People, as with all life, should feel strong, happy, and fully alive.
We don’t.
Most of us feel discouraged and anxious. The rest of us don’t feel much, but are ready to go anyway.
OUR REAL NATURE
People are gentle and loving.
That’s how we began life, and that’s who we really are inside – every one of us.
In this environment, however, we come to feel isolated and lonely.
Consequently, many of us have become competitive, hostile, destructive, and selfish.
ISOLATED? HOW?
We each have a soft and gentle inner core. That’s who we really are.
We are easily hurt.
We are designed to live out loud.
In a natural, loving, human environment, we won’t experience hurt.
Sadly, though, our environment has become hostile.
That affects our feelings and our behaviour.
We no longer live out loud.
That’s not safe.
Our gentle and loving core, while powerful, isn’t designed to accept the hurt that this environment causes.
We struggle to keep our feelings safe.
Our power and confidence come from that gentle inner core.
This is who we were as we began life.
We get painfully crushed, though, and hurt to the core with every insult this unfeeling environment causes.
We learn to stop living out loud. Most of us will remain this way for life.
IS THE HURT NECESSARY?
No!
We humans, have lost our way.
We are not living through our kind and gentle nature.
Instead, we cause each other to hurt.
Then we become defiant. That causes isolation.
IS LOVE AND COMFORT POSSIBLE?
That’s not only possible! It’s our normal condition.
Our normal human environment is supportive, kind, and loving.
CAN OUR ENVIRONMENT STILL BE LOVING?
Yes.
Doing that is infinitely easier than our struggle to control people.
HOW?
Life comes from within.
Allow that!
THAT’S ALL
That alone fixes everything!
Because of our exposure to this hostile environment, however, it takes years to learn to back off and allow the lives of others to be expressed from within them.
IS IT WORTH DOING?
Everything good and loving in our world comes from deep within.
What do we all secretly crave?
We probably can’t feel it, but the one thing that will make us feel right again is full approval.
With that, we can begin our own return to a loving condition.
This is real life. The way our lives should be, and were meant to be.
It comes from that inner core.
It comes along with living out loud.
In a loving world, we would demand approval and support from others.
But in this world, we have no right to demand approval. Not until we can give it.
Giving only support and approval takes a long time to learn.
Our environment has taught us brute force for our entire lives. There will be a lot to unlearn.
It may take 30 or 40 years.
The results, though, are amazing. We begin to feel right again for the first time since childhood.
Support other people’s inner expression instead of overwhelming and crushing it!
The consequence is feeling right, and eventually, loving relationships!
ABANDON GUIDANCE?
Yes!
For all of life, the only guidance that works comes from within.
Instincts, needs, and feelings drive it.
The result is feeling right, and what we refer to as proper moral behavior.
If we look at life with an open mind, what are its needs?
It’s self-driven.
If we overpower that delicate wisdom, we cause that life to hurt.
Consequently, that life gradually loses its natural moral compass.
CAN WE HAVE PEACE?
Yes.
But it comes from inside!
The evidence is all around us, and always has been.
People raised with freedom and kindness turn out loving.
People raised with rules become hostile and difficult.
NATURE MADE THE RULES
Can we ignore nature in favour of providing our own guidance?
Not safely, we can’t!
First, we must study the needs of life.
If we go ahead without considering those needs, what will happen?
Chaos!
We’re living it now.
We’ve made people hollow.
We’ve overpowered natural wisdom and love.
Our rules and guidance have no chance of working. We must understand people’s needs first.
We went ahead without first understanding the needs of life.
We are living the consequence of acting before understanding!
HOW GOOD COULD LIFE BE?
Absolutely awesome! Security, power, and comfort, all for free.
We also get loving children who wish only to be included in life. They want to help in any way they can.
That’s what happens when we allow them to live from their own hearts instead of our instructions.
We’ve all seen that here and there in life.
Sadly, as a group, we don’t wish to understand the reason for the anxiety and hostility we see.
We settle for blaming others for that.
Understanding it might make us wrong.
We declare that children have been spoiled when they get everything they want.
They aren’t obedient.
We don’t give up until we get obedience.
LIFE IS NOT OBEDIENT
It is all driven from within!
Left to live from within, people are kind and loving. Every time.
Nature has planned well.
Humanity has not planned at all.
We direct our children without first understanding their needs.
CAN ANY OF US HAVE LOVE IN THIS RESULTANT ENVIRONMENT?
Sure, we can.
We see it here and there, all around us.
Our usual reaction is to condemn the lack of discipline.
Many of us refuse to give up until we control people.
Meanwhile, many live in love and harmony that the rest can’t have.
JOY TO THE WORLD!
That joy isn’t a hopeless dream.
It’s the normal condition for humans.
All we must do is live our own lives.
Then, we need to allow others to do the same.
We need to support and encourage. Other life will respond in its own way.
Evil won’t exist.
We invented evil when we took over the gentle inner core of other people.
A LOVING WORLD
That’s our normal condition.
All the good stuff comes from within.
We have all seen that.
We have also seen the results of demanding obedience.
And, still, we don’t wish to see.
AUTHORITY AND CONTROL
We’ve lived that way for our whole lives.
We haven’t yet seen the final results of where that takes us, though.
If we continue refusing to understand the real needs of life, we will see it.
Hopefully, we can learn to support the loving inner condition of people instead.
Our world will consequently become a magical place.
PEACE ON EARTH
What is possible is truly astonishing.
It’s the other side of the coin.
Literally, everything changes.
People who live from their instinctive wisdom agree with each other. They just do.
Truth is natural.
We only ever block the truth to protect ourselves.
Living from our own needs, instincts, and feelings, there is no threat to defend against. We do not need to protect ourselves. Not now, as adults.
In a world that allows inner drive, we all agree. We see that sometimes even in this environment.
Life from within is a whole different world.
A world without distance between each other.
Our social problems disappear.
Living from our hearts, we don’t overpopulate. We don’t act out in dangerous and destructive ways. Feelings drive relationships.
We feel accepted.
With our inner core feeling safe, we can live out loud. There is no cause for hostility. That comes from fear, which we live without.
Feeling accepted, there is no fear. Not even from death. The healthier we get, the less we fear death. It just happens.
We feel loved and accepted, and live without fear.
How is that for a better life?
All we must do is allow people to remain intact. We all need our feelings, instincts, and awareness of our needs.
We must also allow others to keep theirs.
Our focus should first be on the very young. They are the most vulnerable.
The condition they are in, as they leave childhood, will shape our next environment.
Our present environment, therefore, reflects the condition we were in as we left our own childhood.
It is so very easy to engineer our world into a paradise.
All we have to do is not damage other lives.
Is that a lot to ask? Allowing our young to live from their own inner wisdom and feelings?
That’s what life is! It comes from inside.
Why can’t we allow that?
Still, we long for world peace, as we go about damaging the inner drive of our young, thus preventing peace.
Enough said.
Thanks for listening,
Good luck on your journey.
Take care,
Norm Cormier
I welcome considering other thoughts.