Peace for All Time

 The Collective Energy When You Were Born

Give me a moment to frame this all.
 
I have been watching the new series Paradise. In particular Season 1, Episode 7 entitled: The Day. This episode started with a flashback to an American General during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This hour of television was so very powerful the collective of humanity.
 
What struck me personally were the dates on the flashback. October 16 – 28, 1962.  I never put two and two together. I was born (October 23rd) during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The world sitting on pins and needles wondering if there would be a world when they woke up the next day.
 
What I realized in that moment after sixty-two trips around the sun was the start of the underlying vein of worry in my life. I could imagine being lovingly held in my mother’s arms but feeling and absorbing the sense of concern that many would have felt in those thirteen days.
 
After watching that episode, I decided to watch Thirteen Days. The movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis released in the year 2000. As an aside here, it was two and a half hours, a long movie for that time in history.  That movie and the above episode of Paradise played quite a parallel. What collective energy do we hold now and how does it affect us currently and in sixty years?
 
One quote from President Kennedy in the movie struck a chord with me: “What kind of peace do we seek? I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living. Not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. Our problems are manmade - therefore, they can be solved by man. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
 
I was blessed to grow up in an environment that taught me how to regulate my emotions, close to nature and close to a loving family. I know not everyone gets that kind of childhood. Yet, the sense of worry has never left me so what a revelation it was to be given a window into it. I have worked hard through my life to release the worry with much inner evolution. I wrote extensively about the trials of being a worry (er) in my book: The Book of Realizations. It never goes away completely but with awareness and tools it can be recognized and replaced with peaceful and compassionate emotions. These help me move through the worry with expediency and confidence.
 
We do well in our current times to consider the collective energy we are living within and are a part of. We then do well to consider our own reactions to that collective energy and how it affects those around us. How can we elevate the awareness of our energy that is a piece of the collective and what are we contributing to that? Love, connection, compassion?  Or whichever word you chose to define the opposite?  Which will create a better world sixty years from now for the collective of the next generation?  Don’t mis-take the love, connection, and compassion as complacency. Standing strong with clarity and courage are all part of those. We must have consideration of peace for this small planet and all that inhabit it and being a good human is absolutely integral for the collective, now and for the future.
 
There is another quote from Thirteen Days: “You're a good man; your brother is a good man. I assure you there are other good men.”  It was the ‘60s. Let us replace man with human. There are many good humans.