Let love be your guide, your navigator, and your partner. In everything you do, everything, let love be present in your heart, in your mind, and in your hands. In love’s hands you can’t go wrong. In love’s company you are never alone. In love’s presence you are whole. There is no greater calming presence than that of love, within and without. Embody love, be love, give love wherever you roam. In all its forms, love is the answer.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
With loving kindness for yourself, maintain a personal balance that is right for you. Strive to know yourself fully, to be yourself fully, in body and spirit, at home within yourself and within the world around you. Gain mastery over the conjuring mind that seeks to keep you a slave to its machinations. Free yourself of its busybody thoughts and its defeatist ideas and become the strong and solitary being that you truly are, independent, responsible, and mature, with thoughts and ideas that suit a balanced you and a progressive and positive attitude. In your own state of balance, know who you are and the purpose of your journey, to grow and evolve as only you can. Give yourself the gift of loving kindness and find fulfillment in your own balance, within and without. For if you are in balance then everything around you will be in balance too. And then you will be ready for anything!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Seek the tao of you, peace of mind and body, within the self, that is calm and stable, a sensation of being yourself, of being right within your physical body, in alignment with your spiritual energy. Let nothing overly disturb you in the tao of you. Tune down your attachments to things outside of you, and tone down your inner energy. Let everything arrive as it will. Know its necessity and its meaning, and without attaching to anything let it be dealt with and attended to in a calm and stable manner. Know yourself more often as a calm and stable being by reminding yourself that you are fully capable of accepting life as it arrives and fully available to experience it as it is, one day and one step at a time, in calmness. Such stability within the self will naturally reverberate outside of the self, and where you go calmness and stability will follow you, tao within and tao without. That’s how to get right, within and without.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Trials and tribulations come in many forms, but their greater intent is to afford a shift, offering release from something that can no longer be sustained, pointing out something, within the self—in the body, mind, or spirit—or in the outer world, that needs a course correction. Look to your personal trials and tribulations as gifts, offering release from something that inhibits, offering at the same time the needed healing. View outer trials and tribulations in the same manner. Discover the real reason within the self for personal issues as they arise, and let go of that which brings you stress and strain, sickness and pain, for something at your core has prescribed a trial to be your healing balm. So is it with the rapidly changing world now. Get right with the real reason for the changes that are taking place, within and without, and get in alignment with the healing plan that will set things right again. Let healing be your personal intent now. Let go of that which is no longer part of the greater healing plan. And don’t forget, the greatest healing balm of all is love!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Classic stages of group development include differentiation followed by intimacy. Differentiation is also known as the storming stage, where group members vie for power and control. This would be an apt description for the disintegrative current state of the world.
As I sit writing this blog, I contemplate the recent mass shooting in Virginia Beach, located in my new home state of Virginia. Such occurrences are so commonplace in our time that by the time this blog is published, a few days from now, the attention of the world will have shifted to the next crisis. Survival in our time appears to require a numbing to the onslaught of daily crisis throughout the world.
This shooting, gun control issues aside, reflects an outbreak of a psychotic psychological virus that becomes activated, as the previous homeostasis in the world that contained these destructive energies is lost. These latent destructive energies are potentiated and invited to erupt through the fissures in our social networks.
Though these lethal outbreaks appear unrelated, they are all connected by an undercurrent of global psychosis, thinly contained by the governing world factions vying for control in this time of disintegration.
When threatened, humans turn to an array of defense mechanisms to protect the ego from the disintegrative effects of danger. These include denial and rationalization. Denial helps us maintain ego integrity by keeping the danger at bay. Rationalization protects the ego, through the supremacy of reason, from the disintegrative collective psychosis blatantly erupting by the hour throughout the globe.
We need our defenses. But we do well to allow ourselves to acknowledge the greater truth of the disintegrative times we live in, with their potential lethal side effects. Ego does well to call upon its higher Self or High SOUL for guidance in these extraordinary times. Synchronicities and dreams often provide precognitive guidance that might be useful in everyday decision making. We should not be so quick to override an ominous feeling that suggests, for instance, that we change a plan we have made.
Of course, we want to be careful to not become paranoid and overly fearful of the world. However, a bit of rational paranoia might be appropriate in these times of instability. Most significantly, we should give due consideration to all signs and messages from the unconscious that seek to get our conscious attention. Why refuse such wisdom and support from within?
Traditionally, children turn to their parents for security and stabilization in times of threat. Likewise, citizens turn to their leaders. The uniqueness of our times is that the leaders are heralding the disintegrative phase, which further thins the fissures in the social safety network.
Beyond that, the technological age has provided easily accessible social network mediums to further entice and activate destructive torrents. The preponderance and power of outside influences can easily distract one from their inner partner and personal homeostasis, which is vital in these disintegrative times.
The good news is that every individual can proceed to the intimacy stage of group development, what the world needs now, through inner psychic hygiene. Every individual has the power to seal the border of the self from outside influence and focus on bringing their inner self into balance by listening to the various factions of the inner self and creating good governance of self, within and without.
This might mean deciding, for instance, to give up coffee to calm the body and mind, or be honest with self and friend about a relationship that is not working. I make no judgment about coffee, by the way, the example simply reflects any truth an individual must face.
Surrendering our attachment to illusion is the first step toward intimacy with self. Facing this monumental challenge alone is a contribution toward the new intimacy and cohesion the world so desperately needs.
Be empowered to reconcile the warring factions of self vying for control in these times of disintegration. Reconciliation in the truth of the heart is true citizenship in these changing times. Do your duty to self and country; focus on sustainable inner balance.
Just another citizen,
Chuck