Conservation Concerns

Our planet is in a state of true emergency. I know you are as poignantly aware of this as I am. I typically like to give information and suggestions for actions related to conserving our natural resources. While I like thinking and offering along these lines, this kind of education is just not enough right now. As you all know, we've gone beyond the time line for starting Earth maintenance as well as the ability of our intellects. We no longer have the ease and benefit of supporting the slow pace of external organizations and activists. It no longer works to sit behind our computer screens, clicking on "act now," to preserve the ocean.

Even though it makes us feel like contributors, we can no longer rely on this false sense of self-empowerment to make the necessary changes in our global home. None of us has effectively stopped the cascade of destruction here on planet Earth by donating small bits of money, watching the world from the comforts of our own home, nor even by speaking out. Although similar, this isn't the 1960's; we need to be something different.

In this vein we are in a state of reactivity. And while I will continue to advocate and support environmental organizations and shifts in our habits and behavior at home, there is only one thing that will get us past or through what has now become inevitable and very real.

Trust.

You are just as responsible for the state of our environment as the person who tosses an ashtray of cigarette butts in the parking lot, and at some level, equally responsible for the Gulf oil spill as the people in charge of rig maintenance who looked the other way.

We must stop thinking negative, hopeless thoughts. Instead we must accept what we've created--all of it--and trust--every one of us--that there is a power much greater than ourselves. As in our bodies, our planet has the inherent ability to heal itself. And while the component of surrender does apply here, I'm not suggesting apathy or non action either.

It takes a lot of focus power to sustain a higher state of being in the midst of all this chaos. We must do this now.

Please take time each day to be proactive, consciously raising your personal vibration, postulating that you will resonate with compassion, acceptance and trust all day. Even if you are not a formal energy healer, you have this power within you. Transmit it to our beautiful Earth. Forgive yourself and others for what has been done here, all these years. "If we honor, trust and believe in the elementals, they will take care of the rest," a modified quote from "Summer with the Leprechauns" by Tanis Helliwell.

This is not a fairytale!