I challenge any scientist, educator, business person, celebrity, politician, astrologer, physicist - anyone actually - to explain to me how life can work for life itself - for every human being and the earth - without each of us placing conditions on our expression and demands.
The ‘make 2021 your best year ever’ messages from personal development teachers have been on their way.
Just to remind you you’re struggling, not good enough and inadequate as you are.
You’re too fat.
Not famous enough.
Not rich enough.
Not influential enough.
Not living with enough passion.
Not good enough in bed, so your partner is going to leave you or become bored with you.
Not having a big enough impact or leaving a great enough legacy.
Overall, you’re an underachieving nobody who is wasting their only life.
Ironically it is the people sending these messages who have contributed immensely to the physical, psychological and energetic mess we are witnessing today.
Actually, experiencing today, would be a more accurate way of describing the individual and collective suffering our obsession with personal development has caused.
Make no mistake the personal development industry, no matter how bright and light it has appeared, has been energetically and psychologically catastrophic for life.
It played a key role in creating a default psychological settling for human beings in the high-income world that our humanity was no longer good enough.
Not ours, nor that of others.
Life became a ‘who is the smartest, cleverest and most inspiring and amazing human being ever’ contest and far too many people felt the need to enter.
Of course, to compete and win each participant has to prove they are these things. Instead of being, life became more about portrayal and self-promotion. A catastrophic energetic expression to the life we belong to.
Individuals played.
And businesses played.
Even education got in on the act while the psychology of our children fell apart.
Religious and spiritual leaders and yogis entered the contest with ferocity and intensity claiming authority for wisdom not sourced in them and betraying the essence of that wisdom by entering the competition in the first place.
What did all this mean?
The quiet, humble and gentle life our world desperately needed us to live -in its greatest hour of need - was unacceptable.
So we brought a waterfall of psychological trauma into our world by centering our expression on ourselves.
Being - the most pure and nourishing way one can live was replaced by becoming and the need to portray and promote what we are to the rest of the world.
And there aren’t many uglier expressions one can inflict on the world than boastfulness and self-promotion.
And self-promotion, with the inception of the personal brand and our growing need to be seen as amazing, made boastfulness a force to be reckoned with.
And a force it was.
A cancer that decimated the energetic health of life.
So what does life actually need from us?
Maybe it’s time we backed off the individual intensity and focused more on giving life its best year yet.
After all, it’s the high income world that’s murdering life in the first place.
So what can we do to give life the things it needs?
We can start by being comfortable with anonymity.
This means backing right off on the boastfulness and self-promotion. And doing this will lead to other benefits.
A less boastful world means the ugly forces of trolling, judgement and shaming will back off as well.
We all know any force must be met by an opposing force.
So because self-promotion is an ugly energetic contribution, something must try to repel and nullify its presence to bring peace and balance to the world.
Less boasting.
Less trolling.
Less psychological trauma.
More lightness, liberation and contentment.
Remember, if we are experiencing widespread psychological trauma – life itself cannot be at peace.
I should add, the motive here is not to deny or judge any individual. It is to save the life we belong to.
It is to ease its suffering.
The next best thing we could do for life is honour the Sabbath.
I don’t say this from a religious perspective. The commandments were not religious instruction. They were instructions on how to keep life healthy.
Our taking a day of rest is critical to the health of humanity and the earth.
And, this instruction was so important we were told to honour it and keep it sacred. Meaning, do it at all costs.
Otherwise you will drive life to an early grave.
Science shows how beneficial rest and meditation is for us as individuals -do you not find it weird how we will destroy individual and collective life until science proves the obvious and what should be considered common sense - so why would it be any different for all life.
And as best as we can, this rest should be taken by all of us on the same day.
That’s how humanity as a whole rests. And how the earth rests.
It’s why the Sabbath referred to resting on a particular day. Rather than being a ‘grab some rest when you can!’ type of instruction.
We belong to a life which needs rest as much as we do.
We’ve fried ourselves and the earth, so how do you think it feels.
Well, actually, we know how it feels.
It’s sick, depleted and on its knees,
Wondering whether or not life is worth living.
Would this impact our economy and our individual businesses?
I guess so.
But does it matter, when compared to the fragile, broken, and perhaps dying, life we belong to.
Isn’t that what unconditional love asks of us?
To put conditions on our expression and demands. So the sacred object of our love is cared for?
Understand this - life dies without our sacrifice.
And it was personal development that made us collectively want to sacrifice nothing and pursue a notion of freedom that meant one could do, be and have whatever they wanted, when they wanted.
A notion of individual freedom that was a death sentence to life.
But hey, cancer cells choose to exercise that kind of freedom in our bodies- doing what they want when they want - so why can’t we.
Problem is, it’s the same result.
We do what we want.
Life dies.
Unless, what we want is what life wants.
Or what life needs.
Remember one last thing - yelling and screaming that we should all be saving the world or making documentaries about how bad it is or doing motivational speeches and TED talks means jack shit to God.
There’s been no shortage of these contributions even as the world became sicker and more traumatised from our pursuit of impact and influence.
Do you get how agonised a life must feel to shut down?
We should be clear on another thing.
It’s not time for change.
Time for change was years ago.
The world shutting down was not life sending a message that we need to change our ways.
It was life collapsing because it couldn’t cope anymore. It was life collapsing because the time for change – at least to prevent the catastrophe it is experiencing now – had passed.
And this collapse is like a stroke, heart attack or psychotic meltdown.
Life will never be the same.
It will never be strong enough to sustain the abuse and ugliness we were throwing at it - and continue to throw at it today.
Why won’t the virus stop?
We won’t.
And we want a vaccine.
Let’s get a vaccine to manage the health of life so we can get back to abusing it.
What else does life want us to do?
And other things we could do include taking greater care of our children.
God cries tears of anguish at the psychological trauma children have experienced at the hands of society and education in the high-income world.
But again, to take greater care of our children, schools need to see them as sacred and create schools that are more sanctuary than business.
This sacrifice has always been the key to preserving the sanctity of any metaphoric temple in the world.
One cannot be temple and business.
If the collapse of our world has told us anything, it’s that.
We could also - finally - reconcile with our humanity.
It is flawed and imperfect.
That’s our blessing. Not our curse.
How fortunate we don’t need to be all those things the personal development industry said we should be.
That in wanting them we were making ourselves - and life - ill.
And one more gift we could offer life is to ease up on our judgement.
It’s our humanity we are judging.
We are all born imperfect and flawed…
And sacred.
All one does when judging others is call out another’s humanity as inadequate and unacceptable.
And the most beautiful irony - it’s the judge making our world uglier by bringing into it their judgemental expression.
The life we belong to experiences ugliness, it becomes sicker, because of the judge.
In short, life, while it still had a chance of avoiding this collapse, begged us to put conditions on our expression and demands.
It did not want to break down.
It did not want to experience the physical, psychological and energetic meltdown it has, any more than we would want to experience such an episode..
Like us, life wants to be well.
God wants to be well.
And life will never find the peace and harmony it desires without each of us putting conditions on our expression and demands.
Do you want life to have its best year yet?
Then, and I say this with the utmost respect, but as spokesperson for God and the life we have prostituted and desecrated for our own material gain, backoff.
We have begun the transition where the meek inherit the earth.
There remains only a place for those who tread gently and those who tend to life’s needs before their own.
Who says this?
Life does.
Without our conditional expression...life dies.
And its blood will be on our hands.
How beautiful the dilemma facing every human being right now.
Is it going to be me, or life?
Even though life may well be on its death bed, having been ripped through despair and sadness, then confusion and anger, it still seeks peace.
Even as its will to live with the pain and suffering we have inflicted upon it begins to dissipate.
Can we surrender the need to have our best individual year yet, and give life the best year it has experienced in a long time?
And so it is…Amen.
Tim
PS What you have read here has everything to do with the concept of 'Turning Out'. If every human being read just this part of the conditional expression philosophy, the energetic health of our world world begin to change in an instant. That's if we were prepared to change the quality of our energetic expression
To learn more about turning out and the energetic impact we have on life click here.
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I challenge any scientist, educator, business person, celebrity, politician, astrologer, physicist - anyone actually - to explain to me how life can work for life itself - for every human being and the earth - without each of us placing conditions on our expression and demands.
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