How to Stay Centered With What’s Happening in the World Today
How did humankind get itself into such a global mess? It’s not hard to figure out. Tens of thousands of years ago individual and tribal greed, lust for power, and self-interest separated humankind into the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots,’ into the wealthy and those with low income, into the powerful few and the governed many. Altruistic values and ideals which were supposed to be considered universal, such as global cooperation, mutual aid, international social justice, loving kindness, compassion, and world peace became merely ineffective pronouncements by those in control to appease and fool the masses. Inequalities are purposefully perpetuated and reinforced.
So, what’s wrong with the world today? It’s not hard to figure out! Just read the first paragraph again!
The question which begs to be asked is: How are the stressful, troubling and frightening events of these times affecting you? People around the world are feeling the stress of these difficult and panic-prone times and it’s showing itself in unexpected ways. Maybe you're experiencing some of the symptoms yourself.
Check yourself against these symptoms!
- Do you find yourself feeling more cynical or angry than usual?
- Are you having trouble sleeping, having an up-tic in bizarre or troubling dreams, and noticing that it’s harder to get the rest you need?
- Are you avoiding healthy food, munching too much too often, and putting on extra pounds?
- Do you feel anxious, unsettled, fidgety and restless much of the time?
- Do you have distressing thoughts and feelings of uneasiness that you have never felt before?
- Are you experiencing downward spirals of depression and listlessness?
- Are you constantly losing or misplacing things, noticing that your memory seems poor, that you’re more irritable than usual, or that your temper is touchy?
- Have you found that you’re being tempted again by an addictive behavior that you thought you’d outgrown?
And Finally: Are your symptoms disturbingly more frequent or severe or harder than usual to manage?
If several of these describes you, the comforting news is you’re not alone! Even knowing what we know and believing what we believe, it seems difficult to ignore the impact of what's happening in the world, and how it is affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
It seems that there’s always been those who have sought power, position, wealth, and control to massage their unbridled self-interest. The only difference now is there’s never been a time in the history of the world that news about these self-interests—including natural disasters—has traveled faster, wider, and more disconcertingly in your face than it is today.
One minute you’re scrolling through Facebook and responding to friends’ posts of what’s important to them, and the next minute you’re bombarded with images of hate and violence from news around the world and perhaps even in your own city.
It can be really tough to reconcile why the world is so whirled and humans are so inhuman! News coverage may even cause you to feel that every corner of the world is unconscionably filled with anger, violence, human rights violations and one form of aggression or another.
We believe it's time for some MetaSpiritual Healing Energy!
Until humankind grows up, here are a few things you can do right now to keep yourself centered, safer, more positive and above the negativity that you hear soooo much about.
Meditate Daily
Why? Because meditation is medication! It’ll protect your body, mind and soul. Even though we’re all spiritual beings who’ve chosen a human experience, it’s easy to get sucked into feeling like everything’s out of control when there’s soooo much chaos in the world.
Employ our AC/DC Model
Our power comes from the CHOICES we make — and there are always choices! Determine your level of control in a situation and make a choice to Accept and Cope, or Decide and Change.
Don’t Forget to Breathe
This may sound entirely simplistic, but for most people, it’s the fastest way to stay centered and calm when things feel out of control. Taking a moment for a deep, cleansing breath will clear your mind, relieve the stress, and provide incredible clarity.
Limit the News Coverage You Subject Yourself To
When we constantly see and hear about frightening images and reports about what’s going on ‘out there,’ there’s a tendency to internalize the news coverage and allow it to form outposts in our heads. One of the best ways to interrupt this invasive process is to dial back your news consumption by stepping away from news coverage during the course of a day.
Align Yourself with the Extraordinary You (and amp up your 7 Core Abilities)
That means not hesitating to connect with all seven of your core abilities: your Authentegrity, Intuitive Wisdom, Inner Strength, Optimistic Spirit, Questioning Unquestioned Answers, Self-Reliance, and Giving Consciousness. See all the articles we’ve written that delve into this concept more.
Weed Out Your Network
Don’t hang around with friends who inflate disturbing news into hysteria-laden Armageddons. Surround yourself with people who support your positivity and spiritual perspective.
Never Underestimate the Power of Your Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual Energy
Know that every time you raise your consciousness, the collective consciousness is raised an octave. Use visualization and affirmations to focus on the kind of world you envision. Take action to do what is yours to do.
The key to mastering the art of living in a chaotic world is turning unhealthy self-interest into 'wellthy' Self interest. (The capital ‘S’ Self is your Super Self, your Divine Nature, the Extraordinary You.)
We encourage people to use different terms to replace the word “God,” as they attempt to use appropriate languaging to match their belief that there is no “God out there” who is rewarding the good and punishing the bad, sending lessons for us to learn, and hovering over us like a giant puppeteer. The latest term we hear quite often is “Universe.” For example, “The Universe is watching out for me” or “The Universe is in Divine Order” or "The Universe has my back."
We would like to offer a new twist on the Universe as Divine Oneness, Infinite Isness, the Ground of All Beingness, the Field of Infinite Potential. Our thought is that what we really mean when we say Universe is: YOUniverse—the absolute alignment of your human self and your Divine Self, you at One with the Extraordinary You!