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“Wake Up Your Relationships ~ Transform Your Life ~ Heal the World”

This is the tagline that I’ve chosen for this site and for my work.

When I was at a networking event recently, I had a postcard with this on it. More than a couple people read it and replied, “Wow, that’s deep.” And a few days after that, someone else responded, “Heal the World? Yah, right. That’ll never happen.”

I started wondering if this intention of mine is being perceived as just one more example of 60s-style hippie-talk, or maybe as slick marketing hype.

Then I realized it really doesn’t matter to me what other people think about it! I already figured out that I can’t please everyone - or the other side of that: not everybody is going to like me, or agree with what I’m here to say and do.

And even though a tagline is a specific element of a marketing plan, this one also happens to be what I truly believe and am committed to working towards.

Healing the world actually does feel to me like a perfectly natural outcome of people “waking up” their relationships. (I define “Waking Up” as choosing more loving compassionate thoughts, words and actions today than you did yesterday).

I also believe we’re at a crossroads right now. I believe we’re being called to RADICALLY change the way we relate to each other. I know we can’t continue reinforcing a culture - local or global - where our relationships are based on fear, violence, blame, victim, drama, competition, intolerance, or general nastiness. This has got to change, or we’re not going to make it - perhaps at all.

And I honestly believe that it IS changing.

I know it. I feel it. And many people I know all over the world are reporting that they have the same feeling, the same knowing.

I do think we’re waking up - as individuals and as a collective, global consciousness. I think it’s been happening for a long time - generations perhaps. Maybe it’s been happening as long as we humans have inhabited this planet.

Peace. Love. Goodwill. Compassion. It’s not marketing hype. It’s not a rose-colored-glasses view of the world. It’s not hippie-hype. At least not for me.

So, is “Healing the World” really possible? I don’t know. What I DO know is that my contribution to helping us move in that direction is to put one foot in front of the other, and do the best I can to choose more loving thoughts, words and actions today than I did yesterday.

I’m willing to give it a go and see what happens - are you?

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