Not getting into the politics of the current war, just the general state of things.
I understand the fears of deprivation, scarcity and lack that people in countries not even directly involved in the current war are facing, but, man. It’s hard to be surrounded by family members gripped by fear and to try to preserve my peace when they’re adamant that the end times and complete erosion of society is on the brink of occurring. My mom just is so shaken and heavily caught up in Youtube shorts doomscrolling that I almost don’t know what to believe anymore in terms of what to do, how “prepared” I should aim to be, and so forth.
I feel terribly for everyone currently suffering and just hope this stuff somehow resolves sooner than later.
We always see what is in our consciousness. If something triggers us, it means it exists inside of us.
With the start of the war in Ukraine, all the fears that could possibly surface came up for me. These were my personal fears, fears from past lives, and fears or situations from my family lineage.
Incredibly strong fears surfaced, especially the fear of physical violence, which I dealt with for a long time.
I had to work through absolutely all of it.
But after dealing with it all, you feel current events in a completely different way, even events that are happening right in front of you, not thousands of kilometers away.
By the way, at the very beginning of the war, the book “Saying Yes to Life: A Psychologist in a Concentration Camp” by Viktor Frankl was very helpful to me.
He talks about how he survived in a concentration camp.
Here is my favorite quote of his:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
