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Shifting from Exclusivity to Inclusivity for a Better World.

The world would be a much better place if we could transition from a mindset of exclusivity to one of inclusivity. This shift involves moving away from the notion that everyone must think alike to belong and instead embracing the idea that we are all similar in many ways. Celebrating each other’s individuality and recognizing that we are all doing our best with what we have can foster a more compassionate and understanding society.

The Dangers of Exclusivity

Exclusivity thrives on the separation of individuals, often achieved through teaching and perpetuating hatred. This has never been more apparent than in today’s world. When the powers that be aim to keep us polarized and divided, their plan has succeeded, and we see the results all around us.

Consider any polarizing topic—human rights, abortion, political figures, dietary choices, global warming, or even flat earth theories. These subjects drive wedges between us, keeping us entrenched in conflict rather than fostering unconditional love and understanding.

The Power of Inclusivity

Inclusivity, on the other hand, encourages us to look beyond our differences and find common ground. It allows us to celebrate diversity and see it as a strength rather than a weakness. We can create a more harmonious and supportive world by shifting our focus from what separates us to what unites us.

The journey to inclusivity is not without its challenges. Along the way, we have developed many habits and beliefs that once served us but now hinder our progress. However, as we grow older and wiser, we can recognize these manipulations that have been subliminally forced upon us and choose a different path.

Evolving Through Unconditional Love

The ultimate goal is to evolve and expand the power of unconditional love. This means choosing to love and accept others despite our differences and striving to understand and support one another. By doing so, we can break free from the divisions that have been imposed upon us and work towards a more inclusive and compassionate world.

Unconditional love is a powerful force that transcends all boundaries. It allows us to see the humanity in each other and to recognize that we are all in this together. When we choose to love unconditionally, we reject the narratives of hatred and division and embrace a future where everyone is valued and respected.

Here are some practical ideas and steps to help you start making minor changes to move from exclusivity to inclusivity:

1. Self-Education and Awareness

Read and Research: Educate yourself about different cultures, beliefs, and experiences. Books, articles, documentaries, and podcasts are excellent resources.

Reflect on Biases: Identify and reflect on your own biases and prejudices. Awareness is the first step toward change.

2. Engage in Open Conversations

Listen Actively: Engage in conversations with people who have different perspectives. Listen more than you speak and try to understand their viewpoints.

Ask Questions: Show genuine curiosity and ask questions to learn about others’ experiences and perspectives.

3. Expand Your Social Circle

Meet Diverse People: Make an effort to connect with people from diverse backgrounds. Attend cultural events, join diverse groups, and participate in community activities.

Invite Inclusivity: Include people from different backgrounds in your social and professional circles.

4. Practice Empathy and Compassion

Put Yourself in Others’ Shoes: Try to understand the experiences and struggles of others. This can help you develop greater empathy and compassion.

Show Kindness: Small acts of kindness can go a long way in making others feel included and valued.

5. Challenge Stereotypes and Prejudices

Speak up: When you hear someone making a prejudiced remark or perpetuating a stereotype, politely challenge them and educate them on the impact of their words.

Be a Role Model: Demonstrate inclusive behavior in your actions and words, inspiring others to follow suit.

6. Create Inclusive Environments

In Your Workplace: Advocate for inclusive policies and practices. Support diversity training and initiatives.

In Your Community: Volunteer for organizations that promote inclusivity and support marginalized groups.

7. Celebrate Diversity

Recognize Cultural Holidays: Celebrate and acknowledge cultural holidays and events from different communities.

Share Stories: Share and amplify stories from diverse voices to highlight the beauty of different experiences and backgrounds.

8. Reflect and Adjust

Regular Reflection: Regularly reflect on your actions and attitudes toward inclusivity. Identify areas for improvement and make necessary adjustments.

Seek Feedback: Ask for feedback from people around you on how inclusive you are and how to improve.

9. Promote Inclusive Media

Consume Diverse Media: Support and consume media that promotes diverse voices and stories.

Share Inclusive Content: Share content that celebrates diversity and promotes inclusivity on social media platforms.

10. Educate the Next Generation

Teach Inclusivity: If you have children or influence over young people, teach them the value of inclusivity and diversity from an early age.

Lead by Example: Children often mimic the behavior of adults. Be a role model for inclusive behavior.

Implementation Strategy

Set Small Goals: Start with small, manageable goals. For example, aim to learn about one new culture each month or have a meaningful conversation with someone from a different background each week.

Create a Plan: Develop a plan for incorporating these steps into your daily life—for example, schedule time each week for self-education or attending diverse events.

Track Your Progress: Keep a journal to track your progress and reflect on your experiences. Note the positive changes and areas where you still need to grow.

Stay Committed: Inclusivity is an ongoing process. Stay committed to making these changes and seek new ways to be inclusive.
By integrating these steps into your daily life, you can start making small changes that will contribute to a more inclusive and compassionate world.

Shifting from exclusivity to inclusivity is a transformative process that requires effort and commitment. It challenges us to let go of old habits and beliefs and to embrace a new way of thinking and being. But the rewards are immense—a world where everyone is accepted, valued, and loved for who they are. By making this shift, we can create a better, more inclusive world for ourselves and future generations.

 

Only a Fool Would Say That

Even though we like the welcoming, warm feeling that comes from being surrounded by like-minded people, there is no impetus to try to convert others from one point of view to yours. Certainly, there are people you like or admire whom you would like to have join you on your journey, and maybe they can be great traveling companions, but to try to convert them from where they are to where you are, is unwise, if not possible.

It’s not to say that they couldn’t come around or eventually find their way to a more resonant vibration if that is part of their journey in this life. It is not incumbent upon you to save anyone from anything or to make someone think the way you do.

I like having many different kinds of people joining me on my journey while trying to be mindful and not judge people for being who they are. At first blush, this might look like a politically correct “celebrating diversity,” but it’s much more than that. It’s not looking at the diversity (diversity is a form of judgment), it’s allowing anyone, everyone, to simply be. To be who they are, where they are, to come and go as they please.

Just because someone else might share a particular resonance with you today, does not imply they we resonate with you tomorrow. We are all on our own journeys, our paths cross from time to time, to stay in one place too long leads to complacency and stagnation. You must keep moving if you want to continue to grow, change, and evolve into the best version of yourself, and allow others to do the same.

If you disagree with someone’s point of view, to criticize them for their belief is an act of violence. To impose your belief on someone else suggests you are supporting yourself with a sense of superiority, in essence looking down on someone else for not being as enlightened as you. You might even insinuate or call them a fool, as you sit on your self-endowed high throne of superiority.

Only a fool would say,
Only a fool would say that.

On your own road of enlightenment, you may be able to recall concepts which you held close to your heart, things that you believed so much and held so dearly, that you would defend them with everything you’ve got, even possibly give your life in defense of it, only to find out later, that belief no longer serves you. How could you not bless someone else for being on a similar journey on their own path to enlightenment?

No two journeys are the same. Even amongst the like-minded people you share experiences with, none of them followed the same path you followed to get to this point in time. Some may have had similar journeys but no two are the same, even if you’ve traveled hand-in-hand along the way.

To judge someone else for their beliefs is to disrespect their journey, and doing so explicitly demonstrates your lack of tolerance. For as much as you feel more awake or enlightened than someone else, to devalue another for where they are on their path is preventing your expansion, tethering you to your barbarian roots.

Pick Your Perspective

Fear or Love

Judgment or Tolerance

Tolerance is the polar opposite of judgment. Judgment is rooted in fear, tolerance is powered by love.

When you meet someone who believes something differently than you do, bless them, try to see their belief from their perspective, love and accept them for who they are, where they are, and celebrate their life, without the imposition of your beliefs.

This is not to say that you cannot share your perspective, certainly, you may, but do so with love and compassion, only to leave clues for someone to ponder along their journey.

To debate, to try to convince or convert someone is barbarism. Aren’t you ready to cut the cord that binds you to those archaic thought forms and leave them behind?

What if you’re on the receiving end?

How do you feel when someone tries to convince you that you are wrong and that you must change your mind or life to align with his or hers? No doubt, you can feel the barbarianism behind that approach when you are on the receiving end.

Your first response to being attacked by someone is

Fight or Flight

You could turn and run, or post up, defend your position and prepare to engage in a battle of wits, or you could choose to

Love

When you choose to love someone who is assaulting you, you try to see things from their point of view. Encourage them to share their thoughts and feelings, expressing explicitly their point of view, and blessing them for where they are on their journey with compassion, not condemnation.

If you are safe and secure in what you believe, you have no need to defend it. You are impenetrable. If you harbor doubt and fear about what you believe, you are more apt to take a defensive stance, because there’s a part of you (that higher part of you) that is incongruent with your belief, so the ego takes over and prepares to battle in an effort to impose congruency by brute force.

Seeing different people as different, through the eyes of fear, building walls and separating them leads to chaos. You know that. Take a look around… You see it every day.

Seeing people as harmonious, through the eyes of love, allows you to see the perfection in everyone and everything. From this vantage point, you can see everything is connected and perfect.

It Takes All Kinds

Take a walk down any metropolitan street in America today, you will clearly see a wide variety of peoples represented. There is no doubt that it takes all kinds of people to make the world go around and in order not to get in the way of progress, we are better off if we can practice tolerance. And these differences are only apparent from outside appearances. What about what’s happening on the inside?

It Takes All Kinds

It takes all kinds of people who vary massively on the inside to make the world go around. As much as you might like everyone to think just like you do, the chances of you finding anyone anywhere who thinks like you is highly unlikely, if not impossible.

Personal Isolation

Now, you can ostracize yourself in an effort to isolate yourself, only surrounding yourself with like-minded people. The less tolerant you are of others, the fewer people you will enjoy in your social circle. You might like existing as a solitary power of one. For some, there is safety in being alone and not a part of society at all, and that’s perfectly fine because it does take all kinds.

If you do not live a solitary life and you have an open mind, it is likely you can learn extremely valuable information from someone who is extremely secluded from modern society.

Evolutionary Expansion

The practice of tolerance may not be necessary for some anti-social types of individuals, but for the rest of us, tolerance is the key to the successful future liberating all human beings to share in all the benefits offered the human race, including our eventual progressive evolution.

While society would like to separate us and keep us opposed to each other either based on what we look like, how and where we live, how many financial resources you control, or how much royal blood runs through your veins, the trend among ever expanding and evolving peoples are becoming increasingly more tolerant embracing all peoples unconditionally in peace and harmony.

Think about it, when we are intolerant and judge others as being right or wrong, what is the outcome? Dissention, disrespect, separation, wars, and rumors of wars, to say the least. Do you really want to be a promoter of separation?

Something inside you (that higher part of you) knows there’s something about disrespecting or hating your neighbor that does not sound or feel right. And the bases resonance of maintaining separation is not hate, it is the frequency of “fear” which is the polar opposite of love.

Love is the resonate frequency which evolution is moving toward; toward love and away from fear. For years, ever since humankind can emotionally recall, which is a part of our biological makeup, fear has kept us alive and prevented us from being devoured by beasts who might think of us as a nutritious meal.

At this point in our history, human beings are evolving from a fear-based life to a love-based life, and this looks very different from the way we approached living in the past, or even in the now, nonetheless this evolution is taking place and there is nothing you can do to stop it. You can choose to opt out of the evolution, but your refusal to participate will fade generationally.

Science substantiates the benefits of practicing tolerance as an extremely healthy exercise. Every minute you live in the vibratory state of unconditional love, you reap the biological benefits of boosting your immune system exponentially and adding many times to your healthful longevity. Imagine what the possibilities which may be at your fingertips if you could maintain healthful tolerant loving vibratory state. This promotes your evolutionary process, and you can feel the difference.

This further evolved human being enjoys an incredibly fascinating, happy, and healthy prolonged life, with more prosperity and abundance than their lesser-evolved peers, and everything becomes possible.

As we evolve, not only do we resist the tendency to judge others, but we are less likely to judge ourselves, and silence your negative inner voice as well as any hidden demons which may haunt us from our past. Living life on planet earth has never been so free, and if you’ve achieved this level of conscious evolution, you are truly free indeed.