Don’t look now I am being given topics to discuss! I’ve been asked to meditate on the word intolerance. Maybe this person meant just the behaviour, but the words that came to me are intolerance as a reaction and side effect. Have you noticed that many years ago you didn’t really know many, if any, people with allergies and reactions? Yet now every other person is allergic to practically everything? Normal things in our world we take for granted, but unbearable to others. Whether its food, chemicals, nature, animals, pollution and so it goes on.
You could clean more. You could systematically cut back certain foods, sussing them out. You could move house, move region. Go colder...go hotter. Run away from nature. Or is it that we should we be embracing it? Many, many years ago, humans were more connected to the seasons and the cycles of nature, connected to the earth and relying on it to survive. Now we seem to live almost apart from it not even acknowledging its existence. How very insulting to Mother Nature when she works so hard. We have separated from the planet that we actually live on, which is almost like fighting a part of ourselves. We all know there is a delicate balance within nature which can be disturbed by an introduced species (human being the worst), climate change and many other factors. As a result, loss of forests, species obliterated whether animal or plant, toxicity, even influence on weather. So doesn’t it go without saying that there is also a delicate balance within our own system and bodies? Not just influenced by the outside environment but on a conscious level, spiritual and emotional. We tend to eat the same food as each other from our culture. People with allergies cull food based on the latest medical research or news item on TV. Yet no two physical bodies are identical. The spiritual and emotional aspect is determined by the issues we have been faced with from this lifetime, past lives and karmic history. This is definitely a personal and individual thing as no two emotional bodies are identical. What about the here and now? Did an allergy or reaction come about recently (not at birth)? So the burning question is... what are you really intolerant to? The environment or home you live in makes you sick. Or is it the situation you are living in that’s making you sick? A relationship? ... a memory of something bad that happened years or centuries ago? Sneezing fits in the workplace but you don’t sneeze anywhere else? Suffering with pains in neck and head, when you are around a certain person or even at the same event every year? The key is to start noticing the patterns of behaviour. What is the common element each time? Is it the same person, same place, same behaviour from the other person that is coincidentally occurring. What emotions are being triggered at that moment or just before the reaction of puffy/blotchy/itchy/sneezy or any other of the annoying dwarfs. We need to reignite the relationship between us and the very ground we walk on, the air we breathe and the food we consume. Go for a walk in nature regularly, especially if you live in a city or spend far too much daylight in front of a computer. (However, take a sinus tablet if you suffer with hay fever!) Get dirt on your hands and feel its energy for growing and feeding plant life. If you don’t have a garden, then use pots. Grow your own vegies or herbs and eat them, recognising that connection. The one thing that is so apparent no matter where we go, is the age of nature and how trivial our own problems are in this minute of time. When faced with trees older than ourselves, that have weathered many adversities, such as lightning, floods, fire, insect infestation, and even man himself hacking away with disrespect. We are suddenly humble in the profound and intense energy of such an ancient being. Nature itself could almost be compared to humans in their differing moods and variety of kind. The group of trees, that look and feel like a community of beings. The single tree, bleeding sap from a gaping wound. The trunk that learns that to exist in this strange world it must grow and bend around other nature beings, looking distorted but surviving none the less. Yet all co-existing with each other and accepting, no matter what species, or how much they look different from each other. I know this person probably meant intolerance as having the incapacity to endure other people or events etc. But obviously I was meant to touch on a different definition of the word since this poured out at the speed of light.
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