UPS AND DOWNS

I know. I know. This journey is tiring. Sometimes we get discouraged. We think we are getting it together then, someone close to us hurts our feelings, and we have a tantrum. Or we are the person hurting someone's feelings, because we are impatient or careless. Sometimes we find ourselves irritated and depressed for no discernible reason. It seems like we have a myriad ways of defeating ourselves. We have grown enough now, that we can experience times when we feel really together. We get a glimpse, of what it would be like, to always be peaceful; to always be happy. This makes the backward sliding times more distressful, as we know it is unnecessary.

But, perhaps, it is necessary. Our egos don't want to give up control. Our growth scares everything our egos stand for: competitiveness; higher and lower; dominance; separation; division; fears and judgements of every kind; etc. These traits are deeply imbedded in the best of us. Our egos take us on a carnival ride of craziness attempting to stay in control.
 
The good news, our egos are losing out. They can't stand up to the love that we are opening ourselves to. It is painful, but it only seems like we are going backward. We can't go backward. We made an intent to go grow. We can only go forward. Everything is learning. All experience will lead to more growth.

When we are having a downer, it is time to review the basics. We are the creators. What are we focusing on? What are our thoughts? Are we wallowing in a sea of crap? We only explore these dark places because we have accepted the invitation of our ego. Every time we do it, we learn not to do it. There will be a last time.

The global ego, the world that is passing, is inundating us with negativity, as it fades away. As our individual egos, it doesn't want to give up without a fight. The global ego uses the media in hope of perpetuating the craziness. If we are not careful, the vibrations emanating from the mainstream media wears us down.

As I said; back to the basics. We increase what we focus on. Let us not pay attention to the negativity coming from the media. We are well practiced, by now, in catching ourselves having negative thoughts. They can be subtle and we can be well engrossed in a thought process before we realize the negativity. Let us renew our efforts to think positively, or better yet, have the peace of no thought.

Peace is basic to all we want; love, happiness, joy, intimacy, oneness, etc. Peace originates with us. We can't fight for peace. We can't confront for peace. We can't argue for peace. We can't do anything for peace. We can be peaceful. When our being is peaceful, our doing will promote peace.

We will bring peace to the world by learning to be peaceful. We all have that peaceful place inside us. We will learn to extend it to the world. Let's do it now. Let's sink into that peaceful place inside and bless the world.

Most of all, let us reassure ourselves that we cannot lose. We have succeeded. Love has eclipsed the dark. Be confident that it will soon be clear. Peace is descending on the Earth. Let us hold our light high, so all can see.

TGIF

Love and Peace,  Gregg