DO Something! Causes & effects...
the sweetest lil hidden bay on Kau’ai, covered in plastic trash every day, floating in from far away…
I often I feel like I should get out into the world and do something BIG! There are so many huge causes to tackle that I am often painfully impassioned about; cleaning up our oceans, fracking, human trafficking, chemtrails, gender and racial equality, the situation in Gaza/Israel, the wars and hunger and disease in Africa and all over, saving elephants and monkeys and all animals from cruelty... Oh my heart.. This list could go on and on...
I wonder can't i do MORE?! I have even agonized over this question. But now, I know what my work is. My work is the work of the heart. My work is interpersonal and emotional. My work is small and straightforward. It is the work of helping people to feel good. We feel good when we remember our wholeness and have a sense of belonging and safety. We feel good knowing that we are enough and that there is enough for everyone. Now, I am very clear that a sense of security doesn't (directly) fill an individual’s belly. I am also very clear that the problems that we have in our world all come from human beings being disconnected from earth, from each other, from spirit, from a sense of connectedness to all of life. This disconnect lends to feelings of lack and unworthiness. If there were not so much fear and other-ing, we would know that there is enough. We would be able to help each other out. We would know that we are actually helping ourselves out by doing so. We are all in this together.
It is so easy to get hopelessly overwhelmed by all that there is to do. It's so easy to become numb and distracted and do nothing. It's easy to feel bad about yourself for doing nothing. Well, this is actually doing something... This is contributing to the world's pain. Feeling bad about yourself doesn't serve you or anyone. It denies your divine inherent nature. It's really so easy to do something—one little thing. Get to know that you are worthy, that what you say and do matters. It ripples out. We all have wounds to heal and wounds we have healed. Therefore, work to do and inspiration to share are beneficial for all. I am not suggesting complacency if you are driven to go out into the big world and tackle a particular cause that is calling you. We all have our part to play. All of our parts start in the heart. Listen and heed the call!
If children were taught to hear their hearts, to feel the connection of their heartbeat to the earth, to hear and see and love the differences and the sameness in one another and humans all together then there could be peace. World peace, isn't that what we all really want? It starts with peace within, I'm sure of it.
Let's teach our children to love and respect themselves and the earth so that they can love and respect each other and all of Earth's creatures. To do this with integrity is first to love and respect all aspects of ourselves and the natural world. Then maybe it would be out of the question to poison our waters, skies, or bodies. It would be insane to process and plasticize our resources so much that we don't even know what is in the stuff we are being sold. It would be unheard of to consciously seek anything that causes suffering, even indirectly.
In every religion, there is an ideal of peace in the texts. It is not unreal to create the thing that we all want and have forever. It is real to vision and pray and join together in a myriad of ways that synthesize old and new, east and west, north and south, science and spirit. We are stronger together. We are rich with information and experience. Anything is possible when we remember that everything is everything. The earth and her waters, the skies and our bodies are all made of the same stuffs. We are in this together. Let us hold ourselves and therefore each other in the highest light and thrive!
Blessed be this practice of yoga that brings us into communities of remembrance, going where we have not gone before, led by courage and timeless wisdom! Thank you for being part of this beautiful evolution... In union all things are possible. Hear the call of your cause and go forth at all costs: trust and flow.
All Love,
lucid dawn lee isbell
