What's That Got To Do With Us?

A second grader is murdered apparently by an eleventh grader in school. There's a scuffle in the airport between an obviously senior corporate professional and airline staff that had them rolling on the ground like children in the playground fighting it out. Of course, anger being vent out in the office conference rooms or on the road is not an uncommon occurrence too. Outside my kids school, I once had to separate a gentleman brandishing a cricket bat at a driver who had come to drop his employer's kids to school. 

I am not even looking at who is right and who is wrong because there's never anyone wrong from the point that they are standing in. I am looking for a pattern here, a pattern of something completely missing. What is missing are values - love, gratitude, reverence, integrity and personal mastery. If a human being is filled with love, gratitude and reverence for all of life; he wouldn't buy a knife to slit another human's throat. Neither would such humans run amuck in offices and roads trying to express themselves through anger tantrums. 

For a moment, lets step back and look at some research findings. Based on Dr Hawkins hard research of 29 years (as quoted in Dr Wayne Dyer's book The Power of Intention):
1. One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of optimism and a willingness to be non-judgemental of others will counter-balance the negativity of 90,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.
2. One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counter-balance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.

What this implies is that if there's murder happening at schools, anger management issues at work and no love on the roads for our neighbours sharing the road of life with us; you and I are responsible for not choosing to be optimistic, non-judgemental, love and reverence because if we were being that, we would have had the power to counter-balance the negativity of individuals in our society. What would support us as a species to learn, grow and evolve; to transform what it means to be a human being is to stop being righteous by inundating social media with what we think is happening in the world; which essentially is being judgemental and making the situation even more negative. What would turn the tide and create positivity is to look in the mirror and take responsibility for what is happening in the world out there because what is happening out there is only a reflection of who each one of us is; consciously and with full awareness take on being love, gratitude, reverence, integrity and personal mastery; have each word and each action be sourced from there.

This requires a massive shift in human consciousness because we are the children of the cave man who ran in fear on hearing a lion roar; not of that cave man who danced in joyous expression and ended up in the lion's stomach. Our brains are wired to be fearful of all that could go wrong and if we need to stop all the negativity in the world; we need to take on re-wiring our brain which requires conscious and deliberate training covering all the four bodies of our Being - physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual.

Coming back to responsibility, the maximum responsibility of how the world is lies on the shoulders of those who are at the helm of their organizations because your influence is the highest. All your people consciously, unconsciously mirror you - both at work and at home. It is not enough to build a profitable business; what is critical is to build a SUSTAINABLE profitable business which is a mini-world of love, compassion, joy, reverence and a deep sense of purpose. Build organizations like that, the world automatically transforms because organizations are building blocks of the society.

Are you ready to create such a Brave New World by being on your Hero's Journey? 

Love,
Jyoti.