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Page 1 of 2 Mid-week Inspiration,
As I enter another beautiful day, a part of me wonders what this one will bring. Over the past few weeks I have seen an incredible building of conflict around change in peoples’ minds and lives. There seems to be a wave of turmoil passing through at least this part of the world. Every day I have the opportunity to talk with people about real issues; what’s really happening in their lives, what ‘fine’ really means. And for most of us it means almost anything but fine. Generally it means ‘I have things on my mind that I am dealing with.’ And those ‘things’ we delve into.
When I use a word such as conflict, I do not connote a problem. Yet more often than not for most people conflict is a problem. Most people don’t want to make personal changes. Yet those personal changes are necessary in a world that is so quickly evolving. It has become increasingly necessary for people to change careers, homes, lifestyles, hobbies, vehicles and even simple things like appliances and communication methods on a regular basis. And it seems that just when they are starting to feel comfortable with a level of change the pressure gets turned up. Not only are we constantly being forced to deal with external change but we are being forced to deal with our thoughts about those changes; our personal relationship to the changes being imposed upon us. In my experience change really only hurts when we have already made up our minds about what the change is supposed to look like; which almost all of us have almost completely done. We have decided before we have begun what our life will look like and nowhere in that image have we included the possibility of the unexpected. Nor could we. To be constantly expecting the unexpected is paranoia and that, it appears to me, is the biggest nightmare of our present western political outlook. Our politicians by unconscious popular mandate seem to be increasingly buying into a fear and force driven philosophy of get them before they can get us. This is the absurd approach of a self righteous and guilt ridden system. And always the collective consciousness of a nation will show up in its individual lives. So here we are experiencing personal conflict. Simply stated, that is the why so many people of our world have this personal conflict. The question then becomes, how do we deal with it? To deal with problems we must recognize the root cause of problems. As I said before conflict happens when things occur out of alignment with our individual idea of change. Our idea of the way events should unfold is our opinion and our measurement of life’s changes against our opinion is our judgment of the experience. So we only really have a problem when we hold opinions and judge circumstance. On the most basic level all we need to do to eliminate problems from our lives, to eliminate conflict, is to eliminate our opinions and judgments. Our problem, and the conflict, exist because we accept our opinions as law; immutable and uncompromising. Many of us would rather take our opinions to the grave than change them.
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