What can I do today to stop the war of tomorrow?

Some people found the image of me crying in the water to be a bit … well, concerning. Reaching another historical low point in the demonstration of the violence we carry inside of ourselves, I find it rather ironic that an image of healing seems to be concerning.

The irony being that the war we're facing today, is the result of not being able to release the built up tensions that we carry inside of ourselves, which is healing, basically.

Like a balloon under water, we hold our truths.

We drug, we drink, we work, we lie, we fight, we censor, we kill ourselves we kill each other - all shades of violence. The culmination of suppressed emotions raging inside of us, causing so much tension until it comes pouring out of our hearts, into our actions.

Like a balloon under water, we hold our truths.

And when I say 'truth', I'm not talking about a dogma, a verse from an ancient scripture or a dietary restriction. Truth to me is the undeniable energy moving through our bodies, the deep undercurrent that is the driving force of our actions in this world.

Truth to me is the grief we carry, the joy we feel, the pain we endured and the love we need.
It's the kind of truth that is felt, and not necessarily understood with our rational minds. It comes from a deep and dark place inside of our bodies where our minds cannot go. Or control.
So like a balloon under water, we hold our truths.

If we want this continuous warfare to end, we need to take responsibility for the violence we are leaking into this world with all the fear, hatred, racism and all the other -isms that live inside of our own hearts.

I believe that the real work we are facing today, is to learn how to get intimate with our own hearts and own up to the raging wars churning inside of them. I'm not talking about smudging sage and manifesting millions. I'm talking about the dirty, hard healing work.

It means to stop pointing fingers at each other, pretending we are not part of the problem, but to turn inward instead. And it means to acknowledge the horribly uncomfortable truth that we are all perpetrators and victims. And that the war inside of us, is the war in our world.

As within, so without.