{"id":45499,"date":"2011-02-03T13:43:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=45499"},"modified":"2018-11-17T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T19:32:07","slug":"how-to-be-good-in-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-to-be-good-in-a-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be good in a crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Domino<\/a> said to me the other day, \u201cI\u2019m real good in a crisis situation.\u00a0 I know how to take charge and get things done.\u00a0 If it was the end of the world, I\u2019d help everyone stay calm.\u00a0 I\u2019d save everyone. I\u2019d be like Will Smith.<\/em> \u201c\u00a0 I thought that is all well and good if someone announces on Tuesday that the end of the world will be here on Friday.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not how it happens. Maybe we just wake up one day and have no power and no cable and no internet and no phone and have no way of knowing what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 We keep thinking it will all be back on in a minute.\u00a0 Maybe after a few days of that, we step outside and begin talking to our neighbors.\u00a0 Maybe we find out they aren\u2019t so annoying after all.\u00a0 Maybe we make a new friend and it feels good to have a friend when we\u2019re in an unknown situation.\u00a0 It feels good to support each other in this.\u00a0 Maybe we begin to hear rumors that it\u2019s the end of the world and we see that some people are very afraid and beginning to panic.\u00a0 We can help by turning their thoughts to more pleasant things.\u00a0 We can remind them that no matter what\u2019s going on, it will pass soon and we\u2019ll be on the other side of it. \u00a0 We can ask them to talk about hopes they have for the future, once this situation has passed.\u00a0 We can ask them to recall the happy times in their lives, and get them vibrating in a better feeling place.\u00a0 We can help them be hopeful, because when we are hopeful, we attract a more satisfying experience to ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s the most important thing\u00a0 we can do in a crisis. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Domino and I joked that if she can\u2019t even get along with her sisters in their own neighborhood, how can she help save the world?\u00a0 If the bottom line is to make everything as pleasant for everyone as you can in the Now moment \u2014 no matter what is going on in that Now moment \u2013\u00a0 why aren\u2019t we doing that now? Are we waiting to see the UFOs or meteors fall from the sky or the flood waters waist high in our homes?\u00a0 Why can we not just act \u201cas if\u201d right now?<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is how you become good in a crisis.\u00a0 You practice it every day before there is a crisis so that it\u2019s your automatic reaction when a crisis comes up.\u00a0<\/span> So it\u2019s your automatic reaction to help those around you feel more copeful (this was a typo but I\u2019m going to leave it.)\u00a0\u00a0 We are good in a crisis when we help others turn their thoughts to more pleasant things.\u00a0 When we remind them that no matter what\u2019s going on, we\u2019ll be on the other side of it soon. \u00a0 When we change the topic from their fears to their hopes for the future.\u00a0<\/span> When we ask them to recall happy times, and when we get them vibrating in a better feeling place.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re the best in a crisis when we help people be hopeful.\u00a0 When we\u2019re hopeful, we attract a more fulfilling life experience.\u00a0 We attract more to be hopeful about.\u00a0 So when are you going to go into crisis mode?<\/span><\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0 People are born and people die, it\u2019s like going into another room<\/a><\/span>
\n The End of Death As We Know It. What the crossing over experience is like as reported by those who have passed<\/a><\/span>
\n If you could see where I have gone \u2013 poem<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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