You can still feel a quiet aftermath energy as the world digests that Donald Trump is President elect. While millions celebrate and even gloat, many are shocked and feel disgust, while others are in pain, worried or even scared.
If this sounds like you, there’s an attitudinal approach you can take to help you feel ease, and to flow with this news with less stress and anxiety.
I employed it after the unexpected collapse of my marriage, the most painful and challenging experience I’ve known.
It wasn’t that my marriage ended (relationships reach spiritual conclusions) it was that its end was inelegant, heartless and cold; I deserved better. What served and saved me was deciding to be the one who injected what I felt was missing – the elegance, warmth and heart – whenever I thought, spoke or wrote in any way relating to my husband and his sudden exit.
The same strategy can be used to trump Trump. Be the one who injects what you want in your experience with this reality so you’re the co-writer, not a mere disempowered observer with no choice about how they feel.
Life isn’t just what happens to us, it’s who we are when it does. Here are ways to inject some of what you might feel is missing now:
Inject Love: In Trump’s victory speech there was sincerity, and to win the presidency will doubtlessly come with – yes, even for him – a deep illumination within. A deeper nature will rise; Trump’s deeper heart will have doubtlessly been touched Tuesday night. Seek a place within where you can wish him well.
Inject Respect: Some of what people loathe about Trump as President stems from the blatant disrespect he seemed to show democracy by what he said and how he campaigned. But we cannot answer that disrespect with our own. He won; America spoke, this is to be respected.
Inject Positivity: Trump has exposed the ugly underbelly of a place that really ought to stop calling itself The Greatest Country In The World. You cannot fix racism, misogyny, sexism, homophobia – anything – until you see it staring you in the face. If Americans care, they now know on what issues to begin to healing and grow.
Inject More Caring: This new reality is an opportunity to make us more vigilant, to be better advocates and to be more vocal, wherever we live.
Inject Reality: We live in an exciting time of change. Current systems don’t work for too many, who are squeezed tight, never feeling like they’re getting ahead as the spread between rich and poor grows wider. A worldwide scream is sounding – hello Brexit – because people are angry. Donald Trump is not be the solution, but he’s a stepping stone on a new path we have collectively veered onto.
Inject Rationality: How many times have we heard a wonderful idea for society was shut down because of political opposition, be it American Congress or Toronto city council? The Mayor of Toronto has just one vote and similarly Donald Trump can’t pass all the spooky changes he was promising / threatening to; much of his role is that of figurehead.
Inject Wisdom: I thank Donald Trump for enhancing a truth I feel passionately about: Do not live life playing by rules. When I see that winning the job of President of the United States isn’t about being most-qualified, it reminds me of how I was managing people’s money on Bay Street, making six figures myself before I was 30, even though I’m a highschool dropout who failed grade 10 math; anyone can do anything. What does Trump’s win teach you?
Inject A Wake Up Call: Anyone who rooted for Hillary Clinton has now been reminded strongly of what we all forget, living in our bubbles: There are countless people who do not think like us, who have had different lives and experiences and therefore different points of view. Anyone shocked that Clinton didn’t win may now pause and take time to reflect and respect more deeply the powerful diversity around us.
Whatever you feel is missing, choose to offer that yourself. In all situations always, there are great possibilities. In finding the best of ourselves and in supporting Donald Trump finding his best self, something good will come.
PS: This is all the Law of Attraction at work. We spoke so much of what we didn’t want that we drew it into our experience.
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