Hi Everyone. This may be the last one of my missals for the year unless something shareworthy comes up in the meantime. Life is being very good to me. I feel excited by my new premisis and the people that work in the building, at this stage, are respectful and quiet, two issues important to me. My practice has recovered from wherever it went during the winter months, and I have enjoyed a busy teaching three months with Munay KI running as well as the final Psychosynthesis training for the year. Now I am looking forward to kicking back and allowing the holidays to permeate deep into my psyche, refreshing and enlivening me for the year ahead.
And I have no doubt that its going to be a very interesting one. With the world attitude to 'work slavery' changing, and a deeper degree of willingness to stand up and speak up for ourselves, I feel thrilled at the possibilities. We just have to keep doing it. Some months ago I spoke about emotional honesty. That's definitely what we need now. But honesty requires that we take the risk that others wont necessarily agree with or like our opinions. It questions the idea that we can be all things to all people. Much of our attempt to do just that comes from early childhood training where discipline was more important than development and in some cases became intimidation. Many of us have never got over that and still operate as if we are cowed children, followed by bouts of random rebellion to even the score but not actually achieve anything.
Its really way past the time when we need to grow up and become adults in truth rather than just in body. And that takes emotional honesty to its deepest level. To turn around to ourselves and say " hey, its time I spoke up and accepted the consequences of that rather than allow others to believe I am someone I am not and don't want to be", is essential. Its essential for the success of our personal relationships and whether we are having them with the appropriate people for our growth and harmony or whether we are just frightened of change. And what is true on the personal level is true for us as a species, as nations and races. Its time to get real: to get honest, and to move forward into the new.
Why? Because the old is worn out. It's as dry as dust. There's no juice in where we are: no creativity. No Life! But before life can come back into the soil, it needs tilling, feeding, allowing the air to get into the molecules. It requires change. If water does not move it becomes stagnant. It dies. And that true for our species as well. We have to try something different because the whole of Earth's creation is crying out for it. Whether we like it or not, we cannot go on as we have. That's a fact. So now is the time to ask ourselves what is it we really want. Who are we? Where are we? And where are we going? The fundamental philosophical questions of all ages. The wise ask those questions all the time. The foolish don't think it matters.
We are coming up to an election and whatever your political persuasion (you all know mine), we need to take responsibility for the choice we make as to what we are going to allow to happen on this hallowed ground of Aotearoa in the years to come. We have to take responsibility for that choice because that's what an adult is. If we don't we are grown up children, asking someone else to look after us. When we do that we end up where they wanted to take us. Not an empowered place to come from at a time like this.
Things are likely to get tougher as the soil of our being is shaken and stirred. We need to think community. We need to think sharing. We need to think pulling together. Who can best ease the way forward?? You can! Make a difference. Speak your truth. Be honest. Let consequences show you the way from then on. Its the only way we learn and grow. And growth is the only sign of life!
I wish you all an opportunity to make your mark on the future. I wish you all a good festive season in whatever way you observe it. And I wish to be part of your lives in the times to come: whatever they look like.
Blessings. Jay!
