Imagine a healed, healthy and harmonious world; hard to do because we have never really had one in our lifetimes, and now more than ever it seems we have moved so far away from that ever being a reality. The idea of it feels remote but yet in our hearts we yearn for it. However, it’s impossible to yearn for something that we haven’t experienced. The knowing of an experience and how it makes us feel, is what the yearning is all about, to return to that experience.
So, if we have never experienced in our lifetimes, a healed, healthy and harmonious world, how can we yearn for it? This question asks us to try and remember when we have had this feeling before and it begs us to look within ourselves to find the emotion that the reality of this yearning could give us. The emotion in this instance is pure alignment (harmony) and acceptance (unconditional love) . It is what peace is are made up of. We can access this emotion on our own, through meditation, spiritual paths and faith, but when we want to feel this for our world at large, it becomes more difficult.
How can our own individual selves influence or have any impact on a world of 7 billion people? We know intellectually, and we say glibly many times, that we are all One, but I would hazard a guess that the majority of us rarely feel at oneness with the rest of the world – the good, the bad and the ugly.
Programmed so much in our separateness to feel this on a regular basis we will all have had moments of peaceful and positive solidarity with a group of people who were on the same wavelength as ourselves in a certain moment. That moment would have felt really good. It would have felt good because it would have reminded us of our innate nature. Our innate nature is one of light energy existing in a dimension of love. In this human experience we forget that. This is why we crave love personally. This is why we go in search of it outside of ourselves. This is why when we don’t access it, we can feel disconnected, depressed, and suffer from feelings of worthlessness and lack of hope.
If our attempts to get love from another, leaves us alone or heartbroken, we can cut ourselves off from it in self-defense and thereby disconnecting ourselves even more from ever experiencing it again.
The title of this article declares a bold statement that puts the concept of a ‘Healed World’ squarely on our own laps. I do believe that as humanity has slowly evolved throughout eons, we have always failed to figure out how to do this. One of the reasons I believe is certainly looking to another to be the hero. Its why we have so many super hero movies and stories. We love a hero that saves the day for the masses all yearning to be rescued and loved. We did this with our tribal leaders, our Kings and Queens and our elected governmental officials.
The times we are in however, no longer require us to search out a hero to save the day. The hero, and excuse the cliché, is deep within us. It feels annoying to hear this because that means for most of us, we ourselves, actually have to do something about it. It’s much easier to reach out to another to save and love us into worthiness, than do our own hard work.
We have always looked to our parents, friends and our romantic relationships to give us what we feel we need. A need to feel loved and lovable, worthy and valuable, seen, heard and championed. Of course, when the others out there fail to deliver for one reason or another, we then retreat back into feeling unloved, unlovable and worthless.
The feelings of being unlovable, worthless, insecure, not enough, all lead to a discord within ourselves. The discord is simply because, not only does it not feel great, but it goes against our innate nature; – light energy existing in a dimension of love. So, the discord, creates more discord, be-getting more and more disharmony and a war within ourselves. Should it be so surprising then that a hurt and insecure person would reflect that to those around them, if not lashing out at them from this place of discord.
External power is yearned for and pursued by those who have no knowledge of their own internal power and light and this is why wars are waged. This is why the vulnerable are overlooked and disharmony and suffering in this world is created. Hurt begets hurt more times than not and this is what humanity has experienced for so long.
In this time of the Feminine rising, compassion, forgiveness, wisdom, empathy, gratitude, stillness and faith are all aspects that make up unconditional Love. This what the Sacred Feminine is. Nothing more, and nothing less, and this Feminine sit inside of all of us, just as its compliment, the Masculine does.
It is almost impossible to offer these feminine aspects to another, without accessing and offering them to ourselves first. Having a heart filled with unconditional love for ourselves is how we can be of full service to this broken world.
The path to Self-Love is not easy but it is vital. It is a feminine path, for men and women alike. It requires us to go within, to cease looking outside of ourselves to fill our own wells, and access the source of love we are all made of.
The best and most potent way to start this journey is to have compassion for ourselves, our mistakes and our lacks. To sit with gratitude for all that we have that is right and feels good, and nurture ourselves with loving words and deeds. Be forgiving and gentle and once we have self-practiced this, we then are in a better position to offer this to others.
To love from within, not from without is how we become our own hero. It is how we save ourselves and create a loving life. It is also how as individuals we affect the masses, by each of us learning to love ourselves from within, thereby creating an absence of discord, and instead a presence of peace and harmony that only gifts more of itself to others. This is how we shift this crazy world, and create a healed humanity.
© Jo Jayson 2020
