The Wisdom of Atlas!

Hello Sweet Beings

Have you noticed how heavy, slow and stuck the world has become over the last 3-6 months?

Do you feel like you are holding the world of doom, gloomy and worry on your shoulders?

 

It seems that no matter where we look there is bad news – be it of the economy, loss of jobs, companies and people going in liquidation and the global situation be it economic or environmental.

I can see people around me feeling like they are swimming in a pool of murky treacle and the fear that they will never get out!

So maybe the answer is not to worry, not to let the news make you dreary with its negativity and cut us off from being  about who we really are which is LOVE.

Atlas who held the world upon his shoulders, soon got bent for his trouble. I wonder -

Did he love what he was doing? Did he love holding the world up on his shoulders?

If the task was filled with love and made him feel great then maybe we are wrong to be sorry for him?

We know enough about emotions to know that good ones create more good ones and bad ones create even worse.

For most of us we cannot change the current situation, we can only weather it, come through it and look after our families, friends and communities – and if we do this the nations will look after themselves and the world will be a better place.

I can’t help thinking that not matter how grim things are we can laugh.

That when things are tough the entertainment industry does a very healthy business in film, live shows and concerts.

That when we are feeling down, we yearn for things that will relieve the constant drugery of it all.

Maybe, this sense of coming to a stop financially  is about having the time to see what is really important to us?

Maybe who we really are, how we really relate and what really makes our heart sing is not success, but love.

And if that’s the case then many of us are already blessed.

And for those of us who are not?

Time to dust off our heart muscle, open our eyes and

get our blood singing to the tune of love.

Now that sounds like a great task to be putting energy into don’t you think??

 

Till next time, may you find love Sweet Beings,

 

Melody

Complexity – What?

Hello there

 

Today I have a question:

Is love still LOVE when it is couched in criticism or negativity?

 

Today I heard the story about a friend of mine (let’s call her Jane) who is constantly being berated by another friend of hers (let’s call her Mary), for being clumsy.

Now I have known Jane for many years and while she is not graceful in all she does, I do not find her clumsy in my company, yet Mary finds her so.

When I quizzed Jane more deeply on the dynamic of her friendship with Mary she told me that Mary is always premising her remarks with – ‘I’m only telling you this because I love you and care for you!’

So what does this dynamic mean?

What kind of relationship do they have?

Is Mary expressing love?

Is the love valuable and beneficial for Jane to experience?

And are Mary’s actions integrated with her words of love?

 

Love is not simple is it?  As an ideal it may be but in reality is it?

Surely in this Jane/Mary dynamic there are some other expressions that are impinging on any love that Jane may be feeling from Mary?

It leads me to think that love is not simple but extremely complex when viewed through the dynamics of words and actions.

So maybe the best way to judge the truth of love is to be still and silent

and see how the love from the person in questions feels.

 

Do you feel happy, upset, angry, disempowered, reduce to less than yourself?

Does being loved bring you a great sense of peace and joy?

If not – what are you doing in this relationship you are in?

Why are you staying in it? what else do you get from  it - if it is not love?

See, I told you these thoughts were complex!

But, if you are unwilling to answer the tough questions, then you are unwilling to experience a deeper understanding of love.

What do you think?

 

Till next time

In love and peace

Melody