TV Violence :- Mean World Syndrome

Do not watch this Video if you are turned off from violence. This Video shows Media Violence to illustrate what TV Violence is doing to us as Individuals and as a community.   httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEIexqD4ljY&feature=related  

Small steps

All too often I listen to people talk about the unity of all things and the fundamental inter-connectedness  of all things, and yet act in a way that is totally ego concentric. Some people know this intellectually but do not live it. So how do we live it? how do we act in a way that enhances the connection with others and other things around us.? This can be easily explained but hard to live at first. Like all habits, they are hard to break, and all to easy we slip back into old behaviour patterns that we have practiced for years, and learnt from others through out our lives.   To understanding the initial concept. Firstly by seeing the Divine in every one and everything.  Thus we apply them:   The Divine: Look around your self. See the items on your desk. Next understand that those items are not yours till the end of time, these items are distend to be destroyed, break, and change form. You only have a life time lease of these items if you are lucky, or till you have the desire to move the item on to its next destination. The next destination for the items may be to a friend, the bin, or to a second hand shop, or perhaps be stolen at worst. Although this is true for those with a spiritual bent and those with out the next step is more profound. All matter, the items on your desk are made of the divine energy that has been fashioned for our use. By recognizing the divine energy that is inherit in the items you must respect the energy thus also the items. By disrespecting the item you are disrespecting the energy and the divine that makes up that energy. Think about all the small parts (atoms) that make the entire item. Can you respect the items that sit around you? respect the atoms that make up the items? now that this is understood, look at you hand or some part of your body. Can you comprehend that you are made of the same divine energy. Well done... So in my generalization of people, because we are all guilty of it at least once in our life. think of the internal dialog that we have had with our self, the self talk. Have you called your self an idiot? have you put your self down? Called your self names that are demeaning? Now the hard question, why is it that you can respect the items around you but you cannot respect yourself?   I work in the Drug and alcohol recovery industry and I come across many people that think very little of them selves,. They put them selves down at every opportunity, and have disrespected them selves in every way possible. Within these extrems I see what negative self talk does to a person, we are our own worst enemy and harshest judge when we are confronted with our own self talk over generalizing every proclamation we have about our selves. If you cannot disrespect the divine you should now find it hard to disrespect your self for you are part of the divine, made up of the same energy. Thus you need to start useing posetive affermations to discribe your self and do not generalise your harsh self comments. Love your self as you are divine energy capable of self directing your thoughts, words and actions.   As we are all sprung from the same stock, Partakers in the same nature, and share the same hope, Respect others as you respect your self. Love others as you love your self. Love the Divine with all your heart, with all your sole. Now you can connect with everything around you with the loving respect that every item, every person and your self with the loving respect that the divine is due. Thus do unto others as you would have them do unto you, for those among us that are treated with the least respect we treat the divine with the least respect.