The opposite of unity includes polarity, stress and fear which has peaked in recent times of enormous change and fear in the global community in the last few months. Sometimes you may become more away of what separates us than what unites us – a ‘us vs them mentality’. People have different beliefs of what is wrong and right and how we need to operate. Often times people can comfortably adopt a live and let live attitude but what happens when the stakes are raised? It is easy to walk across a 200cm long x 50cm plank of wood when it is on the ground but when it is 3m, 30m or 300m high it gets increasingly scary when the consequences of the fall increases. I do not know what the answer is. What I do know is we are going through times of incredible change on a global level.

Imagine we all live on an island and there was a red button. Some people believe if we push the red button we die. Other people believe if we con’t push the red button we die. Both people have research and studies that support their beliefs. People are angry and scared. Families, friends and communities divided. 

How do we come to peace, remedy and resolve? How do we act as a community and avoid judgement and competition? How do we respect each other when we all love the baby (the baby could be health, the earth, peace)?

Respect contains re/spect re = again and spect = look. To look again, to look deeper. How do we look deeper into one another when we are sacred? How do we find what unites us in that moment? I practise respecting and accepting others and their beliefs even when they are different. I have been taught to listen and to open to all possibilities even if they are not probable. 

There are many dimensions to the human experience, those of form and those of formlessness. There are many paradoxes. I have trained over many years to involve myself not only in the outer world of human experience but also the inner worlds including meditation, day dreaming and dreaming at night. To explore places in my consciousness for fun, creativity and peace. 

What is it that unities us? Our earth and our free will connect us as humans. We each have the ability to make choices. My wish is that we are able to make choices for ourselves that feel true for us with harm to none. I do not know what that looks like at this moment of time when the current reality I am seeing holds so much division. 

What I do know is often the only way out is in. At times when it seems impossible we can imagine something new for ourselves, our families, our communities. Taking time to do our best to relax and breathe through it. 

There is a saying it is always darkest before the dawn. My wish for you at this time is relaxation and peace. I invite you to do the meditation to find a light in the darkness and welcome the dawn. I dream of new beginnings with more unity and recognition of what it is that unties us. With more practises that look at the social and environmental and not just the economic which has been dominating the bottom line for a long time. I vision that we find ways to work with each other and the earth that brings forth more harmony. Again, I don’t know exactly what that looks like but I am meditating on that and I invite you to join me.