It’s been a rough election season. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard the term election fatigue before this cycle, but if you google it, there’s plenty of talk about it. (It’s like the media had to find something else to make hype about.) But in my very unscientific google search, I saw articles about it going back to June and July. No doubt, many of us are done. And we have been for a while.
Fortunately, my role as minister and spiritual leader does not require me to figure out how we got here from a political standpoint. (I’ll leave that to the Poli/Sci folks) My focus remains on how we can each raise our consciousness into a more vibrant, authentic, and whole experience.
How do we do that? As most spiritual teachings, the theory is simple while the application is the practice of a lifetime.
Maybe you’ve seen the bumper sticker “Wag more, Bark less.” That’s the essence of it. Focus on what you do want instead of fighting what you don’t want.
Is there any joy in being against something? Really, is there?
The ‘war on’ pretty much anything hasn’t been very successful. But what if instead we decided to be for:
• everyone having enough (instead of anti- poverty),
• finding healthy ways to express (instead of anti-drug),
• Health and wholeness (instead of _______ disease).
I want to know what you are for. You can stand up for change, and claim your rights, and still refrain from putting your energy into ‘them’ being ‘wrong’. You can disagree without being disagreeable!
I believe that we all are contributors to the consciousness of our community and of our world, commonly called the collective consciousness.
What ripples do we want to spread? Do you really believe that fear or hate is the way to bring about more light? Really?
Let’s look at any situation where you have a choice, it could be anti-something vs. pro something, or it could be this person or that person.
Let’s pretend you don’t like hare, because you’ve heard ‘things.’ Can you find a value that you share with tortoise that is your motivation for choosing tortoise (instead of demonizing hare)? Maybe you realize what you really value is consistency and persistence. If that’s so, you certainly would want to choose tortoise, because that’s what tortoise represents. Then you can just move past putting any judgement, hostility etc. into hare.
You choose my friends: you choose who and what is taking up space in your heart and mind. You choose if hate or love reign. You choose what consciousness you spread.
I’m not saying it’s easy, I know it can be hard to understand how reasonable people could think such and such. But that is what we must do. Rise above. Find something productive to occupy your time and energy. How can you work for the change you wish to see?
This is one of the reasons I created the Election Day Prayer Vigil. I am choosing to focus on prosperity, peace, and well-being for all. That’s my antidote for election fatigue. I invite you to join me, in seeing our community and our world as a place of understanding. Not ignoring how things are, but seeing the vision of who we want to be.
Eric Butterworth wrote in Spiritual Economics: “the greatest need is not to set it right, but to see it rightly.”
So I ask: What are you for?
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