Part of this complete breakfast: fear & rage edition

If you look at what's being offered up for consumption, you might not be entirely surprised if Kellog's advertised, "Fear and rage: part of this complete breakfast." While I personally believe cardboard is probably more nutritious than many breakfast serials, and that glyphosphate and empty carbs are really not part of any complete breakfast, unless the goal is to see how far you can push your glorious human body's detoxification mechanisms,) I think fear and rage are even less nourishing for the human soul, and can have dire consequences on our bodies as well - not only when someone goes out and shoots other bodies, but also in terms of what chronic outrage, and fear-states do to our immune system, our adrenals, our hormonal balance and our critical thinking faculties, which get shortcircuited, making us very susceptible to letting someone else do the thinking of us. And we'd be remiss to think that isn't intentional. But forget all that: hostility is bad for our hearts. And you know what? We need those beauties beating if we want to stick around. And we need them beating with love and in unity with our brothers and sisters if we want to create a level of consciousness coherence strong enough to create a world our kids will want to stick around for. So consider working through fear and rage an exercise in your own heath, as well as suicide prevention for the next generation.

Imagine a white rose in the center of your heart, with sprarkly dew drops made of pure light. Each dew drop is a crystal shining with a splash of refracted rainbow light.

Your heart is full of a love so pure it is invincible.

The womb space that births you...in which this rose floats has no-thing in it. It is black like velvet love; a kiss beyond touch and form. In it nothing is divisible because no is there and yet ever-one arrives there to become empty, in that pregnant-with-all-potential sort of way. You are free and safe. You are infinite. And from this space you inhale into every cell in your physical body the knowing that you are far more...and far less than every story being told upon life's stage.

Stepping back to see how you are the director, as well as the actor, you have more lee-way to play your part, cancel your show, demand your actors step it up a notch or go home, ask for a re-write on the screen play (oh yeah, you are the screen writer too, but you have a whole time to help you,) or simply call "lunch" while you see what needs to happen to make this whole thing work.

When the whole thing is a mess, a simple mantra that can shift the timeline is, "I love you, thank you." Just say it as you survey and feel into what is happening in front of you and within you. And then go to the womb space from which you birth new realities. Center in the rose that flowers in the center of your heart-zone. Call on your angels. Set your boundaries. Align. Inhale. Exhale. Act. You can always do "take two." It's never too late. The stakes are high, but it's just a show. Relax. Enjoy the process a little more. Remember it's only acting.

Being calm-passionate with your other actors and screen writers and people directing their own (possibly competing) shows can help you bring out the best in your people - and get a lot more joy and peace out of the creative process called life.

This is your moment. You signed up for this. You are here! We are here! We are not alone.

An alternative to allowing the most effective forms of creative compassion to get hijacked by rage is to become calm-passionate, so that we can focus on developing our awesomness with a fierce commitment to reclaim our awesomeness and cultivate our skillfulness at expressing it to our larger whole. When we become contagious and courageous we become agents of change instead of pawns in a puppet show that ends like Hamlet. We are all influencers, everyday. And when you think about it, you might have the opportunity to be the tipping point for one person who has the potential to be a tipping point for their organization, their family or something even bigger. All that’s necessary is stepping into who you really are, skillfully in service to our larger whole. And if your adult says, “It’s too hard.” Or, “It’s too simple,” tell your adult to go sit down and watch a Netflix re-run while you conference with your inner child and your inner sage