I have to admit that at times in 2021 I've found it difficult to hold optimism for humanity.
I haven't voiced my opinions very often this year, thinking back, very likely not at all...which is quite startling to realize.
With all of the turmoil, it seemed that adding in my own voice in would just be throwing more gas on the flames of what has felt like a roaring cacophony of voices expressing discontent at the state of the world and anger at the choices of others...everyone pointing fingers in every direction but inwards.
In holding my tongue I've started to feel like I've lost excitement for sharing any words or opinions at all. A large portion of the words I've been posting for most of this year have been recycled from past blog posts and past social media posts..(..so many of which have seemed even more pertinent than when I actually wrote them.)
In 2021 I certainly have kept up with sharing sound healing videos. (I posted quite a lot of those.) So many people have expressed how helpful that has been for them...actually, an overwhelming amount of extremely positive feedback for which I am so, so, so grateful.
I'm comfortable with sharing in that way. I can express myself without having to pin things down into the little predefined packets of syllables that language is.
Human language at times feels excruciatingly stifling. I'm realizing that this is a large part of my introversion...that maybe I'm not actually being drained by energetic interactions with people, but drained by the need to constantly find ways to express myself from a state of predefinition....and that words are so easily misunderstood and manipulated. (Do you feel this way too?? I'm looking forward to using a true language of vibration.)
Looking back, I'm beginning to see that for me 2021 had become all about holding my tongue. This probably wasn't the healthiest reaction... I don't know...but I survived 2021...the year of the greatest division that I personally have ever seen or felt. I'm beginning to realize that holding my tongue may not be an option moving forward.
The truth is, I don't care whether you voted for Biden or Trump. I don't care whether you are jabbed or not. I don't care if you believe in climate change or not. I don't care which way you go on any hot topics. What I do care about is that I'm seeing the majority of people being blindly manipulated into an ever-increasing state of division around these topics first, and then trickling down through everything else as people hold this resonant state of division.
It's not that I'm uncaring on these topics, but it's that I believe in free will. I STRONGLY believe in free will. I believe that you have the right to choose any of those options for yourself....and inversely, that you do not have the right to choose for someone else that is not asking you to choose for them. I see free will as the most sacred law in this Universe at this density.
I'm so sick of seeing the media and the perceived authority figures using scare tactics, emotional manipulations, and outright lies to keep us divided and continually at each other's throats at what is increasingly beginning to feel like an attack on our free will. It is scary to see people cheering for the stripping away of the free will of others, not realizing that they will ultimately end up stripping their own as well in this dualistic state of being.
The more separated we allow ourselves to become, the less we trust each other, the more dissonant our state of togetherness becomes, the more out of alignment we become....the more difficult these changes we are undergoing will be. If we continue to allow ourselves to be manipulated into extreme states of division, this road of transmutation becomes bumpier and bumpier.
We are here together, whether we like it or not. We are undergoing these changes together, whether we like it or not, whether we realize it or not. The energetic makeup of this solar system is changing and will continue to change. That is inevitable. There is nothing that we can do about that. The level of difficulty in processing this change and moving into a harmony with these changes...that has everything to do with us. We choose this.
This year, my new year's intentions are for all of us; humanity, our ecosystem, and the whole planet; to move into a more harmonious state of resonance. We can't do it alone...I can't do it alone...even though my introverted ways would like me to keep holding my tongue and trying to do it that way...I can't do it alone.
On this last day of 2021 I don't feel like I have any answers at all. I'm still clinging to the frayed hope that we can come together; overcome the manipulations, release the division, and weather these changes without tearing each other apart.
It is time that we start figuring out how to heal our relationships with one another before it's too late.
I'm sorry if this comes off as doom and gloom. I'm trying to maintain my state of optimism. And I hope that you are as well. I certainly want to “imagine all the people living life in peace,” it just hasn't been easy to do in 2021.
I'm certainly interested in seeing what looking back on what 2022 will feel like 1 year from today...so...I guess I'm here for the long haul.
I wish you and your loved ones an exuberantly happy 2022. May we find the harmony that we so desperately need. I love you. I see the light in you. Namaste.
In Love & Gratitude,
~Ben