My friend and incredible transformational life and leadership coach Christine Hassler has a term for what many of us are currently feeling as we are in the midst of processing the election results of last evening. It's called an ‘Expectation Hangover.’ It occurs when we hang our internal sense of peace and well being on external circumstances that do not go our way. As they say, EXPECTATIONS are nothing more than premeditated resentment. It is when we allow the swaying seas of emotion and circumstance be the guideposts for our happiness. When the fact of the matter is that TRUE serenity exists when we are able to calm our own inner storms when being surrounded by trials and tribulations beyond our control. If you are being completely honest with yourself, have you done the self work to be able to maintain that sense of tranquility while in the eye of the storm?!? I know at times I still have a LONG way to go to master this crucial aspect of navigating a successful demeanor during times of complete discord within my life and the lives of those I treasure. Yet perhaps NOW is the time for us all to start this daily practice as we process the events of the last two days. What do you think?!?
One thing this election has shown us is that we are truly a nation divided. We are angry, frustrated, disillusioned, and seek great change. And BELIEVE it or not, that is progressive and elated news. Why, you ask?! Because throughout history, the greatest mechanisms of massive change and growth has occurred during the most desperate times of our world and this nation in particular. Desperation leads to INSPIRATION and to be INSPIRED is to be IN-SPIRIT. And THAT is exactly where we all would benefit in being at this current moment in time. As much as we may feel division amongst one another, the TRUTH is that we need BRINGERS of the LIGHT and Love Warriors now more than ever. We must awake from our slumber and get more involved in protecting our civil rights, eradicating any and all sense of disenfranchisement, and protecting what is left of the health of planet Earth. We have a responsibility to build a NEW EARTH. In fact, I absolutely believe that that is what all of our Hero's/Heroine's Journey happens to be at this crucial moment in time.
Each and every one of us was given a gift so powerful that most of us are either afraid to wield it, or refuse to see it as we are afraid of the responsibility that it holds. But we can wait NO LONGER. We are the HEROES that we have been seeking. Instead of looking to our elected officials for direction and intestinal fortitude, it would serve us to understand and realize that WE hold the power toward the true CHANGE that we all seek.
And that CHANGE starts with the eradication of any and all sense of separation. WE ARE ALL ONE!!! Let me please repeat that. WE ARE ALL ONE!! Black , white, latino, asian. Gay, straight, transgender, lesbian, and bi-sexual. IT DOES NOT MATTER! Separation is an ILLUSION. It was created so that we could experience anything in our heart's desire. We created this world of duality and preferences that are never-ending in nature. Please let us Re-member this truth and not get lost in the illusion that our differences are the cause of our divisiveness. That sort of thinking upends the very gifts that our differences were meant to bring. We are a woven tapestry of different colors, beliefs, ideas, emotions, looks, that are meant to galvanize us and our passions. Not create hate and FEAR!!
So I plead everyone reading this to look DEEP within themselves and the current state of their own lives. And ask yourself some tough questions. How do you feel most of the time?
Are you living your purpose? Do you feel fulfilled? Or are you simply ‘going through the motions’ of life, waiting for a person or experience to come that will somehow magically shift your perspective and reality back toward the dreams you left on your heart's shelf years ago?
I do not want to be the Grinch, but that person or experience is NOT coming by itself. All of life is a co-creation. And there are way too many of us sitting on the bench waiting for a knock on the door with the answers to our angst. Again, that knock is NEVER coming. Why you ask?!? Because that is UP TO YOU! The Universe has no problem meeting you halfway, but it is awaiting your assistance through waking from your slumber of your complacency. Because what you resist persists and what we face melts away. Well guess what, this election is the WAKE UP call we have all needed. You have but two choices in life. You can setback and let life HAPPEN TO YOU, or you can go out as the Hero/Heroine you were born to be, and HAPPEN TO LIFE. It's up to you......
We have a magnificent opportunity to create the type of world we all seek. Where Love TRUMPS Power, and Hope flows through the streets for all to share in. The night is always darkest just before the dawn. Our dawn is just about to come. If we wake up and take rightful action toward LOVE. And away from separation and FEAR. So I ask you, what are YOU prepared to do to assist in creating a New Earth that has the ability to create UNITY and LIGHT that shines bright and helps to create and fulfill all of our dreams.............
Nerdmaste,
Jeffrey Louis Martinez
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