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I think this is an important topic for CE members in particular because many of you are empaths, many of you are “light bearers” and some of you are both.
Me: Here’s another one from a blog member: “The human race has so much hate and ugliness that floats around here like a virus, and you can easily get sucked into it if you’re not constantly on guard. How can we, as humans, rise above this virus and not always feel the need to be on guard to keep this negativity from taking us down? It just seems like we make life harder than it needs to be.”
Jamie paraphrases the question to clarify for herself, and I distill it in two sentences.
Jamie: So how to not get sucked in?
Me: Right, and not let this negativity take us down.
Erik: Fucking stand your own ground! What the hell?
Me: I know!
Erik: If the news is too much for you, stop watching the fucking news. If you’re supposed to know, information will come to you. A neighbor will tell you; someone at the grocery store will say, “Hey, did you know a plane crashed?” and you’d go, “No I didn’t.” Then stand your fucking ground. If you don’t like it, don’t engage with it. Now if you want to be involved and you still think it’s filled with hatred and it sucks and people are mean—which is another great bumper sticker that someone has already done—
Jamie: Really? “People are mean?”
Jamie laughs.
Erik: Then you have to learn what you’re in control over and what you’re not. And what you’re in control over is yourself, so stop taking responsibility for other things, for other people, for other actions, and start being the change you want to see in the world. Thank you so much, Gandhi! High five!
I laugh.
Jamie (laughing): He’s doing something. I don’t know what he’s doing. To me, it looks like a football dance when somebody scores a touchdown.
Me: Oh yeah. Spiking the football and doing a dance in the end zone?
Jamie: Yeah. He kind of went in a little circle real fast, and then he sat back down.
Erik: The Gandhi Game Dance. If you don’t know how to set your own boundaries and stay in control of yourself, then you need to go learn that shit because sitting around and saying how horrible things are and saying how you don’t like anything—you’re the one poo-pooing on your own game.
Me: Exactly.
Erik: Stop rolling in the shit, man! Get up; wash off; maybe bath in some tomato sauce—
That throws Jamie way off!
Me: Oh, that’s for skunk smell.
Jamie (laughing): For skunks! That’s what he was saying! Yeah, that is random. Okay.
Erik: Get the smell off of you and start engaging in the things you enjoy. Now if you feel you’re one of those people—the Bringers of Light, the Light Bearers who go into the dark and help people see the light—they don’t change them. They don’t lay down laws and use force or crap like that, but they shine their own light so that others can see the light within them.
Me: That’s like you, Erik!
Erik: Yes. Amennnnn. So you gotta know the difference between forcing and demanding change and being your authentic self and shining. Then, all of a sudden, all of this hate in the world, all of this negative bullshit becomes okay. You don’t need to judge it anymore. You don’t need to feel the suffering and the weight of the world because this kind of negative/positive quality that the Earth allows us to have is fucking brilliant and you get it. But if you stay in the zone of fighting, forcing change and making demands, then the hatred and the shit and the mean people are just going to get to you, and they’re going to get bigger, and you’re going to hate it even more. So you gotta ask yourself, “Why am I rolling in this shit?”
Me (referring to a previous session): A crock of shit set on the stove on high and left overnight. Remember?
Jamie: Oh, dude, I told Amy all the visuals Erik gave me, and she’s like, “What?!” That was it. My first gag.
Me: Not your first gig. It’s your first gag! (On a YouTube video)
Jamie: My first gag!
Me: Anything else on that one?
Erik: Nah. Ding.
Here’s another beautiful graphic from Terese:
