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Rumi’s Reflections: Alison Wem’s Journal – Day 8

Yesterday I was clever,

So I wanted to change the world

Today I am wise,

So I am changing myself

Jalal al-Din Rumi

There is much talk about the world entering the age of Aquarius which will bring much change. To me, we seem to be a world in change already. The pandemic paused the world’s population for many months bringing about changes in where people wanted to live and how they wanted to work. Change has continued at a brisk rate with war in the Ukraine demanding nations speak to each other and collaborate, the economic ripple from the war is causing financial challenges in public services, companies and for individuals.

Change is very much the theme of today which makes this particular Rumi reflection resonate with me so much.

If you read the media headlines you would think that change is only orchestrated by leaders of nations and corporations. For me, real change happens at the grass roots level. It happens when each of us makes a choice in how we want to live our lives. The cumulative affect of our choices is what will change our world.

Want a better world?

Change for the good begins with you and me and every other individual in humanity. Be wise and choose one life value which would help you to be a better version of yourself. Then live it in all you say and do.

I chose total honesty. This included my interactions with my family, friends, colleagues, neighbours and anyone else I came in contact with. But it also included such things as my income statements to the Tax Office, expense claims and anything else where society asked me to self regulate my honesty.

Imagine what a world would be like if everyone you came into contact with did what they said they would do.

By Alison Wem, ago

Hello my spiritual friends

Humanity, of which we are all a part of, is being presented with an opportunity for change – hopefully for the better. Now is a great opportunity for development and healing at the personal, family, community, national and global level.

Yet here we are physically isolated in our homes, unable to share our thoughts, experiences and steer from our own soul or perhaps our guides.

‘Working-from-home’ or not working at all, has slowed the pace of life and given you an opportunity to reflect on what is really important in your life.

Well here goes, let me share my thoughts…..

I am taking sensible precautions with the virus, but I have not felt the fear many are experiencing. I am convinced there is a purpose behind this global pandemic.

I have been given the opportunity to experience fear in the last week. It affected me so much that I could feel my heart beat faster and my breath was fast, short and shallow. I could not stay still and was pacing up and down the hall in my small city flat feeling constrained.

It was not fear of the virus but fear of financial ruin. My income is from rental flats. I have spent the last year renovating them and building a new flat for me in the attic. I have had little income for a year, spent much of my savings and have a large mortgage to service. As we reach completion, we found the builder has made a mistake which he does not acknowledge and Building Control were refusing to issue a certificate enabling me to get some tenants into the flats. I was faced with no cash, empty flats, a builder refusing to take my calls or emails and no resolution until after the lockdown which is who knows when.

Fear is a terrible thing. I realised that even in widowhood I did not experience it. I was well loved and supported by family and friends. It is when you feel you are standing alone that fear is most rampant.

We are constantly bombarded by the media about the coronal virus. There are stories of people dying alone in ICU calling out for their loved ones and families not being able to mourn their lost love ones. For me these stories do not add value but stoke fear and uncertainty. I feel that in all of our interaction with others

hope, healing and change for the better

should be the basis of our conversations. Perhaps if enough of us practise it, it will ripple out to many more people.

My guide is asking me to consider the life lessons my builder is helping me with – defining my boundaries and holding them, communicating with compassion, remaining positive and holding onto hope. All of these are relevant to a locked down world of physical isolation in family units.

Perhaps you can consider what life lessons this new world is helping you to learn…..

8th March 2020

By Alison Wem, ago

Life is such a challenge: need some help?

Life and living standards have increased. You would think that this would make life easier, but I do not believe this is the case.

Life is very different from when I was young. With five adult children and many nieces and nephews, I see how the young run their lives.

Life is faster, more complicated plus there are greater physical distances between people as they travel or move for work.

I believe history will write up the 21st century as a revolution. The 19th and 20th centuries were an industrial revolution. The 21st century will be a technology and environmental revolution. Cleaner energy will become available, more effective health care and healthier life styles.

If we get this change right, both the planet and ourselves with have the opportunity to heal.

Understanding what is happening can help you with the challenges in your life. Be kind to yourself as changes in society take place. Change is not always easy.

Hope of a better life is important to enable the necessary changes to take place.

In the 20th century mobile phones arrived making communications via voice and text easier. Using smart phones there are now apps for most things, for example music, banking, games, TV, meditations. How we watch TV has changed with on-demand streaming through such services as Netflix and Amazon Prime.

The foundation for releasing people from time and location constraints has arrived.

In the 21st century many new services and ways of living will arrive. For example using the smart phone platform with Artificial Intelligence (AI), new services are becoming available for health problem diagnosis and on-line doctor surgeries at a time that suits you. AI helps to release doctors’ time for the important people facing conversations.

Good quality health care will start to become accessible for many more people. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

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