Don’t wait for February, the time of year we celebrate romantic love. While Valentine’s Day can be exciting and loving, it’s only one day. That means for most of the remaining year, love is not a priority. My continued hope for humanity is that we experience and share authentic love daily and in every form in addition to romance.
Getting there, however, requires a deeper understanding of what love truly is and why it’s so vital for each of us individually and for the collective, humankind. Healing wounds from abuse, trauma, separation, and unresolved grief is the path to true love and its abundance. Healing means that you honor yourself enough to acknowledge your pain, to seek help, to do the work, and to love you. Individual healing can cure the virus of indifference that continues to plague humanity because healthy individuals create a healthy collective.
“The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one’s family, to one’s neighborhood, to one’s community and so on.”
–Dalai Lama
Indifference Still Plagues Humanity
I am frustrated because indifference is still the virus that plagues humanity.
The pandemic gave humanity a golden opportunity to at least start the healing process—reflect on personal issues, bridge the divides between political sides, races, cultures, and socioeconomic classes. Being isolated for nearly 2 years, we had the chance to honestly reflect on our individual health and contributions to the collective, to right the ship by doing more positive while minimizing harm to self and others.
Instead of the blatant dismissal and demonization of humans who think, feel, and live differently during the pandemic and the elections in 2020 and 2024, we could have sought to understand others. Keep in mind that understanding is not agreement nor is it condoning. Understanding is simply setting your need to be right aside to clearly see another person’s perspective.
Note that most people only seek to confirm their existing beliefs rather than open up to learn new information and insights. This means that individuals tend to limit themselves to what they already know, which in the greater scheme of things is not much because of the vast body of knowledge outside of individual consciousness.
Curing the virus of indifference is not solely the responsibility of politicians and leaders. Yes, they are charged with making the best decisions for the greater good. However, individuals do create the collective. So if more of us took personal responsibility for how we think, feel, and behave then make the healthiest choices available, there’d be less corruption and greed in leadership and the collective.
I sincerely hope that we don’t fail again. With the pandemic and elections behind us, let us build upon the community and support of human beings that’s currently present during the wildfires in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
How You Can Help Cure the Virus of Indifference
“You can’t control the external world, but you can influence it.
Start by taking charge of your internal world.”
—Tony Robbins
You may ask yourself, “What can I do about what’s happening in the world?” Well, you can start with recognizing that your choices do impact the collective. Below are a few action steps you can take to advance the state of humanity.
1. Focus on your personal realm of control and responsibility. Trying to ‘fix’ another person or control their choices and outcomes is overwhelming and unrealistic. Such efforts set you up for failure, anxiety, and depression. Individually, you can’t change another person, stop the war in Ukraine, end homelessness, nor stop natural disasters.
However, you can control what you think, feel, say, and do–eat, drink, read, buy, exercise, pay attention to, and vote. You also control who you spend time with.
2. Elevate your self-care. Self-care, another aspect of life you control, is crucial because tending to your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health establishes the foundation upon which to build authenticity, resilience, and stability.
Get adequate sleep and rest, nourish with the right foods for you, surround yourself with loving and supportive people, strengthen your boundaries, and seek help from professionals when needed. The healthier you are, the better choices you make and the collective benefits.
3. Live mindfully. Aligning your mind with your body in the here-and-now, the present moment, is also called mindfulness, within which is where your power and control reside. When present, you are open to insights and guidance from your intuition, you are more deeply aware of what’s happening within and outside of you, and you tap into your innate gifts and strengths.
4. Learn to empathize. Seeking to understand rather than being understood evokes empathy and respect for the humanity in others. Empathy deepens human connection and, I believe, can cure indifference. The more connected you are to another human being, then the more you understand the loving interdependence that binds us all to each other and strive to nurture rather than sever that connection.
Taking these action steps will enhance your life and positively contribute to humanity. When you exercise your locus of control, have good self-care, are mindful, and have empathy, you empower yourself. And that leads to you treating yourself and others well, which is advantageous for the collective.
Show humanity some love this February and beyond. Together you and I can cure the virus of indifference.
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