What can we do when we experience things like war, acts of terrorism, or a natural disasters? I often feel powerless to help and the things I can do don’t seem like they can create a meaningful impact.
“This is part of a larger conversation. We will talk about this as it pertains to you (and most people on your planet when a localized event takes place) as someone not directly and immediately affected by a particular event as your response will be different for obvious reasons.
You can’t be blamed for focusing on the damage and loss during events like these. It can be completely overwhelming and we understand why you may feel powerless to do anything of meaningful impact or why you may even want to turn away from it.
For a moment, consider our point of view. During these events, we consistently see humans going to great lengths to help one another. From small children donating their savings to rescue workers or first responders, doctors, people who have dedicated their lives to the well being of others, racing into dangerous environments. We watch word spread internationally, people coming together in prayers, meditations, and well wishes. We’ve seen Ideologies, political beliefs, rivalries, and borders fade. You donate food, money, services, and goods. You open up your homes to strangers in need. We see public outcry calling for changes in laws or common practices to address the current situation and/or to prevent similar events from happening again.
In every one of these types of situations, you will find examples of extreme compassion and love for one another. While we should absolutely see and acknowledge the elements of these events that can bring great sadness, we can choose to place our focused attention on the consistent outpouring of compassion on display at every turn.
As you do this you strengthen the frequency of love and compassion which, as your science is now beginning to understand, not only allows it to grow in you but also makes it easier for others to do so as well. This affect can be created on your own but we will add that when others come together and focus on generating a feeling of love and compassion towards a point of focus, the effects are greatly increased. This frequency, as all frequencies do, echos out into the world and will create an environment that allow for more situations, inspirations, and opportunities to occur that are of that vibration of compassion.
Act on these inspirations, take part in these opportunities, and engage in the situations that excite you to the best of your ability. Help in the best way you know how no matter what that is to you and you will without a doubt, improve the situation for others and yourself. Helping one, helps all.”
This one was a little difficult to write. My wife is from Japan and I saw what she went through during the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The event of course cost the lives of many people and triggered a nuclear accident. While the images of devastation and news clips flashed through my mind while transcribing this, I found a lot of beauty I overlooked (which I admit feels weird to write but it’s true). The fact that there were people reporting it, I realize was a compassionate act. I understand that’s normal, that’s the news, but no matter how used to it we are or cynical my attitude can sometimes be, there was still a person in a helicopter, using their life and skill to work with a whole team of others to show people what was going on as soon as they could. And because of that, a world could respond. There’s countless stories of compassion circling this event big and small.. I just wanted to point that particular one out as an example I overlooked. One of many that I wish I could have noticed at the time.
There have been so many more tragedies since then… shootings, to fires, to more earthquakes, to threats of war… and while I stare at the devastation my focus now drifts not to the flames but to the people fighting the fires, not at the wreckage but at the crews searching for survivors, not at the houses turned to ash but at the temporary shelters, not at the crime but at the police investigating. Everywhere I turn there is acts of compassion. While I see the tragedy (in any form) my mind is reframing it. I now more easily see people coming together to help when others need it most and that fills me with hope and inspiration to find out what I can do.
~Dave