© Lucian Eyers 2011
Without change, we cannot grow. Our bodies will change as the ageing process continues, but if we fail to change our ideas and habits, we cannot spiritually, mentally and emotionally move forward.
Last Friday’s blog described how we are deceived by those who wish to exploit us. The remedy is – change, which is why I have chosen ‘change’ as the subject of this week’s blog.
As we move closer into and beyond 2012, we will be less tolerant of those who deceive us. We will also not be allowed to continue in work that does not fulfil our soul purpose. We are already seeing this as people stand up against dictatorships and are removed from employment through bullying, redundancy or a need to pursue a more rewarding life.
Last Friday’s blog described how we are deceived by those who wish to exploit us. The remedy is – change, which is why I have chosen ‘change’ as the subject of this week’s blog.
As we move closer into and beyond 2012, we will be less tolerant of those who deceive us. We will also not be allowed to continue in work that does not fulfil our soul purpose. We are already seeing this as people stand up against dictatorships and are removed from employment through bullying, redundancy or a need to pursue a more rewarding life.
When we fail to make the changes that are necessary to move forward, then change is forced upon us.
This week a friend told me that his tenant had trashed the flat he rents out and that he now felt a great sense of injustice. He said, “We have been good landlords and don’t deserve this.”
I suggested to him that he was taking the incident personally and he agreed. I explained to my friend that it may be wise to let go of the stress and burden of his second property and invest his energy and resources in his one home. I explained that everything happens for a reason and there was more underlying this situation than he first thought.
My friend then said that he was thinking of trying to track his tenant down to prosecute him. I suggested that we are all at different stages of spiritual development. I said, “For someone to leave your flat as this man did, would indicate that from a spiritual viewpoint, this person is still a child. We have all done things we regret and have accrued karmic debt along the way. This debt we have to repay.”
I told my friend that one of the quickest ways of removing our own karma is to forgive others who violate you. This is a very powerful way of removing your own karmic debt, because it is so difficult to do. In other words, this unpleasant situation was an opportunity for positive change for him.
This week a friend told me that his tenant had trashed the flat he rents out and that he now felt a great sense of injustice. He said, “We have been good landlords and don’t deserve this.”
I suggested to him that he was taking the incident personally and he agreed. I explained to my friend that it may be wise to let go of the stress and burden of his second property and invest his energy and resources in his one home. I explained that everything happens for a reason and there was more underlying this situation than he first thought.
My friend then said that he was thinking of trying to track his tenant down to prosecute him. I suggested that we are all at different stages of spiritual development. I said, “For someone to leave your flat as this man did, would indicate that from a spiritual viewpoint, this person is still a child. We have all done things we regret and have accrued karmic debt along the way. This debt we have to repay.”
I told my friend that one of the quickest ways of removing our own karma is to forgive others who violate you. This is a very powerful way of removing your own karmic debt, because it is so difficult to do. In other words, this unpleasant situation was an opportunity for positive change for him.
I would like to illustrate this point further to show that by changing our views, we can change a situation. I will use three actual examples; firstly the government’s decision making, secondly a journalist’s unhelpful focal point and thirdly a religious leader’s concerns.
Last Saturday saw both peaceful and violent demonstrations in London over government cuts. Politicians condemned the violence and those MPs responsible for the cuts claimed they were necessary. However, according to the government census website help.census.gov.uk, the 2011 “Census will cost around £500 million for England and Wales over the period 2005-2016.” This is said to be necessary to, “Help plan around £100 billion in public service funding in England and Wales.”
A census that researches our religious beliefs and our qualifications has little to do with planning funding, but more to do with controlling the populous and keeping tabs on them. It is therefore, insensitive and unacceptable to be spending enormous amounts of public money on such ventures, when massive cuts have been made to the welfare of so many people struggling to survive.
On Monday 28th March 2011 at 0738 on the BBC’s Today programme, Commander Bob Broadhurst in charge of policing Saturday's protest, explained how police dealt with the disorder. The journalist and interviewer John Humphrys focused on “Why did the police not see it coming and why did they not stop it?”
The five-minute interview dominated the only reference to the weekend’s protest by blaming the police for not controlling the situation. This media coverage would have been an opportunity for the interviewer to look at why thousands of ordinary, peaceful people left the comfort of their homes to protest for what they strongly believe. Instead the journalist chose to concentrate on the two hundred troublemakers who caused disruption.
The following day on Tuesday 29th March at 0748 also on the BBC’s Today programme with ‘Thought for the Day’, the Reverend Lucy Winkett discussed the protest in her words as, ‘It was the anonymity of some of the protesters that disturbed me.”
However, by listening to these youths as to why their frustration had surfaced and offering guidance and support to them may have been more productive, than the paralysis of fear.
However, by listening to these youths as to why their frustration had surfaced and offering guidance and support to them may have been more productive, than the paralysis of fear.
So did these three views help to heal the situation or did they add to the sense of frustration and paralysis?
These views concentrate on three themes. They are – deception, judgement and of course fear.
However, there are three solutions to the problems of fear and intolerance. They are – honesty, forgiveness and acceptance.
These views concentrate on three themes. They are – deception, judgement and of course fear.
However, there are three solutions to the problems of fear and intolerance. They are – honesty, forgiveness and acceptance.
We must do everything for the higher good if we are to be successful in our aims. If the politician genuinely uses public money for that purpose, they will be allowed to continue in service to the public. If not, they will be removed.
If the journalist encourages the voice of reason, rather than pander to ego and self-righteousness, then these unpleasant events will no longer continue.
And lastly how can we understand the reality of the event that Reverend Lucy Winkett discussed? We do this through acceptance. A Master understands that all is as it should be and there is a reason why such things happen. Once we accept, then we can do much about changing the situation.
If you place a pot of water on a stove for long enough, eventually your neglect will cause a fire. If we continue to neglect the weak and the ignorant and choose to chastise them rather than help them, we will suffer the consequences.
None of us understand the difficult lives some of these youths have endured, nor do we have the right to judge another. This is a time of healing and therefore not condemnation.
None of us understand the difficult lives some of these youths have endured, nor do we have the right to judge another. This is a time of healing and therefore not condemnation.
My drawing above illustrates a poem I wrote called ‘Change,’ which is taken from ‘The Angel Book of Hours.’ The poem is based on a conversation I had with a young lady and the response I gave was given with the help of my guardian angel and spirit guides. I have included the poem below.
Change
“We’ve always had these wars,” she said,
“I fear we always will.
The process of protecting us,
And so the need to kill.
Those people who believe that we
Should all just dress like them.
But I believe in someone,
Who was born in Bethlehem.
They want to build their temples,
That would look so out of place.
And if we tried to do the same,
They’d say, ‘It’s a disgrace.’
And so I treat the people,
That I like with great respect.
And those I cannot live with,
Then their presence I forget.”
He said, “Your view is really not
The way to carry on.
For surely it’s the reason,
Why our Father sent His son.
We teach by pure example
Showing love to every race.
To change the World, then we must change,
To make a better place.
Just look at how the World has changed,
But I believe in someone,
Who was born in Bethlehem.
They want to build their temples,
That would look so out of place.
And if we tried to do the same,
They’d say, ‘It’s a disgrace.’
And so I treat the people,
That I like with great respect.
And those I cannot live with,
Then their presence I forget.”
He said, “Your view is really not
The way to carry on.
For surely it’s the reason,
Why our Father sent His son.
We teach by pure example
Showing love to every race.
To change the World, then we must change,
To make a better place.
Just look at how the World has changed,
Two hundred years ago,
Our country mothered slavery,
But let the people go.
In darker times the animals
Would not behave like us,
Barbaric, cruel intentions,
Our country mothered slavery,
But let the people go.
In darker times the animals
Would not behave like us,
Barbaric, cruel intentions,
For a trinket or a crust.
We’re better than we were,
And yes, by God we can improve.
But change will only happen,
If these feelings we remove.
Just focus on acceptance,
That we have a different voice,
And who we choose to worship
Is by rights a human choice.
Forget about the way a temple
Looks within a space.
It’s likely in another life,
You had a foreign face.
Remember we are civilised,
And won’t remove a hand,
Because the loaf we stole,
Is but a tiny grain of sand.
So show the face of charity,
For you have more than they,
And God will thus reward you,
That you changed the World today.”
We’re better than we were,
And yes, by God we can improve.
But change will only happen,
If these feelings we remove.
Just focus on acceptance,
That we have a different voice,
And who we choose to worship
Is by rights a human choice.
Forget about the way a temple
Looks within a space.
It’s likely in another life,
You had a foreign face.
Remember we are civilised,
And won’t remove a hand,
Because the loaf we stole,
Is but a tiny grain of sand.
So show the face of charity,
For you have more than they,
And God will thus reward you,
That you changed the World today.”
'Change' taken from 'The Angel Book of Hours,' by Lucian Eyers © 2011
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