"What
you resist - persists."
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I
know you've heard that statement before.
I
allowed myself to go into negativity - to be caught in a negative
spin. (You can read all about why that is not necessarily
a good thing in my article Negativity - Don't Get Caught in
a Negative Spin.)
Even
though I know better, and know how detrimental it can be,
I allowed myself to get caught up in world events and to focus
on what I perceive to be bad instead of what I perceive to
be good.
This
negative spin only lasted one day. I think that is pretty
good since many people go into a negative spin and never get
out of it. But it taught me alot.
How
did I get there? Well I started caring alot about what is
"wrong" in the United States. I started sharing
my thoughts and getting angry about how war has never solved
anything in the entire history of the universe, that I truly
believe that 9/11 was an inside job, that Bush lost Florida
and it is totally insane that he is even in the white house,
and on and on and on.
Well.
what did that do for me? It made me angry and depressed. It
got me thinking about humans as victims from some outside
evil force. It made my mind view things from a limited, dillusional
place. It brought down my vibration. It wasn't a good thing.
Unfortunately, it was a perfect example of what humans do
to themselves all of the time by where they place their focus.
But
in the midst of focusing on this dismal picture I had created
of the world - not the Truth, but an illusion that existed
only in my mind, my soul reached out for help. My soul always
reaches out for assistance to bring me back into harmony and
balance, back into alignment with Divine Truth. Yours does
the same thing, you just have to really watch for the intuitive
and subtle signs. Mine came in the form of an email - something
I'm naturally going through numerous times each day. The soul
is a clever thing isn't it? The email was from a dear comrade
from Seattle, Daniel Jacobs. It helped me switch my focus.
We
can view events any way we choose. Raven has a very interesting
slant on the Bush administration, the election, and what is
happening in the world right now. As he observes everything,
he thinks Bush is doing exactly what he has agreed to do.
People
are fed up. People are tired of sitting on the sidelines doing
nothing but complain. The events of the Bush administration
have caused people to get off their butts and make decisions
about what is and is not O.K. It has spurred Americans into
action. And that, he believes, is a very good thing.
On
a microcosmic scale, often a person requires what I call a
"metaphysical 2' x 4' up side the head" before they
will look at their life and begin to make new choices and
changes. They have to lose something they hold dear like their
health, their wealth, a significant relationship, their job
or status, etc. in order to wake up and realize that they
aren't very happy about how their life is going. What they
came in for - their blueprint - is not being manifest.
Perhaps
this is the same thing at the macrocosmic level. Things are
so out of hand. Things are so not O.K. that everyone is having
to take a long hard look at what's important for the United
States as a nation. The United States originally stood for
liberty, truth, freedom, justice, prosperity, and the pursuit
of happiness. And millions and millions of people immigrated
here because of that. We have gotten way off track. This was
not the blue print for America. We used to be viewed as the
champions of justice and the helping nation.
We
are no longer proud to be Americans. I've personally been
ashamed of being American for as long as I can remember.
I'm
one of those people who finds a spider in the house and captures
it in a small plastic container to escort it outside unharmed.
I have never been able to justify how the American ancestors
treated the native people, the blacks, the chinese immigrants.
I view all beings as equal. So I definitely view all races,
all religions, all genders, all economic levels, all people
of all careers or lack of careers equal with me.
The
United States has been a melting pot for all of humanity.
But instead of being inspired by and relishing the differences
in cultures, beliefs, and traditions, we have been at odds
with one another. Always comparing. Always judging. Always
competing. It is done inside the nation and outside the nation.
And
now the world hates the United States. We have lost our status.
We have lost our glamour. And we have lost hope.
I
could run away and move to another country. But I realize
that I'm in the United States for a reason. I'm right here
to make positive changes within myself and my nation to return
both to their original divine blueprints of Truth.
When
Bush declared war, regardless of what he or anyone else perceived
as the reasons why, I refused to align myself with the United
States. I felt more like a citizen of the world. All nations,
all people are one. They are all important. One nation does
not come before another. One nation does not have the right
to invade another - whether it be for oil or fear or some
warped view of what "God" wants.
I
find myself aligning once again with the United States. Not
the war monger, power over, manipulative, fear inducing machine
it has become, but the ideal of what it can and has always
been destined to be - a nation of hope.
We
are the world leaders and what happens in the United States
affects the entire world. Let's focus on that.
Let
life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and true freedom
ring for one and all.
Blessings,
Takara
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