How Do We Not Lose Hope?
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Don’t lose hope. I know that the world looks bleak right now, but we can still change it.
Yes, there is some pretty awful stuff happening in the world around us. Terrible people are doing terrible things; threatening to take away rights; disempowering and disenfranchising all for their own interests; shredding the very fabric of our society. It feels terrible, it is scary and unpleasant and infuriating, and holding onto hope is pretty damned challenging.
The lunatics in “power” want you to lose hope. If they can take away your hope, they believe that they will gain more control. They know that hope drives the opposition, so if they can remove it, they believe that they can gain greater control.
This is why they utilize fear, and sell lack and scarcity, because courage, love, and abundance are all drivers of hope. Hope is positivity, because it is an expressing of a belief that we can have better than we have now.
We are worthy and deserving of a world where rape culture is a thing of the past. You are worthy and deserving of a world where skin color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, or what-have-you are all treated equally.
We can still build this world…if we don’t lose hope.
Hope, thoughts, feelings and actions
If we allow our thoughts to fall to hopelessness, and to then make us feel bad about the world as it is right now, then we will most likely continue to live in this world. Consciousness creates reality. Thought leads to feeling. If you think we are all totally screwed and that the world is doomed, is it any surprise we feel hopeless? Is it any wonder that we feel like we have no control?
What do you think those in power want? Control. When they make us feel as if they have taken that away, they think they gain it. This is why they desire for us to lose hope. Control.
There are elections coming up. We can take positive actions to support the opponents of these terrible people, and take away their power. There are protests, boycotts, rallies, and other ways to build up hope and create change to gain back our power.
The thing to keep in mind is that the only real power is our own empowerment. Everything else is artifice, created by outside forces in some form or other. Take a Congressman out of office and he ceases to have power beyond his or her own.
What we think about and then feel into we tend to manifest. In particular, because we then take actions that will help that along. When we allow ourselves to lose hope, we give away our ability to create a better world. We need to keep that in mind as we read the news and various other media.
Hope is a complicated feeling
I know this is really rough right now. A lot of people have been shown that our so-called leadership cares for nobody and nothing but their own rather selfish interests. It is easy to lose hope, and believe that the world we live in is heading straight to hell in a handbasket.
Choose hope. Decide to work on your own empowerment, and fight back. We will not go quietly and just let them erode our rights for their own privilege. Take a stand, get everyone you know who is angry to get out there and VOTE. Don’t like the options? Volunteer, do whatever you can…hell, run for office. Be empowered, and let’s show them their power is truly an illusion, and what hope can do.
Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.
Knowing that they want us to lose hope so that they can disempower us, we can use hope to effect change in the world. When we have hope, we have the ability to create new and better things, and thus we empower ourselves. When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings. We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings. When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for. Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.
This is the two-hundred and forty-fourth entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.
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