YOU’VE GOT THE WHOLE WORLD

MAY 2021

We suggest to our friends in incarnation that they really do have a great world to live in at this time.  A great world.

If you were to step outside your home – in your mind’s eye – and open your arms to the world, feel how refreshing that is. Experience how freeing it is to let go self-consciousness:  the self-consciousness that humanity has lived with for so long.  To truly embrace a wider world, and a wider perspective.

It is as though, in this moment, you can almost forget who you are, as you allow the world to enter your perspective, your horizon. 

It is such a new day, a new dawn – whether it feels like it or not. The politicians can squabble; the Covid restrictions can bite hard, and yet out there, in our view, ‘It’s a Wonderful World’, as Louis Armstrong said in his iconic song.

And when you experience yourself as part of a wonderful, whole wide world, you can feel a sense of wonder again, a sense of wonder that you too are in this whole wide world.

And now.  Sense just how real it is, to know ‘You’ve Got the Whole World In Your Hands’, to know that you belong to such a large community of souls.

And when there is so much love for this community of souls, your own pettiness, your own ‘scratchiness’ just dissipates.  Because you know it is a wonderful world; the world that you happen to have incarnated into in this lifetime.  Feel how much freedom there is by embracing the whole wide world. 

Knowing how the lack of freedom, the insularity, the ‘scratchiness’ of being in Covid lockdowns has made you cautious, has made you anxious, has made you unhappy.  And yet, even if you have to remain cautious and vigilant about what you do and where you go, just by  knowing that you are part of a wonderful whole wide world, you can feel yourself, your body,  relax. You can flow in a more wholesome way.

Feeling wholesome, nourished and part of things, is something that few human beings ever feel.  And when you don’t feel wholesome you feel pinched and scratchy and anxious.

But, everything in the recent past – from Covid, to the protests, to the increasing recognition of ‘other’ – has been leading to the understanding that humanity is a whole and beautiful environment for human beings now to experience themselves in.  And as you embrace the whole wide world, you will know you have entered a new phase of your life.

You might be sitting at home: meditating, or feeling into a new sense of who you are and why you are here and what to do next.  But, if you allow this inner work, this soul-searching, this questioning, to continue against a backdrop of knowing you are part of the whole wide world, part of the human community, then it changes the dynamic. It loosens the sinews. It opens you on the inner planes to more of who you are, not less.

So, it’s time to change. It is time to embrace your community, your world, and stop the refrain that ‘it’s not this, and not that’, or  ‘it’s not the same, and why should I’.  Just relax, both in your inner world and your outer world, and know that you truly are part of a wonderful world.

Why not now sit quietly and listen to this month’s audio meditation: