A Little Warrior

Due to extreme city heat I decided to spend a few days in a small coastal South Indian village. In the morning, after swimming in the ocean, I went for breakfast to a nearby restaurant.

The food was great, but poor waiters were busy there trying to shoo off crows from tables. A saw a woman leaving her table to help herself from a buffet, when a crow quickly landed on her table and grabbed a large piece of her omelet!

Of course the woman spotted this too late. To prevent her other plate from being similarly assaulted, she asked a family having breakfast nearby to keep an eye on her table for a few minutes.

The little girl from the family, aged around six, volunteered for the task. She got up and took a position close to the woman’s table. With her hands on hips and legs wide apart, she stood there like a warrior, carefully eyeing every potentially threatening crow sitting on nearby trees. Whenever a crow would try to sneakily approach, she would run to chase it off with her long curly blond hair bouncing off her shoulders.

It was blissful to watch this sweet little warrior, so much preoccupied with her newly given unpaid duty. She found this task exciting, and she did it obviously without any thought of what was in it for her. She was, as most children are, still operating from her honest heart.

Even adults comply with such unusual requests, because such tasks aren’t part of their ‘scripts’! Yet if a request is a little more common, how many do instantly start thinking about what’s in it for them, or even become suspicious about why they were the ones that were asked for one thing or another.

It doesn’t help when fear-based public warnings of all sorts plague people in train stations and airports, encouraging to suspect everyone as potential terrorists. Single mothers now feel frightened to ask a stranger to look after their heavy luggage when they need to accompany their little children to washrooms. Trust is being systematically replaced with suspicion, and fellow human beings are encouraged to be treated as potential ‘threats’ rather than members of one human family.

That’s what newspapers do. Instead of reporting that most people are safe, they single out one horrible incident, exaggerate it, and make it look so huge that the fact is overlooked that it’s a single, very unusual, incident that isn’t likely to happen to 99.9% of population.

The same goes with potential terrorists. We are encouraged to dismiss the fact that most people are well-meaning and definitely not planning to detonate a bomb or to steal something. Our perception gets distorted if we allow the media to hypnotize us into seeing the world as full of threats and insecurity. And what’s worse, the more people buy into such a world, the more seeming ‘evidence’ they’ll see confirming such reality.

It’s true that two people can live under the same roof but see totally different realities. One can live in bliss, another – in constant fear and insecurity. One will notice manifestations of love and goodness, another – ill-meaning people and cruelties of all sorts. That’s because this reality contains all – good and bad, and it’s our decisions to pay attention to either good or bad that make the world appear in a certain way.

What’s more important to know, is that when you choose to pay attention to goodness versus cruelties, you become immune to negativities. This selective seeing, therefore, acts as a protective device against troubles of all sorts, because such attention raises your vibration to the degree where low-vibe life cannot be your reality anymore.

But there’s more to it. This selective seeing opens a portal to transcend this world. That’s because seeing goodness all around puts you on such a high vibration that you can then become conscious of angelic realms, and God itself, and cross over (which is not a physical crossover, but just a transition from unreliable perception to Divine vision).

And there’s more. Although it may look like you’re lying to yourself by refusing to look at unfairness and horrors of the world, you’re actually doing a great favor to the world. By refusing to acknowledge the horrors of the world, you don’t channel any energy into them. We make these horrors last by investing our energy in them. Wars would not happen if nobody would turn up. Horrors would not take place if people would stop paying attention to them, and focus on goodness instead. If there’s no demand, the supply would disappear, because demand and supply are the extreme ends of the same concept.

So instead of allowing ourselves to be ruled by the media-exaggerated fear of cruel people and horrors of the world, let’s start investing into the reality we want to see. Let’s not look for potential negativities in people, but for potential goodness. Let’s help out each other, so that everyone would feel that the world is a beautiful and caring place. Let’s be like that little girl who doesn’t think the woman has hidden intentions or isn’t worthy of being helped; let’s help because it’s a good thing to do.

Try this. When you meet someone, treat them as an extension of you – as someone who shares the same being – because that’s true. If you approach people from such an attitude, it will be so natural to make friendships, and people will respond to you with love, and won’t feel the need to put up barriers or wear a mask. But approach them as ‘strangers’ or ‘threats’, and you’ll get their egos responding to you, and they’ll appear cold, distant and uncaring.

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All of us contribute to the building of collective reality in a greater way than we think. It’s false to assume that just because you have sullen thoughts in the privacy of your own mind, that they don’t affect anyone but you. They affect everyone! The whole energy around you changes, and this changed energy radiates from you forever and everywhere, since time and space don’t really exist. So your bad mood makes a depressed person even more depressed, and a fighting couple even more upset at each other.

It’s time to take responsibility of what impact you leave on the world. The impact of your actions doesn’t simply terminate at this world – it embraces the whole Universe!

Knowing this, what kind of impact would you like to leave? Do you want to be a one more ‘push’  towards someone’s mental breakdown, or do you want to be the originator of a hopeful and happy thought which gives someone hope, or inspires someone to do a good deed?

Every little thought and action counts, therefore. You’re not asked to do something impossible, or something extraordinary. A little thought of hope, a tiny manifestation of love is enough. And if you cannot force yourself to do something loving to someone, then take no action, rather than doing something that brings the message of hate and war.

The more you answer the call of love to manifest it, and the more you ignore the encouragements of hate and war, the more beauty you’ll gift to the world, the healthier you’ll be (because health equals harmony) and the easier your life will become, since problems of all sorts are caused by hate messengers, and not love’s.

Resource: simonarich.com