Thursday Evening Meditation and Study Group
There will be no group this week because Tom will be on travel.
If you would like to meet you can arrange this amongst yourselves.
Embracing Neutrality
In our group we have been pondering how we can create peace within ourselves and then generate that peace outward. In this way we will do our part to manifest peace in this world we live in.
Much of this discussion is gleaned from an article I wrote on Substack entitled: The Reorganization of the World Into A New Balance—How These Current Times Can Offer Us Hope.
I have also posted meditations from recent weeks that reflect these discussions. They are entitled:
1) Imagine,
2) A Quiet Edge of Breath, and,
3) Embracing Neutrality As A Stabilizing Frequency.
These meditations have helped us to do our part to bring about peace in the world. They can be found on this Substack and also on my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@tomsteward).
Our focus for last week was to embody neutrality. Embodying neutrality is being the calm one in the room who doesn’t react with judgment and bias and opinion from old emotional patterns. Neutrality is the stabilizing frequency that is not divisive or quarrelsome, but rather offers kindness and gentleness and understanding that bridges the divide between you and others.
Seeing the True Self in Others
Since there is not a meeting this week, I would encourage you to reflect on being the bigger person and seeing the best in the people around you.
What if you looked for the positive redeemable traits in others instead what you have concluded is wrong with them? It’s too easy to view others with their faults and differences and annoying traits. It doesn’t take much to judge another in a way that separates and divides.
Remember, we are all mirrors of each other. What you see in another is a projection of a disowned aspect of yourself that you have yet to acknowledge and integrate. If every person you meet and interact with is a reflection of a part of you, what is it that you are being shown about yourself in the behavior of another?
Instead of engaging only with the personality or wounds or deficiencies in others, practice looking for their true and higher selves. What if, in a disagreement or when you have judged another or become annoyed with them, you silently affirmed: “I see the divine in you, even when you don’t see it in yourself.” This changes the field instantly and a necessary shift can occur.
There may be a very good reason why people act in the way they do, and it may have to do with their trauma or brokenness. It may be associated with a learning disorder or a mental health condition or a personality characteristic that they have not yet been able to change.
If you were patient and kind it may help them to move toward the healing they need. This could help them facilitate a movement from wounds and pain to recovery, which would give them an opportunity to be their best self.
Ponder these ideas and we will meet again next week. If you would like a meditation on these themes you can proceed to my YouTube page via the link above.
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Much love and peace to you all.
Tom Steward
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