Spreading Hope and Love ~ Not Violence and Fear

This past week it seemed like the world had gone crazy. I tried to block as much of the negative as I could and not get become paralyzed by all the stories.  There is a tendency, like a bad accident, to want to stare at the disaster because you almost can't believe that it happened.  

That is what happened to me when 9/11 hit.  I didn't leave the house, shock paralyzed me.  After reaching out to loved ones to make sure everyone was ok.  I spent the whole day sitting on the couch, with a pit in my stomach, staring at the television, watching the events play out on the screeen.

Now, what I do watch is the outcry that comes from a tragedy.  People are in shock, overcome with sadness, and aghast at the horror and they feel an overwhelming need to do something.  And that is the Wake-Up Call, a deep desire swells up inside of us and we feel a need to Do Something!
 
In the case of Orlando, an outpouring of people stood in line to give blood, and immediately people started donating money to a GoFundMe account that was set up.  As of Friday, I saw in the paper that the account was up to $5 million dollars.

Just as in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, an overwhelming amount of money was raised through OneFundBoston.  I think the total was close to $80 million dollars.
      
While money is important and will help the victims and their families move forward from the tragedy, money is not the answer.  It is the easiest thing to do ~ send in a donation and a thank you prayer that it wasn't anyone in my family.

More importantly, something needs to change!

The culture in the U.S. and across the globe needs to change.  We have almost become desensitized to all shootings and the violence that plays out on our streets on a daily basis.

Since the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the gun violence has only escalated. That event should have caused major legislature to change to make parents feel safer by taking guns away.  Instead kids in the north are now doing lock down drills at school and fear is prevalent.


Whatever was done by our government to make a change was meaningless.  More people have guns now than they ever did, based on their own fear, and many of those people haven't been trained properly on keeping those guns safe and secure in their house, causing numerous accidents leading to fatalities because of it.

I feel as if the movie Tomorrowland is playing out before our eyes.  Negativity and Evil seem to broadcast far and wide and the signal is only getting stronger.

While I truly appreciated that outpouring of people this week, to oust the Judge who only gave that college student a light sentence, for the attack he committed on a female college student. What I saw instead was a loud demonstration of negativity again.

How can we as a culture Broadcast Hope, Love and Compassion instead of negativity?

Instead of fighting against ourselves over politics, guns, religion and the differences in people ~ 

How can we channel Hope instead?

I would love to put together a way to Raise the Consciousness of Hope and Brotherly Love by the same amounts of millions of dollars of money that was raised after the 6 different U.S. Terrorist attacks in the United States since 2015.  Because while people come together during the tragedy and stand unified as a group, after a short time has passed, people fall back into old patterns and life returns to the way it was.  

There is no sustainability of those emotions of compassion & coming together as a community.  

My friend, Diane, a positive lifestyle expert, and I have been working on a Hope and Happiness Initiative for Corporations to bring tools of emotional and mental wellness to employees.  Tools that become sustainable in their daily lives.

But after this past week and watching examples of negativity that seem to plague our country on a daily basis ~ I feel a need to develop a Hope and Love Outreach ~ which when embraced, brings  Happiness and Joy.

Creating Positive Energy that can be harnessed and broadcast daily through large groups of people to counteract the negativity and fear that seems to permeate.

I would like to see a positive outcome from these tragedy's, not just have it become another statistic that will be added to our history, the next time this happens again.