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This week, something really special happened in The Expansion Project community. This is an online gathering space where people who are drawn to exploring the cutting edge of consciousness come together to share ideas, test theories, and get support in the day-to-day ups and downs of living life in spiritual alignment.
This week, someone courageously asked a personal question, and the whole group got to witness and cheer them on as that person heartfully and elegantly found their way to the answer.
The theme that emerged was how important it is to frame questions through the lens of Love rather than trying to find a logical response to an inherently "unfair" scenario.
Our minds want to make sense of things all the time - that's how they are designed. They want to find the bad guy and dole out punishment. The survival-focused mind wants things to be black and white and wants a clear and unwavering answer to every conundrum.
The heart, however, has the capacity to see the bigger picture.
The heart understands the premise taught in A Course in Miracles: There are calls for love all around us.
How do we define a call for love?
That dirty look that you received from a stranger? Call for love.
That raging driver that cut you off in traffic? Call for love.
That grumpy uncle that never has anything nice to say? Call for love.
"But Dr. Saira", you say, "Isn't responding to these people with love and compassion simply condoning bad behaviour?"
Well, that's what mainstream psychology would say, sure. Other therapists would teach you about "knowing your worth" and "protecting your peace" and "walking away from bad behaviour."
But I am asking you to remember that you are more than your survival-based-mind-body-mechanism that is hyper-focused on homeostasis, predictability, and staying alive.
I am here to remind you that you are a spiritual being and you have access to spiritual perspectives that others might not understand quite yet.
Don't buy it?
Well then, let's pull in some Master Teachers. Let's call upon four social revolutionaries that have changed the course of history and inspired my life and maybe yours too. Who are they?
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Mother Teresa
- Nelson Mandela
- Mahatma Gandhi
They lived in different cultures and contexts, and each one had something specific they were working to change. One of the many things they had in common was their unwavering dedication to spiritual principles. They believed in the brotherhood of all peoples, the Oneness that runs through all our veins, and that LOVE was a stronger force than historical atrocities, generational pain, or even current human suffering.
Now you and I may not be like these giants. We're just regular folks who are trying to do the right thing and not get squashed by ins-and-outs of human living.
But like them, you and I see the calls for love every single day, whether we interpret them as such or whether we judge them as something else.
The question is, when YOU hear that call, how will you respond?
Will you choose love or will you choose judgement?
Let's be honest: judgement is way more tempting. It's much simpler to make someone the bad guy and just leave it at that. But some of us are evolving beyond the binary of good and bad - we are starting to acknowledge that human beings are layered and nuanced and that even darkness serves a purpose in the great human saga that is unfolding.
Some of us are waking up to the profound, constant, unwavering love that is available to us all, indiscriminately. As we let it land in our own hearts and start to transform us from within, we can begin to let it through us to start transforming the world.
Could you be that pillar of unwavering love that shows up at the next get-together with friends and family?
Could you be the steady light that shines as someone shares a story of pain and suffering, holding their bruised heart while also holding their highest timeline - seeing them as already healed and whole?
Could you be the one who brings that breath of fresh air when things are getting hot and stuffy, infusing humour, connection, and love back into difficult conversations?
In the words of the great Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
As we enter the holiday season and encounter the calls for love around us, I believe that we can be that army of twinkling lights that refuses to let darkness reign.
I believe we can shift things within us and around us with something as simple as a slow, deep breath and a warm, loving smile.
I believe we can hold ourselves to a higher standard, knowing we are called to be the leaders that the world is waiting for, even if it's in our quiet corners and private encounters.
And if not us, who?
And if not now, when?
Yours In The Army of The Twinkling Lights,
Dr. Saira
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