Let’s look at three “survival skills.”
1. Remain in the Center
Our heart, our soul, our center of gravity is to be found in the center in the heart of my being.
Strength resides in the center and weakness resides in the extremes. Conservation of energy is associated with remaining in the center. Manageability, response-ability, calm reflection are all associated, with remaining in the center. So the first survival skill of paramount importance is to develop the discipline of remaining in balance or, if you prefer, remaining in the center.
2. Remain as the Observer
The second survival skill of paramount importance is to remain in the position of the observer. Observing what? Observing me. I am what needs to be observed. And why observed?
When we take the observer position, we break the connection between the upset or other unwanted condition and ourselves. We remove ourselves from the upset and make it something we’re looking at rather than being in the midst of.
Right away, this new positioning gives us a modicum of relief. Right away the temperature drops somewhat and we restore a degree of manoeuvring room.
There’s no satisfactory resolution to things when we’re “in it.” A satisfactory resolution does not become manifest or possible until we take the first step out of the upset by beginning to observe it. The positioning is altogether different. This different positioning is what gives us space. And space is what will be least available and most in demand in chaotic times. So this is the second recommended survival skill.
3. Love Unconditionally
It’s getting easier and easier to love. According to the sources we follow here, we’re being bombarded with love and light and our ability to come from the heart is increasing by leaps and bounds.
Thus the discipline we need to practice and to practice with all our might, and mind, and soul, is to love one another, everyone, everything freely. This practice of unconditional love is the only on that seems guaranteed to leave no harmful residue when things get off-the-wall chaotic, too fast to permit us to think. Only loving empowers, ennobles, and endears us to others and others to us. So this is the third survival skill.
All Toghether.
Now let’s combine the three. If we assume the observer position on ourselves while remaining in the center, in balance, we’ve maximized our ability to respond to the chaotic nature of this fast moving carousel we call life in 2012. If having accomplished these two ends, we face our world and simply love it unconditionally, we are positioned in the very best way to meet what comes to us without being thrown off track, off balance, confused, ending up in controversy and confrontation, and creating residue.
It isn’t the information we have, our neat personality, our winning smile or any other similar thing that will save us in the times ahead. It is our ability to stay centered, to remain as the observer, and to love everything we see and meet, unconditionally, that will have us come through this time of rapid change – not only in one piece, but perhaps even having thrived.
