Ep 14 Consciousness and Pledging Love and Kindness with Sheryl Hirsch-Kramer
Our Pledge to
Engage in Love and Kindness
When we pledge
or commit to engage in Love and Kindness we are really talking about the power
in informed choice and Wholeness in Being. We are not talking pie in the sky or
Pollyanna kind of thinking. We are not talking about denial of the stuff that Life
encompasses. We are talking about choosing to engage and acknowledge love and
kindness as our choice in response to events that challenge us.
Humans have
zoom lenses about life. Our day to day realities can be dictated by our emotions
and sensations of our experiences which are close and personal perspectives to
the body and mind. When we go inward and access ourselves as Consciousness, we
gain much needed context and perspective.
We feel
experience, we absorb it and make decisions based on how we feel about our
experience of feeling. It will direct our next experience. When we view the
world from our bigger perspective, we can go from reacting and triggered
behavior to responding to what is happening. It brings us present into the
moment and not our past story of biases in our experiences.
We want to engage
informed choice. People report how time seemed to slow down and senses
heightened, and clarity was present in an event where one had a moment of
choice.
Every
experience includes choices. We can do what one always does or do something
different. Too often we expect different outcomes when we push the same buttons
in the same order as before. Challenges and emotions arise when we feel there
is limited choice, no choice or too many choices, whether it be which apple or
in life and death situations.
In the
millisecond of time that is often all that is present we choose how we react or respond. It
does not mean denying what we are experiencing. It means acknowledging and choosing
how to respond to the horror we are facing. It is how we take the negative and
irreconcilable dynamics and acknowledge them in the same space.
Sometimes we
want to vindicate our sense of loss and this takes us in a certain direction in
the spectrum of Being. When you feel less than it doesn’t enrich ones’ sense of
being. It is not designed to. It is the contrast and we can get stuck in it.
When I choose
to be kind and appreciate myself and another, I feel enhanced, enriched,
relaxed, loved, all kinds of things come to mind. I like to feel this. It helps
me to be able to deal with the times and experiences that don’t feel this way.
(Technical}
TSGT Donald Malarkey was 22 when he became part of Easy Company described by
Stephen Ambrose in his book” Band of Brothers” during WW2. Awarded numerous
medals during those days he was to later state:
“There is not a day that has passed since that I do not
thank Adolf Hitler for allowing me to be associated with the most talented and
inspiring group of men that I have ever known.” This is a remarkable statement.
TSGT Malarky was able to transcend his personal experience of
horror into what it could be, a salute to those he served with and thought of
every day the rest of his life. He lived to age 96.
Humanity
demonstrates ugliness, cruelty and suffering easily. Humans demonstrate endurance
and resiliency and tolerance in response, transcending all into Love and Kindness.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
