With all the apparent craziness going on the world, what can we do about it?   In our search for stress relief, many still choose the old, tired, unproductive ways of reacting to the world.  Maybe the easiest road, because we likely know it already, is to react with some combination of avoidance, powerlessness, isolation or fear.  There is a more productive way that can also be easy and results in a better you and a better world.

When we focus our attention and energy on what we want to “remove”, we create fear and anxiety in ourselves. Many have been conditioned to believe that we must fight violence with violence.  As Gandhi said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”  Collectively, we are still in the process of integrating this knowledge.

We have all been conditioned to live and think in the ways that we do.  Our financial/corporate institutions, governments, religions and mass media---along with family, friends and co-workers---have repeated certain behaviors with us over the years.  The quality of our lives depends largely on how we have responded to their propaganda.  So many have reacted with fear, anger, isolation, anxiety…

There are some who would suggest that it is time for us to rise up in collective anger and righteous indignation over the events of the Gulf of Mexico oil “spill” or the disclosures of the WikiLeaks documents. The media repeatedly has been telling us that there is “nothing new” in the WikiLeaks disclosures, that it is just “business as usual”.

Our mass media, largely controlled by our financial institutions/corporations-—-as is our government---is telling a lie here.  And in doing so with frequency and repetition is attempting to condition us with false propaganda.  Since when is it “nothing new” that a country we fund with billions of dollars is funding and supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan?  Since when is it no big deal that our armed forces kill hundreds of innocent civilians so frequently?  Are we so collectively dumbed down that these things should make no difference to us.

Yet if we respond with fear, anger, anxiety or denial, we sap our own strength.  What we are being called to do is respond with loving compassion to all that is occurring in our world.  This means also not focusing on what we want to get rid of, but what we intend to create.

Key to this is to trust ourselves enough to be willing to be honest about what is happening in our lives and to have the courage to respond with love.  Sending loving compassion to the oil leakers, to the Taliban, to the WikiLeakers, and to all people---especially those experiencing pain or suffering---is what I believe we are all being called to do.

The agenda of the corrupt forces of the world is to promulgate fear.  That is how they have stayed in control.  These forces are very content having you focus on what you do not want because they know you are weakened by such focus.

We have been conditioned in this life to think and act as we do.  What we are collectively challenged to do now is to realize that we have the power to condition ourselves.

A synthesis of what is above:

With trust and courage, let’s be real about what is in front of us.

Let’s focus on what we intend to create.

Let’s create a world of loving compassion.

Let’s make all this important.

This is the gift of allowing Heart Propaganda to speak its voice.  Consider clicking on your pause button now to contemplate this.  Listening to our own Heart Propaganda may  just be the most effective form of stress relief available to us.