To Thrive is an urge that resides within each and every one of us, it is an evolutionary impulse. When we allow ourselves to be embraced by the qualities of thriving, problems do not exist. On an energetic spectrum, thriving is very close to Love. Progress, Expansion, Prospering and Advancement are qualities that are associated with both Love and thriving. Thriving along with Love is not static, they are not attained, they are not a destination. They are a processes for lack of a better description (words cannot aptly describe divinity), and they are innate to us and are experienced when we allow ourselves to. There is no effort involved to experience Love or Thriving, only allowing.
Since leaving my Corporate gig some 4 months ago, I spent the Summer playing, riding my Motorcycle across the country and kind of decompressing from an environment that was becoming increasingly mechanistic in the achievement of the established metric of "Success". While that last sentence may sound as though I'm critical of the environment, I am very grateful for my time with the firm and the people I worked with. Who I am today and how I think is to a degree a result of my time and experience in the corporate world. The concept of Thriving at anything was really stimulated and awakened for me in the last 18 months of my office Gig.
Howard Thurman (do you know who he was? If not research him, research is part of thriving) said "Don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is more people to come alive" and that is more true today than ever before. Howard said that in the context of civil rights and while I don't know his exact meaning behind it, when I read that quote it means thriving. You can't be apathetic and thrive, you can't have a 5 minute attention span and thrive. You can't have fear imposed upon you, accept it and thrive.
Life is made of contrasting values and qualities and for the sake of time I'm going to use the contrast of Apathy and Thriving. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical and of physical life in the world. A thriving individual, for me anyway, grows and develops emotionally, socially, spiritually, philosophically and physically with all the challenges that exist to not grow. If you're not growing you are dying. Collectively today across the Earth, what state do you think is more prevalent? Nix that, collectively today within your community, be it an office setting, school setting, religious congregational setting, or government setting, what is the prevalent state?
"It is what it is". One of the most seemingly innocuous phrases used today. That is apathy and you know what is very close to apathy energetically? Helplessness!! And what does helplessness lead to? Illness. There is biology with emotions and feelings that most people let alone a large portion of the medical community has no interest in. Don't believe me, research it. Epigenetic is a good place to start.
I have seen Apathy make people ill, literally. And what do most of us do when we get ill? Go to a doctor and get treatment in the way of a pill, or poison, or surgery. We treat the symptom and for the most part don't even consider the origin of the symptom. This mechanistic approach to health is apathy as well. Nobody knows your body better than you if you take the time to listen, but when you "turn over" your health to an "Authority", the doctor, you have become passive. Don't think so, next time you hear a medication commercial on TV or radio, listen to the disclaimers and side effects of "taking" the medication.......and then consider the Billions of dollars that are made off of these medications. Or just consider the Placebo effect. How about the Nocebo effect?
There is an intelligence and energy within each of us that is activated when we are in a state of Thriving or Love, and we lose access to it when we are apathetic or not growing. When you cut your finger, you don't have to try to heal, there is no effort, it just heals. When people have a spontaneous healing, there is no effort, most people relate a palpable shift and the most common word used by them is surrender. When we get out of our heads and the cerebral effort to make things the way that we will be "happy", we surrender to a much greater power within us, the impulse to Thrive and be the Love that created us.
