A lot of people are struggling in their lives in different ways right now, whether it is with finances or love relationships, family, work challenges or person journeys. Stress and worry have become the default state for many with things like depression and loss of faith or fading hope running rampant as news seems to come at us every minute of some cruelty or wrong in the world. Increases in anxiety, anger, unmet needs, fears and hate seem obvious and apparent if you spend any time on the web, reading media or watching news and it’s coming from all corners of the globe.
Many are feeling hopeless, like all the effort is futile and pointless and more people are grappling with thoughts or feelings of death, either literally, as in contemplating their own or those of countless victims of violence around the globe, or figuratively, as in the sense of the death of aspirations and dreams; their heart felt wishes and desires perishing under the weight of challenges and very real threats to the ongoing security of basic needs. Whether due to ongoing stress or struggles with depression, grief or loss, I hear from people (verbalized or not) a sense of dying within their being, a dwindling perception of connection with Light or Spirit, the withering of fragile inner spaces of the soul deep with our tender hearts, the fading of long and dearly help aspirations and hopes to be replaced by begrudged trudging and slogging away in the daily grind of attempting to meet basic needs of ones self and loved ones.
People are searching for some way to feel more connected, experience more peace and joy, reduce stress and anxiety, renew hope, increase energy, improve mood, enjoy life and raise their vibration. There are many, many different and various tools, methods, practices, approaches and techniques available to support that. For myself, I use a variety of them in different ways and at different times, but one over all intention is conscious awareness and choice.
We ‘die’ a thousand tiny ‘deaths’ every year…by our own choices in how we choose to receive what others say or do, choosing to take things personally or make it about us instead of being present in the moment with what is and giving others the space to have the dignity of their own process. By our unwillingness to let ourselves loose from the shackles of fear to run free in the fields of liberty, truth and authentic expression. By our choice to limit our opportunities, our possibilities, our beliefs, our freedom and our points of view. By choosing fear or anger or lack consciousness over choosing love. Our sense of connection with source, with Light begins to fade and our ‘spirit’ can start to waste away, leaving us zapped, drained, diminished and perhaps even actually feeling as if we are ‘dying’ inside a little bit. Our choices are powerful and dictate the flow, path and quality of our lives.
We rebirth ourselves through our choices to be present with, honor, allow, accept and most of all, to choose love…not just in the easy and happy times, but in those times that are hardest and most challenging, when someone in the world may be least ‘deserving’ of it, by choosing love anyways – not because others have ‘deserved’ or ‘earned’ it through their choices in actions or words or ways of being, but because WE deserve it. We deserve to have love in our hearts, in our lives and in our world. It isn’t about a reaction to someone else or some experience, it is about a state of being, an energetic frequency that resonates wholly with our truth, our core, our inherent being…the love, the light, source energy of all in existence.
What do you choose in a given moment in time, through out your daily life, in your relationships, in your work, in your view points, in your way of being with yourself, with others, with the world? Really…what do you choose?
For today, for this moment and for every moment possible moving forward, I Choose Love. To be my expression. To be my way of being. To be my reality.
I invite each and every one of you to join me in choosing for yourself and choosing for your world, for your reality.