You’d have to live on Mars not to have heard of the massacre at Bondi Beach, not to mention the ongoing senseless killings around the world. All of them generated by hatred of the other.
I wrote a Facebook post after Bondi, which read…
HATE BEGETS HATE BEGETS HATE BEGETS HATE BEGETS HATE BEGETS HATE…
Hate, like a viral disease, spreads amongst the population and down the generations, barely gasping for breath.
And this week, I worked with a gorgeous midlife woman who reminded me that what we see outside ourselves is often a projection of what’s happening inside ourselves.
And vice-versa!
A part of her that believed she was not just not-good-enough but absolute junk, worthless to the nth degree, an attractor of all that’s bad that can happen to a person. And, more than that, she deserved it all.
It didn’t hesitate to berate her at every opportunity!
And it manifested as a powder keg of rage that exploded within her and, at times, uncontrollably outward toward others.
And, if you’ve ever experienced rage, you might well have felt a tinge of hatred in the mix.
See where I’m going with this?
YES!
The rage was caused by hate, hatred of self, pure, unadulterated self-hatred.
As we worked, I was reminded that a change in one part of a system can create a change in another, or even in the entire system. So, while we worked reparatively with all the above, what I’m highlighting here is…
Rage, as a manifestation of hatred or anything else, is part of your passion. It’s part of your precious life energy bent out of shape. And as such, it can be reclaimed.
Reclaimed as what?
LOVE!
No, not the distortion of love where you turn the other cheek and allow yourself to be treated badly. But the kind of love you can channel and use for your highest good…
FREAKIN’ FIERCE LOVE
You grab that passion of pure rage, and you do a switcheroo to turn into the fiercest of love that you use to support, nourish and hold yourself in a lovingly bold way.
And the hatred diminishes of its own accord.
If only I had a “switcheroo” for the whole of humanity…
How awesome would that be, woman?
How awesome that could be…
Love and wild warm wishes…
Guiding stressed professional midlife women to
find the more-to-life they’re yearning for!
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