“If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.” -Paul Gascoigne
I woke up this Monday morning determined to get my life back on track after a weekend of Netflix and cookie eating. I kept justifying it as, “It’s okay, I’m resting.” But I see now that what I was doing was absorbing all the negative energy from Facebook, news posts and people around me who were telling me all about what was going on here in my state of Utah. I know better than this but still got sucked in. It was reported that over 1,000 people gathered in Salt Lake City to protest the stay-at-home orders. Help me to understand here.
There is a deadly virus going around at the moment, yet these folks chose to gather in a large group, many without masks, and fight against something that has helped to lower the numbers of this virus. It’s as if the collective all got cranky at once and rose up. It was really very fascinating to see. Do we think that this rally did anything to further the cause? I’m just not sure. What I think is that in two weeks we will see a rising of the numbers of virus cases in our state. This should be interesting.
I get that people have a right to their opinions. I get that we have a Bill of Rights, Freedom of Speech, etc. but what I don’t get is that the careless actions of a few hundred people could have devastating effects on the healthcare workers. They are already overworked. Why would folks want to put them even more in danger and potentially keep the stay-at-home order in place longer? I’m not saying anyone is wrong, I’m just on a deep dive to understand both sides of the equation here. I’m also trying to understand where and when the level of hate in my state went up so much? It’s like the dark is winning and that’s not okay.
It’s dismaying to me to see people who I thought were of high vibe and are healers, putting up posts on their FB pages spewing anti-everything. Do you remember the Mother Teresa quote “I won’t go to an anti-war rally, but I will go to a pro-peace rally?” Energy is everything. That which we give energy to (either good or bad) will grow. Energy doesn’t differentiate. If you continually post anti-president pictures, for example, do you really think that is doing anything other than giving him more energy? It also takes away from the time that you could be staying in your lane and working on yourself.
Someone asked me the other day for suggestions on how to handle these current times. I simply said for them to stay in their lane first. Work on yourself. Where are you needing to deep dive and really examine why you are triggered by certain things? If you are triggered by certain things than you are needing some healing in that area. If you have such deep anger/hatred around a certain topic or person, then go out and do something to better the world. Feed a homeless person instead of putting up an anti- FB post. See where I’m going with this? Instead of spewing more hate into the world, start putting out more love and gratitude.
I don’t know what will become of all of this, but I do know that I am more motivated than ever to wake up each day and see what I can do to make a difference in this world. Even if I only help one person my whole life, that may be more than the guy who is spending a lot of time hating. I wish that every person could read this, and it could trigger something in them to maybe take a step back and see what they are doing? That five minutes you spent posting and then the hour you spend looking at whether people are commenting, what can you do with that precious time instead?
Until My Next Adventure,
Trish Walker
Check out my “Act As If” program at my website www.trishwalker.us. Set yourself up for success on the other end of world events. Who do you want to be when we step into our new normal?
