Spiritual Awakening: Host Or Hostage?<\/h1>\n

This is a guest post by Diane C. Parker<\/p>\n

Diane C. Parker is a Certified Life Coach, Reiki Master, EFT III Certified, an Author and an Intuitive Energy Healer. She resides in “Almost Heaven” West Virginia. She is co-owner of artLogic, LLC “a Synchronicity of Science and Spirit”, creator of the YES! Oracle\u2122 and the “F-ing System\u2122,” Your Fastest Path to Freedom. She is on a mission to save the world, one person, one day at a time.<\/p>\n

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Host or Hostage<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here we are, right in the thick of it again\u2026.campaign season (silly season as some may affectionately call it). It\u2019s easy to get caught up in the \u201cOMG, what will we do if so and so wins?\u201d of it all. Not so long ago, I fell right down into that deep rabbit hole. After years of activism, standing up for worker\u2019s rights and a full on diet of 24-hour news broadcasts, I decided what I had been doing to change the world wasn\u2019t working. I decided to do something different. I decided to change.<\/p>\n

Each and every day, we have a multitude of choices. As we progress into \u201cadulthood\u201d, we learn how to behave, how to fit in society and how to fear nearly everything we haven\u2019t seen\u00a0adnauseam. The latter is where the powers that be get us every time. Choices become distant memories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fear-mongering is the go-to weapon for crushing an uprising of free-will in the United States. Fear is the bogeyman used with abandon to control the masses. It is wielded with such precision, in the news, in social media and even in parroted conversations that most American adults have become its hostage. We, seemingly powerless to all that \u201cmay go wrong,\u201d have lost our ability to hope and to dream. There is nothing more dangerous for a person, a family, a community or a nation.<\/p>\n

There is an alternative to the Stockholm Syndrome we are collectively exhibiting. It involves nothing more than remembering.<\/p>\n

We, at our inception, are the by-product of 1000\u2019s of bursting stars. At birth, arriving at a confluence of confounding, astounding parameters that support life on this planet, we are a host to a divine spirit that knows only an infinite number of possibilities for the future. Around the age of seven, we begin to forget our limitless potential. Bit by bit, the magic is taken from us. We are willing victims, albeit not initially, of this heinous crime. Before long, doom, gloom, muck and mud are all that we imagine. We fall victim to our past and our fear of the future. We forget to enjoy the day.<\/p>\n

What if we just stopped? What if we decided that worry and fear were worthless wastes of time and energy? What if we gave them up? What if we imagined what all could go right?<\/p>\n

Fear is a remnant of our reptilian brains, designed to kick our \u201cfight or flight\u201d defense mechanisms in gear when necessary. If that is all we allowed it to do, there would be no stress, anxiety or the myriad of ailments they cause. There is not another creature on God\u2019s green earth that ruminates and marinates in fears (real or imagined) once the cause of the fear no longer threatens. We humans, in contract, turn our fears into years\u2019 worth of worry.<\/p>\n

All of us can imagine at least one time we were joyfully ecstatic. Let\u2019s bask in that! Let\u2019s relish in the sunshine, happy baby faces, smiles from strangers, walking barefoot and dancing under the moonlight. Let\u2019s collectively notice each and every blessing the day affords us and give thanks as if we won the lottery. Let\u2019s go out of our way to help a stranger. Let\u2019s smile and laugh and play without regard to who may be watching. Let\u2019s imagine a future where we \u201cchoose\u201d to be a better person, a better better-half, a better parent, a better citizen living in a better nation. Let\u2019s imagine that every gift at our disposal every day the sun comes up can be put to use to serve ourselves and the whole of humanity. Let\u2019s stop allowing ourselves to be taken hostage and be a better host to the source that lives within and binds us all. I can guarantee, if you do these things, the blessings will flow like the mighty Mississippi! This, I know from experience.<\/p>\n

And yes, I\u2019m still voting this Fall! A wonderful outcome can result just as I\u2019ve imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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