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Patricia Campanile Senior Associate Edgewalkers International

“I was born for these times!” Over the past year I have heard this remark consistently from my Edgewalker colleagues, community and friends. Many of us have been on our personal and professional path of discovery for some time. We have consciously committed to deepening our spiritual journey of transformation and evolution. By realizing that we cannot give what we do not have, we chose to get prepared by cultivating inner strength, intuitive wisdom, mindfulness and centeredness, and the tools and skills necessary for clarity of purpose. As a result we are more available to step into our mastery, our purpose, our WHY! If not us then who, if not now then when.

In my blog this month I am excited to share the Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle’s comments on the current global situation. It is beautiful and inspiring, timely and practical. May his words of wisdom guide and encourage you to “Be the Change You Wish to See in the World” as the great leader Gandhi once said. As a community we need one another so we may be available to boldly move forward into unknown and uncertain times. We can assist our clients, companies, communities, countries and the world by embracing innovative possibilities and opportunities. Our focus, vision and resilience will support us in walking through the door with curiosity and courage as we create a new and sustainable planet for humanity.

“Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle on the current global situation.”

“This moment that humanity is living through can be considered a door or a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the door is yours.

If you consume information 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into this hole.

 But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, you will go through the door.

Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of others at the same time.

 Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Adopt the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader vision.

There is a social demand in this crisis, but also a spiritual demand. The two go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility. 

You are prepared to go through this crisis.

Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal. Learn to resist by the example of the Indian and African peoples: we have been and continue to be exterminated. 

* But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting fires and having joy.

Don’t feel guilty for feeling lucky in these difficult times. Being sad and without energy doesn’t help at all. 

* Resilience is resilience through joy! 

You have the right to be strong and positive. You have to maintain a beautiful, cheerful and bright posture.

This has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It is a strategy of resistance. 

When we walk in the door, we have a new view of the world because we have faced our fears and difficulties.

This is what you can do now: 

– Serenity in the storm, 

– Keep calm, meditate daily, 

– Make a habit of encountering the sacred every day. 

Demonstrate resilience through art, joy, trust and love.”

Patricia Campanile Senior Associate Edgewalkers International

Now more than ever it is important to focus on faith, love and hope instead of fear, doubt and worry. As a certified Edgewalker Coach and Facilitator, I share self-mastery tools to help my clients stay conscious, courageous and clear. I encourage them to embrace the opportunities to shift, evolve and transform regardless of uncertainty and confusion they may experience in their personal lives or the outer world. Invaluable “tools” in my mastery “tool box” include the inspired teachings and quotes from “A Course in Miracles” (ACIM) that I have integrated into my life for many years. A core premise is there are only two realities, love and fear. According to ACIM, “Attempting the mastery of fear is useless. In fact, it asserts the power of fear by the very assumption that it needs to be mastered. The true resolution rests entirely on the mastery through love.”

In spite of the fear, isolation, doubt and confusion we have been experiencing around the world, we can choose to focus on love and cultivate faith. Faith is defined as belief, assurance, firm conviction and complete trust in something or someone. It is confidence in what we hope for even when we cannot see it. Faith knows that no matter what the situation in our lives or someone else’s, “The Universe” has our back. Faith is a muscle and love is a verb. They are not just feelings. Time and patience, conscious action and focused intention, commitment and daily practice are needed in order to integrate faith and love into our daily lives.

When we are in fear, worry and doubt, it is easy to identify with the apparent negativity, hopelessness and concerns we face. We can get lost in the darkness and forget that the light still shines. By consciously “watching the movie” of our lives and the planet, we can observe and witness with awareness and curiosity vs. judgment and reactivity. When we courageously choose faith and act from love in spite of appearances, we can see reality more clearly and the creative solutions and innovative possibilities available to us. Edgewalkers inherently integrate spiritual practices into our lives and work. As we choose faith and act from love with open hearts and minds, we become more connected to and identified with the truth of who we really are – love!