There exists a widespread discontent and unidentified emptiness across our planet which most often is blamed upon personal, familial or community-based factors. Having spent decades in the art of listening to stories, there is no doubt that personal, familial, cultural, economic and community-based factors all contribute to one’s state of happiness or suffering. Noticeably absent from most assessments of human wellness however, is that recognition of and alignment with our divine origin is paramount to a genuine state of health.
This knowledge is largely ignored by systems and health practitioners due, in part, to the individual uniqueness we observe in spiritual understandings or practices and a hesitance to offend or come across as righteous. This large scale absence of attention to the essence of each individual however, has contributed to a strange sort of ‘bystander effect’. This effect in psychology refers to a phenomenon where a group of people refrain from taking action, speaking about or acknowledging something significant happening right in front of them, because no one else seems to be doing or saying anything.
With individuals in government, health care and education systems consistently ‘not saying anything’ about the divine intelligence, essence or soul self within each of us and its’ importance in health and well-being, individuals then join in the pretending and ‘don’t usually discuss’ , acknowledge or contemplate the question of our connection to our essential nature as directly related to the health of our body, emotions and thoughts. Unless an individual seeks out this information and these types of discussions, one could walk through an entire adult life with almost zero exposure to an open dialogue about one’s Divine nature.
A further difficulty arises when any assertion of ‘truth’ comes from an individual of a particular religion or spiritual orientation. Non-religiously affiliated individuals or those attached to a singular worldview, will tend to shut down, judge or turn away from information that could be meaningful at its heart.
While our minds continue to be bombarded with ideas, preconceptions and assumptions about world religions and forms of spirituality, our bodies will often feel pressure (consciously or unconsciously) to ‘believe in something’.
We have both a drive to avoid discomfort (how that pressure can feel) and a drive to seek our own truth.
Choices sometimes seem black and white. Ditch it all–it all sucks–I don’t want anything to do with it. Or follow a way of thinking and practices that exist—and I automatically fit. Those that follow any religion or spirituality will be comforted by a sense of belonging and fit when there are enough people following a certain understanding.
If one chooses the end of the continuum that says, ‘none of it makes sense, none of it feels right’ or even ‘it’s all meaningless’ –the ‘wrongness’ or ‘emptiness’ will remain in the body. Humans will seek to heal, eliminate, distract, numb or avoid this sense of lack however they can. It is so unnatural to our inherent state to believe in meaninglessness that the desire to avoid and numb or disappear will be very strong.
Between these extremes, there are many grey areas.
Each of us has the freedom to explore, seek and find our own truth—whether within the scope of a particular set of beliefs and practices or not.
The ‘unexplained emptiness’ which exists in much of our humanity right now is not generally acknowledged, voiced or considered as a systemic issue and will instead be assumed to be a personal one. So,....an individual trudges on,... easily finding distraction, numbness or avoidance until the emptiness becomes too painful again and seeps out in subtle or obvious ways. With the outside world ever full of distractions and constant input about what is valuable, it is easy to watch months and years pass without devoting any significant time considering the subtle ‘drive for more’ one feels, the missing ‘belief in something’ or what it is that creates that gap or emptiness inside.
Unfortunately, and very personally sad to me, after months or years, many individuals have presenting issues such as chronic pain, a serious physical diagnosis, depression, anxiety or some sort of addiction. Painful to watch, is the fact that it is all preventable or at the very least, more easily overcome if one was encouraged to seek one’s depth and Truth inside oneself from an early age. Answers always exist there. And they are waiting.
Whatever you have been taught, told, pushed toward or pushed away from, there exists in you right now, a beauty, a stillness, a unity,....and a Love that could be described as nothing less than Divine. In all that I have witnessed in humans and in myself, the good, the bad and the very ugly, the awareness of the unity and purity that exists inside each individual is unshakeable. Whoever you are, whatever you have done in your past, and whatever thoughts pass through your mind, it does not change the fact that you are Divine in origin. And that is the Truth.
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