Mood Maintenance
How to stay positive in times like ours
It’s the elephant in the room, isn’t it? The news these days can be downright frightening to anyone who pays attention. I pay a little too much. I’m worried about the future of democracy, I’m worried about the future of my species, and I’m worried about the future of my planet.
But what I’m not worried about is the future of Consciousness.
This is a bit of a deep dive, so buckle in. Maybe meditate first. It came to me as I was mediating. I was thinking about how we humans are constantly expanding. We are increasing in numbers, we are expanding into all areas of our planet, we are expanding in our knowledge and technology. Everything about us is always growing.
And so it is in all of nature. Every part of nature is in a continuous quest for expansion, isn’t it? I look at my flower garden around the waterfall and how lush the plants have become over three seasons and I see nature’s relentless expansion. You leave a house untended for a few decades and nature will reclaim it.
Consciousness itself is in a continuous state of expansion. It grows with every experience each of us has, experiencing it all through us.
So expansion is our nature.
My working hypothesis
I try to learn continually and I feel I expand my understanding with every meditation session. But I don’t have answers, only notions and ideas.
I think this is a cycle. I think humanity or its equivalent has evolved again and again, each time perhaps coming a little bit closer to finding balance before wiping itself out, or nearly wiping itself out. The population is decimated, at least, and then expansion re-starts and we do it all again.
Maybe that’s why the earth has cyclical ice-ages. Ice ages bring expansion to a halt. They put life into stasis, even wipe out the excess. And then it warms, and thaws, and life’s survivors start anew.
Humans survived the last ice age. I believe we’ll survive whatever comes next.
Seeking balance
The balance we seek and that seems so elusive, is the balance of reciprocation. We must give as much to our organism (our planet and her atmosphere) as we take from her. We can’t use more water than she can regenerate. We can’t eat more food than she can naturally produce. And we can’t pollute the air, land, and water with more toxins than she can naturally process, purify, and repurpose.
One of the ways I keep a positive attitude is by doing all I can to live in balance, and by sharing all the ways I know to do that. But I also have to let go of trying to control anyone else’s behavior, or my own peace of mind would be non-existent.
It is unsustainable to tilt at windmills for one’s entire life, and no good comes of it anyway. But I can be responsible for my behavior, and talk openly about it, to give others access to the ideas I espouse.
And that’s really the key. It’s shifting from fighting against something to advocating for something. And that’s how you go from working against the force of attraction, to working with the force of attraction.
What you advocate for, you create more of.
What you fight against, you also create more of.
That’s LOA 101.
One way I deal, is to visualize the future as I think it will someday be, where we’ve solved our major problems with perpetual clean energy, and massively changed food and healthcare systems. A utopia of peaceful, thriving, healthy, educated, enlightened, happy humans.
But in the meantime…
I don’t know how long it’s going to take to get there. I don’t know if we’ll wipe ourselves out or almost out a few more times along the way. I think we have already done so a few times along a way.
Consciousness is eternal and so are we as its avatars. That’s key to remember. This doesn’t end. But change is inevitable. Life is change.
I believe we will get there and when we do we’ll discover a whole new bunch of “problems” to solve because if we didn’t, we’d be finished, and there’s no such thing as finished.
And so in the meantime, my task is to find as much good and do as much good as I can right here and now.
How-to
Yesterday I took the afternoon off and spent it watching the wildlife in my back yard. There were four robins, two adults and two juveniles, this year’s fledglings. The mother bird landed beside one of the babies, who was as large as she was, and poked some food into his mouth.
I thought of my firstborn and thirdborn daughters. They each have a son graduating high school in 19 days. It’s hard when they grow up.
I watched a rascal chipmunk who has already nibbled all the lettuce in my garden. He has burrows under the garden, so I can’t do much about him. I had put in a few lettuce plants, and then filled out the row with packets of seeds: mixed greens, kale, arugula, spinach. I bet he’s going feast on those! He raced across the lawn with his tail straight up, as if he were an RC car and the tail, his antenna.
A flicker came. He’s a large woodpecker with incredible markings. He hopped around a little and left again. A baby bunny nibbled clover in the lower corner near the woods. A house wren came by, crawled underneath the ramp near the back door, emerged with a mouth stuffed full of moss, and flew away again.
I could hear robins singing like crazy in the surrounding trees, but only the family of four picked bugs and wild strawberries in the lawn. Anytime another robin came near, the papa robin chased them off. He didn’t care at all about the flicker. And I noticed he, papa robin, always kept himself in between me, at my little umbrella-table, and his offspring.
The air was sweet with berry blossoms. Their scent is not as overpowering as the honeysuckle, which just finished its spring bloom, and not as sweet as the apple blossoms, which finished before them. The berry briars are laden with blossoms this year, which should mean lots of berries Their fragrance is subtle, seductive, like a come-and-get-me perfume. That’s what it is, actually, to the bees.
My pond is surrounded by purple irises, and there’s a lot of activity. We have a new regular visitor, a green heron. I’ve only seen it alone, but I have no doubt there’s a mate somewhere. The great blue herons come too, always have, but only one at a time. I only know there are two because one is so much larger than the other. So maybe there are two squatty green herons visiting one at a time, and I’ve not yet learned to tell them apart.
All is well right here, right now
That’s the mantra. All is well right here, right now. There are birds and flowers and sunshine. There’s fresh air to breathe. The fridge is overflowing with delicious, healthy foods that still look like they did when they grew. I don’t need an ingredient label to tell me what I’m eating. I can tell by looking at it. We have enough to pay our bills. We’re healthy and deeply in love. Life is good.
We cannot control the cycle of humanity. We can only control our own behavior. We make our choices with the best information available, and hope they are good ones.
Worrying about the future won’t change it. Screaming about it will bring it about faster.
Imagining an eventual utopia serves important purposes; it lends energy to that outcome, helping it to manifest, and it gives us pleasure in the moment.
It is far better for us than imagining a dystopian future of horrors and woes, lending energy to its manifestation and feeling terrible in the moment.
Those are, after all, our only two options.
A. Think positively and be hopeful while doing all I can to create the reality I want
or
B. Think negatively and be hopeless while doing all I can to create the reality I don’t want.
When you simplify it like that, the choice is obvious.
So to Maintain the positive Mood…
Pay more attention to what’s right than what's wrong
Bask in everything good
Repeat the mantra, “Right here, right now, all is well” to get back on track
Spend time just being
Meditate
Imagine the future you want and do so in great detail
Do everything you can to live that way now
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