Sleepwalking Through Life
Worldwide, we humans are realizing we can no longer afford the luxury of sleepwalking through life, nor can we continue ignoring or hiding the pain that life often presents. We all want to find ways to avoid the mental and emotional work of facing reality, and hesitate stepping into the laboratory of change.
Reality
The vibrant energy of human thought and emotion spreads throughout the globe every minute of every day like wildfire. Whether those thoughts and emotions are positive or negative, they do indeed touch every animate and inanimate thing on this planet. Our human intellectual recklessness is obvious when we look at the churning wake we’ve left behind in the sea of human thoughtlessness. We seem unable, or more to the point unwilling, to awaken to the reality of our decreasing human capacity to live cooperatively with our own family and friends, as well as those outside our tight knit circle. We aren’t willing to look at the ugly realities we’ve individually and collectively produced that prompts and exacerbates global attitudes of disagreement, displeasure, and disloyalty toward all who have differing opinions and behaviors.
Turning Point
Most of us have become comfortable with an attitude of “let someone else do it” when things need repair. This laissez-faire attitude is how we sleepwalk through life. This way of thinking shows our determined non-involvement and non-interventionism attitude. Humanity is at a critical turning point. We can continue ignoring the activist life-force within that can help turn the tide, or we can continue being tossed around in the ocean of chaos that has become our new normal.
Awaken
If we want to make a difference, to know we have helped rather than hinder human evolution, we must awaken our:
Authenticity: remove the mask of who we think we should be in order to be accepted
Purpose/Reason/Meaning: give value to life
Courage: face what we fear
Acceptance: tolerate people and things we cannot change
Voice: speak up for justice, freedom, equality
Activism: eradicate complacency and complicity
Intentionality: raise consciousness level to employ mindfulness, intuition, compassion
“Each, in our own way, have had a hand in producing the dirty messes we are now responsible for cleaning up. ”