The Paradigm Shift Of An Awakening World

Most people respond more strongly to negative than they do to positive news or events. No matter how hard some of us may try to live with grace and gratitude by looking at the brighter side of life, a piece of bad news, malignant gossip, or fear-inducing information is a lot easier to run with than good news. We also react to someone else’s bad behavior much more strongly than their good conduct. We seldom praise or sincerely compliment, but we are quick to judge and criticize.

Case in point is my own experience working as the curator at fine art galleries some years ago. Ten clients would be nice and easy to please, but if the eleventh person was having a bad day they would be the one to get most of my attention. I’ve since gotten a lot better at being able to tune out the negativity and drama resulting from low vibrational frequencies, but it still remains impossible for me not to be affected by it from time to time.

Due to our innate survival instinct as humans beings we are simply incapable of ignoring negativity – or in a more enlightened scope, not give energy to it. This is understandable, as our first instinct is usually to protect ourselves by knowing if bad things may be happening.

But, so many people seem to absolutely thrive on every possible fragment of negativity, fear or drama they can find. From messy family quarrels, feuds with neighbors, and rude, unkind behavior in public places, to the brutal, senseless wars that continue to be fought since time immemorial. Every bit of it is and has been based on human reactions to slights, hurts and trespasses – some of it petty and even imagined.

 A new world view is arising. This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution ~ Barbara Marx Hubbard

Granted, sometimes we feel compelled to fight injustice, discrimination, and oppression, and rightfully so. The desire to be free and happy is a natural aspect of human nature. Throughout human history many courageous folks stood by their ideals and convictions in the face of danger and helped make our world a better place. Sometimes there is no other way to change an unacceptable situation, other than by interrupting it using any means possible. We owe a lot to those brave activists and spiritual warriors in our society.

However, as our paradigm shifts increasingly in the awakening new world that has been unfolding in recent years, and we enter a new focus of reality and relation to time, we must also shift our focus away from dwelling on the past and getting stuck there. We can accomplish this by cultivating a deeper sense of gratitude that we have come this far. Life is still a mystery, but most of us have learned some profound truths and gathered much wisdom. Today the spiritually aware can look at the pain and sorrow of what happened in the past, and say with confidence that we have survived, or indeed, thrived!

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family ~ Abraham Maslow

Today we can look at the spiritually unconscious people we encounter, and understand where they are coming from. It is a state of being we have no intention of returning to, and we must not give them our permission to continue to behave irresponsibly in our presence, but we understand that they are trapped and perhaps it is our duty to patiently show them the path out of their negativity. They may take us up on such an offer, or it may incite the anger of resistance in them. Either way, their reaction doesn’t matter. The only thing that does matter is where we are personally coming from. That makes all the difference in the world. Let us continue to be kind, tolerant, patient, and loving. Our shared future depends on it.