The Way Out By Going Within

Written by Hildegard Gmeiner

Sustainable Living from the Inside Out

While human kind has, at points in history, lived in harmony with Planet Earth for millennia, according to experts we have caused more damage over last four centuries than during thousands of years before. We have come to a point where we either awaken from our denial about how we have been destroying our habitat, or pay the ultimate price for our ignorance.

I believe with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the way humans live life has changeddramatically and with it camesevere consequences for the Earth. Once Rene Descartes, a 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, was able to popularize his belief of the universe being nothing but a construct of separate, seemingly unrelated parts, people’s understanding of being an intricate part of the Earth was done away with.

Native cultures all over the world traditionally viewed Mother Earth as the giver and the sustainer of life for all creatures. European cultures had shared that worldview during the Middle Ages until they were overruled by Descartes’ theories. This paved the way for making it socially acceptable to rape and pillage the Earth, as well as its people. The driving force behind these changes, of course, was the desire for short-term material gains of a select few, while simultaneously causing long-term harm to our planet and the masses of its human inhabitants.

Lured away from living on the land and away from sustaining themselves off their land, by the prospect of a better and easier life, many people moved to where industries offered jobs. Urbanisation begun, and once flourishing rural communities, began to loose their lustre and eventually died completely.

Interestingly enough after having lived the urban life for a while myself, many of us are longing to get back to a slower paced and more sustainable way of life. We are looking for a way to making our livelihood in the country once again.

I believe it is entirely possible to create a totally sustainable lifestyle once again, however, it necessitates a significant change in awareness in all of us. Individually, as well as collectively, we all have to shift our perception of who we are as a species, as well as individuals. Furthermore we are to acknowledge, that maybe even unconsciously we have been creating the mess we are in, personally as well as collectively.

Step one - we are to change the perception of who we are. Human beings are indeed spiritual entities immersed in a physical experience. The part with which we are connected to the universal/collective conscious or call it God, is our soul. The language of our soul is our feelings, which are there to make us listen to our inner guidance,

So if there is a problem in our personal life, our intuition can lead us to the answer for the problem, provided we get our ego and our conditioned mind out of the way long enough, so we can actually become aware of and listen to the guidance coming from within.

People we today might look up to as experts with respect to environmental issues reached that status in society only, because they followed their inner passion and guidance. They were able to make themselves psychologically free of the reactions and negative comments of others and kept on doing what they believed to be right, even though the group consciousness at the time, might not have been in support of their ideas.

Imagine if all human beings would remember how to listen to their inner wisdom and to follow their passion, by cleaning up their fear-based belief systems, thought and language patterns, as well as their behaviours?

My personal journey along the self-healing path has taught me everything is possible. We can consciously choose to focus our thoughts on the positive outcome and vision and intend the Good. As we change the frequencies of what we emanate out into the world, we physically make a positive difference to the whole ocean of energy, which binds all of creation.

Religious people always believed that praying for someone would make a difference. With the advent of quantum physics, scientists have been delivering the data and even visible proof for our collective oneness, which proofs why prayer/affirmations do work. We are one with each other and in that, one with all of creation, for creation is this vast ocean of energy, binding all. Some call it the collective unconscious, while scientist might call it the unified field. Regardless what you call it, the poet goes there for his poetry, the engineer accesses it for an answer to an engineering problem, and the write tunes into this space, for his writing.

The vibration frequency of this energetic space can be tuned into with the help of our soul, by stilling our minds and by feeling at peace and feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation.

Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of the book “The Message from the Water,” has made visible for the naked eye to see, what mystics intuitively have known for thousands of years. He captured photographically, how thoughts and prayers, good intent or negative intent impact the molecular structure of water.

Dr. David Suzuki, the world-renowned expert on sustainable ecology, demonstrated human oneness by explaining how we literally exchange and share subatomic particles with each other, simply through our breath.

Now imagine the energetic power each one of us has to contribute to the whole. When I met Garnet McPherson during the mid nineties, I desperately wanted to believe that I could make a difference to my own life, as well as to the whole, yet the necessary piece to this puzzle hadn’t come together in my head yet. All would change for me in a matter of minutes in discussion with Garnet.

We discussed how the planet worked much like a living organizm and how all things were connected in an intricate web of life. He told me the story of the “Hundredth Monkey” , which truly demonstrated to me that all I, as an individual had to do is follow my heart, and make sure I, within myself make the shift away from the vibration of fearful separateness, into that of love-based oneness. I realized that all I really had to do is change my mind about who I was.

By following my passions, I realized that not only could I heal my body and my life, but in doing so I simultaneously wasgoing to make my contribution to the healing of others and that of our Planet as well. Once I realized that all I had to do is be myself and make my own dreams come true, the fear energy was going to be ever so slowly evicted from my heart, as the understanding of loving oneness moved in. My energetic shift than was going to rub off on every person I would meet, creating a ripple effect, which then would add to the ripples others had initiated and before long the collective consciousness would be free of fear-based thoughts and action.

So just relax and be a 100th monkey, for once 10 % of the population of this planet reaches a sustainable, self-loving and self-respecting way of life, huge positive shifts are felt by our Mother Earth as well. Loving and respecting self ultimately is leading to healing the planet from the inside out.

The cynics might say we have been very successful at destroying our own habit, individually as well as collectively and there is no hope for change.

I would like to suggest to you that all, which appears dark and hopeless, is nothing but part of a bigger, cosmic picture, within which all is in divine order and this article is to provide you with a new perspective on the matter.

What if all human beings are geniuses, and yet over generations we were conditioned to view ourselves as victims of circumstance? Over generations we have been conditioned to look outside ourselves for answers, totally ignore our true inner self and shutting ourselves of from this most powerful inner guidance system.