How to Tip the Scales Towards Peace
It’s hard…Really Hard…to send positive energy (aka pray for) to someone you feel is evil, doing despicable things, and is blatantly focused on creating division and promoting hatred. It’s much easier to jump on the hate train, but focusing on anger/hatred/intolerance only generates more anger/hatred and intolerance.
Today, I’m changing my stance. I’m going to meditate/pray once a day for peace. For our leaders to SEE the hurt they are promoting and inflicting and CHOOSE Peace and Love over Hatred. I invite you to join me in a Positivity Movement that can be just as influential as all the negativity and darkness flooding our country and the world today.
It may seem foolish and/or pointless, but there is a wealth of emerging evidence to prove that the ONLY WAY TO ACHIEVE PEACE IS BY BECOMING PEACE.
What will you choose to do today that could change the world?
Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
References
Maharishi Effect / Collective Meditation
Dillbeck, M.C., & Cavanaugh, K.L. (2016). Societal Violence and Collective Consciousness: Reduction of U.S. Homicide and Urban Violent Crime Rates. SAGE Open, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016637891
Global Consciousness Project
Nelson, R.D., Bradish, G.J., Dobyns, Y.H., Dunne, B.J., & Jahn, R.G. (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events. Foundations of Physics Letters, 15(6), 537–550. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025575217107
Global Consciousness Project (1998–present). Princeton University / Institute of Noetic Sciences. https://noosphere.princeton.edu
Additional Meta-analysis Support for Meditation’s Ripple Effects
Luberto, C.M., Shinday, N., Song, R., et al. (2017). A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Meditation on Empathy, Compassion, and Prosocial Behaviors. Mindfulness, 9(3), 708–724. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0841-8
~ Morgan C. Morgan
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