"Inspirational Speaker of the Year" 2011, NSANZ
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Moving From Separation to Connection:
What's the ONE problem we're all facing now?
It's the same problem in your family, your community, your organisation, and the world...your only problem is a false sense of SEPARATION. This sense of ‘disconnection from the whole’ is an illusion. Science has proven that all energy in the universe is interconnected. The essence of every atom is the same - pure energy. We are all at the core that same energy in different forms.
This sense of separation is felt on 5 levels:
1. Firstly, on the individual level, separation starts when you disconnect from your own true nature and purpose. It is felt in a variety of situations as self-doubt, anxiety, scattered thinking, apathy, reactiveness, disease, or self-sabotage.
2. Relationships: This separation can be felt in your home and close relationships as withholding, withdrawing, protecting, or communication breakdown.
3. Community: The growing gap between rich and poor, drug and alcohol abuse, school bullying, and domestic violence are examples of separation in your community.
4. Organisations: Separation is felt as a lack of trust among teammates,over-protectiveness and slowed productivity, resistance to change, lack of innovation, and disengagement.
5. World: Separation ultimately manifests itself in in the BIG FIVE ISSUES of suffering in the world: WAR, HUNGER, POVERTY, DISEASE, and POLLUTION.
If we continue to falsely consider ourselves as separate from each other, we will continue to exacerbate the BIG FIVE problems. Fear and greed will continue to dominate, and misery, planetary destruction, and ultimate extinction for all will be the result.
The future we must create together instead is a world of ONENESS.
It is time to elevate our human nature to its highest potential of love, creativity, and generosity. It is time to transform our ignorance into awareness, our hatred into kindness, our closed-heartedness into compassion, and our victimhood into self-responsibility. It is time to restore a sense of balance, and let go of the dogged pursuit of individual advantage and indifference. It is time to exalt a sense of community and to create well-being for everyone. This will take our collaboration, courage, and commitment.
In order to ignite this cultural transformation from 'I' to 'We', from I-ness to We-ness, or more accurately, from Ill-ness to Well-ness, we need to focus on developing and strengthening the following four vital capacities and skills: self-awareness, self-responsibility, empathy, and authentic communication. It is time now to reclaim, revalue, and master these skills in order to pass them on to the next generation. By focusing on these capacities and skills in ourselves, our relationships, our communities, our organisations, we will create a world in which:
We dare to express ourselves openly and authentically, and our children, our partners, our neighbours, and our workmates do the same.
We hear the buzz of joyful voices creating and collaborating as we fully share our gifts with one other at home, at work, and in our community.
We feel the warmth in our hearts connecting with each other, as we easily trust and boldly express our truth and our love.
So all of this sounds good in theory - but how do we actually bring this sense of connection about?...
Here are 7 keys to experience the power of 'connection':
1. Be here now: Being present, fully awake, and focused on what is occuring at the moment enables you to respond most resourcefully to what is happening. You can strengthen this ability to be present through the mindful observing of your breath in each moment and by becoming more attentive to your sensations, thoughts, and feelings as you go through the day, being aware of the 'watcher' who is your true self, and is steady, strong, and unchanging no matter what the outer circumstances. By strengthening your inner observer, You will build your self-trust and strengthen your ability to naturally and appropriately respond in any situation.
2. Assume responsibility for yourself at all times: Remember that you are your own authority, and that it is up to you to manage your own responses to situations and to create your own attitude to life. Being an 'authority' means you are the author of your life - you are the one that creates your experience in life.
3. Seek to empathise and understand: Everyone wants to be more deeply understood, including yourself. If you can listen with compassion and seek to understand what is going on for yourself and others, you will strengthen your relationships and sense of connection.
4. Build trust: Take care to demonstrate trustworthy behaviour by keeping your promises to yourself and others and by renegotiating when your needs come into conflict with those promises. Building trust in yourself and in all your relationships is a key to experiencing a sense of connection. Yet, when things don't go as planned, be open to change and to the perspective that Life is constantly changing. By developing an open-minded, open-hearted attitude, you can flex and flow with life and often find the positive side of a situation that is better than your original plan.
5. Speak the truth with kindness: Speak up authentically and directly, with compassion as well as honesty and discernment.
6. Collaborate: We live in an interconnected world. Our efforts together are so much more powerful than our efforts alone. Seek out ways to work together with others and create a better outcome for all. Respect and value the worth of every person, and honour differences as important for a balanced perspective and result in any endeavour.
7. Appreciate,celebrate, and honour the cycles and the seasons Take time to share your love and praise with others. Take time to honour your achievements, discoveries,and mistakes as well as mourn your losses suffered and rejoice in your larger dreams realised. Honour the cycles and the seasons. There is the time of new life in the spring, the time of fullness in the summer, and the time of darkness,death, and stillness in the winter. These seasons happen in our relationships and projects as well as nature. Pause, reflect, and mark both small and large occasions. Honour the ebb and flow of Life, realising it is natural to alter your pace of living according to what is happening at the time.
So, what other steps can you take to experience more connection? And how will your life be different when you fully embrace the reality of 'Oneness'?
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