There is an enormous amount of chaos in the world right now. Therapists, coaches, transformational healers and all those who care deeply about helping the world achieve deep peace and harmony are called more than ever to their responsibility as global emotional and energetic leaders.
To take responsibility means to individually accept that I AM the one who can make a difference.
No, I am not the only one who can make a difference, but what I choose to do matters. Who I am, as I choose to do it, matters even more.
Mother Teresa’s quote comes to mind here:
It’s vital to reflect on what stones we can individually cast that will augment the power of ripples of compassion and peace moving toward all those impacted by current events.
There is no doubt that each and every one of us is being impacted. This is our world, these are our people. The energy of conflict is shaking every thread of the great web of energy that connects us all.
The closer someone is to the conflicts, the more personally they are impacted, the more their energetic threads are destabilized.
What people less personally impacted choose to do can offer stabilizing energy to our human web. Like an adult who, seeing a young child swinging out of control on a park swing, reaches out their hand, absorbing some of the swing’s energy to stabilize the swing and support the child.
I’ve been considering how the lens of Susan Silk’s Ring Theory might be helpful in this context. People most directly impacted by the situation at hand are in the innermost circle of the ring. Others are placed in concentric rings around the centre according to the degree to which the situation impacts them. The least directly impacted are outside the rings entirely.
The wisdom is summarized as COMFORT flows IN. EXPRESSION of SUFFERING (Dump) flows out.
Your responsibility is two-fold. First, to flow comfort toward everyone inhabiting circles smaller than yours. You cast stones to envelop them with your unwavering compassion, empathy and support, offering a safe haven of solace and strength. The goal is to help, to comfort, to soothe. Not to advise nor to offer opinions. Those behaviours are not comforting to people in destabilizing situations.
Secondly, you ensure that you have people and places in rings beyond yours to express your personal suffering. Those in the larger rings are offering their unwavering support to their innermore rings, including yours. Your task is to seek and receive that support, allowing it to nourish you so that you can continue to cast stones toward the rings more central to you.
Nature is an ever present and very large outer circle of support and connection whatever your position on any ring.
Your understanding of a powerful creative energy is a very large outer circle of support and connection whatever your position on any ring..
As each of us engage in both giving and receiving, expansive ripples of love and care move through our entire web, stabilizing the world’s overall level of organization.
In Conscious EFT™ we call this attunement. Practitioners use their available energetic capacity to attune to those more directly impacted by situations and events. And responsible practitioners allow themselves to be attuned to by trusted sources in more outer rings than theirs..
It is equally important to receive ripples as it is to cast stones. Both are vital to create the most stable human web possible. Unfortunately those of us in the helping fields have often been conditioned to pay more attention to offering stones than to receiving ripples. Unintentionally, in doing so, we may be contributing to chaos.
Who are the people, situations, environments, sources that are sending ripples toward you? Are you creating time and space in your life to be a ripple receiver? Or are you expecting yourself to continue casting stones while ignoring the inevitability of signs of malnourishment?
Whatever your position on the ring vis a vis the world’s current conflict, you are a vital beacon of peace. Please attend to your needs to give and receive nourishment in order that you keep up your essential part in creating a more harmonious web of human connection.
With gratitude for all you do,
Nancy