Hello fellow humans!
It’s been awhile! Subham Astu – I wish you only good things!
It’s been quite a year so far. I feel like I’m forever standing on a squishy platform on a boat in rough seas. Perpetual high intensity balancing. Or something like that.
These last few weeks I tumbled off the boat and spent time first on a sugar eating rampage, and eventually, after crashing, just being still, quiet, and seeking support from friends, spirits, and nature. The debarkation was not graceful but still a necessary reflection that led me to find deep resonance in the woods and spirituality.
I don’t think we can truly understand how much more resilience this time in human history is requiring of us. So much feels uncertain and frightening. Especially for our black and brown friends and neighbors.
As I’ve been peeling the blinders off and learning about my privilege and role in racism, while simultaneously figuring out how help “Make the Truth Important Again”, I’ve been thinking and feeling my way towards the solution: love and hope.
We have a culture that dismisses and minimizes love and hope. We’ve been brainwashed into believing that leading with love makes you “touchy feely” or “a bleeding heart” or “idealistic” (read over-emotional and unrealistic). The idea being that to be leaders or to live fully in this world, we must be ever objective, rational and logical to “be reasonable” and “get the job done”. And, of course, the economy is the priority.
Here’s a radical idea: what if rationality and the economy are the false gods and love is the real answer? What if what happens is all about the vibrations of energy in the world and how we hear, feel, and assimilate them?
There is a scientist in Japan that has documented the molecular impact of words on water. He’s taken photographs of water that has been exposed to hateful and aggressive speech and water that has been exposed to words of loving kindness and compassion. The water exposed to words of love has molecular structures akin to the most beautiful snowflakes. The water exposed to words of hate has a molecular structure that is broken and discordant.
Humans are made up of 70% water.
Just sayin…
That means that what we say and think that is hateful or loving, is a vibration that affects not just the being that we spoke to or thought of, but it affects us as well—at a molecular level. Think of the beautiful magnitude of power in that!
“It is the power in the way of peace, the way of love. We must never, ever hate. The way of love is a better way.” – US Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Activist, Amazing Soul.
Here’s to practicing a better way and standing in and up for LOVE!
And to help you keep your resilience tank full this fall please join me for some Yoga!
