Despite the fact that it was at least nine degrees below zero last night, it is a gorgeous day. It is wonderfully Sunny and relatively calm. It is 4.6 degrees F now. It was a couple degrees below, when I went out to do the chores, I let the chickens out despite the chill. They love the Sun. They are intimidated by unpacked snow [they don't like it on their shanks] but they don't seem to mind the cold.
Often, I have no idea what I am going to write about as I sit down here. Today I have several ideas to choose from. I believe we are on the cusp of great changes. This promise has been held out to us for a long time and I don't like to be one who dangles it in front of folks. We get discouraged and we need uplifting at times, but promises quit being uplifting when they continue to be the carrot in front of the nose. Yet, I do think things are going to break in our favor very soon. The support for divisiveness, conflict and war is greatly attenuating. Peoples of the world want peace, in their hearts, and they are pulling their support from the war mongers. Watch for it, you will see it.
The banking system has always contained many individuals who are professional bankers. They just love banking. It is their passion. Many small towns and communities have been blessed by having these people run their banks. They are part of the community and they perform an essential service. However, they have become more and more rare, as the psychopathy side of the huge banks, took over, and began swallowing up their smaller cohorts. But just as any institutions, family or tribe you have those who are attracted to the light as well as the dark. Those professional bankers who saw themselves, as providing a service, did not all disappear. No matter how dark a profession or institution can be, there are always more folks who have allegiance to the light or at least ambivalent. The Psychopaths have been dominating the banking industry for a long, long time. However, there has always been a core of professionals who did not go along with the leadership. It is soon to be clear that the existing system is bankrupt and not sustainable. There are folks ready and waiting to revive the system according to loving principles.
I want to address another aspect of our egos, that causes much discomfort. ANGER. Most of our enlightened brethren have taught, that there is no justification for anger. The Course in Miracles points this out several times. They are not saying we don't have reasons for getting angry; sure we have reasons, but is that justifications? Believing it is justified keeps us stuck in place. We can't give up something we think we are justified in doing. I struggle with this myself. As I say, I teach what I am trying to learn.
I have come along, far enough, to see the truth of this concept. After, I react, I see that it was inappropriate and know that the anger did not protect me or defend me from anything. Anger causes great pain and is a barrier to having and maintaining close relationships.
This aspect, of the egos repertoire of responses, is especially hard to get over because our culture supports it and encourages it. We grow up believing we have a right to 'righteous anger'. Our controllers could never have maintained their divisiveness without encouraging anger. War would be impossible. Punishment, as we know it, would be unthinkable.
There is having anger and getting angry. There are folks who are angry and can't admit it. They see anger as inappropriate, or more probably dangerous, and cannot allow themselves to feel it. They are often shut down and depressed. They need help in feeling their anger so they can get passed it, whether it be forgiveness or just realizing it is not as scary as they thought.
Most of us are some combination. We may carry some anger from unresolved issues, but mostly we get angry. We get angry because our feelings are hurt. What does it mean to have our feelings hurt? It means a trigger point has caused us to be confronted with feelings of being unloved or unlovable. That precise point could be a learning experience. We could identify how we feel and how it originated, experience the original pain and forgive the original perpetrator. Huh! That never happens. Instead we lash out at the person, who in present time, is associated with those hurt feelings. They may have had no intention of hurting our feelings; but at the moment that is all we can see.
Again awareness, awareness, awareness is the solution. We need to get to know our feelings. For some, hurt feelings is just a figure of speech; for others [me] they are an actual pain in the heart area. Those of us who have a problem with reacting, leap out of the pain directly to attack. It can happen so quickly the pain isn't acknowledged.
We can learn an alternative to attack. With increased awareness we can say, our feelings are hurt. Not, "you hurt my feelings"; that is just a more subtle method of attack. If we really own our feelings we may walk away without saying anything, but in a close relationship, the individual who was part of the drama should know it happened. No one really hurts our feelings. Our feelings get hurt because, a situation occurs, where a trigger point is hit and we are flooded with a pain that has ancient origins.
Each time this happens, and we are truly aware, the intensity of the pain decreases. We begin to realize the basis of the pain is not real. Knowing we are lovable without reservation cures us. Once we know, we are loved, with absoluteness we will never be angry again.
It may have not occurred to some people that anger is not a necessary or natural part of our being. Like all ego tricks, it masquerades as something protective. Anything, that has to be done to be protective, can be accomplished better without anger. As we rise up and appreciate our oneness what do we need to protect ourselves from? Not each other.
The experience of anger, individually and collectively, will soon be only a memory as we learn to appreciate what loving beings we are. Love is the only answer and there is a tsunami of love engulfing us.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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