In so many ways we are confronted with the consequences of our disturbed yang society: climate change, air pollution, decreasing availability of drinking water, massive pollution of seas and oceans, impoverishment of the food chain, increased workload, outdated school systems… so the question arises: what can you do yourself?
A society that is in an extreme disruption as we are experiencing now, requires structural changes, especially from the bottom up. Increasing this awareness in humans is a first, necessary step. Otherwise, new systems cannot thrive. As 15-year-old Greta Thunberg puts it: ‘We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis.’
Inform yourself, read and listen and turn on your internal truth detector, not all information is correct and that is an understatement. So make a distinction in quality and get advice from wise souls around you.
Let yourself be touched, the change is increasingly in the air, let yourself be touched and follow your intuition and feel (again) what suits you, follow your heart. Go back to living with your entire system, not just with your head, start dreaming and believing again and you will automatically end up in the right direction. And that is exactly what society needs, your deepest happiness. There is actually no contradiction between your personal happiness and that of society, perhaps that is the beautiful side of the story.
It is different for everyone: some go out on the streets, others work on their vegetable garden, some speak or write or sing with commitment, others delve further into technical innovation, .. it is different for everyone because we are all different. So don’t fall into the trap of contradictions and let go of duality more and more. It is not one or the other, it is everything at the same time, unity in diversity.
Be the change you want to see in the world. And then you automatically go along with the flow of change that has started and you learn to surf the waves instead of trying to calm the sea.
Ilse Scheers, January 2019, full moon
Image: Kinuko Y. Craft
