Last week we turned our clocks. You woke up and it was an hour later. While we slept 2:00 am never happened. We went from 1:59 am to 3:00 am. Even though we didn’t talk about it, we shared an experience. There was a communal event on Sunday. Was there any impact? Probably not. I mean it was business as usual. Or was it?
I think that when a collective activity unfolds (holidays, campaigns, national news) the group mind awakens, It’s always there ~ but during these times, I believe it becomes more apparent.
Do you sense the group mind? At work, in your neighborhood, in the grocery store? If you take a larger view than your personal narrative, can you feel something else? And if you do feel something else is what you’re feeling your own or the woman walking past you? Can you actually feel into another individual? Even become them?
You and me, we’re sensitive types. I’m not talking about being emotional (though I wouldn’t discount that gift). I mean that our sense of an other may be more developed than we know.
When you wake up in the morning and feel sad, maybe its someone else’s sadness that you feel. If you took it upon yourself to really know that sadness, become intimate with it, which would then transform it, might this bring utter relief to the original? Do you have that much power in your world?
Yes you do.
The next moment you find yourself in community — at a stoplight, waiting for the crosswalk, the start of a meeting, dinner with friends, watching the NBA, on the bus, at church, in a nightclub, folding laundry, at the theatre – touch into the group mind. Become still. See what emotion, image or sensation floods your body. Be curious physically. It’s easier than you think to feel the totality of a situation. The key is to look for it.
