It’s That Time

By Dina Evan, PhD

I believe one of our worst addictions today is apathy — and right behind it is the refusal to believe in ourselves and know we can create great change and make a huge difference in the quality of our lives and the lives of those we care for.

I believe in everyone’s lifetime we each reach a certain point where we begin to accept the inevitable and decide to stop behaving as if we don’t know what the truth is or what’s coming. This moment is a definite heads-up time!  We have created a mess, and we need everyone on board to fix it.

First, we forgot that this is our country and we just simply stopped watching over those we elected to care for all of us — every gender, lifestyle choice, heritage, color, nationality, and every age. We stopped protecting the right of everyone to be exactly who they are and make self-loving choices.

We forgot we should probably elect those who we know they are committed to do the peoples’ business, not just big business or just amassing more wealth, rather than be guided by constitutional guidelines, ethical boundaries, and human rights.

Support those aligned with our own values

The first step, even if we’re not interested in political change, is to be sure we vote for people we believe are the most aligned with our own values, most honest, best informed and committed to making our state, country, and world better.

We are living in a time when we have become so separated and at odds with each other, it feels like we have forgotten there is only one of us, one human family, and, they are our family, yours, and mine. From anyone of any age who has a different skin color than you, to the little kid that feels as if no one loves him until you tell him you do.

Just knowing someone cares and has your back is what we do. It’s our way of life, our choice and purpose and we have great training for that.  Making a difference every day to change the energy of separation and at odds, to connected, supportive and caring is huge and more needed right now in this world than ever before.

Wherever and whoever you are, there is someone sitting just a few feet away who needs your support or love today. Make it your way of life to give that. This simple easy task creates a major change in energy, and isn’t that exactly what you came here to do in the first place? There is nothing more important in life than knowing you came here with a purpose and choosing to live that purpose every day.

When you choose that way of life, you become very powerful and find you can bring every aspect of your life into alignment with your purpose. It’s time to deepen our work and begin caring for the business of our soul, the soul you came here to be, doing the work you came here to do. Everything you have learned in every meeting and with every outstretched hand has prepared you for this time to deepen the work. It’s the very essence of that work you do at meetings, as sponsors and as enlightened people and, there is simply no better work.

So how does that look? First inventory the prejudices you still are holding inside. What judgments do you feel about yourself that get projected on to others? Then examine what fears from your past you still have not addressed. Take time to make a similar list of your good qualities and those you want to expand. Download the “This is Who I am” inventory on my website and/or the “Awareness Inventory.”

But first take a minute to get still and ask yourself, what small or large thing can I do to be part of helping to change this world for the better? Sit quietly and ask yourself what that is. Wait for the answer because it will come. You have a purpose for coming and now is the time to live it.

Dr. Evan is a marriage, family, child therapist and consciousness counselor. http://www.drdinaevan.com   

602-571-8228.