Let's change the world with LOVE!

I was having a discussion with a co-worker earlier this week about politics and how all of it is just so screwed up. I was about to say “especially in America,” but I am pretty sure it is screwed up all over the place. I just FEEL like it is extremely screwed up here since I live here and these things affect me.

I am a pretty liberal, left-wing person. I believe in human rights for everyone; I believe that if you get knocked up, you deserve to have the right to do what YOU feel is right for YOURSELF; I believe that foods should be labeled on whether or not they have GMOs; I believe we have the right to stand up for what we believe in and not get in trouble; and most importantly, I believe in LOVE.

If we were to remove all the political parties, all the huge corporations who run the country (because if you didn’t know this already, the President doesn’t really run the country—the huge corporations with all their money do), and just have a society based on love, I think it would fix all of our problems.

Love is an extremely powerful thing! When you send love out to the Universe, you get love in return. When you send hate out to the Universe, you get hate in return. Our vibrational energies, our thoughts, and our feelings are what we send out there and if we are having negative experiences, we are going to experience more negativity.

Reading Don Miguel Ruiz books have helped me in this more loving journey. There are other books that have helped too, and the people I have in my life have helped, meditation has helped. There are so many things that have made me turn into a more loving and caring person over the past couple of years. I am happy, exceedingly so, and that happiness is shared with people that I hold dear to my heart. And by being happy, by being filled with love, I get it all back in return because that’s what I am sending the Universe.

Going back to the discussion with my co-worker, he essentially told me that I am living in the wrong era—that I need to be back in the 60’s when love was what everyone had and experienced. I am sure politics were still pretty shitty then (women’s rights, voting, etc.), but it does seem to be more fitting for me and my belief on if we just loved one another, we would fix all our problems.

But think about it, how many times are we angry or frustrated or irritated? And we usually get MORE angry, frustrated, or irritated because that is the vibrational energy we are sending to the Universe, so the Universe gives us more. I am not saying I don’t get angry, frustrated, or irritated—I do, quite regularly, but I pay more attention to when it happens now. I find ways to quickly stop feeling that way by going for a walk, meditating, baking, doing something that makes me return to happiness.

Now, if we stopped letting these negative emotions have so much influence over our lives, and instead realized we can switch what is happening to a more positive experience, we could change everything. If people who may think that gay people are wrong based on religious factors realized that they were created by the God they believed in, they should love them. God loves all creatures, right? That includes gays, transgendered, republicans (hehe), and everyone and everything on this planet. While I don’t believe in “God,” but instead a Divine somewhere up there, I understand this concept perfectly. We were all created by something, and while we all have our own opinions, ideas, lives, and the like, we are all part of each other. We are all connected because we came from the same thing.

I am not saying it’s easy or that it is even going to happen, but it is a nice thought. And maybe if I continue to think it and send it to the Universe it will happen one day. I have 100% belief in the Universe delivering what we want (and what we don’t want) because the Universe delivers things to me all the time! It may come a couple years later, but it always comes. Maybe we can just all send some love to everyone, even people we don’t like, so that we can start changing this country, this world, into a more loving one.

Starting tomorrow, I am off for a two-day meditation retreat, and I plan on sending a lot of love and kindness out to the world. I know we can change the world if we all try.

Have a great weekend. And remember to take a minute or two to say thank you to someone, to the Universe, to mother nature, and to yourself, for whatever it is that has been given to you or experienced by you.