Imparting Peace
Bringing our hearts into balance with love, unrelenting
When we are born our hearts are pure. This isn’t to say that as we go through life it becomes tarnished through our experiences but it does become managed, in a sense, by our life’s difficulties. In the year 2018 people are noticing the weight of what they have been carrying around at a mental and emotional level. With the world in a place where many are embracing their individuality and healing their relationship with themselves people are becoming aware of their personal power: Physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The next step in the evolution of mass spiritual awakening is to realize that we can both embrace our individual self and oneness with all. In the physical world, unless you are a student of quantum physics, it is generally accepted that one thing cannot simultaneously be another and that because something is in one place that it cannot exist somewhere else.
Above the physical world all things are one because they move synergistically with all other things – each thing having its important piece of the whole and operates with the highest intention for both itself and the whole.
All people have an entire world of love within them. We all have an exceptional capability to heal ourselves and others although the fear of vulnerability in our modern world often creates a perceived barrier to giving and receiving love, wholly. Rightfully so. Our world over the past few hundred years has lost its focus and in our modern times it has become a place where people are defensive, fearful of being hurt and afraid to do the right thing because of the amount of pressure that comes from going against the grain. The good news here is that that is changing.
Throughout our lives we learn to believe that we hold our love back for our best interest or that we have learned to out of fear. The truth is that we don’t hold love back. Love will always find a way even when our hearts are managed by our past experiences. What we hold back is our vulnerability. The love that we hold, generate, channel and receive still finds its way to others and the world around us even in incredibly subtle ways. The path of healing, in a sense, is to understand how our painful experiences have created the network of flow management that we have within our consciousness that limits our healthy interaction with our world.
There have been many great suggestions for healing our emotional selves for the purpose of having a more joyful life such as practicing gratitude, self love, random acts of kindness and many more. All of these techniques, at an energetic level, work to un-obstruct flow from the greater universe and into our lives which in turn allow us to give more to the greater universe from a place of love, peace and joy.
A technique that I have found to be helpful for real-time learning of our inner workings that manage our emotional space is to become proficient with the concept of checking in. When you have an emotion bubble up or when you have a difficulty with another person (or yourself) or an experience and you take the time in that moment to go within and see why you are having the reaction to it that you are and then you can understand how you promote, defend and restrict vulnerability. The next step to this is to find compassion for yourself and all others involved in this situation. A word of caution here is that when we work to understand someone else’s programming we can sometimes project on to that person, mistaking or judging their way of being or their process – which is not helpful. The problem with that (other than being an asshole) is that you will base your healing on something other than yourself which will not necessarily be based on truth. Truth is the only building blocks for a solid, strong and empowered foundation. You do not have to understand why someone is the way they are but if you remember that people who pass on pain are in pain then you can access your compassion for them regardless of whether or not you know the underlying reasons. Acceptance of what has been and what is are a huge part of healing anything.
To impart peace to the world we don’t have to be perfect or healed or solid. We only have to be working on it. With the technique that I wrote above you can base your actions and responses on a firm and solid understanding of yourself while standing in a space of empowered compassion for others. We all learn from our experiences, our responses manage our emotional space, we learn to fear vulnerability from difficult or painful experiences and we can undo these things over time. We learn the pot is hot and not to touch it at a young age, as we age we learn to respect the heat and harness an ability to create nourishment for ourselves and others.
Love is the fabric of the universe and one of the best quotes that I have ever heard to describe it is from the 2016 movie Collateral Beauty where the character Aimee, as the personification of love, says “I am the only why”.
- Matthew Stapley
Above the physical world all things are one because they move synergistically with all other things – each thing having its important piece of the whole and operates with the highest intention for both itself and the whole.
All people have an entire world of love within them. We all have an exceptional capability to heal ourselves and others although the fear of vulnerability in our modern world often creates a perceived barrier to giving and receiving love, wholly. Rightfully so. Our world over the past few hundred years has lost its focus and in our modern times it has become a place where people are defensive, fearful of being hurt and afraid to do the right thing because of the amount of pressure that comes from going against the grain. The good news here is that that is changing.
Throughout our lives we learn to believe that we hold our love back for our best interest or that we have learned to out of fear. The truth is that we don’t hold love back. Love will always find a way even when our hearts are managed by our past experiences. What we hold back is our vulnerability. The love that we hold, generate, channel and receive still finds its way to others and the world around us even in incredibly subtle ways. The path of healing, in a sense, is to understand how our painful experiences have created the network of flow management that we have within our consciousness that limits our healthy interaction with our world.
There have been many great suggestions for healing our emotional selves for the purpose of having a more joyful life such as practicing gratitude, self love, random acts of kindness and many more. All of these techniques, at an energetic level, work to un-obstruct flow from the greater universe and into our lives which in turn allow us to give more to the greater universe from a place of love, peace and joy.
A technique that I have found to be helpful for real-time learning of our inner workings that manage our emotional space is to become proficient with the concept of checking in. When you have an emotion bubble up or when you have a difficulty with another person (or yourself) or an experience and you take the time in that moment to go within and see why you are having the reaction to it that you are and then you can understand how you promote, defend and restrict vulnerability. The next step to this is to find compassion for yourself and all others involved in this situation. A word of caution here is that when we work to understand someone else’s programming we can sometimes project on to that person, mistaking or judging their way of being or their process – which is not helpful. The problem with that (other than being an asshole) is that you will base your healing on something other than yourself which will not necessarily be based on truth. Truth is the only building blocks for a solid, strong and empowered foundation. You do not have to understand why someone is the way they are but if you remember that people who pass on pain are in pain then you can access your compassion for them regardless of whether or not you know the underlying reasons. Acceptance of what has been and what is are a huge part of healing anything.
To impart peace to the world we don’t have to be perfect or healed or solid. We only have to be working on it. With the technique that I wrote above you can base your actions and responses on a firm and solid understanding of yourself while standing in a space of empowered compassion for others. We all learn from our experiences, our responses manage our emotional space, we learn to fear vulnerability from difficult or painful experiences and we can undo these things over time. We learn the pot is hot and not to touch it at a young age, as we age we learn to respect the heat and harness an ability to create nourishment for ourselves and others.
Love is the fabric of the universe and one of the best quotes that I have ever heard to describe it is from the 2016 movie Collateral Beauty where the character Aimee, as the personification of love, says “I am the only why”.
- Matthew Stapley