If true, this would mean we cause our own misery!
Does that surprise anybody?
Humans are designed to survive and take care of each other!
In our natural condition, we are trusting, loving, cooperative, empathetic, and playful.
Why is this important?
In the pristine condition we are born in, we are intimately connected with what’s most important to us.
What’s important to humans?
Being accepted, just as we are! Feeling that we can fully express everything that we are without reservation!
Feeling like we belong! Feeling important to others!
Feeling like this, we can be our real selves!
This is the opposite of stress!
This is trust!
This is what’s important to humans!
So why are we living the way we are?
We try to please! If there’s such a thing as a flaw in humans, this is it!
If someone asks us to, we will go as far as destroying ourselves if that’s what it takes to do what others ask of us!
And, that’s exactly what we do!
Our identity uses our instincts, our feelings, and our awareness of our needs to begin managing life.
So far, all is fine!
But then people insist on Behavior from us that damages the cohesiveness of our own inner world.
And we comply!
We will damage our own inner life to please others!
And that’s what we do!
Trust cannot survive that process!
And that’s why we live without trust!
NATURE
For a magical and charmed life, recognize that the behavior of all life comes from within them!
That’s how life works! The power and the energy come from within!
All life is self-driven!
Those of us who can accept and encourage that, get to live at peace, in tune with nature!
These are the only people who get to keep trust!
DAMAGE
Many, perhaps most of us, have damaged our own inner world trying to please others who didn’t recognize that our life energy has to come from within us!
Consequently, our own feelings are lost to us!
Worse yet, awareness of our own needs is lost as well!
We are doomed to hurt inside, as well as pursue goals that have no chance of ever making us comfortable or happy!
CIVILIZATION
With most, if not all of us, in this condition, what kind of a world will we create?
You guessed it, this one!
Obviously, with this much internal Trauma within each person, there is going to be destructive behavior!
How will we deal with it?
Will we understand the situation and try to soothe the offending person’s inner pain? This corrects their behavior by removing the pain that drives it!
Or will we try to force better behavior? We do that with punishment!
PUNISHMENT
Because of our own altered conditions, we are inevitably going to try using punishment to force better behavior.
It’s also clear that this is going to add to that person’s inner trauma.
This adds hurt to the global population.
We may eliminate that troublesome behavior, but at the same time, we have added more hurt into the world’s population.
This habit is of course going to steadily increase trauma throughout the entire population!
The more we do this, the more trauma we generate.
The results are predictable.
The results are also on clear display!
Our world is in trauma!
Because our lives are driven from within, people without inner trauma are the most cooperative and non-destructive.
Those with inner hurt are in trauma, and are destructive.
This is not a secret. Just looking around at life confirms that absolutely.
Our task needs to be keeping people out of trauma in the first place!
RULES
This is our answer to every problem!
I would suggest a wise person would look for the reason any person might misbehave!
Of course, we have so many rules in place by now, everybody misbehaves somewhat in various ways!
Try walking down the side of a road these days! Many drivers come as close as they can rather than move away as far as possible.
The average person doesn’t move over at all, not even when there’s a puddle.
This level of hostility is where we are right now. Our habit of fixing everything through more rules will worsen things steadily!
Our biggest hope of escaping this downward spiral is for people to grasp that life is driven from within, and we must respect that!
Schools teach the opposite! They do it through their behavior and expectations, not by direct teaching though. Correcting that alone would reverse our path.
If an understanding of how life really works can spread, there is not only hope but the promise of enjoying trusting lives once again!
Our present solution of rules and punishment is taking us to a very bad place, and we might not survive it!
Thanks for listening!
Good luck on your own journey!
This post is part of https://clarity-of-innocence.com The blog address might be the only way to return at times.
Take care,
Norm Cormier
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