Disease

I was listening to a sermon the other day and the pastor said something that immediately caught my attention. He said disease happens when there is dis-ease. In that moment, so much came to my mind, but the first two were depression and anxiety. Then followed Charlottesville attack, Harvey, DACA, Eagle Creek fires, and Irma. Next was Trump and lastly, our screens.

Let me explain. I work with people who are in a state of dis-ease because they are not feeling at ease with themselves due to a problem related with work, family, a relationship or life in general. Some of them are not feeling at ease with their thoughts, their emotions or with living in their own body.

A friend of mine recently pointed out that mother earth is a body herself that moves, breathes, eats, grows, lives, and dies over and over again. He said that earth is not happy with us humans for the way we are treating her. That all the natural disasters happening are her way of letting us know that we cannot continue to live the way we do because she cannot and will not sustain us.

We seem to be causing dis-ease TO earth while we are feeling dis-ease ON earth.

There is a lot happening that doesn't seem to make much sense with the planet and with how people are behaving so...what are we going to do about it?

This isn't just a few peoples problem. Whether or not we have been directly affected by any of what has been going on this year, I think it's important for all of us humans to be aware by consciously taking some sort of action to help one another and the world we live in.

Perhaps the August 21, 2017 eclipse was a good reminder for us to wake up, get out of our heads, away from our screens, take breaks from watching or listening to all the bad news, step out of our comfort zone, and look around us to SEE. To really see and feel the imbalance of the earth = global warming and the imbalance of humanity = racism, separatism.

I am of the belief that united we stand and divided we fall. I'm still trying to figure out how the man that was elected last November has been given so much power to make such big decisions that affect both earth and humanity. A man with a large ego and very little compassion. And what allowed for him to be in this position was something as simple as this green piece of paper that is made from the earth and for some reason, seems to be the only thing that matters for so many people living on it.

Do I think that money buys us freedom? Sure. To a certain extent I guess. Do I think money makes us more happy? Not really. More comfortable yes. Do I think people use money as a way to feel secure and worthy? Yes.

This post isn't about my wanting to criticize people who earn a lot of money. I believe in working hard, in having a strong work ethic, and in striving for more. Not necessarily to have more, but because I know that when we increase our net worth, we also increase our self worth. This is because when we take actions to better ourselves, we grow our self confidence and as a result, we feel better about who we are. We feel less insecure, inadequate or unworthy and more accepted by self and others.

What I don't yet understand is how we have allowed for money to skew our values so much so, that we honor the notion of doing more than just being, we complacently exist more than truly live, we buy into spending more than we need to, we focus on our fears more than on who and what we love, we are more quick to hate than we are to empathize, and we waste/destroy for the sake of our own comfort.

All the while, we wonder why it is that we live in a world full of disease (physical and mental) or feeling not at ease. I think it is difficult to feel at ease when energetically, we feel the imbalance. I know I do so I felt inclined to write about it.

Next step is to take action towards finding ways to save mother earth by learning to plant more trees, drive less, ride bike more, recycle, buy less, and give away more. I also want to do my part to help unite humanity by treating all people the way I want to be treated, with love, kindness and respect no matter the color or socioeconomic status.

This takes being mindful of my own well being by treating my Self with love and kindness and managing my anxiety and stress in healthy ways (prayer, gratitude, meditation, and yoga) so that I am putting out a more positive energy to the people I interact with. These things take effort, but not as much effort as we all put into 'doing' and 'making more money' to validate ourselves or prove to others, that we are worthy and that our life is worth living.

We all need one another. Take a mindful moment to think about what you might want to do to help mother earth and its people to breathe with more ease. Let's step out of our bubbles, get more comfortable with feeling uncomfortable, and come together to heal our disease.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling - Novelist