Musing while I wait….
I find myself sitting in the airport, waiting for the next available seat, stand by, because like an idiot I missed my flight. So what to do for the next few hours while I’m behaving myself and avoiding the bar. Not sure just how long the behaving myself part will last but I’m going to try anyway. Now if I miss my connecting flight at JFK id give the whole bar avoiding thing no more then 15 seconds. Needless to say my mood at the moment is not the best. And I began thinking about how my frustration is effecting others.
I have spent quite a bit of time lately researching different schools of thought on well…schools of thought. The collective kind that is. Everyday we see the evidence of collective consciousness around us without really understanding what it is and how each one of us effect it. And how it effects us.
I like to think of the collective consciousness as the sum of all we are, our thoughts, our hopes even our fears. And I am not of the opinion that only human thought collects in this manner. What I have discovered is that the effect we have on others is not just to those geographically close to us. What we put into, and take out of, the collective network of thoughts is just as potent around the world as it is around the corner.
Think of the collective consciousness as a bowl of room temperature water. Then you have two glasses, one with ice water and one with very hot water. Pour either one into the room temperature bowl and it will lower or raise the temperature of the entire bowl. Not just one area. In the same way everyday we add positive and negative to the collective network making life for all of us either a little better or a little worse. Sometimes what we contribute is offset by the value of and equal but opposite contribution by another. The more we allow ourselves to become conscious of the outcome of even our thoughts, the more we can try to contribute in a positive manner. Even when we think it’s only in the privacy of our mind. Because you know what, no such privacy exists. Others may not know our thoughts by they are still effected by them. Now the actions we take in the physical world, how we treat others and how we effect their day in a tangible manner effects their thoughts and so effects their contribution to the collective. Therefore to improve the status of the collective we have to not only be mindful of our thoughts but also of our actions. The old saying that a smile is contagious is true. It improves not only our contribution to this collection but the contribution of others as well.
So if we stay mindful, literally, of not only our actions but our thoughts, the chain reaction will be an increase in this collective spiritual temperature that will have a domino effect on us all.
Be Well
Be Happy
Kat