others. Sometimes beings will carry these sentiments for years, or even lifetimes, after an event.

Another pathway leads towards sober reflection, acceptance, and an expanded view of the nature of reality and creation.  I consider this pathway to be the hallmark of maturity.  From my perspective, energetic, spiritual, emotional, and perceptual maturity “feels” rather sobering compared to the more idealistic and fanciful perspectives of “youth.”  Youth in this case is NOT physical age — there are mature children and childish adults in abundance.

I use the word “sobering” not in the sense of depressing, dulling, or decaying.  Rather it is the heftiness of seeing the whole of situations, people, and reality. Not just what you want to see, or what is bright and beautiful.  In my eyes, the whole picture is sobering — you can feel the depth, the fullness, and the gravity of life and creation.   With this awareness, you are not stuck or recycling — you are immersed and moving through the entirety of All-that-Is.  Cherry-picking your reality is mutually exclusive with maturity.

As your container(s) expand — energetically, emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually — you can take more awareness in and allow more into your experience without being weighted or disrupted by it.  That’s the kind of maturity that I am speaking of.  It doesn’t come with physical age or outside accreditation: rather, it emerges from deep experience, reflection, and resilient creative intention.

Now what?

So how am I responding to the “remodeling” of my local reality with fluorescent green plastic grass? What I just described: looking at the options to go forward in an elevated and expansive way.

I am committed to the original high vibrational intention for our living arrangement, and it looks like that energy flow is going to require some renewed, and additional, effort to (re)establish so that others’ choices do not adversely impact my creations and work.  While I would prefer that it wouldn’t take more energy (time and money) to create/maintain our original intention, an additional input will likely be necessary now.  Such are the circumstances of bringing forth high vibrational creations in a (relatively) lower vibrational world.

I hope that these reflections are valuable to you in your creations, responses, and re-aligned creations.  Part of being an effective and powerful creator is to have the awareness and flexibility to re-align energy flows to support your intentions. When you are dealing with larger projects (in space or time), it is natural to have more realignments as there are many different beings and energies involved.

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I would like to share with you an often overlooked aspect of supporting and sustaining your inner wholeness, or for that matter, any creation or life endeavor.  This aspect is often passed over for a good reason — there’s a benefit somewhere to keeping it hidden — even in plain view.  I’m not talking about some wild conspiracy theory, but the economics of energy acquisition in this planetary system.  Interested?  Then let me explain more …

An often overlooked aspect of inner work

When I have used the term “soul ascension” as part of inner evolution, I am not alluding to a one-time event or the aspiration of suddenly floating off the planet to a hallowed new world.  These hopeful and fanciful spiritual fantasies are popular because they usually gloss over the time, attention, and commitment that it truly takes to move into a liberated state of existence.  In my eyes, the heart of the so-called ascension process is expanding your awareness so that you are able to enter new levels of recognition and clarity, and hence, experience a a new reality.  It’s not “out there” somewhere, but an inner process of clearing, expanding, and (re)connecting to your pure essence and Source.

While imprecise in some ways, I will use the common description of this process as “elevating your energy” or “raising your frequency.”  These are good, tangible metaphors, though the core process has more to do with transforming deep reality structures than any sort of physical energy or popular notions such as clearing chakras, meridians, etc.

If you commit yourself to moving into a higher vibrational state of being, then, upon reflection, you might recognize that you need (at least) two things: 1) a container able to hold the higher vibrational energy, and 2) energy of high quality coming into your physical, mental, emotional, and energetic form(s).  If you are scattering, leaking, or otherwise losing your high vibrational energy, then you are going to be stuck in cycles of build-up and dissipation, and ultimately not make a lot of progress.  It’s frustrating, depressing, and disappointing.

I’ve observed that most people tend to focus on seeking what they perceive as higher vibrational energy.  However, often, there’s not a lot of ongoing attention to maintaining this expanded and uplifted “energy.”  How conscious and persistent are you in sustaining the high vibration that you are working so hard to develop?  Does it rise and ebb?  Do you regularly feel setback?  Do you wonder why?

Seemingly “good” energy drains

I suggest that there are two categories of energy drains: the apparently bad and the seemingly good.  Lots and lots has been written on the “bad” energy drains — unhealthy relationships, abusive psychology, exploitative social or economic practices, etc.  These are very significant and debilitating to many beings, and many resources exist to describe them.  In this article, I would like to highlight the OTHER category of energy drains, the one that is more easily overlooked: the seemingly “good” energy drains.

These apparently “good” energetic connections/drains are everywhere and often poorly seen.  One of the reasons that I believe that spiritual practices do not emphasize the significance of energy leaks and extraction is because many seemingly “good” energetic connections are so firmly embedded in the cultural and social contexts in which we live.  To call them out would cause an uproar and destabilize society.

Unfortunately, even many spiritual practices are designed to develop and siphon off the high vibrational energy from followers and practitioners.  Sometimes these go to the benefit of an individual or an organization, which may have high esteem and long history.  Tradition, conditioned veneration, and the difficulty of pinpointing these drains create an insulation around the teaching, practice, or group.

Ironically, the highest levels of status or accomplishment in a religious/spiritual group or practice can have the highest level of entrapment.  In short, higher vibrational beings are a greater source of soul energy than lower vibrational beings and are more “valuable” to whomever is benefiting.  That’s serious food for thought …

Conditioned energy drains are just as prevalent, if not more so, in the so-called secular world.  Once again, so firmly entrenched in social norms, psychology, identity, and unquestioned relationship dynamics, these continue unnoticed for generations and are so pervasive that they become hard to see.  Isn’t that an interesting thought?  An energy drain could be so widespread and common that no one notices it?   And when few notice it, it creates a seemingly insurmountable effort to identify and separate from the connection, since there is little support for disconnecting yourself.

Furthermore, sometimes an energy drain isn’t even personally attached — it becomes part of the fabric of a lineage that a person is associated with, sometimes by birth, or by joining a group or organization (present or in another time-space).

If you think about it, the way to keep something in place is to make it appear necessary or valuable.  If people didn’t value an energetic connection, it would quickly wither and disappear.  Like a business that loses its customers.  Therefore, the energy drain is often attached to someone or something of apparent social, personal, or economic “value.”  In this way, it can be “hidden in plain sight” and people actively sign up to drain their physical and spiritual energy.

Another way to maintain an energy drain is to connect it to an identity, such as the definition of being “good” at something: a good parent, a good spouse, a good citizen, a good employee, a good practitioner, etc.  That’s the irony and the hidden dynamic: the concept of being “good” is attached to the siphoning off of your soul energy and life force.  In this way, many people accept these energy drains without question — and even defend and value them.

Subtle and real energy drains

I’m being general in my above description of “energy drains” because the most significant extraction pathways are not easily described.  They are developed and inserted into the energy system, or a soul aspect, on the subatomic or molecular level.  What you see is not the “drain” itself, but a symptom of it.  Most people find it too hard to believe, or imagine, that reality arises from these deep and subtle facets of the Universe, and that the smallest scales of energetics give rise to the enormity of planets, galaxies, and Universes.  (If you are interested in learning more about this, you will find this article helpful.)

My intention here is to open awareness to this possibility, and initiate a new level of questioning into the energy dynamics of your life.  This is where inner Stillness and practice asking difficult questions comes into play.  You don’t need to “see” the subatomic structures in order to perceive that something isn’t right or that your energetic sovereignty is being compromised.  But if this possibility has never occurred to you, then you wouldn’t even necessarily recognize or consider how the “seemingly good” energy drains may be affecting your well being or sovereignty.

I have no desire to specifically name peoples, places, or things that offer or conceal energy drains in our midst.  It would be of very little benefit.  People are very attached to energetic connections, especially ones with historical or ideological value, and generally react unfavorably to awareness which threatens their comfort in that reality construct.   It is like any bad relationship that you don’t want to deal with — a dozen people can point it out, but, until you are ready and willing to see it for what it is, you won’t act decisively and will probably lash out at the messenger of the unpleasant news.

The economics of energy acquisition

I’ll close this offering with a brief, big picture reflection on the economics of energy acquisition — that is, why most of these energy drains exist in the first place.  Energy, at the soul level or the physical level, originates from one of two places: 1) direct connection to the Source of All-that-Is, or 2) another being.  Lower vibrational beings generally are NOT focused on cultivating their direct sovereign soul connection.  They find it easier, or necessary because they don’t perceive an alterative, to obtain energy from others.  These flows of energy acquisitions are hierarchical, and many don’t even realize where their connections originate or ultimately lead.

It might be apparent, then, that a relatively lower vibrational and discordant world (i.e., the current state of this planetary system) would be filled with pathways of energetic extraction for the majority of beings (physical and non-physical) to sustain themselves.  These develop into co-dependencies of extraction, in addition to the more obvious parasitic relationships.  I could write volumes on the infinite variety of these connections and relationships, but the core is simple: if you are not obtaining your creative/life energy directly from Source, then you are obtaining it from another being.

I hope that this final note sends off a bright light or “bingo” in seeing the pervasiveness of energy drains.

And why so many energy drains are overlooked or hidden behind colorful (or dark) trappings.  With this opening in awareness you have tremendous empowerment for your wholeness and liberation, to exist outside of these systems and realize the birthright of your sovereign essence.  Recognition is the first step to clearing, disconnecting, or separating from these energy drains — for your benefit and the benefit of all beings.

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The “whole” view of energy & consciousness

While the wisdom within this article is simple, the benefits to how you live and evolve your life are profound.  I see a chronic deficit of awareness of energetic relationships and interactions from the viewpoint of the “whole.”  Instead, people (frustratingly) try to evolve and make changes from focus on energetic “parts.”

That’s why I’ve chosen to write this article: to help you step into a much larger and more powerful field of awareness so you can EFFECTIVELY create the life, reality, and world that you desire.  I’m NOT going to recycle the expression that “the whole is the sum of its parts.”  Rather, I will explain how “the whole is the (energetic) flow of its parts.”

This awareness is far from simply “personal”: there are much more vast implications of a “wholeness-based” orientation to the movements of energy.  For healers (of all types, not just conventional) reading this article, I have devoted a special section at the end to help you see your larger role in the evolution of the “planetary whole.”

Fundamentals of energy flows: relations between “parts”

When you focus on a part, then you (completely) miss the interaction between parts, and how they co-evolve in your life (and the world around you).  Seems obvious, eh?  But this pattern of perception is very, very common.  People tend to see BOTH problems and new opportunities as “parts.”  They identify a “problem” that needs attention — for example, a relationship, job, employee, child, etc.  Or they identify a new possibility — and decide to  “do something” to change/improve their health, finances, spiritual practice, etc.

Therefore, the tendency is to have a view of an “issue” or an “action” — but NOT the larger field of relationships.  It is interactions or relationships — not the isolated parts — that create, move, and consume energy, often “behind the scenes.”

As long as you just focus on the part, or if that part is very isolated or contained, then you can experience and sustain changes and improvements in your creations.  But very few aspects of life can remain isolated for very long.  So the efforts at making a change or improvement fade away or dwindle.  Why does that diminishment happen (over and over)?

Recognizing “ditches” and “hills” of life force

At all scales of creation, we can visualize “ditches” and “hills” of energy flows.

Simply, if you visualize creative flows in terms of gravity, energy flows into “ditches.”  Ditches are structures designed to capture energy from the surrounding area — it is their inherent parasitic or extractive nature.  Talking to a ditch about doing or being something other than this is futile.  The ditch cannot be a “different kind of ditch.”  It would have to become something else entirely.  Ditches generally have limited imagination to see or embrace the possibility of evolving beyond ditch-ness (extraction).

I probably don’t have to describe much more here — you can feel the energetic “ditches” in your life (as well as in the larger world).  It’s where you life force, time, energy, and creativity go without much fruition.  The big drains of peace, joy, and energetic evolution.

Correspondingly, there are the upwellings of positive action, enthusiasm, creativity, vision, and new ideas — call those the “hills” of energy and creation.  The “biggest” (individual and planetary) hills are directly connected to pure Source energies and its expressions.

Connections between ditches and hills

When you have ditches and hills in a system of relationships or interactions, energy flows down from hills (sources of expanding or uplifting energy) and into ditches (consumers or extractors of energy).  Not all of it — some spreads out — but a lot of the energy of the system ends up heading for the ditch.  So if you build bigger hills while ignoring the surrounding ditches, most of the energy of (your) expanding creation is dissipated.

That’s why you can make changes or improve your life in one area, only to have those efforts “cancelled” or “consumed” by another part of your life.  People often like to focus on “easy” or “favorite” parts, while avoiding others.  This conscious or subconscious avoidance inherently creates fragmented systems of energetic relationships, and makes it hard to sustain growth, uplift, and evolution.

Parts in isolation: a recipe for energetic instability

In a system where the interaction between (some or all) ditches and hills is ignored, then an instability builds.   Ditches and hills in close proximity are particularly problematic and often accelerate disruptive flows.  This could be from people in the same organization (business, family, nation, etc.) where one person or group lives and acts as a “hill” of energy, and other(s) are content to collect and consume energy (ditches).

Many scenarios can play out — on all scales.  The higher energy flows can be drained and dissipated.  Or, the hills (energy sources) can become aware of their connection to an endless “feeding” system and choose not to participate.  Alternatively, the hills wear down while the ditches partly fill, resulting in a more even flow of energy, but of a lower vibrational nature for all.  This is a very different outcome than if the hills remain high, and the low ground elevates.

Another possible scenario, if the contrast or tension between elevation and extraction persists, is a catastrophic leveling or collapse as energy eventually re-distributes according to the laws of creation. These events can occur on different scales, with sudden and dramatic consequences for the many beings connected to an energy system (e.g. an organization, a country, or a planet).

When seen from the whole of the system, it makes more sense to “fill in” or “relocate” the ditches before adding more energy into the system (building a bigger hill).  Or actually, simultaneously seeing and responding to both “hills” and “ditches” is preferred since these energy flows are really non-linear.

This is where taking a “whole” energy view REALLY shifts the creative dynamics of your life.  Instead of reacting to parts, or favoring/avoiding some parts, you take stock of as big of a picture as you can.  Then you can focus your time and efforts on shifting the ENERGY FLOWS that need the most attention — this gets much closer to core transformation than substituting or replacing parts.

You can also redefine which parts are in a system — this can be a very powerful way of re-creating a reality.  In this way, the entire system can elevate at once — the ditches have the option of transforming, or cease to exist in proximity to hills.  And higher vibrational energy flows can build higher without losing much of their increased energy to perpetual drains.

Expanding into the “whole” of consciousness

There’s no limit to where you can apply the shift in perspective that I’ve just described.  This core awareness of ditches, hills, and energy flows is as fundamental to living my daily physical life as it is to my work in identifying planetary-scale energetic instabilities that need support.

There is a relatively small, but growing, number of people are waking up to the bigger picture of their soul purpose and calling to support fundamental planetary uplift and renewal.  The awareness offered below is devoted with gratitude to you, so you can expand your perception to include even larger scales than you might have previously recognized.

Shifting to a galactic understanding  of the evolution of energy and consciousness provides a powerful “re-frame” on the impact of your actions and creative potential.   For two reasons.

First, you can step out of yet another level of isolation, that is, the isolation of a life oriented to local (including planetary) dramas.  You are part of something much, much larger, with a scale of impact across time and space that is nearly impossible to imagine and describe from orientation to just the “planetary part.”

Second, you can you truly realize the depth and extent of your power.  When you see across time and space from the vast view, the emotional reactivity that comes from various dramas (personal and/or planetary) fades.  It’s like dust or a pebble in the trail.  Seeing from the level of galactic consciousness, you can focus on what really benefits the future of the greatest number of beings, as well as put any challenges or perceptions of limitation in perspective.

The same principles described above apply to vast scales of space and time.  Planetary ditches are addressed to stabilize and elevate galaxies.  And galactic ditches are addressed to stabilize and elevate Universes.  What happens in this planetary system has significance far beyond the perceived “planet.”

Bottom line: BOTH problems and impact are defined by your reference point.  If you energetically elevate, and expand the reference point of awareness to galactic consciousness, and beyond, the current needs, choices, and dramas in front of you dramatically change.  You become connected, empowered, and guided by an awareness that is far greater than the limited “parts” that dominate your world view from a smaller view of evolving energy and consciousness.

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We are in one of those periods of history where it seems like unhappiness, stress, drama, and disillusionment have been uncorked and are flooding out on many scales.  There are many deeper reasons for this as part of planetary evolution and transition. I recommend my articles on embracing worldwide dysfunction, the seeding of reality, and the “under-recognized problem of catastrophe re-creation” to explore several aspects.

In this short article, I would like to offer a reflection on one particular factor: inner/outer judgement as a response to diverging planetary pathways.  The divergence of these pathways (on many scales) create reflections of personal and cultural separation and conflict.  Clashes of all sorts are in abundance right now.  From my vantage point, these conflicts are a symptom rather than a source.  Many mistake the alleviation of symptoms as the cure of disease — only to see it reoccur again.  Why do dis-ease and disturbance (inner and outer) recycle and repeat, even when temporarily abated?

There are many ways to answer that question.  For one starting point, when you judge someone or something (including your own past or present), you energetically situate yourself in opposition, or resistance, to the circumstances that you are observing.  Which, ultimately, is opposition to the nature of the universe itself.

Infinite Creative Potential

The infinite creative potential of existence allows for ALL creations to come forth. You cannot inherently eliminate the possibility of some creations without eliminating free will choice of realities and experiences.  Free will, and infinite creative potential, offers both the possibility of luminous uplift and recycling of energetic decay.

These diverging possibilities fill every moment of the day and are relatively inescapable.  However, you have a decision point on how to relate to these transitional energies and pathways of manifestation.

Judgement initiates strong focus in a particular direction, and the perspective of opposition produces a powerful line (or vector) of energy to sustain that perspective. “Fighting for the good guys” isn’t that much different than “fighting for the bad guys” in the type of energetic patterns that are produced. There are temporary victories and movements, but, eventually, the cycle begins again.  In this way,  I describe judgement as “fuel” for the “drama engine.”  This multi-dimensional engine powers most of the continuous dramas and upheavals that you experience — either within your personal life or manifesting on the world stage.

Judgement sets you up to be in ongoing conflict with your inner/outer world.  This is ultimately an irresolvable reality construct.  However, you can spend a vast amount of time and energy earnestly trying to create a resolution.

With that simple awareness, you can immediately recognize why dramas go on and on …

Polarity: where it begins and never ends

One of key aspects of feeding the “drama engine” is the perception of polarity. That is, seeing people, ideas, or desires as opposing, conflicting, or constricting each other.   Instead, you can perceive the simultaneous existence of infinite different possibilities — and then — choose how (or if) to bring yourself into a situation.  Neutrality, inner peace, emotional wholeness, and clarity sustain transformation and uplift.

Alternatively, if you bring anger, resistance, or adversarial energy into a situation, then you fuel the engine to crank out another conflict or drama to be experienced.  How could it be otherwise?  Physical form follows the framework of energy and consciousness that is created for it.  A valuable question to ask throughout the day … what am I fueling with my energy and viewpoint?

Once again, the key shift: the alternative mental, emotional, and energetic perspective to judgement is “allowance of choice.”  There’s a deep simplicity, and inner freedom, within this core awareness.  Instead of living in conflict (polarity) with the vast possibilities of creations that you don’t want or don’t like, offer your time, energy, and attention to creating the experiences and world that you DO wish to experience.  In the process, you flow a much higher vibrational energy into your own life and the world around you.  This form of energy and awareness will uplift yourself and everyone around you — and does NOT feed the drama engine.

Your choice, your offering to the world

Your offering of uplift expands into the world by providing a peaceful, conscious, clear, and wholeness-based alternative to the pervasive cultural, political, economic, and psychological drama and fragmentation saturating media, human interactions, and structures of reality.

I would say that one of the most powerful, if not most powerful, action that you can take to (truly) help others is to offer a choice where one was not perceived before.  That new choice can take many forms — something physical, an example of an emotional state, an idea, or new awareness.

In any situation, many possible outcomes and pathways can unfold.  You cannot control what other beings will choose for themselves, but providing a choice initiates the possibility of a different, and hopefully, more uplifting future for all.  New choices can powerfully transform realities on any scale — where there once was a wall, now there is a doorway to something else.

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Do you notice that certain relationships, situations, or projects consume a disproportionate amount of energy to keep “working”?  Or have you wondered why a seemingly “small” situation or event is spiraling into a large “mess”?  Do you believe in the best in people and that every problem or situation can be led to a good solution?

My clients and students are a rather conscious group of beings, many of whom are professional healers, teachers, and are committed to uplifting our world.  Over time, I have noticed a pattern that reappears amongst them, in varied circumstances, that leads to being energetically “stuck” in life situations or dissipating their creative intentions.

When a conflict or difficulty occurs,  we like to believe that we can create a joyful and peaceful solution.  Some people would even say that it is their responsibility to create such an outcome.  In this article, I would like to offer a perspective that reveals how this expectation can become “a trap.”  A trap, that is, for your time, energy, and directed creations.

Surface or Source?

Let’s begin with a bigger picture view.  Most situations are not actually about what they appear to be on the surface.  Yes, there is a set of circumstances — remodelling a house, firing an employee, deciding upon a vacation, etc.  But these are only a reflection, and, in many respects, quite trivial.  You can substitute another set of circumstances and produce a fairly similar set of interactions, issues, and conflicts.  So we need to go deeper — and examine the energy flows and intentions of the beings that are creating the situation.

What we often find beneath the seemingly smooth surface of most relationships is a set of very different energy streams, goals, intentions, and patterns.  When we are vibrationally aligned with those energies and intentions, then it is a smooth flow — things work, there are no serious conflicts, and we “get along” with each other.

However, eventually, there is something that highlights hidden or underlying vibrational mis-matches.  They might have been there all along and were ignored or avoided with a variety of “fixes.”  Or it might be that someone decides, for a variety of reasons, that they no longer want to keep quietly “going with the group flow.”

The perceptual trap

When one part of a system shifts, then the entire system is challenged to re-organize.  Sometimes the re-organization occurs internally and all of the boats in the harbor float up on the higher vibrational tide.  Alternatively, the system sustains itself by removing or rejecting the piece that does not “fit” or resonate with the vibration or awareness that organizes the rest of the system.

In any case, there is a lot of energy movement and intention that is “really” creating the superficial show of events and interactions.  Here’s where the “peaceful and joyful solution” trap occurs.  If everyone is not aligned with creating a peaceful and joyful solution, then you are entering into an endless dissipation of your energy to “try” to make it happen.

It is like when you tuck in one corner of a blanket and then the other side pops out.  As soon as one piece is resolved, another sparks flares up.

This disharmonious outcome — ongoing discord and conflict — is actually natural and perfect. It is the laws of creation in operation.  If everyone is not committed to the same (joyful and peaceful) outcome, then it just won’t occur.  It’s really that simple.

What does manifest is the expression of the actual intentions and energies in the system (i.e., group of beings interacting with each other).   This occurs across all scales of space and time  — from between two people to entire countries or a planetary system.  Furthermore,  the ACTUAL intentions and energies of those involved may be different than what is said or claimed.  What rules creation is the flow of energy and intention — not words or promises.

A genuine foundation

It is necessary to start with an honest intention (and capacity) for living in peace and joy in order to actually create self-sustaining peace and joy.  Both of those aspects are essential — genuine intention and genuine capacity — to sustain a strong, stable foundation of creation.

Otherwise, you wind up using coercion, force, manipulation, or deception to get everyone “into line” with an outcome that might appear peaceful and joyful temporarily.  But when you take that route for creation, then you no longer have a high vibrational, joyful, peaceful intention as the organizing alignment for future energy flows.

It might look good (or at least ok) for now, but the structure is decaying at the core.  By analogy, this is like the plant that has root rot: suddenly and seemingly unexpectedly, it collapses while looking fine on the surface.  Without recognizing what truly occurred, and why, the tendency is to start all over again with an idea for a new “solution” that will make things flow nicely again.  For now.

My take-home message  is to look carefully and deeply into situations where you decide to allocate your time and energy (with family, with friends, with clients, with employees, with groups and organizations).  You can consciously bring forth expansive, creative, and productive pathways — and release yourself from those which might be harnessing your energy towards other outcomes.

Truly creating with joy and peace

There are many opportunities where beings are genuinely aspiring for peace, elevation, and new, joyful possibilities.  And many other situations where that may be the stated goal, but the energy flows and web of intentions will lead to a different series of results.

Inadvertently, you can create a situation where you support and empower lower vibrational outcomes through your participation and flow of energy.  Sometimes the most powerful way to change a situation is to withdraw your own energy from it — AND redirect your life force into a new creation where you can be deeply and powerful aligned to bring forth the best in yourself and others.

An ideal or belief exists where “peace and joy are possible everywhere.”  Yes, this is true in one respect — peace is possible whenever and wherever beings are committed to creating peace and joy through their thoughts, actions, and energies.  But, in another respect, peace and joy will not manifest for long when beings are not genuinely committed to sustaining it.  This is neither “good” or “bad” —  it is the laws of creation, free will, and energy in operation.

Therefore, regardless of others’ intentions and alignments, you can fill yourself with peace and joy, and allow the energy flows of all beings to be as THEY have intended.  Then, others will have your example as contrast, and an invitation to make a different choice for themselves.  You always have the opportunity to embody the peaceful and joyful  “solution” within your own knowing, and allow that awareness to express itself around you.

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