can see a point of view so different, so out of the mainstream, that everyone agrees and identifies with it but cannot accept any such ideas as their everyday lives.
It is my thought that since everyone is always complaining about how limited their time is, to set aside an afternoon to watch someone rant about their thoughts and beliefs then there must be a connection. We devote the two things we value the most in life, our worth(money) and our time to see a man that would give us nothing but his views and opinions. This to me sounds like hundreds of thousands of people identify with the message, so why isn't the world changing faster than the opinions of a crooked politician?
The inability to take action outside of the arena that we travel to and identify with our feelings, speaks loudly to how we feel on the inside. It shows how dependent we are on our feelings in the way that we identify with (so we know they are there) and accept the message, but continue to live the same ways hiding from ourselves by pacifying our brain with a consumerist lifestyle.
We devote all out time in life trying to get our needs validated, so hiding in the confusion of our reactions is the part of us that takes action. To put this is plain terms, we hide behind our feelings instead of realizing that we are our feelings and we are in control of them. Our inability to recognize the way we feel about ourselves is ultimately our problem!
With all that said, it is not about what we are doing to the earth, but what we are not doing inside our minds that cause our present global destruction. We are living the same destructive life on the outside as the inside.
This is not about the planet, it is about fixing ourselves to continue to live a sustainable life.
This article is not about fixing our planet and I am not recommending we stay the same. Neither of these scenarios will help us understand where the problem is. This article is about thinking more productively and with less reaction of our emotions. Thinking in a different way that will equalize the energy we exert in our lives. We separate what we do in life and the earth from how we feel and that is what is causing destruction. This has everything to do with all life, we cannot change anything without changing the cause. As George Carlin once said "One thing leads to another!" Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict."
Like many of the things I write about, this article is about taking responsibility for your own actions. Possibly, we could start looking inside ourselves for our life's answers with the intention of making our world a better place to live inside ourselves. When we find where repressed feelings and thoughts are holding parts of ourselves back we can identify with these feelings, then they cannot control us. If we are not controlled by emotions, we can see a clear picture in our heads and then direct our energy towards becoming equal. Only when we see a clear, equal point of view picture, one that is not tainted by fears, can we live a life of equality. Instead of acting as a vacuum that sucks everything in its path to satisfy our minds dependence of not feeling fear, we could begin to live like most creatures on earth that give as much as they receive.
Start with the people that refuse to believe there is a problem in the first place.
Some people are so resistant to change they refuse to accept there could be anything wrong at all. They devote their whole life's energy to disprove what they already feel inside and can't accept the consequence of finding themselves to be the problem. I find this funny because everyone that I have personally ever known, acknowledges that we are living a wasteful, consumerist life. That, to me, is saying, "I recognize that we are messing up but it is not having an effect." A cause, but no effect! Sorry, life does not work that way!
How can one person believe that we are not living right and that our lifestyle is damaging to the earth, but there is no effect to what we are doing. The simple fact that a person believes we are not living right is accepting there is a problem without stating it. A person must believe that how we live has a negative effect on the world simply because the belief of not living right cannot be without a consequence. You see, this is like saying that we could all live better and conserve a little more but there is no reason for that belief. You cannot have a belief that leads to a certain outcome without the outcome.
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