(editor's note: One of the best pieces of sage advice I ever got came (surprisingly) from the Company Commander back in my Army days of the 1980s. He told me, "You're either part of the problem, or part of the solution." This forever changed how I viewed my position in life and put an end to any feelings of victimization that have ever tried to surface.
So today I bring you a similar article "You Are The Problem." Before you slip back into 3D defensiveness, know that the message is being delivered gently and lovingly to strengthen understanding of your own power to change the world you live in. YOU can help heal the earth as soon as you stop waiting for "others" to fix the problem.
I hope that you are now reading / listening to mainstream media with a more discerning eye; seeing the subtle truths and the possible implications for your future. I'll be phasing this segment out -making way for a new provocative focus which will be introduced after the 5.20.12 alignment.
There are people all over this beautiful jewel we call Gaia working every day to correct the damage we have done. They are doing the physical clean up work, or putting the intellectual thought into solving these problems. Please join me in sending them all energies of love and support.
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You Are The Problem
BY Jeffrey Paul Baumgartner
Recently, I came across a sign informing…
You are not stuck in traffic.
You are traffic
Get a bike. Break Free!
I thought this sign was brilliant, not least because my bicycle is my preferred means of transport for journeys under 10km or so. But it is also a handy reminder that we humans tend to blame problems on others, and then expect others to solve those problems for us. Sadly, those others often have the same thoughts as us! They blame us and everyone else—but themselves—for the same problem. Meanwhile, everyone is waiting for someone else to solve the problem. But the truth is, if we are the problem, we also have a responsibility to solve the problem.
When it becomes clear that others are not going to solve the problem, then we often look to institutions to solve problems or, at the very least, blame them for failing to solve problems.
We expect the government to come up with a solution to the traffic problem but, ironically, complain when they legislate effective solutions like road fees in big cities, increased tax on fuel or closing roads to traffic in favor of bicycles.
This attitude of being a part of a problem, but blaming others is not limited to traffic jams. When we find ourselves in long queues to watch a football match (you could watch the game on television home) or are stuck in a crowded lift (you could take the stairs), we see ourselves as victims, rather than potential problem solvers.
And that’s a pity. Creativity is about solving problems in new ways. Everyone is creative. If we all took responsibility for the problems in which we participate, there would be far fewer problems!
BIG, SERIOUS, GLOBAL PROBLEMS
The thing with traffic jams and crowded lifts is that they are relatively local problems. However, the same situation is true of global problems, in particular: climate change. Most intelligent, knowledgeable people today accept that pollution is having a series effect on the global climate. On the global scale, it is leading to increasing warmth, which may well have disastrous consequences. On the local scale, we are seeing massive fluctuations in temperature and weather conditions. For city dwellers, this is merely inconvenient. For farmers who rely on consistent climatic conditions to grow crops, the consequences can be far worse—and this will eventually affect city dwellers through scarcity and increased prices of food products.
But with rare exception, we are all the problem. Heating and cooling your home, driving your car, throwing recyclables in the ordinary rubbish because it is easier—these all contribute to global warming. Yet most of us expect our government and energy suppliers not only to solve the problem on our behalves, and to do so in a way that will not inconvenience us. For instance, no one likes the idea of taxing fossil fuels, to reflect the cost of the damage they are doing to the environment, and using that income to repair the damage caused by those fossil fuels as well as to subsidize research into cleaner energies.
Such a solution is eminently logical, but it would inconvenience most people by increasing their costs for electricity, petrol and heating.
But the thing is, if every one of us who was a part of the problem made an effort to take personal responsibility and solve the problem, climate change would not be such a serious problem. If we all strove to use less energy, waste less food and water and buy energy from clean suppliers, climate change would be not be the problem that it is.
One action we could take would be to follow the advice on the sign that inspired this post and start using bicycles more often, and start being creative problem solvers rather than victims of situations.
http://designtaxi.com/article/101851/You-Are-The-Problem/
