Be the Change You Wish to See
Joe Shirley — Tue, 02/26/2008 - 23:59
Ghandi said, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — But how are we to do that?
One part of you wants to fight against injustice. Another part prefers to lie low and stay out of the fray. Both parts frame life as a battle.
So how can you contribute peace to the world when your very soul is divided in conflict?
This is a conundrum which has defined human history, so ingrained that we fail to recognize its power over our lives. And so the harder we try, the more pain and confusion we seem to propagate. The discovery of the feeling mind resolves this paradox.
A single person's feeling mind is more powerful than all the logic and analysis on the planet.
The feeling mind absorbs conflict in childhood, taking the shape of that conflict into its own structure. In adulthood, it then magnifies and projects that conflict into its surroundings. The feeling mind uses logic for justification, but its fundamental motivation is to project a mirror of itself into the world. When this power is unconscious, it can devastate personal lives and wreak havoc opon the entire global community.
When we bring conscious awareness to the feeling mind, however, it reveals itself as an indomitable force for good. By placing attention on the actual felt experience of rage, terror, or despair, and inviting that part of us to reconnect with the wholeness it desperately wants, the feeling states transform. They remember their original states of peace, safety, and joy and in remembering, they awaken to their potential as a creative force.
In this awakening, the feeling mind naturally and spontaneously aligns itself with personal truth, integrity, and creativity. It becomes a force for good, resolving conflict instead of causing it, contributing peace in every action, every communication, every expression.
We can each one of us become this creative force, simply by awakening the feeling mind within us. Together, we can apply the natural wisdom of the feeling mind to transforming the world, bringing a new era of equality, sustainability, and harmony to the planet.
Until now, the feeling mind has remained obscure to us. Over the centuries it has been brushed aside, romanticized, or misinterpreted. Today through the introduction of a simple practice of awareness called feelingwork, the intimate structure of the feeling mind has been revealed in all its elegance.
This website is dedicated to the proliferation of the new wisdom of feelingwork in the service of personal truth and global transformation. Please enjoy the benefits in your own life, and spread the word.
