What Separates Us?
Pitting ourselves against others has become a common practice and has escalated our insecurities into believing that we are separate – different – better – worse! These practices only continue to close our hearts and minds – thus, increasing the intentional divide.
What separates us? In this amazing and sometimes crazy world we live in, there are so many institutional and manipulated ideas used to pit people against each other and even against ourselves. Is it age, race, religion, political affiliations, where we live, who our family is, what we do, what we believe? What are we told to keep us separated, divided, and disconnected?
We are born perfect, whole and complete as part of a larger human and spiritual family called humanity. We are born to collaborate and not compete for the goodness of life.
As we individuate ourselves, first in our familial setting and eventually in our social circles, we need to focus on how to maintain connection with others through the chaos of life & the constant manipulation of our security, self-confidence and ideas around abundance.
Love and fear are innate emotions within each of us. The tendency in society for anyone looking at power is to scare people and use tactics to make people fearful of life, living and each other. The news leads with fear, death, scare tactics, and stories that ignite the flame of separateness. We are told we are different from others. We are convinced that people have more than us or that it is a certain groups fault that we don’t have everything we want in life. Many of us start believing that we are victims in life and of the circumstances around us. We want someone to blame. It’s human nature (as we’ve been taught).
Many industries and groups continue to deliberately separate the masses – it’s a divide and conquer mindset. That is how they control us. These large companies, organizations and groups grow from this discord. Their business is built on creating a separation and the feeling that we are not enough. They show us a picture of a better life if only we had ‘x’ – which happens to be their product! It’s the ‘keep up with the Joneses’! Divide and conquer. They can ‘save’ us or help us regain control in our lives. They exploit our insecurities. For example, cosmetic companies and the beauty industry try to convince us that we are not enough – we aren’t pretty enough, thin enough, tough enough, tall enough – we don't wear clothes that are in style, etc. This is a multi-billion-dollar industry geared to profit from our lack of self-esteem. This mass media inundation blasts us 24/7 in every aspect of our lives. The onslaught is relentless and constant, and deliberate.
It's no wonder that we give in at times to these tactical campaigns. If they keep us in competition, we cannot reach our highest potential. We begin to fight amongst ourselves, and our energy is used to justify our differences. We compete for the belief that there is a limiting amount of everything, and that ignites our innate survival instincts (part of our reptilian brain). Those in power, in marketing and sales, know this and exploit it to further themselves in life.
It’s only in the conscious remembering of our wholeness – of our Truth – that we can begin to mend the divide and heal. We need to unlearn the divisive teachings, reclaim our power and continue to do our inner work to uncover greater and greater Truths of our worth. We need to examine each belief that limits our ability to believe in ourselves. We need to question anything and everything that overshadows our God-given gifts and stops us from becoming whole.
Inner work is the key to most things in life. Inner work is definitely the key to mend and heal the division and competition mentality. We need to mind our own business, do our best, be our best and continue to evolve into the best version of ourselves.