We clucked about it for awhile, with our feathers all ruffled, and then I said..."So what's the answer?" Not only did I want to know how we could possibly be of any use as energy workers, but my real question was, "How can we keep up our morale? How can we continue to be effective, and not emotionally overwhelmed by what's going on in the world." ("Witnessing our extinction," is I think, how I put it), because I for one get depressed when I see things going as they are. It isn't just knowing about the Food situation, the water situation, global warming, radioactive contamination, etc., but it's knowing about all those things at the same time, and knowing that we continue to add to them, and...Well anyway, it's overwhelming.
We didn't come up with any answers to keep up our morale at that time, but today I ran into this blog post I wrote 18 months ago. And all I can think is, I need to get back to that state of optimism. That is definitely perceiving the world through heart space. Within those words, I found the answer I was seeking. How is it possible to forget such lessons?
So I'm sharing it again in this post. Mostly as a reminder to myself. I've revised it slightly here and there, because the scenery has changed in 18 months and so have I.
The Story is the Game
I've been a story teller all my life. Isn't that what we do--Tell ourselves stories?
Us BE-ings of consciousness wrapped in our individual personalities, and our individual costumes create stories which we tell to ourselves and to each other.
And the story is all about the interaction of consciousness. At least that's how it is in my perception. And for me, no matter what is happening in that story--whether it's really good times, or really bad times, I just remind myself that it's a story I'm telling myself, and that I get to control the outcome.
It's a wondrous gift to KNOW that you can change your story. And this is what I've noticed.
When I begin to get out of reaction mode, or survival mode or feeling-sorry-for-myself mode and begin to PAY ATTENTION to the story as someone who is writing it, that's when it begins to change. That's when I start to have fun. I just play with it, and keep reminding myself to play with it, because it does take practice.
It isn't really a matter of day dreaming or visualizing how I will experience the world…I would say it's more like an interface.
For instance, if I am going about my day and a conflict arises or a challenge, or something unexpected, I can choose to look at it as an unexpected development in the story. What will happen next? How can I write this to my greatest advantage? How can I play this so I get the most out of it? What do I see? And what am I learning? It isn't always easy. It's a challenge to stay out of reaction mode. It's a challenge to stay in character as the writer of my story.
Until I have practiced it enough to lay down those neural pathways. Which is equivalent to getting the software upgrade on our human 3-D technology which is the brain.
The easiest way to work it, is to stay in character. In other words to be true to my nature. Where ever I happen to be in my development as an aspect of the Divine. As an aspect of Consciousness, I play it as it comes. I have often heard the phrase, "You can't get it wrong" and I am understanding that on a deeper level than I ever have before.
I am a hologram of the Self. Self exists on all dimensions. On all frequencies. Everything I see, touch, hear, smell, taste and experience are 3 dimensional aspects of the Self. The words I speak, the songs I sing, the work I do, are all 3 dimensional expressions of the Self.
Looked at under this Light, this BEing that I am is not separate from anything. This character of Rita is part of the fabric of the Story of the Self, which plays out in the 3rd dimension. How great is that? I ask you--Is that fun or what?
So on the subject of climate change, I'm going to weigh in on this based on my perspective that we can write our own story. I'm going to be talking about the experience seen through my eyes, because I can only speak about the story I'm telling. And there are stories within stories here. ;)
At this time I am experiencing a story line where climate change is in effect for our world. How will this story go? Well...I believe that miracles are possible. I believe that in spite of what I've been hearing (since the 1970s) about it already being too late to stop drastic climate change, that we may still experience something remarkable. Something miraculous, which we may have been unable to imagine as individuals, but that as a collective aspect of Self, we are capable of creating as our reality in our 3rd dimensional story.
But I also honor the story being told about how serious this situation is. How devastating it is at times for people and nations around the world, and here in our own country. No doubt about it - seen from that perspective, it's a very scary story.
I honor that story because, it serves the purpose of allowing us to find a way to come back into alignment with gratitude and reverence for our planet and each other. And to begin telling a story where the beings of this planet exchange one outcome for a different experience.
I'm seeing that this story has input from many sources. It is a collective story. The actions, interactions and reactions create the flow of the story. But what we learn from the action of the story, allows us to participate in changing the story. Consciousness becomes the hero of this Saga. We are the dreamers and weavers of happy endings or of devastation. And we do it with our perception.
My story teller character, is one that remains hopeful that the sleeping beauty will waken in time, not to be saved like a helpless victim, but to actively participate in restoring balance to the planet which we all cherish in our deepest cellular memory.
So is my story a paradox? I don't know. Whether you look at it as a story or a game or something deadly serious set in immovable stone, that is up to you. I see it as game AND a story. I see myself as an aspect of Self, and I see my environment (this game board, or playing field) and all the players also as aspects of Self. The story is the game, the game is the story and what matters is how I play it/write it. To have fun and to learn love--These are the most important things. In doing so, I find my way home.
Oh and one more thing I tell myself...Don't be so serious. 8*D